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LOGAL AND GENERAL..
To-day's dollar is worth 3s. 8.
*16d..
To-day's return shows two casES. of cerebrospinal fever.
yesterday with 1,000 tons of general The 9.9. "Diva" left for Bangkok
cargo.
4.
The Indo China ss. "Kumsang"
WORDS. As the twinkling stars, It may be remembered that some as roe in fishes, as the sands upon time ago we invited material for a the shore, as terrible as an army dossier on rent profiteering. We got with banners, behold the ranked some, but most tenants seemed shy words. Fat words, lean words, of newspaper intervention. Here weak words, strong words, words is one bad case, by a Portu that shout and "words that whisper, guese landlord, communicated to they throng upon us and overwhelmus. by 1 Portuguese tenant. us and we sell our lives for a mess Before the war the rent of his three of verbiage. Words.
rooms was. $35 including taxes. It Prolixity, verbosity, logorrhoea, was raised to $39, because of the pleonasm,batrology, redundance, war tax, which the tenant had to flux de mots, perissology, ambagious par. Landlord very "sticky" about for Kobe to-day with 1,300 tons of The 9.9. "Takeno Maru" left exuberance-ten pages for ten cents. necessary repairs and renovations. rice from Hongkong. and the art of printing consists of When the war tax was abolished, the making numerous impressions on landlord calculated that the tenant. paper. The art of words consists of could now "afford to pay a bit more, the Liverpool riot, story is "This The Canton Times headline for making a few impressions on brains. and that he might as well have it. Beats Canton." A sly dig.
Trope of women gabbling, pot He raised the sent to $40, exclusive libelling kettle, in a prattling, of taxes. When the tenant ventured cackling, clacking. twaddling, loquaca protest, he was told he could (Captain Anderson) left for Japan tous, garrulous, prating, polylogous either pay or get out. He also ports to-day with 2,200 tons of cargo Press. Words are as weeds in the mentioned that at the end of the garden of thought..
year the rect Poets string words as beads in a be $45. We must start a Tenants" H. Jensen) left for Yokohama to-day would probably The 5.5. "Prominent" (Captain necklace, pearls on a thread of Union, pledged to refuse to pay these with 2,400 tons of rice from Hong poetry, to cast before swine. Yet squeezes, and to back up the resist-kong. poets being bern, not made, mustance of members. If the Govern poetize. Prose also dreams of artment would only let us import a few forms, of cadences and sonorous Bolsheviks, we could hire them to E. J. Scott) arrived from Shanghai The CN. 19. "Team" (Captain fluidity, of limpid expressiveness and call on the profiteers and argue with yesterday with 1,500 teris of cargo metrical charm, of beautiful words their little hatchets. clothed in gay uniform: ranked and drilled, a picked regiment of vocables -bywords and bad words for camp followers and picaresque hangers on. L' epithete rare, c'est la marque de Pecrivain. Phrase, round term, idiem words that breathe and thoughts
RICE FACTS
The desideratum is that the rice price should be lowered, and held
Government please note. Here's an itens of news that should interest it.
Ltd that burn,pithy, pointed. Cireren down,
ian words, euphon ous and mellifu.) cus. bow they thrung upon us like! Cupids dancing in a maiden's dreams, children begging to be born. Yet! what does it all amount to? what does it all come? Only words and words and words. word more. Damn.
AND SHOES
IN
BROWN
& WHITE
FOR ALL OCCASIONS,
FOR DRESS WEAR, WALKING,
GOLF TENNIS,
ETC.
SEB
WINDOWS
poor
for here..
The Provincial Assembly claims the right to veto the Canton Tram- way franchise. This nocificution will rob the prospectus cf some of its charm.
The J. J. L. s.s. "Tjiliwong a big cargo for Hongkong including arrived from Batavia yesterday with
3,415 tons of sugar, and 2,500 tons of general cargo.
