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In Hongkong, that has not suffered
LOCAL AND GENERAL
To-day's dollar is worth 3s. 5
any appreciable deprivation, and in 15/164. comparison with other places may
be said not to have known that there
was a war on, it is not to be expected of plague and one of c. s. fever.
Today's return shows one case
that yesterday's news, would mean
so much as it dia elsewhere. It is true that the armistice brought
Er. S. F. Lee returned to the relief, and that the rejoicings were Colony from Shanghai by the 8.6. conspicuous. How far they were
China." merely merrymaking can only be guessed. In Europe, On: the contrary, the armistice was the cessation of a long ache, a truce to real pain,
an
rather than
Mrs. R. St Vergette of the Public Works Dept is due here by the sa.
Neleus" to-morrow.
Mr, M.-Joblin of the Standard Oil Co. is a passenger leaving by the as "Empress of Japan."
The 8.3.
..
excuse for champagne, and yesterday's news would mean soul tranquillity in thousands of homes and the elimination of a boding dread. Now get on with your
Cho'an Maru" from celebrations, and in celebrating, try Saigon yesterday, brought 2,850 tons to think what Peace means. Peace of rice consigned to M. B. K. is not a status or a condition. It is analogous with à point in time. It
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Mr. and Mrs. H. J Gedge returned to the Colony on the "Tango Marú" after a holiday in Japan.
The ss. "Promethens" (Thore is the Big Pointer Opportunity, dividsen & Co.) arrived in ballast from ing a past of stupidity and beastliness Hongay yesterday afternoon. from more stupidity and bloodshed ΟΣ (if you
from so will ic) La future of aspiration and moral endeavour. Go in peace and sin ino more" should be written in the
hatbands of chauvinista and jingoes The ss. "Rokkosan Mara" and armament makers and profegarrived from Make this morning sional soldiers. War proves nothing. with 2,427 tons of coal for Hongkong. The 'arts of peace do.. War is an affair of brains scattered on the
bloody ground. Peace is an affair of brains working with the problems of life. Let yours get busy. There is much to do, now that the nightmare is over and the madness by.
JOHN KESTREL ON NIGGERS..
The s..Tango Maru arrived yesterday from Yokohama with a miscellaneous cargo and 30 cabin passengers.
The 5.5. "J. A. Moffer arrived yesterday from San Francisco with 4,000 tons of fuel oil for the Standard Oil Co..
Mr. A. A. Ritchie and Rev. C. B. Shann of Hongkong and Sir Edmund and Miss Walker are leaving by the
Empress of Japan" to-day.
Among the passengers arriving on May 9 were Sir Conyngham at Southampton per s.s. "Aquitania" Green (Ambas ador to Japan) and Lady Green.
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The 3.5. San Francisco on May 27 arrived "China" which left early this morning. 2.500 tons of flour and general cargo, She brought also 114 bags of mail.
FRIED EGG LAW SUÏT.
BREAKFAST DISH THAT SUSTAINED A GOVERN« MENT OFFICIALS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 35, 1919,
A COLOSSAL PHOTOPLAY. SAN FRANCISCO
S
** MIDNIGHT STAGE" AT THE VICTORY L
"The Midnight Stage" is a five
A barrister's bill of £6 15s. for fried eggs supplied daily for six months was the subject of an action in West-reel Extra Selected Frank Keenan minster County Court on May 2.
Mr. Frederick Thorold Dickson, for the screen by Jack Cunningham Photoplay, adapted and modernized barrister, Was the defendant.
He went to stay at Faulk from Sir Henry Irving's colossal sue ner's Hotel, in Villiers-street, W.C. cess "The Lyons mail" There were two tariffs, one of 5s. 6d. for bed and plain breakfast, the fourth Pathe Feature to be released The Midnight Stage" constitutes
and the other 6s. for bed and a break-
fast with free choice from the menu. The defendant, it was explained, took
the 5a. 6d. tariff.
