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NOTES FROM SINGAPORE.

THE BURNING QUESTION

OF THE HOUR.

(From "Our Own Correspondent.)

SINGAPORE, March 21.. The burning question is (as Harry

WEDNESDAY, APRIL

ARMY AND THE PRESS:

SIMLA ANGRY WITH THE "PIONEER.”

ADVANTAGES OF PUBLICITY.

1919.

THE MARINE COURT.

WHITE MAN ASETEP ON DUTY:

At the Marine Court this morning before Commander C. W. Beckwith Allahabad, 12th March: The RN Mr. E. High, 2nd officer of the Pioneer saya: We are given to under- S.S. Chun-sang was charged with our brothels? Don't hold up your other day, of a letter from a military

from

Mr. Clement John Mattick, Captain

Commander, Beckwith-Were the boats quite close to?

timb, and that no automobile must her for the last time to come to her Lauder would say) are we to close stand that the publication by us, the being asleep and under the influence go faster than 15 miles an hour, as farewell Party to-morrow at 4.30 hands in horror. I should not have correspondent has led to the institut of alcohol when on duty.. we urged in the first place. Let the P

written that word myself two weeks ion of zealous inquiry with a view police enforce the law.

Mr. K. M. Cumming, former aga, but it has recently been erected not to removing the evil complained of the Chun-sang stated that the We respectfully draw the Govern- ment's attention to the question Secretary of the Golf Club, who into propriety and has passed into of, but to discovering the identity whether it is desirable that the appeared last autumn before the police speech bere. You see we have of the bold, bad individual who ship left Singapore on March 21, Captain Superintendent of Police Military Service Tribunal and was just finished, a Purity Campaign and dared to offer criticism of high bound for Hongkong. At 8.15 p.m. he should be closely associated with the allowed to go home to "join up is often from the lips of very prim being employed to elicit the required the second mate asleep. At that,

we have heard the word coma so military authority. The method went on the bridge and there found back in the Colony. He came in on and proper ladies and gentlemen information is that ually resorted the S.S. Aki Mary and is en route that we here have lost our to in a dame's school when some time there were many fishing boat's for Shanghai.

fear of using it. We have had terrible act of enormity has been around and to keep clear he ported The O. S. K. steamer Luzon Marul speeches galore and the natives committed and the culprit remains the helm and continually sounded have attended in numbers and had undiscovered. Everyone is put on the horn. During this the second has been taken off the trip to Australia for which she was due to rather a gloatful time and that is their honour and everyone in turn In a flowery, shrubsome corner sail on April 9. The Shipping com- about all there is to it. The truth is asked the same question. We bad mate was asleep. Marseilles there is a rather pany have put on the s.s. Koho Marx that these Purity Campaigners were hoped after all the exposures of the statue of Gambetta, who was born April 8 and will leave for Australia they aimed at rooting out disease or fatuous attempts to keep the army's instead, She is due from Japan on never quite sure of the target at Mesopotamian Commission that we which they were aiming. Whether had done once for all with these Cahors just 8 years ago to-day. In on the following day.

Captain Mattick-Quite close.. whether they aimed at rooting out doings some respects he was a French

entirely hidden

The captain stated that the boats vice, which is quite a different pro- the Lloyd George. He didn't preach in

Owing to the demand for ricshas position, was never made quite clear, course, aware of the regulation gone up the ship would

public gaze We are, of were all around and had he not chapels, but he was a shrewd states-three has been increased to ten themselves. In any case, to set up press, but this regulation, as every the accused was alone on the bridge at the Peak the original number of probably because they did not know forbidding soldiers to write to the gone through them. At this time have mas, a bit of an opportunist, and (as There will, however, be no more put leading speakers who judged the responsible journalist knows, has al- Seeing the mate in this state the one historian puts it) he had anon, owing to the fact that the ricsha Eastern problem by the standards of wivs been more honoured in the captain called the chief officer and eloquence of invective which made colles cannot make sufficient money the West was, the worst kind of futi-breach thin in the shaaranze, and the chief engineer to have a fet at

as they bave to pay more hire than him immediately famous." France the chairmen do. There may how.lity and the only result of the cam quite ry so sin wls thereid ban asleep from 8.15 Ltd even in the hire of

paign, so far as one can see, is that fare things which in the 4-w's bott

to 9.30 p.m. reducing If Gambetta had been arguing about which case there may be a likelihood next to you asks questions which papers, there are other things that pened then?