In Macao they are selling retail, To without government control, thirteen
and a hat cattles for a dollar.
The s.5. "Taishun" arrived Here Just one
in Hongkong the people receive (with controlled "Yesterday with 755 tons of cargo for here and 1315 tens for other ports. pri es) only nine catties for their A freman died during the voyage dollar.
and was landed at Swatow,
HONGKONG WAYS.
it other words, the Macao Chinese get tour and a halt catties more per dollar, and it's better rice at that.. The s.s. "Telemachus." (Captain The V.R.C. committee is not pesu-
The bogie about diverting the Bentley) arrived from Saigon fast
·liar.. There
are others like it, transport trade. from Hong-night, with a cargo of rice and meal especially in its desire to have every.kong by checking exports is all and 218 deck passengers. One thing. cut and dried and rushed bankum. Hongkong will always Chinese died during the voyage.. through. One member of it actually control the Bangkok and. Saigon rice. complained that there was too much trade. Without meaning to, the i talk at annual meetings.
Mr. Brett, the He said Government
has stiffened prices. Secretary to H. M. Legation, Peking, Commercial that the Chairman shouldn't allow it. Now let it force them down by is leaving Hongkong on a visit to He considered that the only business forbidding exports for a while, and Swatow, Amoy and Foochow, and of an annual meeting is to pass the keeping tab on stocks.
expects to be away about a fortnight,
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MR. T. MĄCINNES.
An Indian watchman exceeded his authority and used his stick on a Chinese electrician of the Tramway him $12 in fines and $3 as compen Company, in: Salt Fish Lane. It cost (sation.
16
FRIDAY
HONGKONG LAUNCH FIRED ON.
HUN ABHORE AND SUNĖ.
"
FOUR KILLED, MANY WOUNDED.
AUGUST 8. 1919,
POLICE PAS
ANNOUNCEMENT
EXPECTED TO-MORROW..
The China Mail is advised that to-morrow an official announcement
The owners of the steam launch will be made abolishing the Police. Man Shun report that this launch Passes or Permits so far as Canton, Wuchow was sunk two or three days ports are concerned. which runs between. Hongkong and Macao, Wacbow and West River
ago.
The
"Man Shun" was on her way
Lam, West River. When soldiers fired from chow to Hongkong, near Sit numerous stots (estimated at 1,000) at the launch.. The master and crew that were in the wheelhouse This left nobody at the wheel and fled for a more rotected position. the launch ran ashore.
LATER.
Since the foregoing was written, ing columns) has been issued.. the official notice (see our advertis
We hace like the Dickens to blow our own trumpet (you must have may refer to the China Mail as noticed this? but after this you
THE PAPER THAT GETS THINGS DONE.
launch failed to stop when ordered. The Chinese soldiers went on board, demanded to know why the and removed some on the cargo. A SHIPMENT OF TOWELS.
Later the damage to the launch caused ber to sink. and two of the launch's cooks. One of the armed guard put on board by Four were killed, two children
the Hongkong Government was shot while his back was turned to the Chinese soldiers. Many others were wounded by the bail of rifle fire from shore.
WEDDING.
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MOCALLUM –MCLELLAN,
At the Union Church yesterday, Mr. N. McCallum, chief engineer of the s.5. Bristane" was married to Miss E, A. McLellan, who recently arrived from London.
and
Mr. H. J. Rowe was the best man and Mrs. MacArthur the matron of boriour.
2
'KOWLOON GODOWN
VICTIMISED.
Magistrate Lindsell to-day for steal- A Chinese was produced before ing four cases of hand towels, vauled at $1,170 from the Kowloon Go- downs. A charge of receiving was preferred against another man, in connection with this case.
