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TRUTH, JUSTICE, FUBLIC SERVICE."

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1019.

ANOTHER ANANIAS.

men with brains and

THE CHINA

not

MAIL

LOCAL AND QENERIL-

To-day's dollar is worth 38. 6

to be bullied and tied with Red Tape. But we are not bit-ter a-bout this but we are tired. Why tell us that our free-dom is due to the army? 7/162. Would not an army that was treat-ed right have won it for us too? Go:

read a lot and try to think, dear chlid and then come a-gain.

Now it is his turn again. The letter continues:

call at the China Mail office, 4 to "If Mr. Chan Po-shang cares to

thing that should interest him. 5 p.m. the Assistant Editor has: some- have lost his address.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

THE POLICE RESERVES.

TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1919

Your suggestion to the GovernTHE "TAHZAN" PICTURE. meat to reless us to return to us

Hearen know

the liberty which we have lost-bua lifted our hearts for our very spirit seats it had for the two shows yester The Cormati Theatre sold all the has been crashed by she fightful (To the Editor of the "China Mail.") lack of organization and pungement day, an which the Tarzan picture Dear Sir,--The granting of a line by the Tessa aner of buying turned away. The theatre people

splayed by the Upper Ranks and was the sole attraction. At the after Abeoluse for a wris of Habens Corphis Fus into submission. This is all very believing that this exceptional pic-t dinner show many people had to be in the recent case of Willin dus well in Germany where the militare deserved exceptional treatment, Look at it from a sane point of

mares uppears to have called forth leraent predominated, but is went to the trouble of decorating virw, please.. What finer thing,

ta Recovery amount of correspon right, is it just that it should permilk and ceiling with petua from can man say to-day than "I have the Colony by the Neuralia tin is therefore, in all probability Pose of crushing such as undesirable was effective enough, but ther Sir Ellis Kadoorie returned to me in the Press, The revet posle force organized for the pur- been a soldier of our great Empire "?"

morning.

entirely unappreciated by the genendement from conquering the workerter who announced beforehan Perhaps the suggestion that we

pubker the natural tentangy of in-fortiori. is it right restrain our

that the theatre had been tunerif are insane is well based. We have stuff lately. A Chinese has lost towards asisrepresentation on the one the world er

Taikoo Dockyard has been losing discriminata amrespondence being erty when theity is triumphant jungle seems to have dis- sofetimes wondered. We will for-month's liberty over it.

appointed souE. give it. His rhetorical question is

wide and acriueny on the other. L'expert Mr. Jeak w, Mr. Frunks what they expectal to see, but on easily answered. A finer thing for a

We really happened was this. man to say is that he has been a Kipling book, a volume of poemsize and equipped, but composed of tained, because we are perforury fuight have been born in a jungla force which was wonderfully organassery thus the force be wat other who looked as if I

Aand 31 Hough to say that it daw bew, Is this suppo

be a tropical jungle? How haw,^^ 4 cosmopolitan community, begin public service by supervising soil it was tomfoolery. All whew and so out, with a deference, that they

Te-day's return covers 48 hours the nontrolling inthuence and pro- this is their opinion. I beg to post cuts, it is to give satisfaction. I

after the anastice, inevitably, with the searching on the wharves 11 cater for the public know how dis- diphtheria, ose of smallpox, and two drift. With Mr. Jenkins seethubouring under a delusion.

iny touch gone. the astringent know search supervising by the Reserves ilge that the war was still om, moh-is bothing but a farer: and is, will puff" it, and we are not going to Now for some simight talk about the picture. We are not going tor With the May issue of our con-

fed by the Armistice, the hundrel never be anything more than that. man sneaks out. through the in. temporary Religiao e Patria, the herne with god humor avi soneright or proper for ise to kapeneus, mad we Touged for release to got i

ttle grievance which had been Ferhaps it will be said that it is not is eroarkable and well-t experience and unfortunately lack review enters into its sixth year of of judgment on the part of other service. Felicitations.

