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interested in China.as to their power. But at any rata my friend, the managing director, certainly is cne of many Japanese business men who are as confident as himself. After I listened to him, I gathered an impression that, after all, it is the business expansion of Japan in China, which is resented by the British and the Americans for Japan's political expansion In China sinks in magnitude into insignificance compared with ber business expansion. The Twenty-one Demands and the Shantung claims or any other claims of political nature made by Japan are nothingbuttoysfor children, compared with the limitless claims which the Japanese men have on trade with China of which she has a large share and will have a larger share..

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HOUSEHOLDERS' RE- SPONSIBILITY.

LOCAL AND GENERAL..

Mr. E. S. Little, who is spending

The telegram to-day, mentioning the departure of eight passengers in an aerobus from Paris. to Dakar In West Africa, suggests that buses from the Bank to Mandalay are quite within the summer at Anchor Bay, Feitaiho, the jurisdiction of possibility. They reports that on August 1 a shark 10 mount there in Paris, those messieurs.or 12 feet long came to within 5 or 6 They pay their faces. They sit, and feet of his diving boat three times. behold, France rolle beneath them, within an hour. The shark skirted and the blue Mediterranean, and the along the shore where the water was green jungle, and presently, voila! not over five feet deep and then The conductor cries

Dakar," and made off to sen. they get off. Isn't it wonderful? Which of us Victorians would not have jeered at a forecast of it? -

OUR CIVIL SERVICE.

It is only the Chinese Civil Ser vants who have got temporary relief. The white men are still left wonder- ing what, if anything, is going to happen with regard to their applica tions.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18,* 1019

· THE CAPTURED ROBBER

Th

CHIEF.

TO BE KEPT IN CUSTODY PENDING EXTRADITION.

ALARM ALARM!

OUR HOUSING TROUBLE AND OUR MILITARISTS.

IS THIS TRUE.

We don't alarm you for the gaka

Wong Hon, the robber chief who was captured by the local police, again before Magistrate was. Lindsell yesterday. As already reported in yesterday's Ching Mail, the Assistant Crown Solicitor (MY. The "C. C. Post" says The Leo Longinotto applied for the of making a sensation, but if the cotton merchants in Hankow at a prisoner's extradition 021 behalf recent meeting decided to stop buying of the Chinese Government. The news we have is confirmed, we must foreign cargo in order to promote prisoner is wanted in Carton for all make a united row and get it, the use of native made goods. Each a series of robberies and murders merchant paid Tis 500 as a guarantee committed by him and his gang of stopped--if possible.. to the Cotton Guild, and if he breaks cutthroats.

The news is that the G.O.C. has his word this money will be con Yesterday afternoon, the mother of a telegram from the War Office order- fiscated.

Cheung Chong, one of the twoing him to commandeer 70 (seventy) kidnapped youths, stated that robbers houses for the use of the new The Osaka Shosen Kaisha has led by the prisoner broke into the military people coming out. decided to resume the shipments to house, and stole money and clothing This is understood to be in addi- at. $600. Her son tion to the quarters at present Swatow which have been suspended valued

were hiding occupied by about 30 civilian a bed, were discovered families. since an anti-Japanese boycott broke and nephew who out at that port in June last. The under

while robbers: suspension was due to the fact that by

The robbers were the cargo coolies, refused to handle were ransacking the house, and homeless 90011. Japanese merchandise, but a favour dragged out. able arrangement has been made on armed with revolvers and other this point..

weapons while some of them carried torches. After terrorising the boys the robbers led them away. Witness The N.Y.K. has decided to in-saw the boy again three days after crease freights for gods to be landed the attack on the village. at Hongkong, in view of the decrease Cheung Chong, student of Salying- To-day's collar is worth 35. 9in cargoes due to the boycott. Ac-pun School, stated that he and his cou

cording to this revision, freights for sin were dragged from their house by sundries and matches and glass bave the robbers and after they had been Three cases of enteric fever are increased to Y.6 and Y.S. The in-blindfolded and tied together with a this practice twice within the last six shown in to-day's return, one British.crease comes into effect with the s,s.chain, they were led to the robbers' months, and many times before that.

"Shingo Maru." sailing from Kobe den and kept in the cockloft. On for Calcutta on August 31.

It would be deplorable indeed if we could not hold somebody responsible for the thicwing of things from verandahs into our streets. In a case where a European lady had slops thrown over her dress, and where all the inmates of the house pretend- ed

ignorance of' the incident, Magistrate Lindsell has decided to hold the householder, responsible, and fined her ten dollars. Damage to the lady's drets, and the almost un- bearable "moral and intellectual " damage tha: such an adventure causes, were apparently overlooked..

Ltd The China Mail has complained of

COTTON VOILES

BY THE YARD.