Mr. E. L. Shenton prosecuting, said he was willing to withdraw the charge against the second accused, so as to enable the latter to give evidence. Mr. A. E Hall represented the alleged receiver, and Mr. Leo d'Almada appearing for first accused applied for a short the
remand on the ground that he had
Evidence was then taken from the
The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachfenot yet been fully instructed. officiated and the bride was given away by Mr. J. B. Thomson of the alleged receiver who was discharged, groom's firm, Carmichael
to the effect that defendant had gone " Clarke.
to his shop about the beginning of this month, intimating that he had some cheap goods. He (witness) was absent that day, and his foki told The bride wore a dress of cream defendant to return the next day. accordeon georgette, empire style, Defendant complied, and the following worn with embroidered in silk. A tulle veil was day brought the towels in a truck blossom and she carried a shower were marketable. He replied that bouquet tied with tulle and satin he was not sure. Accused then ask- Accused then asked him if the goods wreath of orange
ribbons. Miss Barbara MacArthur ed him if he was disposed to buy the was the bridesmaid.
goods. He returned that he was not as the towels in question were not in much demand. He went to enquire at the Wing Kat Cheung shop in Queen's Road, where a bargain was Struck. The goods were sold for $498 which was to be paid in a tea- house. After delivery the money was paid in the presence of the accused and another.
Following the ceremony a reception was held at the Hongkong Hotel where the health of the newly wedded McCallum have gone couple was toasted. Mr. and Mrs. to Macao. Many handsome presents were given
to them.
GARRISON TENNIS LEAGUE.
accounts and reelect the officers." It could, he thought, all be done in ten minutes. What can you do with men like that? For years this co- mittee has gone on ignoring its own rules.. A most amusing case, Today's Centon Times has a which it was not considered reference to this gentleman as leaving necessary to ventilate at the annual for Canada soon with the Canton meeting, is worth noting. It was Tramway Concession in his pocket. the time of Christ and since then they reported to Committee that a certain He turned up in the winter of 1917 have stabbed a compatriot some time A Chinese who was alleged to SILVA-NETTO.--Pied at his res and bave been variously tortured,mittee solemnly decided that this stand the British Consulate was before Mr. Lindsell this morning on have been pretty unpopular, people, rule was being violated. The comand saw the possibilities. We under- ago and absconded, was produced danes, Rebmone, No. 63, jailed, crucified, burned; and so on, was not right, and resolved that the sceptical and tried to discourage him. an information for attempted murder on the halong with a good many other people rule must not be broken "until after It is difficult to choke off such aby stabbing. Hearing was adjourned, August, Je Perko Silve-Netto, whose particular mania was usually 8 p.m." They would even have had bustler, however, and he got the ngs 80 gram. Theeply regretted. believing in humanity "for its own it on their minutes if some member Chinese interested. He had got some The later wil pass tile Momu- sake."
with a notion of business had not ment at about 6 p.m. towing,
Messrs. Kelly and Walsh having
83 CO R.G.A. v. R. A. C. "A" western Canadian financiers inter-had a new building erected at Shang. Thus it is only "aberrant types
advised against it. They have now ested, and the proposition began hal at a cost of a quarter of a million COSTA-um July 30 at his resi, and "I enfante terrible" who value got some new blood on, and things to look feasible.
The R:G.A. continued their winning dence Fave Wochang Rose truth. For the normal majority, are expected to mend.
At the last medullars, are about to move into the They beat the Medicals by 19 games. career at the Happy Valley yesterday. ment the Canadian money Shanghai, Prancisco (Cuiquito), they dislike it and fear it and would
men new premises. In this connection.The scores follow: The election of the 'secretary was tried to freeze him out, so rather not be bothered with it. But a farce. No opportunity would have promptly dropped them in favour there is going to Shanghai for a few lost to Captains Monteith and Burn, Seraphim Ganes Ja
he Mr. H. Mead of the firm's branch aged 50 years,
now, how shall we classify this in-been given for other nominations if of Chinelie capital, which was more months. genious pleader? When he says the Mr. Mitchell hadn't hemmed and popular anyway. Mr. Maclanes is a fag is that truth is an untrained hawed. It- mind's weakness, it would seem he that he believes himself to be telling the truth
The China Mail.