worth seeing. In places in imitated konbling jrd, ཏྟབྦཾ ཀཀཾ ཐཱཏྟ; accentimited the work we do, but are we to keep voluntary workers, in a petty

With a force costitued of selling low when we know and believe over to the States and tell those pro technicality, from a punishment

Mr. Lindsel has decided in a

letate reneous elements, the disconftat we are doing meng, absolutely position of Inwin's name with tha which no doubt he richly deserves. case to-day that the owners of the wine bruke out. The methal of hars sasting in an estentatious of the quick Garner (who pretended

ducers what to avoid. The juxta-t tent which had ng been bome in nothing, on the wheves except per Let him take bis punishment and ricshas are responsible if they do not work the injured hero idea on net prevent unlicensed coolies from awarding upisiments ha ab initio Play of uniforms? 1 Mr. Jeräin of speech) irritated us, as did also th

to have found vocables in mankey's an unsuspecting public. -

pulling them.

be wrong, an inconsistent with Mr. Pinks or Mr. Hough qualities Now, is that exactly what did

erry conerivable system, military or that we are doing seal work kilbank erge that Dargin said mens bric repeating the apparently un- That is not

civil, other than that of Prussia.

joa the wharves and to impose ali;

good soldier of a greater Empire entitled "The Years Between." soldier who can be disciplined without teing made into a mindless machine,

and fighting for an Empire founded on the righteousness that exalteth "Imperialist" goes on

And having teen in a semi-

of C. S. fever. military organization in. a very safe and humble capacity, a

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Inspector Kent thought that 34 the sort of description of the events obstruction in Wanchai Road. The Franks, is an expert from Englangt i hovyo" never done uele work ad tited I was Dos an improved speil-t Fra:tan chairs made too big-en The Punishment Officer. Mr. indef restrictions on my when the descended from monkeys. Ext that should have been written by an Magistrate agreed, and, said It fin managing etiigas undergoing! undergone the satur privations?

ing of exulted" and the larger cost the Chinese owner varying sentences of imprisominent However, assuring that the argu pes

and hand hour, and his methuset that we are performing a netestently hunen, should have coines in the picture, being trans- were haally those to he applied to a service with prevail, can it To obtrude i fake unnecessarily i Yesterday's return shows fivej mixed bake of inen of varying nation., for a tent that the Regulars such a good picture was uATIVE CRIDE, in only where the story needed them. Ak to this that some of! Cannot spare our Trak to believe on 'These were the chief faults. Now

Onlookers see most of the garue,

¡would 13.

officer and a gentleman. It contains the meanest of mean innuendos 1: is also stupid from an onlooker's point of view." In the first place! the Police Reserves should not be regarded as "semi-military." In the cases of plague. The return for the+lities. Hongkong who thinks a policeman's (37 deaths) one of diphtheria, one of are down from the Jail Washers and be surprised to hear that only one,

second place; he knows little of week showed 41 cases of plague, the soul nen in the Police Reserve/entitely" bara sure every one with for the points..

The photo

The junglet

job here any less heroic than a sot. enteric, one of smallpox, and nine blie fruvaminent Service and you can! Togular required to relieve scenes are fine. The animal studies

of C. S. fever.

Captain E. G. Eastman, 25th Mid Captain J. H. Tiltmar, K.O.S.B., diesex, Lieut. G. R. Fleming, 74th 18th Infantry, are going Home by Punjabis, and Lieut. C. H. Welchman, the Neuralia on Thursday.

dier's. With armed Chinese all about, desperadoes who regard life as cheaply as the Germans did, a Hong kong policeman, is not in a very safe and humble capacity." Indeed, there are many pukka soldiers strutting round

now with

decorations DR them that have smelt far less powder than our policemen have. The sneer was as unjust as it

