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IN MEMORIAM.

STEVENSON. In loving memory of 2nd Lieut. R. J. Stevenson (1st Hampshire Regt), eldest and dearly loved son of Mr. & Mrs. R. J. Steven. son, who made the supreme sacrifice on May 10th-1918.

MARRIAGE.

GROUT VILLAS.-On April 30, at Shanghai, George Francis Grout. to Cyrilla Marie-Theresa Villas.

BIRTHS.

CRADOCK: On May 1, at Shanghai to Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Cradock, Customs, Shanghai, a son."

SHELDON-On April 25, at Shang

. Sheldon, a son.

the enemy

It would, however, not be human to refrain from rejoicing over the

THE CHINA MAIL.

LOGAL- AND "GE ERIL

To-day's dollar is worth 33. 5 3 160.

The closing cruise of the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club will take place to-morrow afternoon. After three events, Mrs. Pollock will present the Prizes won during the season,

LOCAL AND ORNERAL.

The Howitt-Philips Company leave for Manila to-morrow per the s.s. Wasang. –

Today's return of communicable disease shows four cases of plague and three of C.S. fever.

The Banvard Musical Comedy

FRIDAY MAY 9, 191K

FAMINE IN SUI LAM.

BENEVOLENT WORK OF B1 A. T.

LARGE QUANTITIES OF RICE

DISTRIBUTED..

"PEG O ME HEART."

Here in this momentous document is at once an answer to prafer and the beglaning of the good life, in which even the Devilis reformed into a

Sure, an twas after mating beloor police_officer. The beginning of the

dinner we were. Says Lye'll not be | Year One—a pleasant and a stimulat-

forgettin that swite colleen Peg o ing thought, which the League

me Heart cow? Will yes come and itself might be well advised to

see her wit me? Tonight? says adopt. Never was a change In

he. Tonight, says E. I'll not, says the kalendar so well justified, for

he, for well I know it's sitting it dates from what is indeed the

In Sui Lam, is the Heungahan dis. upstairs wit" the swells yez are, arr first and only genuine Magna

trict. the people have been in such me not dressed, says he. No more Carta." There have been holy

will be dressed ayther, says i, for M. H H. Lennox of Messrs. Company are due to arrive to-day fdire straits that they have been on that I never am if I can help alliances and leagues and bunds before, but never one so informed Jardine, Matheson's piece goods des and open their season at the Theatre the verge of starvation.

Rice, the staple diet of the populatan more by token didn't we with such a blend of idealism partment, who has been a Captain Royal to-morrow nigat

tion, has been scarce and expensive, know the play its own self is abd practicality. The Chinese in the Army on active service in

socrt av nonsense? Sage must have been right all along. France, is back in Shanghai in his

without money: The extreme poverty shtrugglin in me room, says I, wit a desides which the people have been in that

Will I be for shweatin ATE Man is naturally. righteous. This firm's service.

of the inhabitants is due to two Feace Treaty proves it. When two thirds of the Assembly have agreed Captain A. E. Inwood, on retiring

floods last year which ruined both clane shirt, says I, whin I can kape rice crops and reduced the people to all they can do is to look at us, says codian go as I am now? Shure, an to Germany's request for member from the service of the Nisshin Kiseo ship of the League, which will in due Katha, has been presented by the

For some time the so-called rich he and maybe tall us to be gawn out of it, says he. M come, says course be forthcoming, there can be superintendents, captains, officers and left no lingering doubt of it. Mean engineers of the Company with an

helped but soon their resources gave he owe wyst out. while the role of the Germans is that engraved gold watch and locket, apore. This makes two escapes when it is made known that they Peggy, so purty and so swate, an the

of the object lessons the Awful Ex ample, and whether they sign or don't sigu, the first great change is accomplished, and the right road to

comrades. Bon voyage,

Maru, Chinhua, Glenfalloch, Patella, The Untin Maru, Haitan, Banri

Childar. Choysang and Cyclops are among the lates: arrivals in harbour.

