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WATSON'S

PRICKLY HEAT

LOTION

AND

POWDER

are certain cures for Prickly Hest. Can be used either in conjunction er separately.

They will also be found invaluable for presensing and reliering Sunburn, Freckles and all Skin Irritations.

Prepared only by

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,

Hongkong Dispensary.

TELEPHONE No. 16.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Today's dollar is worth 3s. 5

hobo) sat together, every mad, Parson included, with his pot of ale before bim, and talked. The gar dener's opinion was as good as his j;; master's, offered and accepted as sach. 15/16d. The Parson was the best good fellow of the lot, and as fond of argument.

To-day's return shows four cases

He didn't pontificate. There was no of plague, and one of enteric: foul talk, such as one hears in city" pubs, and no drunkenness. We may have been a Httle flushed at closing.. time, but we were all happy, and the talk was good. The little Bethel folk should really approach this question of beer and ines from a different angle. They would if they knew.

Mr. W. S. Turnbull of the Quinnebang and Miss Kitty Lea of Kowloon are to be married shortly.

SHERLOCK SPOOKER HOLMES.

about us.

are running an excursion to Macao The H.K. and Macao S.B. Co.

to-morrow. The Sui An leaves Wing Lok Wharf at 9 am sad re turns from Macao at 4 p.m.

The s. Amazon. Maru, 12,000 tons, but at the Osaka Iron Works Sakurajima Dockyards, to the order of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, was successfully launched on May 24,

CHIEF OFFICER'S SUDDEN DEATH.

"OHINA MAIL" CLQCKS TODAY'S STORY.

SATURDAY JUNEIL 1919,

JAPAN AND CHINA.

WASTING PUBLIC MONEY.

LONG STAY OF "WAR SEPOT.”

The Westminster Gaste of April! 30 says: The Shantung question is

It always has been, and we sup 4.30 am.3, Cornelia (Carroll

undoubtedly of considerable import is always will be, genomly Brothers) is lying alongside the Wing it is necessary that it should be officialdien in the art of wasting. ance for the peace of the world, andeknowtaged that you can murely Lok street wharf.

5 am.Quartermaster potifies

generally understood. Whether the public money. Captain P. J. Guerreiro, the master, or after the Treaty with Gemany official inethetenes and negles dispute with Japan is settled before

There have been numerous cases that Mr. C. Abreu, the chief officer, is signed whether it leads to another during the aur, costing the ration has fallen down and looks very ill

5.1.m.-Captain runs.

incident like the incident provoked mithors of pounds of sterling due to by Flume it is essential that the tira inolts of government officials. indgment of the Allies shall be as These cases have been out of sight elements of the problem-detached inkling we have had of them, bus wise as a judgment of Solomon. The of the Hongkong public and the only from any considerations of the been though members putting ques- strength or weakness of the parties, ons in Parliament to Ministers doctor.

5.45 am-Police telephone for a which may have been woven-are

of desire to please, of artificial ties representing the defaulting depart not hard to understand.

doctor.

5.2 a.Captain telephones for a 5.4.am-Captain telephones the

police.

5.25 a.m.-Mr. Abreu dies. 340.-The Police arrive.

8.20 a.m.A doctor arrived, Later. Body removed.

Mr. Abreu was only 36 years of

ed to the Conference states, Japan is As the petition which was present

ments,

But now the war is virtually at ease of wasting public money is wait before what appears to be # an end, we have not had long to

The spirits are rather worried When we mourn them as dead, that is the one thing that "casts a cold cloud upon their perfect | happiness." Sir A. Conan Doyle says they the spirits particularly ask us Hsinho still remains stuck on the to regard them as still in the family ways in the Tientsin river and that His symptoms early this morning the province of Shantung, based upon cargo of oil fuel, which has re-

The China Critic says that the age. It is said he was at a Kinema seeking to establish a system of thrust under our nose,

An amalgamation has taken place between Harland & Wolff, Ltd., shipbuilders and engineers of Belfast

circle.. That may be all right for it will take a long time and much Doyle, but what about George W.expense to get her off. Her total Skeggs of U.S.A.. who has buried cost is said to be about $700,000. four wives and has just married again? His visible family circle includes Mrs. Skeggs V, two daugh- ters of Mrs Skeggs III, and a son of Mrs. Skeggs, besides the mother of Mrs. Skeggs IV. When George W. is telling the present incumbent the same old hes. do the hovering four Ltd yearn to put her wise #2 When he is making love to her, do they grit their spiritual teeth?