Coming out of a Kowloon was anworthy. In the third place, godown with two tins of preserved why does this onlocker think that pineapple, somebody stopped him Mr. Guimaraes "no doubt richly and handed him a lemon. Magi- deserved" his punishment. What strate Hutchison charged him $10

phy is splendid. simply wonderful. You see KOŁ diles, an enormous python, monkey❤ frenta clever.chimpanzee, a guy. of lionesses, à Jeopani, an elephanta and the most walistic approach torn fight between a real bound a nakeę- han that is ever likely to he screen-i ed. Pesumably a +

quick change

Regtiker Now, 1 & 2 Wives (Export) i Nos. 3 & 5 Wharves (Expert) Now 79 Werves (Export) I Import Gene)

see the raft. Duis custodiel is nevertheless tips is true. I will now

probably could not do we except in! casindex? Alr. Gamures probebly five you detail to prove. it. does no wish to pose as a here; and the eyes of those who write to the was supported by voluntary contride. Press hysterically. But whether he,

tips or not, it does not alter the! fact that he has served to ventilate ja seal grievance.-Youm, etc.,

NON TALJONIS.

Toul

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| nogurred between the leap or the living lion and the stabbing of the However it was done, it

The above details prove that in all dead one,

does he know of the facts? Here's for the loc. If he doesn't pay he'llgree that all that correspondence and there always were three regulars old and well loved by the peoplem..

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be out in a fortnight.

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{Pace tanti viri, our esteemed, co-four regulars are required for the was a cherer het. As for the story respondent must not expect us to supervising work. There are row itself, it is foolish to the siento

unnecessary," nor that after the job viz, Sergte. Fallon, Mason Romance needn't be loyal to pose l our own efforts the real posivion and Surnon, and it is chrious,sibility. The immediate application

entirely unappreciated." therefore, that with another regular of all this is, go and see it. You It is the pany's trafic receipts for the week Still, we are glad to publisks his. let. / transferred to wharf duties the whole have your money's worth,

like most bis description of the per- ter, for it is certainly a strong justi. force of the Reserves can be de- fication of much we said. We dis

mobilized.

indeed we know, that he didn't really mean that. He is above race pre

hongeneous, ences of colour or creed or habit ure judice. Men, whatever their differ-1

not heterogeneous,

a hint. A man who cannot think of deserving apart from- hasn't the sort of mind that will ever richly "

The Hongkong. Tramway Com judge anything justly. mind of a parrot, which remembers were $14,300, or $558 more than in does no ratiocination of its own something of what it has heard, but the same week last year. The aggre gate for the 21 weeks was $297,181, is not a mere question of literary style. The slave to the clich, the babitual user of the ready-made f

and from an onlooker's point of This is an almost infallible test. It or $16,233 more than for the corre, sonal as heterogeneous We hope, can it be argued for a moment that

We

shall have thrown some light on the visual crookedness of this onlooker, we trust, before we have done with the mind. He goes on:

ean gentleman of culture) that he

real

aponding period of 1918,

The P. W. D. is prosecuting a

the byelaw

In the face of the above particula

wo are so essential to the Pence of that we be kept on? Then, why are the Colony as to make it necessary we not demobilized?-Yours, etc...

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**A SUBORDINATE."

A DESERVING CHARITY.

A TERRIBLE

EARTHQUAKE.

30,000 KILLED.

The following telegram was reg ceived by the "J.C.J.L. from their Sourabaya office yesterday mornings nad" will no doubt interest our readers:-

Most terrible eruption volcanÚG Kloet occurred night twentieth bor-

view the recent attitude taken by yourselves and the majority of vour reading public is very funny It depends on the onlooker how phrase, is never a thinker. Compare contractor for obstructions in a yard much of the game he sees.