J
MERCHANTS CONSIDER
SHIPPING PROBLEM.
**
PRODUCERS AND MANUFAC- TURERS AS VITALLY INTERESTED AS BHIPPING "MEN.
At a meeting held on May 27 in the San Francisco Chamber of Com-
import trade, the question of the merce Assembly Room, attended by merchants interested in export and future operation of the American Merchant Marine was discussed frosk several angles which have heretoform had little consideration.
as an Extra. Selected Star Photoplay with that eminent character actor Frank Keenan playing a dual role While the manager was away ill similar to these made famous by the for some time a waiter by mistake late Sir Henry Irving.
E. G.Swift of Getz Brothers & Co pat a fried egg each morning before Frank Keenan's success in the brought to the attention of the meet- Mr. Dickson, who ate it without part of "Matthias" in "The Bells" ing the fact that in all conferences question.
(Laughter.) When the has been nothing short of pheno- with Mr. Hurley, shipowners and manager returned the defendant was menal. Starting off with a big pre-operators themselves took a leading asked to pay a reasonable sum for all released week at the Rialto, New part in the arguments, whereas the the eggs he had eaten, and be re- York.""
merchants and manufacturers who fused.
In "The Midnight Stage" the furnish the cargoes for the ships THE WELCOME EGG. producers have used the frame work, and who have an equal interest in Then followed a long correspon-of Irving's famous success "The the solving of the problem of our dence between the parties, said counLyons Mail"-but instead of adher-merchant sel. On January 27 the defendanting to the French Story and the 1776 signally
marine have failed wrote
to offer any solution. period of the original they transferred Swift Regarding the conversation about the plot and the lecale to the interests of the shipping
stated that at times the the egg. I wish to settle in a reason. California of the Co's.
mest and the producers. are diametrically able manner. I did not order it, but In this manner there has been opposed. For instance, the merchant it was welcome to me, because I retained that splendid craftsmanship who has established a market in work long hours every day in a which evolved the wonderful story various foreign countries and built Government office.
of the "The Lyons Mail," yet "The up through painstaking effort and Midnight Stage, comes forth as a expense a demand for his goods trule drama of the Wild West, laid often times finds it impossible to get in the period when the Western ships to carry goods to their destina country was in a very primitive tion, inasmuch as the shipping firma stage of civilization 50 years ago. has found it to his advantage to call Thus we have in The Midnight fat other ports and has abandoned Stage" a combination of the best the trade route for others.
Swift elements of the French master dram- urged that the merchants of this atists who conceived The Lyons Coast Sierras country in the early settler's by the Shipping Board that the
requeat Mails" the picturesque locals of the disposition
that in any of the ships days; the splendid characterization important question of established of the two leading roles by Frank trade routes be considered. There Keenan; plus up-to-the-minute Ame is no doubt, he said, that other foreign. rican direction and production.
I offer an additional sovereign, which, I hope, will satisfy you, the whole affair having been most dis agreeable to me.
The hotel people, who were the plaintiffs in the present action re plied agreeing to accept £2, but the defendant wrote:-
RE FRIED EGG.
did not order the egg, and am under I regard the sum as outrageous. no legal obligation to pay.