Powell

TELEPHONE 346

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and BOX CALF

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The China Mail.

* TEUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE,'

WHEELS AND BALLS,

FER PAIR

THE MAIL..

Today's Home mail contained much belated matter. and but little

interest of the Home papers seems to be the squabble between Lloyd George and the Northcliffe Press. American advices to May 10 focussed attention on the Fifth Liberty Loan, at that time not known to be the conspicuous success that subsequent cable news! showed it We are hoping this will

show last night, and appeared well.

were violent pains in the chest.

THE YANGTSE RIVER "OUTRAGE."

political and economic servitudes

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in

We refer to the War Sepoy ant her claim to be in the right ofoed very restfully on the bewer succession to Klac-Chau and other of our harbour for 30 days today. privileges which Germany formerly possessed. It is inevitable that if one

This war-time-built ship is run people occupies the territory of aning under the wing of the Shipping other people against its will, there Controller. but no doubt at the re must be, if not "outrages," at least of the Admiralty. what has charges of outrages. That is precisely rivet here on May 8. You can still

SEe av been produced. The see her there. Goodness only knows Chinese do not hesitate to stigmatise how much longer in these days of the Japanese troops as being responsi-etager or supposed short-take. ble for the most indefensible treats, she's going to stay there. A China Mail reporter called on ment of the inhabitants. Rightly or At St. Louis Catholic Church. the Secretary to the Commodore this wrongly, they relate stories which arenes ten Balik Pupen with thor „The stmy grem tirat tite War Sepany Tientsin, on June 2. Miss Olive morning, to enquire whether there is not dissimilar from these we have 400 ton of of fuel for the Navy Cowell, eldest daughter of Mr. E. A. any official confirmation of the heard about the Bolsheviks. Cowe of Wm. Forbes and Co., Widgeon being fired on

Here, that is the oil-burning stops in the and Mr. J. R. Watson (of the local Yangtse river.

It is held by the Chinese that of the squadron. There is only ou staff of the Chartered Bank) were The Secretary said there was no of

wher. Japan drove the Germans out H.M.S. Carlisle that huh oil fiet.. Hongkong at present, ws believe. married.

report from the Admiral and after leased to Germany in 1598 under So it seems that the oil hat zum

Kiao-Chau-which had been consulting the Commodore said that duress-they in

She doesn't want 1000 tons. turn established

and the Clyde, and David Celville & SHOT AT SNIPE JUST MISSED Sons, Ltd., steel and iron manu facturers and coplawners, Mother-

"WIDGEON." well.

500 for selling a bottle of arrack to the Australian troops passing through Colombo. The Magistrate stated that be considered these drink-selling rests the cause of any disorder occurring on the part of Australian troops.

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the fact that whereas all the li

fresher than April 24. The chief on April, 22 fined a native Rs had a similar adventure when pass The Chinese declare that the settle. may be that somecae overkoke

The Colombo Police Magistrate. Mrs. Gurner, wife of the Commodore. themselves in the peninsula by force, too, soon or the ships are late:

Yangtse. A shot, rifle or sporting Notes signed by China in May 1915 China sqauca burned coul, all the ing about the same place on the ment contained in the Treaty and

was fired from the beach and was imposed upon the Eastern Renew strips will burn oil fuel, una passed close to the ship on which public by Japanese menaces. If that while there is accommodation Mrs. Gurner was a passenger.