"sneaking" out on a technicality with was ready to adorit some obstruction, to se wider recognition of this funt, this reference to Mr. Guimaraes in Wing Lok Street. Mr. E. Davidson and the strongest desire we have it! the opinion in one of the letters in but he denied that a table mentioned I will make such another column (written by a Europ was covered by the word "atc." in those who come after . Please a difference to The point will be note that this gentleman, who really | argued on June 2.

know what he talk about, says the [7o the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL."]der cruterlake gave way Berets Just one word, and that is you

method of awarding punishinrats in apparently have not much use

Next Thursday is the Festival the Police Reserves was Trussian, for Courts Martial and my will be a Choral Celebration of the tion that we hud raised a storm in of the Ascension of Christ. There Doesn't that dispose of the sugg discipline. But from practical experience you can End no Holy Communion In fairer tribunal

St. John's teacup?. Palam mulire niebeis in the world. Cathedral at 7 45 a.m. and a plain placutum est.-Ed. C.M.] Apparently your leader-writer Celebration at 11 am. Mafins will knows nothing of the army, other-

be said at 10.30a.m. and Evensong wise he would not use the phrase will be sung at 630 p.m.

grievance." The letter still goes on: has served to ventilate a

these les during the last, five ye more thoroughgoing sighower in

Dear Sir, There have ben

The China Mail. him. His trouble is paraphimosis of Let us see exactly what did happen. A man who volunteers to do a certain amount of" war work for the country he lives in, and under whose protection he is able to enjoy perlect liberty-what is he called upon to do? A few patrols and give up a little of his spare time without pay. He is asked to conform to the rules and regulations which are founded a letter from an Army

upon those of a regular force. Officer which reminds us of the

Let us pause there a moment. We speech of Tertullus to Felix, which will pass the "perfect liberty" open- you may read for yourselves in the ing, because it is too cheap. We will 24ta chapter of the Acts of the pass the obvious corament that this Apostles. It is quite clear that he belittlement of Police Reserve duties now being reformed, and the House as announced by the November issue under the above heading in your Phraseology from citizens of all parts holiday in the country or by the se

Let us be quick and say that this time we mean Ananias the High, Friest, not Ananias the liar. We have before

the

treated like soldiers" in such a contemptuous manner.

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POLICE RESERVITS.

Courts martial at present are not the island of San Choan, the resting

The projected pilgrimage to [To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL". fairest tribunals in the world, as place of the pioneer saint, John de every soldier knows. They are even Assiz, will not take place this month, for having is

Dear Sir, I owe you an apology

done you an injustice in alluding it use of Saturday last inadvertently iny correspondence

as your opinion that Mr. Hough wax prejudiced, and true; you will regurák

places cuing streams hot much Kediri severu villages des tow destroying part residence (province) Blitar seriously damaged etop exten than the men from overseas, who damage to mbler, coffee ergur have helped so splendidly in winning states ricefields cannot be estimate the Empire's battles; and, charact number deaths reported over teristically, they have not confined thirty thousand themselves to

inclusive many round. A New Zealander, paying

the convention Huropeana. his first visit to London, urkeď me where he should go to see a dinktippy day in the country with plenty Fifteen penes will give one child at have hid similar inquiries in varying teen shillings pays for a forteight's slum," and I think most of us hereof golf a jolly quies, Fil- Apostles. Thin fail pestilent puts the Police Reserve penalties into moved by a recital of some war-time His Lordship, the Rev. Bishop of Can

usually a great deal about English turning point of their Eves. £18 fity of Commons was recently greatly of the Religia é Patriq on account of fellow, and a mover of sedition." We will take the observation that cases of what looked like injustice. tan's sudden departure for Peking.

the position of a glaring contrast.

of the Empire. Like Paul, we

are ready with the Police Reserve rules and regula- cheerful answer."

Alen born and bred overseas bave healthgiving break has proved the We haven't much use for army dis! By this we

and in the case of ung children this confess that after the way which they tions are "founded upon those of a cipline as it is regarded by the Hun

hudo, but the disagreeable reality out a complete day party of two call heresy," so we believe. Were it regular force," and ask if this is have served in the army, and a hasty Finance, by Professor H. S. Foxwell, it not to my inability nor unwilling this, for I feel that it means that the up attendants and such an

