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investigations, still to be made. We ought not to say it is necessary until we are ready with proofs.

ing.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day's dollar is down a farth- Demand rate now 3s. 2 15/16d."

About 8,000 feet of the old Canton wall is down now.

A returned American student is opening a glass factory at Canton.

There are

about 600 fantan gambling houses licensed in Canton.

well.

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HONGKONG PETITION TO

THE POPE.

PORTUGUEŠE WANT JESUIT

COLLEGE.

Following is the text of a petition which is being sent to the Pope, and signed for the most part by Portu guese adherents of the church. Most Holy Father,

age

and filial

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1919: ·

MAGISTRACY.

(MR. LINDSELL'S COURT.)'

REVIEWS

The Shilling Soldiers, by Denia Garstin. London: Hodder nud Stoughton.

THEFT OF FLOWER-POTS. A Chinese. Wo "this morning charged with the theft of three

-The late Denis Norman Garstin flower-pots, the propaty of Mir: was born in 1890, fought in France, Tavares of Caine Road, and pleaded was killed in Russia, and was a fines

not guilty."*

literary artist sted. That is, if After Miss Tavares bad deposed to this book does not carry on" for having seen the defendant remore him. It is a collection of sketches | the flower-pots, the prisoner said he

We, the undersigned, Catholic There is a "patriotic" cigarette residents in this British Colony of was paid by another man to carry of life in the trenches which an factory in Canton what they would Hongkong, most humbly render the tower-porte...

appealed to was more than any other call "swadeshi" in India. It is doing Your Holiness our sincerest hom After reminding the prisoner that book of its genre. Some of the veneration. he had a previous conviction against French books liave got near it, but and, with the consent and ap-hin for a similar offence. his Wor. they were michid when portmying proval of the Venerable Prelate of ship passed sentence of six weeks' the horror.

This one isn't. Its this Vicariate, come most earnestly hal labour.

literary qualities are unmistakable. AN INTERESTING CLÁTY,

It gives us the real soldier, and ex- Chief Detective Inspector Murison Correspondsut. Also the home-stay- poses the blatant rubbish of the War

We shall not be at all surprised to find that in Hongkong child labour: is common, excessive, and accom- panied by unpleasant features. As for women labour, we can see almost any day things that would shock other communities elsewhere. The Public Works Department employs women on unwomanly work. When we .see those little creatures, sometimes aged, panting along with two baskets of earth, and reflect on the probable extent of their reward for this necessary public service, we feel ashanted to take our own salary. But let not humanitarian sentiment be too hasty. The most vehement objection to Today's return of communicable interference would come from those disease shows one case of plague, ladies themselves. To deprive them one of smallpox, and one of cerebro- of that means of subsistence without spinal meningitis. first providing a better would be cruel. It would entail suffering and w worry for the very people we wished mittee has sold 1,795,624 caftics of worthy Society of Jesus, recognised for the return of a piece of jewellery, would have been so glad to be in it to be kind to. So it was with child Wuhu rice to the poor at a cheap / throughout the world as the best tri- belonging to a Chinese youth, which far. As the other in the hust labour at home, as we are old enough rate. It has queered the posi-structors of the young.

had been found in a pawnshop.

Mr. Mattingley appeared for the bad, they're just damnably vulgar.

chapter worded it People aren't" to remember. In our opinion child

The necessity of a high grade labour is one of the most glaringly tion of the soulless profiteers.

school is daily becoming more prespawnshop keeper and said a Police They don't think, immoral features of civilization, and

We bad had a surfeit of war books,. if we could prevent it, no one should The China Mail acknowledges sing in this flourishing and prosper sorgeunt want to the pawnshop and work at a task for the sake of a with thanks the receipt from Mr. Cous colony, where many neutral and normation received, demanded wage before he or she were 21. But Thorne, for the use of the Troops, Protestant schools exist and where the return of the jewelery. The and very nearly omitted to read this

the struggle for existence is very pawnbroker refused and was taken ne. We are glad we didn't. W when the labour market is in such a of four papers, one magazine, and keen: consequently, our children before the C.S.P. who retained the advise others in like case to read it, state that the contributions of all is Sir D. Haig's Victory Despatch.

would find it difficult to obtain a jewellery Counsel said he wrote to members are necessary to save a.

footing here and earn their livelihood the US.P. sudanitsing that it was family from actual privation, we say

unless they had been given a careful not within his jurisdiction to retain was returned to the pawnbroker and sound education in keeping with the jewellery, whereupon, the article the requirements of the time.

Hence the present application.

Evit

that reform should be carefully tackled. It should begin at the right end. There should also be sincerity of motive in any reformer beginning

to talk or work on these lines.