It is not believed to have been a would have made war upon her. It have no receptgales for of fuel China had not agreed then Japan the emul, the Naval Authorizer deliberate attempt at firing at the is not, of course, in this light that Evilently somebody at the Admizely Widgeon. reporter, it was somebody snipe take steps to recover the German dres bus oil fuel and perhaps, pr As an old naval hand said to our Chau. She says that China did not his or her) jobs to see that the squ

Japan presents her claims on Kiao hindered. I may hit wu shooting.". Widgeon.

But it seems they nearly hit the held territory and that there is no rede en the net reason why she should recover it wity line of action.

té reass now that it is held by Japan

Selt squadra will be here somer og kit

no tanks ut

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be the last batch to come ria America Maru, 9,100 tons, has been chartered The Japanese $.9. Liverpool The Suez canal strike should make to take British troops from Vladi no difference to mails through..

comingvostoks to Canada and is being fitted out at the Old Dock for the purpose. She is a new vessel, having been completed in May by the Kawasaki Dockyard.

ANSWERS TO

CORRESPONDENTS.

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

THE GIST OF IT.

charges piling up, and other e ate going on, there are establishing

continue to be incurred. Just bi penses incurred, and apparently mu and action.

Meanwhile the salaries of the m

In blistering sunshine, on a piece They were made, as the Chinese maake a public statement shortly. So/crowded houses last night. Booking a level with others as regards per war on the side of the Allies earlier. "cure of somebody's lack of foresig

is devoted to the ball in some form or another. Football, cricket, golf, billiards, most games Involve the -spherical accessory. The remaining third of their lives men spend in sleep, re-accumulating the energy expended on wheels and balls.

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Japan wanted to tighten her hold on China, and therefore kept her from coming into the Alliance. In 1915 is discharged, and the ship is back By the time that cargo of oil fué there was a veiled threat it is said at a port ready to load again, it in the Japanese Foreign Minister's stud be the dearest consignment of declaration that the awakening of old fuel ever bought by any concera 400,000,000 Chinese could not be except perhaps by the same buyers, viewed by Japan without apprehen- the Admiralty, it is to say thei

sion."

people.

The famous Twenty-One Demands but there me which are put in opposition to the eng erected.

It will be an expi Fourteen Points were used as a sive job keeping oil ships Inng Japan's China Squadron consists

weapon by Japan, who extorted con-about waiting till warships can t of the Suma, 2,700 tons, at Shang-

cessions and agreements later in 1917 a few more tons of all fiel hai the Fushimi, 180 tons, at Kiu-

and 1918. Japan, it is urged, has kiang; the Saga, 785; tons,' at Nan- as good as play. The very word have no Bolshevik on the Cinna kow and the Uji, 620 tons, at Chang

This unbusinesslike job niture C-Very dear Sir. Of course we king; the Sumida, 126 tons, at Han ordinances appear in to-day's Gazette control China, politically, militarily, predicament. They know it is 12 Texts of various new and amending improperly sought to dominate and put the locul Naval Authoritiest pastime" involves the idea of Mail staff. killing time," and when a man gets Some Club men started the joke Tobe and Kiri are stationed at Amoy Marks. Mr. N. L. Smith is Deputy to stand because it was signed at the They are also well aware how th We wouldn't allow it.sha. In addition the two destroyers Receiver, and Registrar of Trade Treaty, for example, is not allowed and consequently retaining the al to that need he is in a bad way, they owing to the disreputable appearance and the destroyer Sakura at Swatow. Registrar and Appraiser. Supreme that Japan must not profit by the so up to date they have kept i

Mr. J. D. Lloyd is appointed official and financially. If the Bucharest business keeping the oil on the tell him. Yet what else, in the of one of our men, and we did our Hosszorg, Saturday, June 14, 1919. ultimate analysis, does life offer than best to help it along. In future, it

point of the bayonet. China contends would be rushed for stom time to be "done"?

Court. Mr. S. B. B. McElderry is begrudges labour. No man seems, we must adopt Artemus orchestra at the 9,15 p.m. perform Affairs and Deputy Registrar of Mar.

Witness these Ward's idea, and use the label [This

There will be an augmented Chief Assistant Secretary Chinese weakness of her neighbour.

ship, a big new vessar, in these tip sailors playing football in the Navy is a goak.]