type of officer. Two of our staff ot that it affords a peg on which to a too sublimely bland way of slurring mental calculation shows us that our will be among the earlier publications Ress to real you currently but to the Fresh Air Fund has enlisted so many that the kur desirer. Do you think An important work on Current it with an indulgent eve, attribuix imaginings. In a way I u glad of hundred children with the recessary

in every case surpassed their wont Reserves are not a regular force leader writer (who has numerous of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. The fact that my faculty of comprehen thousands of travellers who will over the gravamen. The Police They are irregulars called into exist close relatives and friends in the book deals with questions of the son was deplorably and lamentably

outing may be known by any uniʊ. ence by irregular circumstances, and army) must have beer familiar with highest national importance at the impaired in my inkiignation to see spread far and wide the news of the there could be any better way of the nucleal marrow of all our com garrison life while this critic was still present time, for the various papers gentis and patriotic citizen who great work it has done and luns still keeping green the memory of a dea ments was that they should not be Officer though he be, we claim to raised by the war, or to problems country as a police reservist childen of the slums. During the imbibing his sustenance at the nipple relate to financial problems directly is little bit gratuitously for the treated like regulars-especially as unimportant to anybody but himself." they get all the kicks and no be know more of the British Army, both which have gained new interest and considerately subjected to injustice summer months, when it is only his lead.

The F.A.F, is the good fairy of thr peace.

at Home and abroad, than he does, urgency in view of the financial re- und rudeness. But let "Imperialist" carry on, not a soldier. How about the on- maade inevitable:

So, by the way, does Kipling, who is constructions which the war has Surely, Mr. Edit, Mr. Hough for the fresh air and freedom of the spent directly on the children; officer

natural for every city dweller to pine

Al money received im He fails to do so. He is con- now that

looker seeing most of the game,

could more creditably to himself and sequently fined or given a punish argument? As we said before, much Henry Jones, Professor of Moral fully and decorously discharged his houses which are their homes and the Limited, and the Shaftesbury So- the Board of Discipline of which he country, it transports these little folk forth, all these are borne by the Pro- it doesn't suit his

expenses, stationery, postage and so Principles of Citizenship, by Sic was a sitting member have respect ment which is not strictly according depends on the quality of the on- Philosophy in the University of judiciary functions without pay only playground and takes them to from the slums of all the great cities

overcrowded tenement to Hoyle.

moters, Mesa, C. Arthur Pearson, So? He admits that much? Well looker. What does he mean by our Glasgow, is a little volume that should uncalled for or irreverent remarks

narrow, stifling alleys which are their clety. The letter contemptuous of the treatment of though it was written primarily tion that one could almost have preaches delights with which may had considerable experience of thor contemptuous manner"? We are makea special appeal to many readers, which so provoked general in ligne.green fields and woods und sandy of the United Kingdom. Having The children are selected.

He does:

hang some apparently very necessary observadons, we would have ignored the letter, "out of our tenderness toward the writer, who is well known to us as one of God's simpletons. He has yet to learn that his opinions on any subject whatever are absolutely

We know him well, and we know that this plain speaking will not hurt him, for his is the most pachyder- matqus conceit we have ever seen in a human being. His mind is practi- cally undeveloped, and if he had been a bit older, he would almost certainly have been a normal mem ber of the War Office. He has that's something. never done anything to hurt continues: our feelings more than when be has condescended occasionally -to approve and even to praise some

of our writings. How to make him see, without being rude, that encomi by the ignorant are the most galling of insulte, was our problem. It was never solved."Dear Anti-Imperial. ist" is the way he addresses us in. his covering chit, which itself deverves quotation:

Here's a chit about your beloved Police Reservist."

Will it be believed that we don't even know that Police Reservist by sight, and have never been in com munication with him?]

"The Army for Ever, from the M. down to the Private in the rear rank. They are 'it'"

One would think from that that wo had been quarrelling with the army: We haven't, as will be seen when we come to that part of the letter, which begins:

in

io du.

from the

usk our friends overseas to follow

one who has fallen in the war?

