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THIS IS THE CURSE OF EVERY EVIL' DEED, THAT, 'PROPAGATING STILL, IT BRINGS FORTH EVIL-Coleridge.
Quarantine restrictions have been imposed by Hongkong against arrivals from Shanghai on account of cerebro-spinal fever.
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Marine
CORRESPONDENCE.
yeurs
A Protest.
The Very Idea!
Interesting female:
fofoigner, and in many fanatically devoted to the cause of rebellion and emancipation.
· The difference in outlook arose
The Times has played a great not entirely from a conflict of in-
[To The Editor of Hongkong part in the development of printing,
"Telegraph.1 terests. The two classes of men
and its special "Printing Number, to be issued soon, will
be- represented two phases of the same
Sir,--in your last night's issue looked for with interest. Nothing culture. The LCS, men, a majori-
you reported the case of a Chinese is more curious to look back on boy who was "cautioned" that la, than the "logographic" system with ty of whom were Oxonians, had
technically convicted at the Kow which it started in 1785, by which read classics and philosophy, the
types were cast in words and Oxford "Greats" course. The In- The Secretary of State for the loon Magistracy of being in
of a walking-stick phrases instead of single letters. Colonies has appointed Mr. C. E. posscasion read dians, having previously R. Clarabut, as Lecturer and reasonably suspected of having Some of these phrase have an his.. literature and history in India, Tutor in English to the University been stolen." According to your torical interest, e.g.
report, the police offered no
Loud cheers. continued the study of Modern of Hongkong.
evidence; indeed, they did not in
Dreadful robbery. History in England. With pheno-
Atrocious outrage. Naval ships in the harbour are any way pretend to do so, and the on a police menal memories and a highly de-aying their flags at half-raast lad was convicted
of the "opinion."
Fearful calamity, veloped political passion, they to-day, on the occasion
funeral of Mr. William Howard In this particular case, it so
Alarming explosion. won high places in the History Taft, former President of the happens that I personally, together school. The I.C.S. men were in- United States.
with another man, saw the defen- There were other things "re- dant outside the Y.M.C.A. before markable" and "extraordinary," ad- bued with the ideas of Roman law
he was apprehended. He was a jectives which have clean disap-. Members of the
headline ta the. and administration: their models
old. He made no modern cult of brevity. And where were the great Roman proconsula, Engineers' Guild of China, Hong-child of, I suppose, not more than peared from the
kong Branch, are requested to atten giving firm and impartial justice tend a regular monthly meeting at attempt to conceal the stick, nor to-day is the "interesting female"? to their people, and maintaining the Guild Office, 67, Des Voeux did he offer it for sale, but was In the same dustbin, one imagines, obviously enjoying himself Im- with the Rash Act and the Lady of order. Their interest in philosophy Road Central, to-day at 5 pm.
mensely, as a boy of his age would Prepossessing Appearance.
The prize for unconscious hu tonded to give them a detached
It is advertised that the nine with a new toy. He was strutting
mour should surely be awarded attitude towards those they
Steenth ordinary annual general around, without doubt thinking verned. They readily followed meeting of shareholders of the Bank himself a most important person to the schoolboy who has recently invented a new poet, Rudiar Chap- the Roman example of leaving to of Canton, Ltd., will be held at the age-possibly.
lin! The runner-up was the boy Head Office of the Company, 6, Inspector!
On reading your report of the who said that cul de ade was a bag the people their customs and re- Des Voeux Road Central on
proceedings, my companion said of coals in French. a kindly, Wednesday, March 26, at 2.30 p.m. ligion: they tended to tolerant and aristocratic attitude. Their Indian contemporaries, olt convinced the other hand, were that it was not worth existing as a nation unless they controlled their own destinies. They had read of the enthusiasm of Byron and Shelly for the Greeks, of the reception in England of Mazzini and Garibaldi: they had studied every phase of English history, and political thinking. In particular that element in the politics of the schools which held political in- dependence to be the measure of a nation's self-respect and great-
To those who find drama lessness laid hold of them. National in the accidents of life than In liberty became a religion.
Recent developments of British the play of ideas and their reac- tion on life, the present political policy have moved away from the situation in India is breathlessly old L.C.S. attitude and towards the dramatic. Britain has herself be-claims of the Indian student. This Britain were come the purest democracy in the was inevitable f
both as world, she has reproduced her in-not to stamp herself stitutions in her Self-Governing hypocritical and as doubtful Dominions, and the logic of the truth, of her own political events, and more particularly of philosophy. Nevertheless, India certainly cannot afford to lose the fine ideals of administration which have become the tradition of the I.C.S. But to them must be admitted the ideals which the
this
even
2
Police
was enough to make one's Suspected of having attempted blood boll, and I fully endorse his to commit suicide by jumping of sentiments. Mark you, this kiddie was kept in the cells for 48 hours the verandah at No, 9 Electric Street, Wanchai, Shek Lui, a girl before trial. What would any were to be aged 19, now lies in the Govern-European father think if his ment Civil Hospital suffering from children of like age injuries. Her condition is not con- subject to this treatment, if found playing with some object "reason- dered serious.
ably suspected of having been stolen" by any police officer who came along?