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of their vessels. Our ships cannot governments are and will have a great deal to do with the operatione compete privately with the vessels of other nations backed by national
That apparently omniscient pundit John Kestrel favours us today with a discursion covering Peace, the LO.N., Japanese politics, Socialism,
On January 6 the defendant was Bolshevisma,
told that owing to rising prices the carbuncles, equality, birds, brains, Malthusianism,
he could not have his room after the racial
5s. 6d. charge would be 6s, and that Chinese chauvinism, and niggers
end of the week. On January 10 he of a good gambler and a bad des- Keenan's portrayal of the dual role all within the compass of 500 words, or less. Aint be a wonder, as Sir
paid for five nights, and when he perado is one of those performances James Barrie's Tommy Would
again came on the following Monday which will live in motion picture have asked? In the course of it he
he was told he could not be received. history, and will most certainly add legislation, whether the companies alludes to the fact that "the
Afterwards he wrote saying he much lustre to Keenan's already engaged in shipping be aided by brain of a negro is not so well deve
manager, who he declared was a Just as Irving was able to trans- other means. He pointed out that would lodge a complaint as to the great reputation and popularity. subsidies, mail contracts or through. Toped as that of a European." As he omits to say which nigger, or what
Westphalian. "I have lived in Ger-form himself into two entirely the initiative in foreign trade develop- European, we must conclude that he
many and know the language well," dissimilar and distinct characters ment rests with the merchant and means the average in each case. As The Treasurer of the Society of he wrote, "and as I am engaged in to one opposing the other-in the producer, that while ships are to that we have our doubts. Whether St. Vincent de Paul, begs to confidential branch of the Govern- same play, so does Keenan play the essential to this development, they negro means the wild Masai of whom acknowledge most thankfully thement service I feel it is not right he separate characters.
a As "John are in Sir Harry Johnston writes so well, or receipt of $20, toward the funds of should go about talking to soldiers."Lynch" the gold seeker and gambler of the
sense the servants. the American negroes among whom the Society, from an
shipper As a matter of fact, said counsel, and as "Bige Rivers," the villainous unless a firm policy is adopted where
and thata we have sojoured, "we have our
donior.
the manager was a Frenchman, and thieving gunman of the hills, while by a merchant can know what terri- doubts, Joha. The brain of Broker
had been naturalised for 45 years. both men are identical as to their tory can be reached now and in the T. Washington, for example, is
In the witness-box the defendant features, Keenan, playing both parts future, he will have no basis for are only two, The first is that he immensely ahead of Bonar Law's in
aaid he had taken up his present give an abosolutely distinct render-trade. Continuous service is the isn't built that way (the average development,, while that' of M.
attitude because after having become ing of each character. And where keynote of American trade in order man having ar
instinctive in Clemenceau is superior to that of
practically a permanent ledger he both characters meet on the screen to compete with other governments hibition) and the second is Jack Johnson. In natural endow
was sent from the hotel without the double exposure work is splen-who are establishing their trade on that if he is (being abnormal ments they start about level. In Port Said.
reasonable notice, this causing him didly executed. HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1010.like a savage small boy or a flagel. Opportunities to develop they have
much inconvenience. He counter lant) he will be unpopular among not been similarly treated. The Money and jewellery to the claimed £2 188. 6d. for the expense those who are normal. The vivisec average result might seem to bear value of more than a thousand dollars he had been put to owing to short
right" to experiment out John Kestrel's fact, but the cause are missing from No. 48 Portland notice to leave. with animals, even humans, so long as of it is dead against his conclusion, Street, Yaumati The police have his neighbours don't object. The anti-f his conclusion is the natural' three Chinese (two female) in custody, vivisector has the right to object. inferiority of Qur dark-skinned on remand. And after that there is nothing. brother. Either by out-voting him or evading him by concealment, the vivisector will diddle the anti-and" Father
12 & 14, Des
The China Mail.
*JA TRUTH, JUSTICE, FCELIC SERVICE.'
ANIMALS.
Isn't Father Bernard Vaughan the rather clever orator who got some cheap notoriety by lecturing or preaching on "The Sins of Society" to London people who desired to be
Voeux Road"
tor has the
in society, sinful or otherwise? Vaughan's logic about duty wouldn't
Apart from some half memory of open a philosophical Jackpot.
that sort, we know nothing of the
gentleman. We don't suppose we
FORBIDDEN WEDDINGS.
The practical commonsense and
anonymous
Under arrangement with the British Government the P. and O. Line, starting on May 7 with the Caledonia, will maintain a weekly passenger service from Marseilles to
The Captain Superintendent of Police notifies that all private motor cars, and drivers, motor cycles, and drivere, livery motor cars, trucks and other private vehicles must be licensed on July 2.