A German prisoner of war named Peter Naventh escaped recently from Tanglin Internment Camp, Sing.

accompanied by a following letter of within a fortnight. appreciation.

It is reported from Berlin that civilization is resumed. Bon soyage, the ex-Kaiser, recently approached the German Government with regard to his private fortune, as he was with out ready money and had already | been obliged to borrow 20,000 gulden from his Dutch host. The German Government has allowed him a sum of 600,000 marks to meet current ex

INDIA..

Beyond recognizing that there must be the same "self determina-penses. tion" as we see in Ireland in Egypt, and in Korea, we do not know what the Indians want. It cannot be, we suppose, as things are now, absolute autonomy, since we are satisfied they are not ready for it. We believe the story of the Rajah who was asked what would happen if the English left India to the Indians. I do not know what would happen beyond my reach. he said in effect, but I can promise you that within a short time there Would not

a miserable state of living.

This will readily be understood

have had no rents from their tenants.

lecture on China at the Overseas Club, became, paid a high tribute to the commercial integrity of Chinaman. It could be said more truly of them than of many white people that their word was their bond.--Morning Post.

elders distributed gratis a small

Ah, now, an wasn't she the darlin

ways of "her that wheedlin -would

Sir Ernest Birch, presiding at a { for two years, so poor have the latter coax the buckbone out of a dead her- The village elders next did their ring? Tis a dacent sort of a play utmost to alleviate the distress. The altogether, as full of tears and blarney as Tom Moore his own self, and av quantity of "congee" rice. This course the house was that full ye was insufficient to satisfy the wants could have filled it as full again of the people who had proper boiled and had seats to lend. Twas the rice only five times from February 1 last night of the Hewitt Phillips com to April 16, lastead of twice a day as to see more there. Was it good, pany too, begob. Yez'd have thought is necessary for the Chinese.

for

Merister

At Weimar recently the German Finance hinted that Germany was threatened with national bankruptcy, and that every- body would be compelled to hand over the whole of his (or her) income. except a very small allowance.

men were after forgettin the words, and fillin in wit talk of their own that wasn't always much better than the talk of the man that wrote us. Serrals Doris and Olive were wort But hwat of ut? Faith, those two-

ahl the monnéy.

The facts were brought to the says you? What way would it not notice of the British American be good, an them the best yet? Sure Tobacco Co. here and on April 17," it was good, barrin that all of the Mr. S. Mayes, Sales Manager for South China, accompanied by Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Barker of Swatow Wong Po Sang, Head of the firm's- were among the passengers for Chinese Staff, and a party left Canton a Home yesterday by the Empress of piculs of rice, loaded on two huge for Sui Lam. With them were 5,000 Russiq. Mr. Barker is a member of the firm of Bradley and Co. coal junks. On arrival at Sui Lam Swatow, and was secretary of the the party found the people in a British Chamber of Commerce there. pitiable condition. They were ex- tremely emaciated and craved for

At the Shanghai Club, on April 30. Mr.C. W. Porter (ex-champion of Shanghai) met Mr. H. S. Smyth (pre.. sent champion) in an exhibition match of 1,000 up for the benefit of Red Cross Funds. Porter ran out winner, somewhat easily, by 260 points. The best breaks were Porter-85. 81. 56, 50. 47. 47 46. 41. 34. 31. Smyth-71. 43. 34. 31. 30. 30.

Some time ago, says the Ceylon Observer, a Sinhales villager of Rak wane found a blue sapphire, weighing 1,020 carats. He was told that it was not worth much and to sell it if he got up to Rs 100. The man sold it for Rs 80 to two men who now want Re 30,000 for it. Those who have seen the stone describe it as unique, pea cock blue and extremely lustrous, although still uncut.

on Rules has informally decided in The American House Committee favour of a general Congressional investigation into charges which have been made to the effect that the lives

G

MERCANTILE BANK OF

INDIA.