We submit. for example, that any White man who goes up-hilf here in

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to ask the grace of Your Holiness consent to, the "establishment of a college in this city under the direc

The Canton Food Relief, Com. tion of the Reverend Fathers of the made un application to his Worshiping patriots, the over-age men who

The Chinese papers still repeat the story that Japan has provocative agents among the Mongolians, may be true. of course, but just now all such reports should be regarded suspiciously.

Bandits broke up a theatrical a chair, or along our roads in a performance at the Wing Hon market ricaha,, without habitually over-in Lungmoon, captured some people paying the coolies, has no right to for ransom, locted a few shops, and pose as a philanthropist. The "legal" went. South Chiria just now is full fares here deserve only one descrip of adventure. tion. They amount to "sweating" Think it over.

THE HONGKONG PETITION TO THE POPE.

Here is an adve from The Times personal column Inefficient major promoted by accident, no decorations, not so young as he used to be, wants job. Salary every consideration. Not

too much work,

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was then taken to the

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they never lead another. It may serve (we hope to God it will) as a tonis, an antidote, or an old disease

reuter of the German filet las ve hus "done it. that is recrudesaing. Cur triumph The spectacular sur- The necessity for such a school became yet more apparent since the

5 The cheap who testy, Presi is feunding of the Hongkong University | effes that the jewelery, w gold stur, doing it. The humiliation of the where, as in the case of all univer had been presented by Mr. Ng Hon Germans is a good thing or the war and gloried in it. It is for them sities, the education accorded its to his friend's son, who had at Germans, because they believed in pupils is of a much higher standard need it to his cap which was sub- than that taught in preparatory sequently either lost or stolen. much needed lesson that the sut schools and collcges. It would Tater, en mnah informed Ir. Ng ferings of war are not necessarily not have been necessary to lay Hom Tex that she had seen the star compensated by results. But for une this petition before Your Holiness, in the pawnshop, Mr. Ng Hon Tazit is bad. We, too, gloried in war, but for the fact that the went to the shop and there identi-and are begina.ng to do so aguis, great majority of the Catholics in fled the star as the one he had given just because the ultimate triumph this Colony are not in a pecuniary the boy

happens to be ours. Not our sol- position to send their children to this Inspector Murison. contended that diers this book shows that they university, and that they also prefer it was the pawnbroker's duty to

I have the strength of it," as they, that their children should be given a cake enquiries before aking the would say

But the vulgar, the complete education in a purely farticle in pawn..

thoughtless, that vast array of civil- Catholic school. This request of ours." The Kwongtung Government is therefore, is most pertinent, inas-article paired was very cornmon, more fighting-by others. This bools The pawnbroker said that as the us who even now would shout for The China Mail is embarrassed. maintaining a number of students of much as in places where non-ca- he did not pay particular attention may do them good. It is a terrible It very willingly publishes the text of wireless telegraphy, All they have to tholic universities exist, high grade toit. the Portuguese petition to His Holi- pay is two dollars a month and keep Catholic colleges have also been did not look a respectable person. cinates and it shocks. It also leaves The boy who took it in pawn, book, and a charming book. It fagy. ness the Pope, because that is news, it up for a year and a half. Then established in order that Catholic But the sympathetic' commerita "

jobs are found for them.

Mr. Ng Hon Ts sakl the design, us with the conviction that its author that are also requested present a pro-

children may be accorded an educa for the star was suggested by his wife was the sort of hero, physically and blem: We acknowledge and confess

tion on a level with that taught in and he did not think it was non spiritually, whom England could that the teachers of the S.J. Bre very the Higher Foolishness, a relic of similar institution here is keenly

Christian Science is a branch of such universities The want of a for boys to wear gold stars on their least sura. good teachers, probably, as the peti- tion says twice, the best in the world. Pre-war decadence, and a symptom felt not only by the Catholic There is more pure intellect in the of mental incapacity, but we don't residents In Colony, but by the Catholics visiting SJ, we believe, than in any other mind admitting that the Christian body of men in the world. But the Science Monitor is a model of all that these shores, who readily realise the Jesuits have a bad, name for a daily newspaper should be.

importance of a sound and thorough The China Mail" is now on the existing social contract, and the meddling with secular politics. Of

education in order to well equip the coming generation for the keen- sale at, and will be delivered will have the moral right to reject course, strictly speaking, there is

secular politics

struggle for existence in this, one of by, Mesers. W. G. Humphreys it, just as we have the right to resent no such thing as and Co. Shameen, Canton, the "dead hand" responsible for in the sense that any human affairs

the largest ports of the world, with aber was purely to blame in the some of our current embarrassments, should be divorced from religion.