"SECRET TREATIES” AGAIN.

of a shipping shortage. Yard. Wheels were not made to.

ance at the Coronet on Sunday riages. Mr. A. H Hollingsworth is save labour. It is the phrase "labour informed. The circulation has in last time. This wonderful film drew

evening when My Four Years in Second Assistant Director of Public specific charge that Japan, considering ADVERTISER-You were correctly Germany will be played for the Works

What is more, China makes the saving machinery" which misled us.creased remarkably, and we may

Imports from Belgium are put on vented China from coming into the only her own material interests, pre of ground bare of grass, the naval made moveable types. to save far only one man has ceased to reminded of the special 2.15 p.m.; men were playing football. They time. The

is very heavy to-day. Parents, are centage of enemy value permitted. man who struggled and they sweated, and

had subscribe, and he is said to buy it on Children's Matinee. to hunt,

AJ. P. in Mr. T. Hough's place on track down, and atrove continually, so that the kill his food, or to til, plant and

the street. spectator was moved to remark that guard his harvest, had no time to be pears in this isue. We expect to charge of the Chinese pilot, with a

the Licensing Board is . HOUSING. The advertisement ap

o be elected en June 23. it looked like hard work. Thus discontented because his time was all have a note on it on Monday.

While coming down river in leaped into his mind the thought filled. Preoccupation with the living|

BIG DISTURBANCE AT how the lives of men seem nowadays present eliminates all possibility of merchants of irove" was a phrase on May 28, the CM. s.s. Kiangfoo

No. 65. Thanks. divided between the wheel and the brooding over the past or worrying self-explanatory?

But surely Chinese second officer on the bridge

SHANGHAI. ball. Caught in the wheel of business over the future. One sighs for the readers as an educated community Creek, about 56 miles above Kiu- a third of their time, another third bad old times, before Progress was and write accordingly. By trove we kiang. The vessel's planking on the We regard our struck the rocky bank at Hoare invented, when manuscripts took meant things like water-cress, wild port bige forward of amidships was the place of printing, and the con- ferns, mushrooms. etc., which the damaged and the port paddle crippled tents of a newspaper would have vendors get for nothing.. involved months of an 'industrious

but she backed off the bank and was scribe's life, when cloth was hand to acknowledge and thank you for steam, arriving here on May 30.

R.P.T. By an accident we 'bmitted able to make port under her own woven, and journey was a journey the receipt of the little book of local instead of a trip. In this mood one poerns and parodies. We read it f says that Kohaleth has the sense of it, with pleasure. Isn't another volume April 29, Mr. Justice Oldfield directed At the Madras High Court on and that the end is not altered by all about due, containing gems like the the release on bail of que Thanicka these wheels and all these balls. Henley parody? Have you tried chalam Chetty, who had been sea- Except-yes-except our souls. In your hand on Rosetti? pre-machinery times, one fancies, The machine breakers of the early religion was less mechanical, and mublish your letter, we will do so. on a charge of profiteering: In that tenced to three months' rigorous MD-If you still wish us to by the Third Presidency Magistrate, rineteenth century were wiser than thought the more profound for being It was held over to give you a chance ne sold kerosene oil at Rs. 4-8 a tin, imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 500

they knew. Instead of being labour | leas hurried. If this be so, what we to think. At present you are in: the while the scheduled rate was only Rs. was reproached about the report secret, in accordance, not with the/ and it was as a direct result of their savers and leisure providers, the call Progress has meant retrogression position of the man who knew what 2-10-3. His Lordship admitted the that Captain J. W. Carrington, smallest pretence of principles. but representations that Sr Win. "Seager restricted leisure. Man has become the servant of his own machinery (like a cottage woman of her furni

D.5.0. R.N., commanding HMS. with a single regard for the value of of Shipping on the subject. Sincer Carlisle, has been transferred to H.M.S. the "deal" to the contracting parties. then, mutters have been developing, had an interview with the Ministry ture) and it calls upon him continual- In his Easter address at Foxley