The twenty-sixth annual report

The Bangkok correspondent of rice. The party held a meeting with the Pinang Gazette says it is expected the elders and officials of the Sui that the Siamese Army aviators on Lam Chamber of Commerce who their return, from France will estab-assisted the B.A.T. men in the distri

bution. fish a mail service in the Eastern Province. Ubon is at present fifteen

Mr. Mayes had a scheme all pre- says: The Directors submit to the days from Bangkok and would be pared, based or the coupon system. Shareholders of the Bank the Generat six hours by the proposed aerial ser entitled a person to buy three catties Profit and Loss Account for the year A ticket contained 10 coupons and Balance Sheet and Statement of vice.

of rice for 20 coppers. This is a ending 31st December, 1918. purely nominal sum.... The ticket of

The N. C. Daily News says: Mr. R. G. Faithfull, who was admitted to practice before H. M. Supreme Court at Shanghai on May 1, comes from a before him having been solicitors.. Khan." family of lawyers, three generations He came out to Hongkong in 1912

ago.

10 coupons provides 30 cattles of rice which is sufficient to feed a man for

one month.

.

This splendid work of the B.A.T, for the poor, directly benefited all

The net Profits for the year, after providing for bad and doubtful debts, and including £58,432 19, 2d. brought forward from last Account, amount to $239,543 18s. 6d. From this sum

the interim Dividend of 6 per cent, has to be deducted £33,750,, being less Income Tax on theA and "B" Shares paid in September last.

The Directors have added £50,000 10 the Reserve Fund (raising it to

The following. Directors retire by rotation, but, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election

Mr. R. J. Black. Mr. J. M. Ryrie.

It will be necessary to appoint Auditors. Messrs. Cooper Brothers the others immediately. The very Co. and Messrs. W. A. Browne & poor get their rice very cheaply, and Co., the retiring Auditors, offer them- the shopkeepers also at once raade a selves for re-election. By order of substantial reduction in the price of the Board, P. Mould, Chief Manager. the rice they had, for sale. This benefited the middle class people.

Another evil remedied was that before the arrival of the B.A.T. party the shopkeepers were retailing rice instead of 16. As soon as the B.A.T. at 14 taels weight to the catty rice arrived they advertised that the full weight, of 15 taels per catty would be given."

THE CENSORSHIP.

be a rupee or a virgin left in Bengal With such possibilities, it is clear that our people could not leave India even if they wished to. They simply must carry on.. So we don't know what the agitators want. At present, after reading Indiar. news papers just to hand, we suspect the trouble, is due to things they don't want. They don't want the old

A cargo boat was conveying a arrogance, so ably reflected in the

load of water melon to the wharf, British Press of India. They are

Thieves attacked the watchmen at opposite the Central Market, yester tired of being bullied by the the C. N. Watung Wharves at Shang-day afternoon. The boat must have misrepresentatives of a Government hai on the night of April 24 when been overweighted for as soon as.

The party found they had to feed that is in reality, at the top, good disturbed in an attempt to steal coolies boarded her to take delivery distribution the clamour for food about 17,000 people and at the first and kind. The curious thing, some timber and, on the intervention of the cargo she capsized. No lives and as we suspect the indica of the wharfinger, Mr. Graham, he were lost, but some melons were..

was so great that the cooked rice tive thing, is that the British Press is also was attacked and struck with

ready to be served was taken with- tired of the goodness and kindness bamboos. It is thought there were

out tickets and eaten, or rather of the Government. Riots.and violence about 25 men concerned in the affair ron last month was certainly inter-hunger of the people. There were £700,000), £10,000 to the Officers"

The visit of the Japanese Squad- wolfed, on the spot, such was the naturally encourage passionate re but no arrests have so far been made.esting, but in so far as such visits are scenes of great excitement at the Pension Fund, and written £15,000 sentment, but we sometimes think

chiefly made for the purposes of first distribution. The sight of off Freehold Banking Premises. They the birth and development of these champions of Government must Woodrow Wilson, mankind has been be an embarrassment to it. On April

den demands on Sandakan food. Some were so weak that they had the "A" and "B" Shares of 8 per coaling and revictualling, the sud emaciated people was very painful. now recommend a Final Dividend on made to change the old order, for 2 The Englishman said: Pone whose possibilities are 30 The Government of India has only

supplies invariably mean a soaring of to be carried to the distributing cent, less Income Tax, making 14 immense that none yet realizes them. itself to blame for the disgraceful

the local prices of such commodities centre. A band played but it was a per cent. for the year, leaving a sorrowful sight for those who went balance of £85,793. 18s. 6d. to be The pious will say that it was no and scandalous scenes that have of thousands of American soldiers as vegetables, fruit, eggs, fish, etc.