Commander Beckwith-What hap our. "speed limit" question, the of more ricshas being put on. There which do not seem to embarrass her. discussed. Discipline will gain and seeing me on the bridge began to

are embarrassing to a man, but entally certainly deserve to be lucid intellects of the Automobile is a considerable saving of time by I may be old-fashioned, but I confess not suffer by the pointing out of walk up and down.

Captain Mattick-woke up and Association would have said he using this vehicle, and it is hoped to preferring women who do not speak an wasn't up-to-date. In France, a that more will be for hire.

obvlaus error, and to me of certain diseases and certain practically every man

this, as The captain, when asked if there journalist who is conspicuously

who has had been trouble with the accused superior to his colleagues is admired The Admiral Line are in receipt vices. Those who preach the spread won distinction in the King's service before said that for 2+ years he had and rewarded. In Hongkong-well, of advices that four additional US of light and more light may be has recognised sooner or later, can been continually under the influence you know what Hongkong did to Shipping Board steamers have been right, but I should as soon see women only be done at times through the of liquor. Frazer Smith. Mediocrity loves assigned to then for operation in the feeding on nougats as on naughti-agency of the public press. In this Commander Beckwith-Where does mediocrity, and mistrusts the unusual. Trans-Pacific trade. These steamers 11699. "

particular instance all that was he get it from? Of the South, Gambetta was a bit are the "West Helix," "West Mun-

suggested was that when demobilis- Captain Mattick-It is the custom vehement, even for a Frenchman.ham, "Quittacas." ani "West

I cabled to the China Mail recently ation was ordered there might be on the China coast to get it from That "dignity" and good taste" Remus" of 8.800. tons, 7,900 tons, stating that a vessel had been found leas keeans: displayed by the the steward. Sometimes he got it which enables a nincompoop to 8,500 tons and 8,800 tons deadweight to carry the passengers who were higher authority for inspections. from him and sometime from else. conceal his intellectual inadequacy, cargo capacity respectively. These originally booked by the Nore and This surely was a sensible enough where. that pompous verbosity about which assignments make a total of six large the Navara, That vessel is the suggestion, but apparently sɔme Commander Beckwith-Have you Talleyrand made his great mistake steamers that the Admiral Line are Marama, a hospital ship, which was one's feelings have been hurt, and when he said it was given them to now operating in the Trans-Pacific on its way from New Zealand to this sensitive being pines to be conceal their thoughts (whereas, of trade for the U. S. Shipping Board, the United Kingdom when she was given the usual military solace of course, it is to conceal their want of in addition to seven of their owa diverted to Singapore. She is to hurting somebody else. One can thought and their inability to think) vessels in this service.

carry some 300 passengers and this only hope for the Army's credit that was nowhere, within Gambetta's

should help to relieve the present this ridiculous affair will not be per. mental horizon... He was a man.

INDIAN DEFENCE FORCE. having got what it wanted (and more

congestion. You would suppose that mitted to go any further and that if there are as our correspondent's than it really worked for) Singapore letter suggests, more than one mar-1917? would be satisfied. But it is not tinet who insist on carrying on Intending passengers bleat about military training as intensively as the want of cabins, plend that they ever, they will be quickly secured cannot possibly travet in a vessal of passages on the Ne and Novara this kind, and are raising all kinds in order to practice their ideas on of objections. The newspapers are

the damobilized Hun.

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OPPISED..

STILL GROUSING.

At the annual meetings of the tradesman said that he and Mining Association and Tea Associa sale at, and will be delivered Naturally, the number of Europeans many of his acquaintances shared tion, held in Calcutta on Mach 13. trying to stroke them gently so that by. Messrs. W. G. Humphreys who use them is not large. In their the views of the China Mail on the the chairman at both meetings spoke they shall reach a. frame of mind! and Co. Shameen, Canton, who have been appointed our agents,

goings to and fro they favour the

The China Mail. walks,

** TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE.'

OUR SIDEWALKS.

Although there wasn't the slightest foundation of fact to warrant the Chairman of the Automobile Associa. tion in telling the members that the China Mail (or one paper in part

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On the

A MODERN CRUSOE.

STARVED TO DEATH NEAR

CHANNEL ISLANDS."

had any similar trouble before?..

Captain Mattick-Yes. There was. a similar case between Calcutta and Colombo.

Commander Beckwith-When? Captain Mattick-Twelve months ago last October.