.*
Yaz Kong, a Postmaster of the Wanchai Sub-Office, has been ad- mitted to the Government Civil Hospital, as a result of being bit- fox terrier, owned by ten by a Talka Yiage, of 55, Johnston Road. The dog has been sent to Kennedy Town for observation.
In our report of the Chairman's speech at the annual meeting of the Union Waterboat Co., Ltd., yester
day, we.credited the Chairman with saying, in regard to the fleet, No. 6." The sentence should have "there is only one of the boats left, read, "there is only one of the old boats left, No. 6."
Making use of a duplicate key, some person entered the premises of the Hongkong Sharebrokers' Aɓ- sociation, No. 10, Ice House Street, between 6.30 and 7.30 on Sunday evening, and, according to a report
•
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She touches up her hair,
She touches up her face,. She touches up her eyebrows,
Her folderols and lace; She touches up her thumbnails, Her fingers, one two three; She touches up her dimples-
And then she touches me!
Salesman (showing customer some sports atockings)-"Just the The officer conducting the case thing for you. Warth double the offered the opinion that the deten- money. Latest pattern, fast co- tion was in itself sufficient punish-lours, holeproof, won't shrink, and Customer (politely)--"Very well ment. It is much more likely that it's a good yarn." the accused will feel that, having been detained for what he will un- told, too." doubtedly consider no offence, he will take care that next time he is apprehended, the police, will have substantial cause for their action.
all the
un-
Surely with
armed Colony-the kidnappings, detected serious crime in this cobberies, murders and the like themselves with than petty matters the police have more to occupy such as this, unless, indeed, for statistical purposes, they wish to obtain convictionsi
JUNK CAPSIZES: TWO LIVES LOST.
H.M.S. SIRDAR PICKS UP' WRECKED CRAFT.
:
She had done everything wrong. the signal. She had disregarded of the street, and before starting lights, then stalled in the middle
started to apply it to her face.. An had taken out her powder puff and
"Say, lady, do you know anything irate traffic cop roshed up: at all about traffic rules?"
"Why, yes. What is it that you want to know?"
Clerk, struggling with enecze "I've got influ”
Nervous employer "Yes! yes! Better take a day of."
Clerk-Thank you, 'Bir: I TABORY STAN saying-I've got influential friends who want me to go with them to a football match.”
A Chinese who was convicted be fore Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow- I do not know how the law here of loon Magistracy this morning of compares with that at Home, but a charge of larceny of a pair of in Great Britain the police would Street, Yaumati, was sentenced to case in Court. Whatever the trousers from a stall in Bowring not have dared to produce aud three months' hard labour, the de-position may be legally, it is not hla- her confidence in her own
fendant having been previously the average man's conception of tory, has brought her the problem
perty.
kind of justice, save that of the of acclimatising them in India,
convicted of receiving stolen pro- British justice, or, indeed, of any
Soviet..
Among the Hongkong passen Unfortunately, cases of this des to change Her problem is how
A Chinese was sentenced by Mr. what from a strictly political point
bour, this morning, for burglari- an increasing frequency. Cannot week on the Malwa are Lieut. R. of view has been a military au- English are convinced make for Grantham to six months' hard la-cription are being reported with gers due to arrive from Home this Bowen, tocracy based on law into a de-final stability and progress in any ously breaking into No. 48, Wynd- some of the charitable bodies, in- W. Antice, R.N., Mr. P. B. Apps,
political society.
ham Street. The case for the po- terested in the youth of the Colony, Mrs. V. M. Bond, Mr. B. T. B. mocratic form of government.
Be that as it may, the drama lice was to the effect that he was take this matter up with the au-Boothby, Comdr. G. P.
thorities? Enclosing my card. R.N., Comdr. P. E. P. Berryman, seen entering the premises, but no
R.N., Mr. and Mrs. Colgan, Pay- While government in India, haa
made by the inmates Yours etc.,
CITIZEN..
Lt. A. I. V. Chubb, R.N., Mr. W. B. been in the hands of a Viceroy of the present situation as we see move was
Fleming, Comdr. E. S. F. Fegen, it is in the stress between these until he had compromised himself.
R.N., Miss R. Gaubert, Mr. W. W. supported by the Army and yet
two tendencies of thought. It is A prompt tapture followed.
Hornell, Lieut. G. E. Jones, R.N administered by the finest Civit
Mrs. Lyman, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Service the world has ever seen, intensified because it is found not
Lyal, Comdr. E. F. B, Law, R.N., Mr. A. C. McIntyre, Mr. J. Me it was for and not by the people, only between different races, as the Indian and the British, nor
Farlane, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Education, on the other hand.