vast commerce, having commercial who have been appointed our As the Declaratich of Independence Any religion that is real must

houses of world wide reputation and

agents,

said: "whenever any government regulate all our doings. But you

having besides, a population com- becomes destructive of those ends know what we mean. Power cannot

posed of peoples of all races and Ifor which it was contracted] it is safely be entrusted to priests of any

Our wish and request that the the right of the people to alter or faith, and quite a big section of the

Jesuit Fathers should be the teachers abolish it." If they can are the words British community believe that the received from the Chief Cable Censor, of a higher college for the Catholic that should have followed, but didn't. Jesuits still lust for power, and use London:"Telegrams both personal children in this colony, is actuated In this matter the caly thing that all their good works, including their and commercial now allowed with by the fact that they are admittedly succeeds is success. A successful schools, for ulterior ends. Whether Esthonia and with Poland from April

abolisher" is a re this suspicion be just or unjust, it is 1st Also with Austria from April the best instructors of the youngvidence sukd she sent the No. 1 boy word that is tiresomely open former with a halo; an unsuccessful there, and as this is a British Colony, 2nd, but not Hungary. Service children will receive at their hands one is a loathed rebel. Now America and the China Mail a British journal uncertain and telegrams liable to an education of a standard at par is confronted with those lofty pro- to ask us to support the petition in delay."

with that accorded by the Hongkong fessions, glibly quoted by Japan when any way is to ask more than is

to the University

Protestants, demanding racial equality", at the discreet or fair. ・・

The Rev. Mr. Dowding, the

heathens, and others. same time that she is faced with the

Kowloon chaplain who stayed so Conscious of the love and case undeniable fact that it is right and

short a while and yet attracted so which Your Holiness has at all times soa just and most expedient to save her

much attention, left for Home on the shown towards your spiritual chil- Benrennes. A few admirers saw him drea, we have the fullest confidence own people from the sufferings of a disadvantageous economic competi

Here is a stimulating thought from China Mail office and, after compli considered

off. Before he went he called at the that this request will be favourably tion. Just as in India, Egypt, and Ireland we British are exposed, to the writings of the late Lord Actonments, entrusted his "revival" works

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute to us. We'll see to it. accusations of hypocrisy because it

The China Mail.

TECTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC RERVICE."

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1919.

IDEALS OR HUMBUG?

A survey of world politics at this time produces the reflection that chose good people; the idealists, can do more mischief than conscious demagogues. Young China's hopes and ambitions afford an illustration. Democratic sovereignty or "self de termination" is the least of their expectations from the League of zxpc Korea is aflame now with

'alterer" or

A THOUGHT.

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is for seems to us) impossible to act power corrupts absolutely." To put up to our professions, so is America it in our own way. "A little power liable to be accused. Her possession makes Bumbles, and a lot makes a similar ideal. India and Egypt of the Philippines and her immigra Neros and Kaisers.”

The tion laws simply cannot be squared with her noble theories of human eality. Except in one way, for which we have been groping.

So will it be as between the and China. It would

Powers

AND A POEM,

,

...

The Mohamedan Members of the Hongkong Police Force will entertain the British Officers, N.C. Officers, Mohamedan Officers, Noncommis signed Officers and Gunners of the H.K.S.B.R.G.A. to tiffin at the Central Police Station at 1 pm on Saturday.

The following telegram has been

50 cents,

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also

creeds.

this

and that we are convinced our

Mr. Muttingley submitted that us the article was returned to the para- The broker, he thought that the anunt loaned on the article should be ge- urned to him.

After further argument on the sub- this Worship said, the pawn utter for not making proper en quiries and ordered the return of the article on payment of half of the money advanced by the broker.

THEFT FROM LYNDHURST, TIERRACE, A Chinese pleaded not guilty to a charge of the of $280 in 'notes

in No. 44 Lyndhurst Terrace.

The mistress of the house giving

Secret City, by Hugh Walpole London: Macmillan and Co.'s Empire Library. Pp. 446. 8. Gd, met.

Mr. Walpole is one of our landing moderns, but he is not a novelist for the vulgar. He needs a little mus cilture in his reader than Wells docs, than (say) Mr. Le and far nice Quieux. This is n sequel to The Dark Forest." which gave us such vivid pictures of ambulance work op the Rission front, It gives us equally meticulous word paintings of Petrograd just before and after the revolution. The general run of cri- tics call Mr. Walpole' a paychologist

and on going to the room, the boy worst of them, are that, of course, to her bedroom to get her spectacles, worked. A novelists, even the found the door locked. A Text and if Mr. Walpole is one it is bea. minutes later the prisoner was ob-use he is BO laboriously full of servei coming out of the room and detail about unimportant and somet the No. 1 boy grabbed him. times irrelevant features. He writes. The money was found on his per- quite as beautifully as Mr. Stephen Graham (the Lafcadio Hearn of Run- sin) but he spares us the highfalutin. stuff that points the Russians as (n

spiritual sense)

The prisoner said be had lost money by gambling and, took only So to ruake good his losses.