to lend the helping hand.

carried forward. fluke. This thing, they will say, is of been enacted in the vicinity of I were needlessly sacrificed through

With the assistance of the big rice The following telegram despatch- God. If they be as intelligent as they are dia's capital. The insolence and failure to supply them with necessary. pious, they will add that God is license of the Delhi "resisters" is a equipment ani support in the ed from Bombay on March 11 appears merchants the system was put into great, and that Woodrow Wilson is measure of their contempt for all Argonne Forest and also into in a Ceylon paper: H.H. the Aga operation with good results after the his prophet. In reply we shall have that is implied in the word gov charges of alleged F-treatment of Khan has sent the following cable, first distribution and when Mr, Mayes to say that almost they persuade us. ernment. Had the Government of American sold ers at Brest. dated February 25, to a correspon left, ali was working well.

That is the first aspect of this India treated Mr. Gandhi and his pro-

dent in Bombay, with the request momentous event. It is of no use paganda as they deserved, to say.no

that it may be given publicity ---- merely to dance verbal fandangoes thing of former agitation, there would

"Please deny as never true my can around it. It is still less helpful to have been no "passive resistance"

didature for the Mesopotaraian throne. refiect, as one shrewd man did. that and no riots. Let us not be mis

The whole thing is a cock-and-bull left", if thereafter we are to sit down everything that his friends claim him "hasn't-many feathers understood. Mr. Gandhi may be

story and has no foundation. Aga and do nothing. Peace, desirable as to be. He may be the most high- it looks after so much war, is of small souled, disinterested of patriots, a where he practised until quite It is understood that the victims valce per se. Peace without the con- sincere passive resister, abhorring recently, selling his practice to come in the motor tragedy in Korea, al- hai. to Mr. and Mrs. S. R.structive effort which it permits may violence in any shape or from. He to Shanghai, where he has joined the ready reported, and whose names be stagnation It is for us to enquire may be all that and still be a public firm of Messrs. Hanson, McNeil, could not be made out, were the Rev.

censorship is shortly to be dispensed We understand that the telegram MAKAROFF-On May 2, at Shang-now what the new arrangement means danger. Public dangers ought to be, Jones and Wright. Mr. Faithfull was P. C. Crane and Mrs. Bell killed and

with, and that the gentlemen who hai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. Makaroff, for us each and all; what we person-if not removed, at least induced to admitted to the English roll 46 years the Rev. R. Knox, seriously injured.

have been assisting the Chief Censor of Petrograd, son.

álly have now to do about it.

cease their public activities."

All belonged to the Southern Presby How comfortable if Government

here during the war period may be terian Mission. The Rev. E. Bell, the

The Canton Government assisted relieved of their duties" at the end of DEATHE.

could be run on those simple lines.

The New York Evening Sun fourth occupant of the car at the to the extent of prov ding the party the present month. - nemesis that has come to immoral 'Here is

The censorship 2 high-souled person in a leading article says that Ad-time of its disastrous collision with with a gunboat for protection, etc. will not be regretted. It was a ambition. Imperialism never has been moving an Amendment. Movers of miral Jelicoe's mission to Australia the Seoul express, was uninjured. The worst is now. tided over but necessary evil, but there is no longer moral in any people, but in the Ger- amendments are public dangers is one of great importance with

the people have suffered greatly and any very strong reason why it should mans it swelled into sin. In their Off with his head." Alas! The days regard to the future, for it will unify

