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May 28, 1918, Temperature 81

May 28, 1919, Temperature 75..

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魏八廿月五年九十叄百九千登

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1919.

日九十月四未已大年入國民奉中

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HINDERING A CONSTABLE FROM DUTY.

Well-wishers of Jupas frequently huve occasion to grieve over the pur-near the Ko Shing Theatre, the other! Whilst a constable was on duty suit of minor and negligible interests aight he sighted a returned banishee by the authorities in this country in who was wanted by the Police. On patriot advised him to give the man entire disregard of the reputation going up to arrest the man, a com-

him hammer and tongs, whist the On his refusal, the others fell on wanted one managed to escape.

REVIEW.

COLOURED FOLK CLAIM EQUAL which auch a precedure creates. In

RIGHTS.

matters of this sort they have in the a chance. past been very ill advised by some al PARIS, Undated their chosen foreign counsellors, who The optimistic opinion that he thought they were earning their Germans will sign the Peace Terms money by backing up the authorities gains ground. In case there is no in notions which sometimes amount had deterred the constable from As an upshot of this the man who bitch on either side, the signature isod to sharp practice, and making the doing his duty was sentenced by Mr. assumed to be made on June 10.

Marshal Foch has returned from Especially has this been the case in labour.

worse pass for the better cause. Hutchison 10 six months bard the Rhine district and was received regard to the Foreign Settlements. by M. Clemenceau. M. Clemenceau called on President ourseb have repeatedly been in Afterwards where the rights freely granted at the Wilson. The Council of Four ap fried, in spite of the very small proved a report made by Marshal Foch about the allied armies being uses are referred to, your by year, is involv The perpetual ready to move almost instantaneously in the Japan Yearbook, as the The Studio: London. # Leicester

It is now virtually certain there blot in the excutcheon," and in will be no treaty with Turkey, in

Square. Moashly 1, til. spite of opinion in England which spite of the facts of the ease this is favours the retention of Constantinother seem to be kindly regard as some remarkably got werk in The April number of The Studio ple as the seat of Turkish sovereignty, and their occupants are looked colour printing at plate by Arthur An agreement has been entered intruders against when every Wardle, showing a sprig of bhek- into between French and Amerissible measure must be taken thorn, being the best British example: can quartermaster corps where her than as the lawful belders of progess work we have seen to date, by all machinery, office with sauteed rights. It is an old The frontispiece, Zianis. is not so fixtures, typewriters, automobiles, tow how, in spite of Hague dol The reading matter is more and wagons of all kinds being used res reguling the restriction of texes, loss what The Stadin naucily gives by the American army will be turned legal demands are made and en-us. There is too much brons of over to the French government for read by undignified rats on the pottoes, though the curious. use in the devastated regions of premises concerned and the seizure and neat work of the kite Flight Ser northern France.

For whatever may be found the eos geans Vine deseroes the purminence Every delegate at the peace con- What never veetus ference has received a copy of authorities concerned is the patri-wood-prints of des ph Buskens for to strike the given to it. If we are to judge the l protest by the coloural people of news of the procedure. The sums instance, by The Studie oprede America against the non-insertion of demande are, from a governmental ons we must confess that we we a clause in the peace treaty obliging point of view, contemptible, though no each nation of the Allies to grant not so free the individual stud equal civil rights to its own citizens, point.

ATLANTIC FLYING.

DANGER DOESN'T DETER: IT ATTRACTS.

LONDON, May 21.

son why they should be praised mired inore than the nigy is fortuniste that we had a lock round n of a promising schoolboy. It n not long an, because if we

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What the authoriths have never been seiently rgeminal remember is that the small plot ha laugh when first wilotted for Foreign Settlements, were of practienlly no Ft. value whatever, that the value they been less satisfied with it than we in this perialicuit, we shouk? have (lave acquired hus been trainly owing are The best fenture of The Studio

of British art is as indicated

In the House of Commons Sir G. to the exertions of foreign occupants. is that it illustrates the steady ad- Elliott asked the Government to con and that this vale Lus spread widely rance of British printing, once so farff sider the remitting of further at round almont, so that the effect of the behind that of others. tempts to fly the Atlantic in view Settlements has been to crente public of the desperately hazardous coevendes infinitely vaster then the ditions Major Gen. Seely replied benefits the foreign occupants have that the matter was given the most ever enjoyed front the easy terms of careful thought. The Government their leasehoids. considered it was not right and was not its function to say to our country- men that they should not undertake this daring fight and these risks.