Noonan, Lieut. M. Price, R.N., Mr. idealised the growth of popular between different political parties,
and Mrs. S. C. Robinson, Mr. M. G. liberty, and held up as the only as Conservative and Liberal, but
Thomerson, Mrs. Walker, worthy end of the citizens their also within the mind of the same immediate personal participation individuals. The present Viceroy in the affairs of State, and held embodies in his own person the that there could be no trae con- stress which makes the drama of stitutional development which did the moment. He has in a marked degree shown himself in sympathy The contrast between the point with Indian aspirations: he has, of view of the Government official at the coat of some misunder and that of the educated Indian standing among those who might is curious. The latter represents have been expected most to trust not a native Indian point of view him at Home, strongly allied him- but one which is specifically Bri-self with recent developments of tish. Yet it has often been policy, and re-iterated the Treat anathema to the British official.end to which that policy is mov-Sub-Inspector Chester Woods re- about noon a further report was The paradox can be pressed furing, the granting Dominion Status ther. Both sets of men come to the country. Yet he tahabt but largely from the old British Uni-be acutely aware of the impatience versities. Until recent years the of the democratic forces which tanks of the I.C.S. were mainly are now being given plays of the filled from among the best men of difficulty of convincing India of the sincerity of the British Raj, their year at Oxford and Cani- bridge. The best of the Indian and the peril to the State that students in the same way were failure to hold extremists in check graduates of the two unversities. must engender. He is the repre sentative of the Power which is Yet the British administrátora went out to control the governing responsible for the peace and or machine of a vast empire of which derly development of the country, the people had no part in govern- He can give no latitude to the ment, and tended to the convic forces of disorder:
not lead to that consummation.
WHO WAS..
LAOCOON?
You have probably seen pic tures of the famous statue repre senting an old man and his two great serpents entwined about sons fighting desperately against
to the Police by Mr. A. H. Carroll, A brief report of the capeizing the Secretary, stole a wooden 8-of a large junk somewhere off Stan- day wall clock, valued at $15, a grey ley was notified this morning, a Chinese coat, valued at $4, to message being sent to the Water ether pockets of the was Moe Police Station to the effect that rest has yet been made.
and a girl, had been drowned. the pockets of the coat. No ar- two members of the crew, & man No details of the mishap were During the hearing of a case in given in either of two brief re- which a young lad was charged be- ports which were received at the fore Mr. Whyte Smith, at the Kow- Water Police Station this morning, loon Magistracy this morning, with but it is believed that the junk his Worship remarked that seas. wasting water at a street fountain, capsized on account of the rough
their bodies. The first intimation received was wast- in almost every case of ing water the complainant had been that the wrecked craft had been Shantung constable. He asked if picked up and was being towed to there was anything in that fact. Stanley by H.M.S. Sirdar, but at plied that the majority of the eases came from his district (Mongkok) where most of the native policemen were Shantung men stationed.
received from the No. 4 police launch stating that the funk had been taken over from the Sirdar by the police and been towed to Stanley
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The message also stated that two. Those who remember the de- members of the crew, a man and
and etchings by Miss Elizabeth lightful exhibition of colour prints a girl, were drowned. Keith some six years ago will be delighted to hear that this well- known artist is at present visit- ing the Colony. Since she was last Paris
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Lisbon London, which was the subject
Bucharest of high emcomiums in the Press. Buenos Aires During her stay in the Colony, Shanghai tion that a paternal despotism backed by the military was the slow development of new policy she hopes to do further work and New York best form of rule for the country and measures to carry it out keep also to arrange another exhibi- Geneva to which they had gone. The pace with the growth of agitation tipn. Indian graduates returned within the country? Can the reina
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The name of this old man was Laocoon, and he was a priest of Apollo in Troy at the time of the famous war between the Trogana and the Greeks.** For ten yeard the Greeks hed been besieglig their enemy s city, when at last they hit upon a crafty way of effecting an entry into Troy. Building a wooden horse, they hugo crammed it with soldiers, and allowed the Trogans to drag it within their gates as the sacrî- fice for the gods, with the re- sult that at night the soldiers: crept out and sacked the city,
Laocoon, however, suspected this. "horse," and -zot, only prayed his countrymen to leave it alone, but even went so far as to plunge
his spear into its tide.
This action greatly offended Poseidon for Neptune) the sea- god, who had actively supported the cause of the Greeks, so that when Laocoon was at his wor ́ship "two' terrible snakes were- sent from the sea as agents of the angry god's vengeance. First of all they attacked” Laocoon's sons, and when, the old man went to their aid they embraced him as well, killing all three.
You will read all about. Laccoon in the books of Virgil,