Commander Beckwith-In October

Captain Mattick-Yeg Commander Beckwith-On this occasion, was he drunk or only asleep?

Captain Mattick-T would not like to say drunk; some people object to the word. He was very much under the influence of liquor,

Commander Beckwith-What did you do in this case? Did you put. him under arrest."

Captain Mattick-No, we only had two officers. Each gets $80 a month extra for taking an extra watch.

-Commander Beckwith-Did you stop his getting any further liquor?

Captain Mattick-Yes. Commander Beckwith-What sort of a man is he when he is sober? but he is a dangerous man because, Captain Mattick-Quite alright,

be drank or sober. you never know when he is going to

the accused if he had any questions

Commander Beckwith then asked

speed limit" question. "Keep it handy ricsha, and except when shop-up" he said. "You have "public opposing compulsory military service: writes almost lyrically of the com Indian Defence Force, more reasonable. The Straits Times ping hardly realize that we have ing by, a professional man, said Indian Mining meeting, said in the are all a little difficult to persuada opinion with you." Another stand- M. L. Edwards, presiding at the forts of the Marama. It says: "We sidewalks. It probably has not oc- there was no such thing as public course of his speech: Your com- that in this year of grace 1919 things curred to them that our pedestrian opinion in Hongkong. This having mittee has very carefully considered traffic is so large. on frequent been debated, the group reached this this matter and you have all bren are not quite as they were in 1913. casions that if all kept to the side- there would be

(the tradesman) asked to give your opinion. I may There is hardly a clean ship on the a con- point. "You"

Much has happened since then. cannot afford to publish a letter say the result has been that it has un: seas except the hospital ships, and sailor's three weeks' existenze on a gestion likely to WOITY the

A tragic story of a shipwrecked Police much

over your own name, taking sides in animously considered that whatever the Marama is a testimony to the barren islet north-east of Hern, 03 more than the present distribution does. Pickpockets any such controversy? The trades may be legislation at home on cleanliness, in every sense, which the of the Channel Islands, and his final

man admitted that it would not pay the subject of and snatchers would have a perfectly But in strictest confidence he was vice, and Act in India which doctors wisely insist on as a necessary death from starvation, was revealed

compulsory set- happy time. They would multiply. HONGZONO, WEDNESDAY, Aru 2; 1910. The magistrates and police would be willing to contribute a letter signed would make

condition of successful healing. One recently at Garaзey. still more overworked. The public Pro Bono Publico." A China Mail superintendents, managers, etc, to Which do you fear moat-bags, lice, the islet and there they found the it obligatory far might say to an intending passenger Some visitors went by chance to the patient public would bother an, listening, and filled with shame attend an arbitrary number of drills, fleas. "beetles, etc., or your fellow sailor, dead. On his breast was the China Mail to voice its compossible under the flag he loves, said to the reference made by the Bengal which has been too math the slave to his being identified as a man named to think such conditions should be should be most strenuously opposed creatures? On the ordinary ship tattooed a tombstone and this led plaints. We should do so, and again letters over pseudonyms did not help. Chamber of Commerce to the Asso of a great emergency to be dicked Manning, mate of the Iris, which

to ask and he replied "None". would be accused of Re- Those that came in were published, ciation your committee has replied for thorough cleaning, you are was wrecked of Guernsey in the lagging behind our confreres of the ceted they did not count. If it part of the military authorities to On the Marama you will have to it is surmised that he swan ashore, bridge by the captain when they left actionaryism, or

The Chief Engineer, Mr. P. A. Bolshevism, or naturally; but so-far as he was co on these lines. Any action on the assured an abundance of "craves." terrible gale of December 19 last.

Paterson was ... dext callet Rue Castiglione or Oxford Street or comes to that," he said," "the staff force compulsory service on colliery sleep in a ward with thirty or forty and in this lonely spot of the great Singapore replied "Yes."

and

when asked

if he Broadway, etc.

remembered being called on the could produce as many as we desired. officials, whatever their status may other folk of your own sex, in a Channel subsisted for three weeks Has anyone stopped to consider the It is done, in some offices." fitness of our sidewalks for a stream.

be, should be 133 streau-

Commander Beckwith-Waat dia cular") had published the opinion of pedestrian traffic? There is a weigh moral courage, where business the new committee will see this pro-deanliness. There are excellent the shelter of a rock, and cemented Hying asleep:

Where business considerations.outously opposed." I have no doubt that coy cot with plenty of fresh air all on shell fish. short length of flat going, a step or patronage is deliberately with-held cedare is carried out. that the roadway and not the down, a step up. Then perhaps the or withdrawn from men honestly ex

round and with the luxury of perfect

He had constructed a small hut in you see?..

iChief Engineer-The second mate parement is the proper place to with gradually narrows until the pressing honest opinions, British Free the Indian Tea Association Mæting majority, we think, will realise that have passed weary hours watering

Mr. AD. Pickford, Chairman of folk may jib at the prospect. The tut Here the poor fellow must on with the captain,

bath rooms and lavatories. Some the rough stones with handfuls of pedestrians", we are now going to tag disappears altogether, to begin dom is a hollow fraud. Public opinion said We carnestly hope that there may be a great deal more comand hoping for relief. And all the

Commander Beckwith-You went make some remarks rather like that! again a similarly irregula is "made to measure," and by Government will apt attempt the fort in an airy ward than packed while the vision of the distant islands tions to ask and the Chief Oficer

Chief Engineer-Yes: After calling attention to the fashion further on. In Boms order," as it were, Men, born free, impossible. No man can be engaged three or four deep in a stuffy cabin with place ind plenty there, must Mr. Walter Booken was next called. Again the accused had no ques peculiar nature" of our traffic (which streets there is to a certain extent vitiates comparison perhaps 18 inches wide. In others by manly ancestors the rights of free the same time be a fully trained

sidewalk and having had bequeathed to them in commerce or agriculture and at with the with procedure at other places), and there is none at all. In any event, opinion and free speech, cease to be soldier, and the last type of man people have we in Malaya that they only too well of the end coming from 6-3 p.m. At 8. p.nt. he was

Crawlies ar additional have toured him.

Wat kind of Taz condition of the body told 5.30 p.m. and he was on the bridge after insisting upon a définition of thera

He stated they left Singapore at companionship." are the crossings. The

men and become mere creatures wanted in the period of highly com whine over trifes? Of cours it about through weakness aid ex relieved by the second officer. pedestrian traffic, we have it in mind Automobile Association relishes now to say that the roadway, and the prospect of the last pedestrian in the sense of material profits, but is the jack of all trades and master of travelling very comfortably in the They may gain "the whole world"petitive reconstruction now before us hurts to read of enemy subjects not the sidewalk, is the proper place being chased off the roadway, 35 as they lose the soul of manhood, As one. In the maintenance of law and Nore and Nouara, but that has for a certain class of pedestrian, to afford unimpeded opportunity for MEN they are dead and dained order under exceptional circumstan nothing to do with the, matter. Dur

Commander Beckwith-Was he We shall

then conclude by opening her out." But there will What was't Henley said?

Chief Officer-He was under the enquiring whether our sidewalks, have to be (if we are not to lag

ces, the planter and business man folk here should be thankful that have mentioned it out for the fact, Commander Beckwith-Would you as at present arranged, are proper behind England and America) a

influence of liquor. In the fell clutch of circumitance will assist, but they will not consent they bare had secured for then a places for any traffic, in the strict white-gloved policeman at every

I never winced nor cried alout. to provide a fully trained garrison fine vessel by which they can traveling source. If favoritism is abroad, Chief officer would not say he

that one heard it from a very know.consider he was drunk? sense of the word traffic. By that crossing. Every little while he will

Under the bludgeoning of chance and so have the Government's time we may have justly incurred have to hold up the road traffic to My head is bloody, but unbowed responsibility and expense of provid-

at all. that particular part of criticism, let that densely packed procession of which, at the time the criticism was pedestrians pass over. How will they made we had said nothing to like that?. deserve.

Whereas here, under no more tering adequately against emergencies. WALPERS OF FAVOURITIËM,

WAR MEMORIAL.

posure.

sober?

the homeward voyage of the Marama was drunk, he was under the influence may be marked by much sniffing and of liquor. snorting and cliquism-and one The chief officer stated that would like to meet the purser of the never in his time had the accused vessel later. He should have some been asleep on duty before. pretty reminiscences to relate,pa

FILTHY LUCRE."-

remember that som

I seem to

The accused having no questions to ask the court was cleared' and later the verdict was given.d The charge was fond proved of

rible bludgeon than a threat, heads We are willing to as trained for local The P. & O. agent announces that are meekly bowed. Pah!