BIG SHIPPING DEAL.

loveaver, the not at all about their becoming quing. authorities have never looked at the mires after every shower, or about question philosophically. There love the footpaths being a public diger been times in the history of the owing to great holes appearing in the Foreign Settlements when even the brickwork which the foreign muni- small Sires paid on the lots were acipality left in such excellent repair. but instient. In those times! There is often a block in the truthc NEW YORK May 20, Heuschalders would often have been on the Settlement, but never because The director of the international get enough to be bought out, bus! of the suficient with of the mercantile marine has formally nobody enne forward with an offer streets. It necurs through the en approved the sale of its British owned to do so. As soon as the ground fortunlite le not being able to tonnage to a London syndicate. The really began to acquire a high value pull their east te out of the holes wirich: transaction involves shipping vart and the Japanese made great ad the Municipality neglects to repair. ously estimated at from 750.000 toyances commercially, the process of 950,000 tons, valued approximately buying out begun. The higher the at £27,000,000. A shareholders' prices of the and go, the mure foreign meeting is to be called for June 16 leaseholders bre bought out. The to her, and it could be readily to vote on the proposition.

war has wiped out what half of what understood if on building the owner rerusined of the "blot in the were required, by seme municipal scutcheon. The other day we by-law, to set back the frontage of! gave a translation from the Jiji on the premises. Even in the ease of a

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sold to Japanese, they naturally lose When the perpetual Base lots are the peculier rights formerly granted

the decline of foreign firms in Toko foreigner acquiring a plot with its

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Sifver is quoted 513. The market. In "Kobe the same pher-rights intact there would be little to is steady.

On the 25th it was 52, and quiet. tent lots has been observed.

omenon of Japanese nequiring Settle. object to were such an order clearly On the 26th the price was 51, with dozen lig huillings for Japanese But as a matter of fact Japanese Alaid down in municipal regulations. American selling.

firms have spring up on Robe Settle builders appear in no case to have! ment during the war, and there are been required to set back their front- ja muunber of plots only awaiting the age. In the case of some of the new expiry of the term of grace given to and, for the Settlement. unprece It is no exaggeration to say that is a pallet down anal larger ones he some show of cause for a set-back. the ovenpants before the old bui dentelly high buildings, there might for 48 hours Hawker and Commander creeret. Grieve have been in the thoughts of sess when the existing buildings, da's new block, a wet back appeare And there are also thIn one case, that of Messrs. Katsu- all Frenchmen. No sporting event times or test was ever followed in Paris bemtions, were found sufficient for voluntarily, because the alignment on structural to have been voluntarily made. with such anxious interest. Restricth new owners.

the old it of the bisement and the moved throughout the whole French turns have been the artificini exacer with a general set-back order.

All this shows how entirely super-entrance porch are not consistert) territory, A large number of aeroplanes no longer

bation of feeling und the petty - far from set-bucks having been order- to the military authorities will be trations protive. So long as there ed, there are cases where new and sold for civilian flying.

is no parlar value attaching to the massive Japanese buildings have en- perpetud lease lots, there is no croveled a few inches-nothing to grievance from the Japanese point of raise any complaint about but quite view. As soon as the lots acquire suficient to emphasise the remark a value, the grievifice created begins Jubile contest with the new proten to cure itself automatically. It is in that a foreign 6 must put its only u question of wine before the frontage back. If the set-back is for Settlement lots will all pass into the the particular case where a fire has hands of Japanese, though it is 'proberstated building, all that can able that there will always be some i snid is that it is a very nonsensical foreign firms on the Settlement. The rule, because rebuilding, after a fire particular occasion for indulging in the one occasion when the process these reflections is that new form cannot be regarded as a mark of of petty persecution is mudo" itself prosperity.. I these circumstances

FRENCH LITERATURE.

useful

PARIS, May 22. M. Emile Bergerat has been elected a member of the Academie Goncourt.

POLICE SERGEANT. ACCUSED.

REMANDED ON SERIOUS CHARGES.

John MacBean Tulloch, Police felt in Kobe. A foreign firm which it is very difficult to avoid the con sergeant stationed in Shaukiwan, at had a fire on its premise was served clusion that the new orders are only present suspended from service, was with notice that in rebuilding it must a fresh example of petty persecution before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning set back its frontage so many feet. designed to relieve the feeling ef charged with indecent assault on one This was not only clear infringe those whose sensitiveness offended Ng Li Mul, Chinese girl in Shaukiwan, uent of the leaseholder's rights, but by the "blot on the escritchoon." A charge of maltreating the girl was an entirely inrensonable re. It is certainly a choice piece of ab- who was thirteeny cars of age, was also quest. Such a regulation is valid surdity that the governing body. preferred against accused who was and necessary in narrow Japanese which succeeded the foreign al- represented by Mr. E. L. Shenton. streets where low jutting eares strike cipality should let that municipality's Mr. A. E. Hall of Messrs. Lo and the unwary pedestrian in the face or work go to ruin and yet, on pretence Lo appeared to watch the proceedings sweep his hat off." But the Kobe of a superior solicitousness for urban on behalf of the complainant and the Settlement was excellently laid out amenities, deliberately infringa the case was adjourned till the afternoons from the beginning and both roads rights of the foreign occupants of of June 4, and 5.

and footpaths ero of ample width. Settlement lots. However, we. The chief reason for widening roads understand the Embassy concerned CAUSE OF DESPONDENCY. und footpaths is so na to allow the lug taken the matter up, and if r DESPONDENCY is often caused by traffic to pass fresly without jostling. I put it possession not only of the indigestion and constipation, and It can always do this, the Kobe facts of the case itself but that of the quickly disappears when Chamberisin's Settlement: It is highly incongru- exemption of Japanese firms from. Table's are taken. Those tablets strengthen the digestion and more the ous, however, that the firben author- such vaxations, the present illegal bowels. For sale by all Chemists and ity which is now so solicitous regard- demands will be withdown. Japan Btorekeeper.

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