Judge Lush said he did not sed sufficient evidence about the egg to imply 2 legal contract.
the
On
part of the defendant. The supply of the egg went on for a considerable time before the defen- dant was spoken to, and he might therefore have considered he was justified in accepting it as part of
the meal.
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The defendant, on the other hand, could not succeed in his counter counter-claim would be dismissed.
MANCHESTER WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.
would like him. We see that he has THE BOYCOTT AND THE expediency of the regulation which works specialist left by the "Empress claim, and therefore both claim and The emergency contract came to an
been speaking in the East End about animals, apropos the vivisectors and the Dogs' Protection Bill, No one will want to quarrel with him for saying that the life, of one human child is worth more than a litter of puppies, but he didn't stop there. He
.went on:
CELEBRATIONS.
Will the boycott interfere with the Peace Celebrations? If so, how? A Chinese reader has called our atten-
general. The
Mr. W. E. Priestley the Fire- some firms here make, forbidding of Japan" to-day for San Francisco. their employees to marry until they attain a certain standard of income, Another member of the firm will is recognizable enough. But what come later from Manila to supervise
SHIPS IN HARBOUR. of the morals of it? Has the Church the fireworks display at the local tion to the matter of the illuminations. ever protested? Is it likely to pro-
peace celebrations.
List of vessels in port this morning. It is suggested that the anti-Japanese test? You may have one guess.
British
Japanese feeling will be likely to restrict What of the individual freedom we (Capt. C. A. Robertson) left Calcutta Ghoysang The Indo-China sa. "Fooshing" [Fooshing It was quite ridiculous to talk Chinese co-operation in the display Britons boast of? Dies the fact of June 5, Singapore June 18 and arriv- Prosper
Rakkosan Mary Chojun Maru about the rights of animals when of paper lanterns. Doubtless the such a regulation indicate economic duties they had none. Rats and Committee, although it has not been slavery, or does it not? You have Her cargo for here is 1,023 tons of Waishing
Tofuku Maru ed Hongkong yesterday evening. Priam mice, fleas and mosquitoes had the over-eager to take the China Mail another guess. If the idea behind the
Tango Maru Shisen Maru same claim to rights as cats, dogs, into advisement, will have foreseen regulation was that an employee and horses. They had none.
"Fooshing" brought Halmun
Fuko Maru this and taken steps to meet it, but marrying on a low salary would be a mail and one European and 377 Haiyang Bankoku Maru As rights connoted duties, in case it have not, we would appeal tempted to live beyond his means,
Asiatic passengers.
Suisang,
Korea Maru criminal proceedings should be strongly to our Chinese readers to and so become less trustworthy, the
· Loongsang.
Butoku Maru taken against any of the brute spread the idea amongst their retort offers Itself that a bachelor, creation which broke the moral compatriots
Don't wear a short coat over a Hong. Wan I Nazyo Maru that THIS 15 law. Man had duties towards EXCEPTIONAL CASE CALLING FOR A as bachelors do, is much
AN going and spending арте and long coat. A policeman noticed a Empress of Japan Masayosha Maris animals because he was under LET-UP. The
more Chinese wearing two coats that way.