"TROTE, JUSTICE, RUBLIC SERVICE."
HONGKONO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1019.
TRUTH.
We have come across Z most ingenious argument in
Japan paper, in a letter to the editor by I. K. We have enjoyed it very much, and haster to pass it on to Our discriminative readers. He denounces truth as an ideal. declares that devotion to it (except in empiric science) is reactionary. You shall have his own words. In part I. K. says:
He
about truth. So he is aberrant, and
was
well knownbright man, who thinks the China
The Blue Funnel 9.3. "Neleus"
Naval Dockyard.
didn't want the job, Mail the only paper worth reading (Captain T. K. Evans) arrived from but because he couldn't hand it on here. He agrees with practically Yokohama and Shanghai yesterday to his own nominee, he stuck to it.one per cent of all it says. He has afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. Miller has the itch to proclaim the truth. He said so himself. That sort of been staying with Mrs. MacInnes at of Kowloon leave for Home by this Nevertheless, since he sees clearly that hole and corner work won't go any the Hongkong Hotel. Incidentally ship, also Mr. W. Barrett of the the true truth is the popular prejudice more. against truth, he is not aberrant and
he has had a spell of illness here, Another point. It is about time and went 10 Hospita, had an opera- has no true concern for truth. This the camouflage tile of "honorary "tion, and slipped away before the is confusing, isn't it?
was abandoned by the secretary and doctors wanted him to go. He's a The truth though it slay me is treasurer. $300 apiece may not be hustler, as before remarked. not a deliberate and calculated devo-enough to call a salary, but it is tion. It is an irresistible impulse more than enough to rob an athlete that is more common than the argu- of his amateur status, and the.V.R.C. ment realizes, and it is only a stronger
is an athletic club. Besides, there outside prohibition plus timidity that are probably perquisites: There used prevents its free exercise in more
to be. At one time they were rather freely talked about.
cases.
There are many men who boast that they can endure a joke at their own expense. How many have you met who can bear the truth that tells against them?
For most men the truth is any
35
a noble ideal towards which
thing they passionately desire to be
"Some there are who regard truth
a
thorities, and those who don't are
FLOUR NEXT.
MORE RICE TROUBLE.
Sgt. Athome and Br. Green, 83 Co. 1-8, beat Sergt. Taylor and Lee. Corp. Kirby, 8-1, beat Sergt. Me
Co. beat Monteith and Burn, 6-3, Kechnie and Lee-Corp. Webb, 5-4
beat. Taylor and Kirby, 6-1, beat Br. Nicholls and Gr. Perknis, 83
McKechnie and Webb, 9-0.
Gunners Middleton
Hearing was adjourned, defendant being released on bail of $5,000.
SHIPS IN HARBOUR."
List of vessels in port this morning.
Japanese-
British
Telemachts Nelets
Awa Maru
Kitano Maru
Orestes Wasun Cornelia Antilochus Haitan
Kanchow Phranang and Sharp. St. Albans Chipshing Loongsang Oliva Derwent Kumsang Pheumpenh
83 Co. lost to Monteith and Burn, 3-6, lost to Taylor and Kirby, 3-5, The Blue Funnel s.s.
Orestes" beat McKechnie and Webb, 7-2. (Captain A. T. Shaw) left Glasgow
Totals:-83 Co. R.G.A., 50 games. Jane 26 and arrived here yesterday R.A.M.C., 31 games. afternoon. The Orestes has on board 38 men for the Shanghai Municipal Police, 40 bags of mail for Hongkong SS. "NILE" COMING BACK. Huntball and some gun ammunition for the Military as well as 2,000 tons of cargo for here.