emergency and for wholesale the accommodation is mostly in cats Although we do strongly object to

mobilisation as the result of war and berths, and the ship will be It is quite true that there has been a body like the Automobile Associa

|That training will, as we know from booked on the basis of being a one for years past a total disregard of tion, representing a very small min

our experience of the volunteer force, class ship at £51 each pangr the rule of the road as observed inority of the population, having undue

enable further instruction to be except for a few superior berths for other places. There was a reason for influence upon the ordering of our

intensively applied. More than this which the fare will be: £75, P130 years ago you faced the briness of It Vehicular traffic was confined traffic regulations, and although we

Government must not ask. It we gers shut out of the Nore and Navar getting rid of base email coin. You having been asleep while on duty almost entirely to ricshas. A large do honestly and after careful refect The Secretary of the Memorial are to take our due share in the will be given first priority. The part of our pedestrian" trafic, ion believe that it is our duty to sub-committee has issued a new brez strenuous wark of the next few years, steamer will call at Marsailles. Tas ought to be thankful that you have, and his certificate was suspended for owing to our custom, of employing urge the enforcement of the speed of the suggestions for a Hongkong above all things we decline to be the saloons of the ship, the F&O. S. N. not, like us, to handle ten and twenty-ters. years and at the any of his human beings as beists of burden, limit within the City, intelligent War Memorial, which contains very playthings of the hill-tops depart Company understands, are gatted, disease-carriers known. I shouts to produce a certiae of sobriety five cents notes that are the finest time it would be necessary for him requires to be classed as slow readers perceived that we went little that has pot already appeared mental underlings. Military training and therefore the best arrangements vehicular traffic." Some of the about it very moderately. almost in the China Mail. Indeed, it omita and the regulations necessary there will be made for messing it is doubt whether the world has ever from the master under whom he had burdens carried would be quite out jocularly. Our note Are of place on the sidewalks, Some of Worms could not have offended columns, in which the suggester ple who understand or can be made provided will be for about 281, Mr. Editor, which I take from my

we one suggestion that appeared in our to must be in the hands of local peo estimated that the total seats to be seen paper money more dilapidated served.

and filthy. I send you a specimen, hem, by reason of mere bulk, could anyone but a congenitally foolish proposed to remit at once a large to understand the special conditions which, with double sittings, will pocket as I write. It is quite an not pass along them. Sidewalks are in person, it was so plainly a playful sum to the Home Government to of particular communities. Poona accommodate all the passengers ordinary specimen of the notes that

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. tended, where there is an intention, for protest against the thin end of the help it to fulfil its obligations to is perhaps forgiven, but certainly But what the public wants to know is unencumbered pedestrians. It la wedge of the coming Servile crippled soldiers, etc, and to recoup not forgotten..

who are to be given first claim on put it in your window for all men to hosome clogged with pins wastew are in currency here. Frame it and you want cloth haid an god hard to say what ours were meant State There is a form of the amount by retaining the: House

Ldigestion you must not lit vous bawels those £75 cabins. The authorities for. Lately we have seen the police Socialism" at which we are afraid. Fax: A very natural reason for

are dealing with the whole matter of little commonsense would withdraw when you become continual imper see A Government which had a from the body as is the co drivion pole-carrying coolics on to Prussian brutality, is not such a ignoring the suggestion has already SERVES THE WHOLE FAMILY who is and who is not to travel dirty and tera notes and issue clean fool; an abandment and Disas the sidewalk, and we should like to hideous spectacle to us as was been gives in a Chins Mall editorial RE Lamb of Chamberlain's Cough the vessel, and I hear a indrice the official responsible to do a Prussian social order. The slightest nacely, that the income (thence Eomedy in world who is whisper thit there has been (shall ones, but one, Government is not of, one for exer, at inll-kenn, yome daily promenade behind these. It suspicion of Prussianism under our derived has already been ear marked for thy den nested cough of the adult say) come back-scratch seem. If cleanliness is real next to they cause gentle, marien Tit of the blessed with that quality, it would heald take Chamberlain's Thlata.

boweler regular. When that fails might then strike" him forcibly,Free, Flag darbs us, and possibly for another purpose. A new suggcchildren, the ang bottle serres tis falmost bound to hear something if" 20:dliness, I wonder how far a country howels and are asy and piemat to

for the crown at whooping rough of ineing over those cabins. One was metaphorically speaking, that such makes us less judicial than we tion includes the University as whale family. Forasio By Al Chemists that of course, and one should not that suffers such filthy. not is a For Sale Be All Omxists an arrangement would excite remark aim, always to be, We want beneficiary.

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