With a view to a fitting celebra- it is strange that it should ave been not be abolished, at any rate when for simple, commonsensible procedure the British and colonial navies for present bitter humiliation. and in the hopelessness of ever of that sort are over, though 7he operation in the Pacific, thus creating tion of Anzac Day, and, incidentally, left for the B.A.T. Company to do peace is signed and that event may "getting even" now, lies their chance Englishman hasn't yet heard of it. the single fleet of a great Power. to bring about a reunion of Austral such work. It seems to be within lake place before April is out. We of salvation. We hope to see them Two days later we find the same The Pacific will not become a Japaians and New Zealanders residing in the province of others. Neverthe hope the abolition of the telegram presently members cf the League, paper doing its bit towards the nese ocean while the British naval Malaya, a dinner was held at the less the B.AT. have done a big thing censorship will be quickly followe full of the zeal which animates true restoration of peace and reagon by power lasts. It is a development Europe Hotel, Singapore, on April in the cause of humanity at consider by the lifting of the letter censor- ship. This of course is not exercis- converts, working with the world to saying:

which does not carry a menace to 25, presided over by Mr. W. H. Lamb. able financial cost.

Arrangements have been made to ed to anything like the extent that It was a large and enthusiastic suppress the devils of greed and

The indigenous, press, always one America, and it will really mean gathering, including quite a fair continue the distribution for a month was noticeable during the armistice. cruelty and uncharitableness that of the most depressing symptoms of co-operation with that country.

Home to this, sprinkling of ladies, and the proceed from date of starting when condi- when news from have infected our earthly paradise the Indian situation because of its |with so many thorns and weeds- unbalanced, artificial and irrelevant

The Washington correspondent ings were thoroughly enjoyed, those tions should be greatly improved. country was rigorously bluepencilled, Cynical writers will be sure to views, its tendency to engineer of the New York Times reports that a present being fully in accord with a The mulberry crop is nearly due and but a censorship of letters between the Dutch Indies and Malaya, för collect capital from the spectacle of and its manifold futilities, has declared that a cleverly organised Singapore for people from Australa.

agitation upon every possible subject, group of prominent Senators has proposal to form an association in is fortunately satisfactory.

This will provide the people with instance. is still retained. I can the division of the spoils. It might achieved many columns of turgid anti-British propaganda movement

funds and rescue them, temporarily scarcely be achieving anything that at any rate, from their immediate and is of much value to anybody nova- Woodrow Wilson had not had his affray. There has been any amount to estrange Britain from the United

very real sufferings.

days, and we ought to get rid of it way, and got the League incorporat-of misrepresentation."

The Danish physician, Professor.

at the earliest possible moraent- ed in the Peace Terms

States. Senator William H. King Saugman, has discovered a method Because We have enshrined that in the im(Democrat; Utah) declares that the for the surgical treatment of lung

This letter censorship has served a that makes them all Mandatories, perishable columns of the China movement has a German and Sing tuberculosis after many experiments

useful purpose in the paal, but it de facto if not de jure. What they Mail as the most notable example Fein origin.

may have outlived it and if this is so, have they hold in trust, and more hitherto observed of a case of pot Wadsworth (Republican, New York) the disease. He recently delivered

Senator James Won patients in an advanced stage of "

it is high time an irritating form of will be required of them, than has calling kettle black. As we have advocates the adoption of active a lecture to the Medical Society of

official inquisitiveness" were stop ever been expected before.

said, we are not well-informed as to measures to forestall the propagan Copenhagen, presenting the patients,

ped.-Penang Gazelle." The commonsense of peace must what the Indians want, but we now

Since the commencement of the now be the moving claptrap of have more than an inkling (thanks

and demonstrating how he had war, a boxing entertainment, which succeeded in affecting a permanent used to be popular here, says the of Nations. From now on the real gain, since they are the that they don't want. The very Indian Infantry, who has been Com the diseased side, thus causing exponents of the game as Christie