The King is Patron of the FAF. and gen rous anal subscriber

in during the past few years, I and persistence of the oversea

will never rest content until it hav with me when I add that the F.A.F. feel sure you will be in sympathy

Then there is an outcry of in- think it good enough. But if he The author believes that there are thrashed by a groom and his nistgh who was led by a kindly hostess soldiers, certainly, because we don't for use in Army Educational Classes. ferved to have seen Mr. Culmamet beford. Of such was the Ettle justice, and as you put it in your

of them have never become acquaint- editorial, they are treated like word that was or could excusably be knowing than the principles of citizen- then have given vent to his glimpse of the sea; and after survey means that we have ever written a few, if any, things better worth arts at the Race Course for he could to the cliff edge to get her first general tone of your articles that morale, of their marvellous courage the present time is more urgent. He that the groom was not in the unit dispassionately for a few widened its scope to such an extent soldiers." It is obvious from the mistaken for a contempt of their ship, or the knowledge of which at passion in turn, provided, course, you are bitterly opposed to the and patience and endurance, we tell has therefore endeavoured to "intro- | form of an Assistant Superintendent moments she turned to her that every shum child who is in neces army system. But, Mr. Editor, if him fatly that in that case he is an duce" the subject. That is to say, of Police ut the time.-Yours, etc., impertinent jackanapes with whom he has tried to awaken and foster the our patience is exhausted. Here is spirit of honest, courageous, and per the last of his letter:

severing inquiry in this domain, and

it had not been for the army your paper would not be enjoying that wonderful freedomn it does to ,,day.

Well, well. One must have a lot Let us very patiently and painstaking- of patience in teaching the callow. ly, in the best kindergarten style, using words of only one syllable so according to his folly. (More in- far as is possible, answer this fool telligent readers may skip

this part.)

The British Empire is due to to place the reader at a point of view the actions of men whom (sic) from which inquiry is most likely to have been soldiers and not whined be fruitful Messrs. Macmillan & and crawled when they have Co., will publish this book, broken a few rules and regulations. PS. Bye (sic) the way, how many Police Reservists were fit for Active Service?.

:

J. M. GUTIERREZ. Hongkong, May 25, 1019.

THE POLICE RESERVES...

panion and observed-I regret tó report-in is most matter of fact werven years of our existence we have

of a holiday gets it. In the twenty-s way: "Ell of a lot of rain you've west nearly four million children for 'ad 'ere lately, missua

The war has necessary curbed the day's outing and just on fifty thou- activities of the F.A.F.; but now the sand for a fortnight, but I'm, afrik time is in sight when we can once there are many millions still waiting more cryFull steam ahead!"

Will you do your bit towards see- To the Editor of the "CHINA, MAIL."]| need their Eolidays more than ever

After these past year the kiddiesing that at least one of these is no

left behind?. before. Air raids, shortage of food. Sir, Your leading artiole in Fri, anxiety over loved ones-so many di

Subscriptions should be addressed to-"

Try this liniment and see how quickly you we recognise the Champion of motherless children and orphans of

day's issus hus earned for you the whom will never return-!! these Mr. ERNEST KENNELL, Hor. Socy., O rheumatism youll find nothing gratitude and appreciation of all the have added to the strain. And we Ralm. Now is the time to get rid of it. cept of course the favoured fow. In indeed to ensure a holiday for all better than Chamberlain's Fainsubordinate rank of the force, ex-are going to make a fery big effort comment is required. Let's get on sale All Chemists and Store. the cause of the subordinate unks, soldiers in this, the Erst summer of

it will relieve the pain and sommes more pay and to be led by to something else.

and to you we doff our hate.

You are quite right. We are

Yours truly

-IMPERIALIST..

Quaint. Imperialist, isn't he? We

opposed to the army system. We do not suppose that any further want our brave men, to be treated

like men: We wish them to have

keepers.

NOW IS THE TIME.

the Great Feace.

Pearson's Fresh Air Fund

224-6-8, Gt. Portland Street London, W1,

England.

Yours faithfully,

ARTHUR PEARSON-