At the Hongkong Theatre this
1
Volute
At about 12.30 yesterday a crowd of about thirty to forty men mobbed an M.B.K. junk which was receiving rice from a shop in Salt Fish Lane. Police whistles were blown, and the afternoon during the Matinee a three years used as a transport by Cardium was magnificent filma "Bull's Eye" in the British Government, will be re Cheklang
3 episodes of 2 parts each will be Up
One
Tofuky Matu
Hakushin Maru
Fushiki Maru
Kaijo Maru
Daitoku Maru Koyei Maru
Taiwan Maru Shinyo Maru
Masayoshu Maru
Chinese
Chuen On Taishun
Kwal Wah Yuetshang
ON SA FRANCISCO HONGKONG RUN.
Hupeh Wuhu Singaporean Baron Inchcape Casais.,
Hoi Tung Asia
Po Lee
Danish ---
The steamship Nile, for the last Hong Wan I
Asia
Norwegian
Prominent
Duich
If it is true that there is profiteer- throng dispersed. are being forced up, the Government before ing going on in flour, and that prices arrested, and brought may be well advised to attend to it this morning on a charge of snatch be shown at 9.15 p.m. performance. Company for operation on the San American-
Mr. R. E. Lindsell screened and the same picture will turned to the China Mail Steamship leve. Their wishes sire their thoughts. chop-chop, without letting the situa-ing rice. Inspector Macdonald con- On Saturday next at the matinee and arrives at Hongkong late in August Tancerville humanity, through the falsehood and Those writers who tally with their tion develop so far as the rice ducting the case, informed the court 7.15.m. the 8th and 9th Episodes of with coolies and will then go into Chingchow
Francisco-Hongkong run. The Nile sin of the ages, is gradually ascen- inclinations are unimpeachable au- business ding. This may be simply
did. They
have the that two bags were thrown into the the "Moon child" will be given. A drydock for refitting. reminder of the doctrine of original false prophets. They agree formal unpleasant for the food gamblers, for
necessary powers to make things water and spoiled, whilst the rest special preformance will be given on sin, and the progress" myth. Bely to the proposition that all men are whom there is absolutely no excuse.
was recovered. When the accused Sunday next at 6 p.m. when the Pacific trip for the China Mail late The Nile will make the first trans- this as it may, the fact is that truth mortal, but they don't really believe A little moral courage, and a deter knife was found in his possession will be shown, and at 9.15 p.m. the formerly owned by the Pacife Mail
was taken into custody an opened beautiful drama "One of the millions" in December. is simply the natural response of the
The steamer was untrained mind, and is a reactionary
that they themselves are going to mination to be no respecter of which was presumed to be used for subsequent episodes of the
'Moon Steamship Company. ideal, rather than any other. A dog
persons, is all that is necessary. ripping open bags of rice.
child" will again appear on the stage. of ordinary intelligence understands"
There will not, of course, be any
Three months was the sentence.
On Monday at 7.15 p.m. "One of the well known figure in. Hongkong's Before the war the "Nile" was a By Flour Eaters will get as close to Flour Ricts, and it is unlikely that
Millions" and at 9.15 pm. "Bulls Eye" in Zepisodes. These arrange-
harbour. ments were made for the convenience of theatre-goers.
die.
a rebuke, and acknowledges his guilt IT IS HARDER TO THINK RIGHT
THAN TO DO RIGHT.
J
or maintains his innocence in a way clear to all who know him. A child's instinct of curiosity is the purest truth-seeking. As the child develops in intelligence, however (in in these days of crises? If he open What shall a man do to be saved, a sort of crude social bio-genesis), his eyes and observe that the times he gradually acquires certain social traditions which overshadow the visible rottenness in the state, are out of joint, if he complain of his primitive and brutal instincts and, if he suggest amendments, he (auch as honesty). He will be told will be called a crank, an agitator, a that he should love God and all his Bolshevik. If he shut his eyes, and
starvation as some of the Rice Eaters did. But we cannot guarantee that the peace will be kept if the price parties are gambling in this staple soars and it gets round that certain foodstuff.