His Worship passed sentence of thinee months' hard about.

(MH: ORME'S COURT.)

OPIUM.

For the possession of six tack of

THEFT OF

too good

Tod

To a community like ours, number ing" 5,000 Catholics, the granting

For human nature's daily food." of this petition will be one of

He fans realistic as the Eussion, The attention of steamship the greatest acts of grace, which agents and operators is called to the Your Holiness will deign to bestow

bio less morbid. Likewise, as we have hinted, he misses' the Eussian fact that instructions have been not only on be but on all

kaack of providing a good picture are moved concerning it.

received from the U. S. Department the Catholics "scattered over the

while leaving out unnecessary de neddle in Europe is of a piece.

of State revoking its circular requir-Far East, as they would then The awkward part of it all is that

tails. He had tremendous luck to ing crew lists of all vessels proceeding be able to send their children for opium dross, a Chinese woman was lire through such picturesque experi so far as logic goes the practical,

to the United States to be visaed by tuition in Hongkong which could fined $22 or, in default, 21 days' ences, and bere and there he seems commonsense politician hasn't a leg

the Hongkong Consulate General, consequently be regarded as the hurd labour.

conscious of it. What British literature would have and such lists are no longer required. centre of Catholic civilization in these to stand on. Out of his own mouth he

To describe the can be convicted of humbug. Votes seem monstrously unfair to the done during war-time without Martin

emotions of eye-witnesses is a good, À MIPE- parts.

way to describe the events they saw for women was a grave mistake, European residents of China to Secker of John Street we shiver to

A sale of Fancy Work will be We pray, therefore, that "Your A Chinese youth was charged beIt is Mr. Walpole's method in this There are publishers held at but we never heard a soundly logical abolish extra-territoriality, and how suppose.

Montpelier, Queen's Gar Holiness will be prompted, hy the fore his Worship with the theft of absorbingly interesting novel, which argument against it. There isn't the League of Nations is going to greater" in the contmercial sense, dens, on Wednesday, April 9th, at justness of our desire, to take the pipe from a ship which was under is as copious as one of Eenty Field- one, except the

save face and get over this, but not one who has done more for 3 o'clock, to which you and friends necessary measures towards the reali-going repairs in the Taikoo Dockyard (ing's, and leaves is strong a con- fact that it would be better for men's comfort dificulty we simply could not guess art or for truth. This entirely un-are cordially invited. The cale is insation of our ardent aspirations. and pleaded guilty." to keep women in political subjection, at first essay. But in trying to do so solicited testimonial was not based aid of the St. Dunstan's Hostel in

sciousness of artistry us, a fact of which men are instinctively we hit upon that thought of the on one publication--though it was Regent's Park for Blinded Soldiers are, in a great majority, decendants this nature were very common in the keep his own history, his own de

The signatories of this petition Sergt. MeTullock said thefts of: Jories.". He tried, he tells us, to ecognizant. In the case of India, the element of contract in government. suggested by one. For Gilbert Can and Saitors Weather permitting, of the noble and gallant Portuguese docks. Two days ago the captain sires, his own temperament, out of promises of the Victorian Orders in By analogy we see a similar contract nan's "Windmills" alone Mr. Secker the stalls will be on the Teanis nation, which first implanted the of the sa. Lee, which was under is, as much as was lumerly possible," Council, and the assurances of num between the Chinese people and the deserves our gratitude. He is also Courts; otherwise, in No. 2, Queen's catholic faith and true civilization in going repairs, in the docks, lost a pipe That is a foolish convention of critic erous statesmen since, have given to rest of civilization. Before they can the publisher of New Foems by D. H. Gardens. There will be a Bran Tub these remote lands, and this, it is and a revolver and 76 rounds of am-iarn, which no good writer ever yet Indian agitators "crushing" arga live comfortably together by rule of Lawrence, from which we quote the for Children, and Pets for sale. Tea respectfully submitted, is an addi- munition. When the defendant was lived up to and it is a pity they ments which it is impossible to refute. Right (without extra-territoriality, following moving piece

tional reason for Your Holiness to searched as he was leaving the dock should waste energy and handicap We have to fall back upon the which is obviously a device of Might)

give a favourable consideration to yard, the pipe was found on his per their genius by trying. Mr. Wal- debatable proposition that they are China must perform her, share of the

The new Pepys (in Truth) puts this petition.

son. The prisoner had no business pole hasn't done it. He has given not yet it to undertake the responsi implied contract, and evolve "better.

it very nicely when he says: The Imploring your blessing upon in the dock premises and was one of us a good novel, one which, incident bilities of the freedom we are dis law and purer administration. Young

tidings out of Paris are that, at the ourselves and our families, and ten those sreaking thieves who went ally, helps us to understand the darkd inclined to give them.