The pagada", erected to the Carysfort. The Secretary said “there ly to give. Machinery produces Church the rector had a word to say

memory of the Cochin-Chinese, isn't a word of truth in it," and that she could imitate Italy and go out mentary Secretary to the Shipping- machinery, and one wheel revolving for the village inn. "Not all the

Therefore, while Japan is asking if and Mr. Wallace ucked the Parlin Annamite and Tonkinese. soldiers these inaccuracies cause trouble. We turns many more." There is no ap reading rooms in the world," said the THE JAPANESE BOYCOTT. subscription among the native and that it did not appear in the Ching door, China puts before the Confer mors. whether there are at present

who died for France, by means of a publish the disclaimer and point out parent end to it. To increase pro parson, would keep a man from

from the Conference, slamming the Controller, in the House of Coni duction is the slogan, not to meet enjoying a glass in the company of

French troops, has been inaugurated Mail but in a local contemporary, increased consumption, but his mates. In town and country a

ence some simple propositions. She 33 oil-tenker lak up; and, if so, at Frejus (in the south of France).

asks in the first place that all Ger why they are not being utilised for General Bordeaux, representing the

man rights in the peninsula shall carrying oil and other airgo to tixs Government eulogised the devotion

revert to her. She asks that she country? Colonel L. Wilson replied of the children of the second native the wheels have their slogan too, for ideas. The narrow, minded bigots Committee of the Chinese Chamber

shall be released from agreements that tank steamiems, whielitare only Speaking to shorter hours, which proves that they who are trying to close the ion by of Commerce yesterday, a China Mail

a member of the country for the defence of the mother In the recent hot spell it should with Japan which she entered into of use for the tansport of fuel oil,

country, are now aware of the Sisyphus-like corrupting the national beverage are man was told in very plain words

have been no crime for a man to was. She asks, lastly, that the secret consequence of the cessation of bot because Japan was stronger than aheure at present laid up se anatumi job that the wheels are setting them. doing

Renewals of a large number of Mon Kok, Yaumati, overdid it. and Japan shall be null and void.

But a Chinese at They demand some of that leisure harm.

treaty concluded between the Allies They do not realise it

that the anti-Japanese boycott in charter-parties are now being He carried a dozen, and failed which we know to be essential to the because their minds do not extend Hongkong. is unlikely to fizzle out negotiated in Japan. The tonnage to satisfy the police that

Lilities Stepe "ure being taken to The case against this treaty on turned to the best possible eccount- secure that these vessels st ba full life. The marvellous epoch of beyond the jurisdiction of their own previous occasions the Chinese have charter-parties will have expired Magistrate Hutchison, that they were entered into by nations which he of obtaining. The council of the asso

as others have done.

of the O.SK. steamers of which the had got them honestly. He told grounds of equity is that it was in the altered circumstances now invention has not meant Progress if little Bethel." We could gladly add organised Anti-Japanese boycotts in before the end of the month is a parting gift from a friend who had Chinese territories without consulting on consider that this reply is far all it means is to go on and on the Foxley rector to our list of Hongkong but they were of short en-estimated at 44,500 tons. A slump left the Colony. It may have been sn China, and that it was obtained by ron satisfactory, as they rev

right to fix the fate and future among the wheels.

When a greater ecclesiastical friends, for his dent durance and had little material effect, in shipping is expected through the-His Worship didn't know but it we may begin to talk of Progress. China Mail staff, in the course of an

are consumed in China. Several liberatlag large numbers of steamers. The magistrate made it $10.

building to take into consideration.

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Nor are the wheels brought in as mere metaphor. Behind all their busi resses somewhere stands machinery. Wheels within wheels are at the back of trade, of shipping.

wheels have multiplied labour and

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INNS AND OUTS.

to sell In order to meet well conducted inn is a happy meet. demanà for more income.ing place for men who desire to

the

At the same time the attendants of discuss public matters and exchange

an enormous

amount

of

a fulcrum was, but jumped, to the conclusion that in the rowinz of a

appeal. boat the rowlocks are the fulcrum.

.