Singan
Taiwan Maru decent шал does likely to turn out untrustworthy, and guessed it might have something Telemachus
Chinese not maintain a quarrel with his When the moral typhoon hits his to do with a coat that was raissing Amherst brothers at his father's funeral In frail ship he has no anchor, whereas from the steamer" Kwongtung." The Namsang
Alicorne celebrating the peace, we are all still the married man has given hostages magistrate guessed that he had Allies, and the defeat of German am to his taipan's fortune. bitions means as much to one as to and to be poor is the devil, but as coat man three weeks,
To marry guessed aright, and gave the two- another. Without desiring to inter- Bachelor Paul 'says, it is better to We simply cannot stand that sort fere with the boycott in any way, marry than to burn. It is better to of bosh. The proposition that rights either by discouragement or encour marry, and be poor than to be a go with duties, and cannot exist agement, we beg for an armistice on glave. Lots of things are better than without them, is nonsense A help the particular day ahead of us. Rea- the. things that are, of course, and it less. bedrid cripple would have son! Let every reasonable Chinese is our job to mention 'em. It is yours practically no duties and a whole friend consider the desirability of to settle 'em. raft of rights.. A six months old doing his share to make the celebra-
obligations to the laws of reason.
He must not wantonly hurt them,
but if he could kill them for human food he certainly could make ex- periments on them in the interests of human life.
baby has positively no duties and its tion a memorable success.
rights are unquestioned. Every
living thing has the right to what it
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needs in order to live it can get THE PARSON IN THE TOWER.
it. The tiger has the right to
make a meal, of Father Bernard
Vaughan, if it can get
there is по
We give to-day the earliest account
ONE BODY WE.
Between the rings of Saturn and
Kansu
Norwegian Prometheus Haldis
received permission from the Trea-American:---
The Bekon Rubber Estates have sury to issue the unissued capital of China the company. offering the unissued shares to exist Tancerville
The directors are. A. Moffett ing shareholders in the proportion of West Cajcot one for every 10 held, at the price of Tosco 49. per 2s, share. When this issue is completed the company's capital will be £105,000 0s. Od. in 28., shares.
BUNKERED.
A Chinese who came from Sing
was fined $30.
Shun Shing Chongva
Hwah Hein Hoi Tung Hsin Foo Hui Hai Yu Ying Wa
Asia Po Lee Dutch-
Tjitaroem Besitang French Kalping
PORNOGRAPHY,
this basis. That no foreign govern ment would undertake to destroy trade routes established by the American government through a competitive rate, war is the belief of Skift.
Tramp steamers have never served to build up a continuous trad although they have aften been re- sponsible for individual profits by Messrs. James F. Hutton & Co., reason of a tramp vessel coming, Ltd., Manchester report on May 7 along and offering low rates. Ba
So far as the raw material is con- Swift stated, if we are going to com- cerned there has not been any appre pete, we must have a service that is ciable change in values during the continuous without interruption and week. The Liverpool market has within the reason of sanity as re- now virtually recovered its freedom. gards rates.
Swifit further expressed the beliet end on the last trading day of April, that despite the common argument but there still remained a limit on that the Government cannot function. the time in which trading was per- properly in anything which takes mitted, September being the most away private initiative, that some distant one in the quotations. The arrangement should be made for Cotion Association has since as supervision by the Government over nounced that futures contracts for the ships and that they should not! full year ahead will now be allowed. be turned back and sold without any The fixing of official values provisos as to the operation. under the good middling contract In commenting upon the foreign! has terminated and Spot quotations shipping situation it was pointed out will henceforth be for American, not that the British, French, German, Boweds and Texas. The arrange-Holland and Italian governments ment however, that no Cotton below have always been behind their ships the value of low middling shall be in some way and this policy should delivered against contracts, still re- be adopted in America if we are.. mains in full force. In spite of Cot to compete with their trade routes. ton keeping fairly steady at the The competition of the future will moment, yarns continue to streng-be virtually a competition of then, and with them of course cloth governments or government backed prices, but a moderate amount of enterprise.
business continues to be done and In the proposed disposal or siloca- enquiry increases. The advances re- tion of ships by the Shipping Board, cently are hampering business pretty effort should be made to give each considerably, and we have experterritory proper allotment and the ienced the impossiblity of being merchants of the Pacific Coast should able to increase quantities recently be vitally interested in securing their fixed. Prices are moving rather too share. Swift stated that he was quickly for buyers and offers are cognizant that the American Im- rather behind sellers minimum-porters and exports Association of. prices. However if goods are really New York had already formulated wanted the figures will have to be plans to provide for the interests of paid and it must be expected that the merchants themselves and that it any weight of booking will send was up to the Pacific Coast to do prices up still further. Perhaps the likewise.