China is naturally entitled to life,

renewing of the truce come Feb. 17, dering Your Holiness our humble America is the source of ideals that liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,

the conference will (through Marshal and respectful thanks in anticipation, they could lay their hands upon. what a tremendously high explosive fron ship to ship stealing anything secret of Bolshevism, and to realize are now making trouble, and the but before-it is entitled to fellowship

Foch) raise our termes on the Ger- mans in order to bringing down their

We subscribe ourselves, Americans as a nation have had among the nations, it must climb into

The sergeunt asked for an exemplary an idea is, when it is grasped firmly experiences which should have made line. Yes. That will have to be the

high stomacks, they of late having

Your Holiness*

punishment and for stocks outside by an idea loving people. them aware of the peril of definite argument. .

grown mighty contumacious, and

Humble and obedient children the dock gates verbal expressions. It is true that

their leaders, particularly Ebert and

in Christ, all men are equally entitled to life,

Erzberger, using most saucy lan- liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,

guage, which it shall be Foch's but no form of political franchise is

business to make them eat a natural right of man because As we understand it, Mr. F. B. L government is an artificial arrange Bowley has not yet Investigated the ment, a contract made by one set of conditions of factory, employment in men to live together comfortably. To Hongkong, nor did Miss Pitts. Mr. this contract the negroes were not Bowley dealt with the legal aspects. a party, and it was a trouble-breeding of factory legislation; Miss Pitts if natural mistake of the earlier lectufed on general, rather than on American idealists to claim that all local conditions. We therefore men are equal, and that as negroes applaud the attitude taken by Mr. are then, ergo, they should be on a Alabaster at the, meeting of the level with whites in all things, Sanitary Board. We do not say Artificial as well as natural. Cur legislation is unnecessary: that children's children are not parties to remains to be seen as the resu of 1!

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HUMÁNE LEGISLATION.

Softly, in the dusk, "a woman is

singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of

years, till I sec

A child sitting under the piano, in the oom of the tinkling ***strings

And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings,

In spite of myself, the insidious

mastery of song Betrays me back, till the heart of

me weeps to belong To the old Sunday evenings at ...: home, with winter outside And hymns in the cosy parlour,

the tinkling piano our guide.

So now it is vain for the singer to

burst into clamour

sionata The glamour

BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN;

Hogkong, 19th March, 1919,

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF,

His Worship passed sentence of six weeks hard Jabour and four boure' stocks in Deu of the last day

CHEFT OF ADINGHE

I

He recognised the dinghy by a piece

of wire which he had limealf tied to“

A Chinese boatwoman was charged the stora with the theft of a dinghy, valeu

After a witness had depocet for TV you want a clear bead and good at $15, the property of a boataan hoing present when the defendant digestion you must not let your bowels allatively with receiving bought the dinghy in Taikoltau last became alogged with poisonous waste stolen property and pleaded*nöt | from the body, as is always the case With the great black piano appas-DURING the summer months chither you become condita Propos are subject to disorders of food, an abundance of water and plenty Of childish days is upon me, my the bowels and should receive the most of outdoor exercis should keep your

careful sttaution. As soon as any un bowels regnise. When that fails y Down in the flood of remembrance, potion Chamberlin's Colic and Dier They cause a gentle abrement of the ice natural inoseness of the bowels is should take Chamberlain's Tables I weep like a child for the rhan Remedy should be given, File By All Chemists, and bowels vand easy, and plesmatato paat.

Fasle By All Chemists and Storekeepers,

Atorskeopéra

manhood is cast tak

guilty alleging that sie bought the year, his Worship decided to convict dingly at. Taikolayi last year for 38, a thoidon property, but of ma calving stolen un from a man whom she did not know awful possession and after legtoring The complainant suid ha kat the her on the advisabidity of making covered it in Shaukiwon yesterday unknown and douthful persons, pass the dinghy on Marsh 22; and di

enquiries before buying things fami in the possession of the defendant ad hentence of 315 fine or 21 daye laughter and reported to the police. Hurd labour.