WILL LAST A LONG TIME. · ·

On two

student procession, reinforced by a secret treaties again. In February he fired number of low class people, tried to 1917 Japan secured from the Allies and money was perpetrated smart.

Late on the right of June 12, a At bottom the question is one of

enter the Shanghai International Set- Great Britain. from France, from any other body than the long siffer-i It's pretty certain worneon, wolk1

If this waste of shipping tlements from the French Concession Russia, from Italy-promises of sup B.P. without a permit.

The Police stopped them, but the and to the German richts in Shang paper of similar interest. In vow port for her claim upon Kiao-Chau

Here is a clipping from a Hime

killed and nine wounded-Chinese ment. Once more the changed ron-set time, and the surraber of this melee which ensued, one Chinese was America was no party to this agree- British Mercante Marine at the pre processionists pushed on. In the tung. Once more, it will be observed, of the shortage of tonnage in t Commercial News.

ditions have rendered inoperative inters unil officers who are out of en- any spirit of justice accords arrived ployment. the Meicnatile Marino

Secretary this morning, our reporter and chattels to be bartered away in

NOT OURS.

at by the diplomats who were ap Service Association were much en- parently so fond of dealing with cerned by the report that certain While interviewing the Naval with the peoples themselves, as goods were laid up in the Gareh other people's property, and indeed standard ships, mainly oil tankers,

FINED FOR FANS

carry a fan.

he

number of men live completer lives, ments, are. jours."A member of the Most of Japan's export commodities cessation of the war, transport service 'sounded like a story requiring a fine. Japan as a piece of blackmail. "Give could be converted to carry, giving

SAFE, SURE, ALWAYS CURES

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But the securing of the leisure is only 800 mile walking tour covering large Chinese concerns have severed There are also all the ships now. the first step in a long journey. There all the summer months of the year their import business with Japan.

me these rights," she said in effect, ninerals or other bulk go, t enters the consideration of the pro-1914, came to a Norfolk village Still another indication of, the

or. I will keep China from declaring should be put into commission as Per use of leisure. If men are going where a combination of native boycott was witnessed yesterday

ARMA JUNK” CANO,

war on Germany. It is to your speedily as possible to relieve them. to rob Peter to pay. Paul, by hospitality and footsoreness kept morning in Wing Lok Street West.

interest that China should come in."ortage of tonnage, and to assist in devoting to balls

the hours him a week. Every night in the The electric wires in the locality

A small armoury of rifles was dis- the old international morality, were

These transactions, according to bringing materials into the country. they have deducted

Covered by the Police in a junk the perhaps legitimate. We cannot re All change is not progress. To work, Australia or America dreams of

in Lan stomach when Chamberlain's

Charged before Magistrate Hutchi which was in conformity with a code hard all day in order to be able to The Squire, the Farson, the innuch as are imported from Japan. enjoy recreation, and to recreate fn keeper, the Squire's gardener, a game Japanese straw hats order to be fit for work, is a very keeper, a small tradesman, and others suspended from the overhanging for sale By All Chemists-and-Store-muskets,

A large assortment of tattered You cannot afford to be without it if guilty Accused was said to be in world has agreed to discard this Diarrhes Remedy is prompt and effec

right spot and gives immediate relief. Ordinance the man

pleaded nat can and do expect that now that the prepared for it. Chamberlain's Colic and prevalent during this weather.. Po vicinus circle. As a pastime, work is (not forgetting the China Moil's tame

were also you are subject to attacks of this kind possession of two Mausere, and two cynical sort of diplomacyTepantas. It can always be depended apon strings.

Hearing was adjourned.

should renounce her rights."

For sale By All homicts, and Stors keepers,

SOMETHING DEPENDABLE.

from village inn there was such a truly carried strings of dried coal-fish, no suffer from cramp colic or Dein/other day, and an arrest was effected. I proach" any nation for doing that wheels, where is the progress? democratic gathering us. not even oystera and other marine delicacies Colic and Diarrhea Bemady toes to the son under the arms and immunition which everybody practised. But we LARRFIŒEA in niways, more or less

espera.