ESCAPING FROM HIS CREDITORS.
PI
On July 29, a serious accident oc- Sometimes a critic of journalisticcurred at the P. & O. jetty, Shanghai foibles scores a point without any which involves damage amounting to comment whatever, several thousand taels. About 7am,
Tjiliwong Trigonia
SALE OF S.S. "HAITAN."
The well-known Douglas Co.'s s... "Haltan" commanded by Captain A. H. Stewart (father of Pinkie) is reported to be about to be sold for a quarter of a million dollars.
The "Haitan" which left for Early this morning the cooles of direct
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow to-day No. 15, the Peak being the residence Recently an editorial postbag con- the 6.5. Hachiro Maru" was pro- at 2 p.m. bas done a thousand trip of the Manager of the Russo Asiatic rained, among less lively matter, a ceeding up river and when opposite without an accident of any kind. Bank, were
surprised to find the sheet of note paper. On page one the P. & O.jetty she suddenly sheered It looks as if the Shanghai Peace from a beam above his bed. The
No. 1, coolie hanging by his neck was the heading of the journal to owing to an accident to her steering which the communication. was gear, and collided with the wharf.
NORTH v. SOUTH.
fellow-men, and a minute later is proclaim that everything is for the Conference is dated for the Greek Police investigated, and learned that addressed, and á paragraph which The "Thistle Leaf," the motor ferry
The first steamer to arrive in the
best in the best of all possible worlds, Kalerds. A sort of a peace may the poor fellow had incurred moneylenders fleeced younx officers, & Co., acted as a fender between the Clyde with a German crew since the and that his own phratry in particular come without it, according to the indebtedness.
had appeared, expressing regret that launch of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and the hope that the Government jetty and the "Hachiro Maru" with war was the " Adeline Hugo Stinnes, would soon take severe measures the result that she was against such sharks. Below this The wooden baulks which connect and torpedoes, and was sailing under Bunk. She brought a cargo of machinery' paragraph appeared the letters the jetty to the shore both suffered the Allied flag.
TYPHOON WARNING.
explained the glory of being a patriot and going out and killing other patriots. He learns "that there are is the salt of the earth, he will be Wah Tsz Yat Po, which alleges that certain things about which his parents called a fool. Or he should be. If Southern loaders are tumbling over and guardians lie to him consistently he sicken of the endless fret and each other to be first to negotiate and regularly (eg, sex matters). A strife and fues, and absorb himself with Peking. Our Chinese contem- child of normal intelligence responds in some detached study-botanizing, porary fears they are surrendering to his training and long before he has so to speak, on his mother's grave the case of the South. It names eached maturity has become a fully he will be called a slacker."
P. T. O also cut from some headline damage; the northern", one was mplished liar in every respect. It is easy to do the right thing if Tong Kai Yin, and Hung. Hak Mo as received by the U. S. Consulate from quarter of a column of money with the force of the impact, and its the Des Voeux Road entrance to the
Sham Chuen Hsun, Lak Wing Ting,
and stuck together. When the strained and the other gave way. The telegram quoted below was editor P. T. O, ed he found about a The jetty gangway rose Into the air of course are, and usually you know what it is. That only men whese present activities at Pek- the Manila Observatory at 11.15 p.m. lenders' advertisements cut from the iron girders were badly twisted. Hongkong Hotel, it being designed
(August 8;
same issue as his appeal to the State Operations are now on foot to repair to permit the hotel's patrons to get
Thistle Leaf."
en, aberrant types who re
A canopy is being erected over
h as having some intrinsicalas! it is harder to think right than activities, as
needs a little moral courage. But ing it mistrusts, and describes these Typhoon in about 120 Long. E. to discipline these gentlemen. There the damage and salve the launch in or out of ricsba or chair without
own sake." Down to to do right. What do you think 7:
render."
a struggle to sur and 21 Lat. N. almost stationary,
was no comment "at all."
getting wet when it la raining.
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