This is the year One of the League the quid nuncs and the mob, a to the Calcutta Inkling) of what it 19 Major A. J. D. Thomson, 18th, cure by removing part of the ribs in Straits Times when we had such good / DIGNITY OF THE COURT. world is a different place to live in. majority who do things. Is that phrase passive resistance." Whether the Germans agree to sign obscure? We mean that there are eliminates the idea of a felt want. I Guard-in-Pelting for over two years, partly puts the diseased lung out of George Redfearn as an amateur to the dignity of Justice this morning. mandant of the British Legation partial collapse of the chest. ThisTully, McAuliffe, Mick Patou and Mr. Lindsell the magistrate upheld. or not, the League is a fact accom- two ways to teach a parrot to talk. suggests a something unwanted. It prior to which he was in Hongkong function and effects a cure. plished. The cynics, the pessimists, It can be taught to swear, or it can appears the something is still there. with his regiment, has been ordered

assist at a tournament or give a fer A local Government architect while the thoughtless, ali men except be taught to repeat amusing and

rounds at an assault at arms), had waiting to be called was engaged to Burma, where he will be attached perhaps the members of the Order of wholesome things, sometimes even |

to give way to more serious pursuits. in reading a newspaper when the Pantagruel, have been hustled into a helpful things, and in dur human

to the Indian Police, Major Thom

With the arrival of an Australian Magisterial voice, stern and severe." new order. A great lesson of history world the prate of the parrot repre

son, who left the Capital on May 1,

squadron, however, we are promised said "I do not think the Police Court. , disappears. The aphorism that there sents the practical politics of it: The

has been prominent both as a polo

an exhibition such as Singapore has is a place in which to read the daily is nothing new under the sun is world is not ordered by voices crying disease is so dangerous and so player and a cross country rider, and rapid in its development that was Master of the Peking Paper

had no opportunity of witnessing for pewspaper.". taken from us. Something has in the wilderness, but by the par every mother of young childron should Hunt Club last winter. He also start happened that never happened, populi, and if that talk wickedness, be prepared for it. It is very risky to before, though seers have thought, wicked will, the world be. This wait until the attack of croup appears dianice hockey team that ever appear

ed and coached the first British In- of and sighed for it, while great Document whose advent we child suffer until it can be obtained ed upon the foe. Captain E:H. Silver,

and then send for medicine and let the plain good men despaired of it. By are noticing teaches the political Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is prompt 18th Infantry, of Tientsin, will take afluke, it would almost appear, by: parrot to pray, and prayer is itself and effectual and had never been kaawa temporary command. of the British that series of accidents which led to labour in well-doing. Every good to fail in any case. Always have a bottle Legation Guard, pending the arrival the American rebellion, the American work begins with a good thought, in the home. For sale. By All Chemists of Major Hammond from Hongkong the death of F.C, 838 Y, Mahomed. repulibc, the American idealism, and with goodwill, with right aspiration, and Storekoopera.

JESSIE, aged 7 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lay, at the French Hospital at 8 p.m. on the 8th inst.

SWANSTROM. On April 30. at Shanghai, Charles Alexander Swanstrom, aged 71 years.

BLOOM. On May 2, at Shanghai, Alvilda Evelyn (Peter), the beloved youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Bloom (Yang tszepoo), aged 7 years.

The China Mail. have been fair to score that point if nonsense in regard to the Dell is being arranged in America in order

'L TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIO BERVICE."

HONGKONG, FRDay, May 9, 1910.

THE YEAR ONE.

THIS.

CROUP,

dists.

ala.

HONGKONG POLICE- RESERVE.

Ordem latted by Mr. J. W. Praki, D.S.P.R.

DEATH.

The DS.P.R., records with regret,

SINGAPORE BOXING,

many years, at the Drill Hall. Such "I am sorry: Ldid not know it was good men as petty officer J. Bronn; against rules of the court" came of the Yarra, who has fifty victories the answer from the, abushe I to his credit, and Seaman Dunstan, architect wh

of the Malbourne, the champion of When one comes to think it over. the grand fleet. A 10 round welter one sees that the Magistrate was Donnell (Yarra) and Seaman Darcy in a Court of Justice is the sine weight contest between Stoker Leo quite right. Reading a newspaper.

Lee (Melbourne) appearing.

thing as playing checkers in church.