feature of the week so far is the The position taken by Swift was small proportion of the offers made agreed in by those present and it from India which are workable, was decided that a committee be ap Mesars. Stanley Paul & Co. an but probably this is only to be pointed to get the fullest information nounce for immediate publication expected. The India buyers' idea of what was being done in other sec The Truth About the Black Book!!: of the case in prices is far greater tions of the country at this time in Germany's Poisoned Literature," by than has actually been the case, as order that the business interests of Sheridan Jones. The Author has they have not been following the far the Pacific Coast might co-operate. marshalled a mass of evidence showket with enquiries, but are now com.
him, of the bappy sequel of the trouble the fried egg you had for breakfast and it Father Vaughan přefers to which landed the Sporting Parson in there is only an imaginary space. If live on, he has the right to prevent the Tower of London. You may re- that seem too sweeping, let us reduce it doing so by any or all means in member that we expressed fears it to this, that the League of Nations, apore on the steamer Fooshing" his power, even to the killing of the (based on previous mysterious refer." Tariff Reform," the China tea trade, said he had a ticket but somebody tiger. No one doubts that, not even ences in the: Home Press) that and the gastric juices, of the states out that the coal bunkers are not the ing that there exist and flourish, in ] mencing in many cases after quité. the tiger:
stole it. Inspector Gordon pointed things
At the bottom of D.D.R.A.". had revived the lettre de man, can be mixed into one potage in right quarters for passengers, and as/ Germany, powerful organizations, long spell of uninterested holding off. right than that anywhere. Right is a Bastille. There is nothing to lose, By penalizing China tea the Briti b
more cachet, and was using the Tower as the golden bowl and still be digestible. that is where this man travelled, he a term of social coinage, to fit a and everything to gain, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer imperils requirement of human association. watchdog barks at the first suspicious Lancashire piece goods. The ego- It is a postulate that has been agreed movement. We now suspect the ex mania of William Hohenzollern weak. to-but it is nothing more Duty is planation will turn out to be this, ened the poi (taro pordige) of the ANSWERS TO CORRESPON. a similar invention. Outside the that the Tower is pro tem a military Polynesians. A slander in Yokohama social contract, it means nothing. barracks, to which the Rev. Everard may cause a suicide in Switzerland.
DENTS. Biology knows, it not. The reasons Digby, as an Army chaplain await Time and space are subsidiary cur must not wantonly hurt the ing Court Martial, was confined. rency of thought, and humanity at speechless animals would be hard to That would be in order, wouldn't it? last has but one head." "All one body find. The reasons why he does not Very well. Forget the Bastille idea, we, as the hymn says,
man
H. B. L. D. Many thanks: the mistake before we received your H. A. Nisbet. We have discovered
letter,
deliberately devoted to the culture They have, as it were to play them C.PR. AND AIR SERVICE of vice among men, women and selves in again baford resuming busi- children decadent, unwholesome and ness on the usual scale, This: ap-WAARVAN perverted. Side by side with these,parently is what they are doing now, A report from Ottawa, says that there has grown up a whole literature, but the feeling, here is that it will the Canadian Pacific Railway is ap poisoned with the same taint. It is not be very long before a general plying to Parliament for a charter important that the extent to which buying is resumed for the Eastern enabling it to organise an aircraft these evils have reacted upon the markets. China in mech quieter, but service throughout the Dominion thought and conduct of our own it can hardly be argued that the buy: The Canadian Pacific Railway with danger, not the less real because it prevent wants and further business the charter is granted to establish people, should be realized. This is a ing done is sufficient to satisfy their therefore be the first in the field i is underground and insidious
hoped for
such a service in Canada.
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