LADIES FOOTWEAR BIGH-CLASS AND UNIQUE MODELS.

J

FUR ALL OCCASIONS.

STYLE, COMFORT AND VALUE GUARANTEED.

The China Mail,

"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUULIC SERVICE.”

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18, 1918,

BANKING CONSORTIUM.

H

There is in the Far Eastern Review for August an interesting statement about the new consortium of those interested in financing China. It is announced as "an official interpreta- tion from the highest foreign authority in China associated with its organization, aims, and objects." The editor has done well. There are undoubtedly being repeated amongst the Chinese things which put the consortium in a worse light than this does. The attitude of the world's financiers in the past bas net always beea such as to convince China, or China's friends, that they had China's interests at heart. To say now that the consortium is primarily designed to help China" is journalistic exuberance of verbosity rather than a serious statement of fact. No one would ask a Chinese patriot to believe that. The consortium is primarily designed to make it safe and profit- able to lend China money, This will mediately help China. It is exploita tion, but it is benevolent exploitation. for no one can deny that Chiaz will be all to the good, and never a penny the worse, for having the sort of safeguards over her finances that we are accustomed to impose upon our own sub-communities. Chinese who have been squeezing " their own country's

revenues

will be earnest and convinced critics

of it, but they will be doing it with

Whatever it is, they should be told quickly. It isn't fair to dilly-dally so with men who are carrying on man- fully, shorthanded but loyal, and knowing that their Straits colleagues have had more prompt attention.

7:16d.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It isn't only Chinese who do

Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Ngronha left it, though they are the most by the "Shinyu Maru" to-day for a numerous and frequent offenders.bolidus in Japan. Banana skins, discards of all kinds. keep coming down upon us in the

most reckless way; and we would

ex-

is

Captain T. E. Bisdée, 2nd D.C.L1.

A former Hongkong officer how Acting Lieut. Colonel and was

receny gazetted to the D.5.0.

like the authorities, now that they have decided the responsibility, to

deterrent" or impose a few emplary penalties, until the present

A former Chief Ordnance Officer slackness or ignorance is abated. As for the beast who spits from a moving here. Colonel (temp. Brig. General) tram. what сап be done with W. Usher Smith, has been award hina?

evez bomicide. were led the B.E for services at Salonika, justifiable. .?

If

Officer R.A. here at the outbreak of with war, gets a Brevet majority in the Birthday honours for services in Egypt.

Capt. W. T. Brooks, 2nd D.CL.L is now temporary Lieut.-Colonel On promotion to Major he is to have the rank of Brevet Lieut. Colonel for war services.

The magisterial decision creates.. Captain R.E.B. Brewster, District. by the way, a new problem for the proprietors of hotels. verandahs abutting on the streets. From at least two of the hotels, and from one boarding house, we have noticed guests throwing things. As an enraged pedestrian we have turned our eyes up, encountered amused glances from perfect (or rather imperfect) strangers, and hastened to drown the memory of the insolence, for there seemed nothing else to do. It

Lieut, Colonel H. de L. Walters, recalls the ancient story current DS.O., R.G.A., a former commander north of Tweed, explaining how the of the Hongkong-Singapore R.G.A. rest. "The new system is based Highland Fling was invented. upon the idea that the interest of the old days. of overhanging upper Birthday honours,

In here, received the C.M.G. in the alf requires the strengthening chambers and narrow wynds, they of the Chinese government." A did at least have the decency to call strong, central government, with a a warning before shooting the bilge. united people why, if the consortium The pedestrian sometimes got a rapid can help to bring that about, there's fire of warnings from both sides, and none that will not call it blessed. But bad to step lively. The weird cries before that comes it will have had its with which the modern Fling is claims examined by the L. 0. N., associated may be relics of the pro-. which will also doubtless be specially tests uttered when the dancer mis- interested in China before it has been calculated and long in business. There are a few

copped the lot."

secret treaties for it to repudiate first North and South have to be re-united or finally divorced before the consortium can operate on the benevolent lines laid down. An in-

FOREIGN MONEY?

Reuter assured us that somebody

Mr. A. Jenkins of the Vacuum Oit Company is going on sick leave shortly to Japan. Mrs. Jenkins and the baby are already there, and have befited by their stay.

The final of the Ladies" Singles. Lawn Tennis Championship, played at the Country Club, Shanghai. on August 5, ended in an easy victory for Mrs. Brauns over Miss Coutts. by two straight sets., (5-1, 6-2).

Major D. Clapham, O.B.E...

:

The Blue Funnel steamer

the

they so, that means. 100 families

the night of July 10, three days after their capture, his cousin shot the guard and managed to get free by breaking the padlock with the butt end of the pistol. Witness was left behind, discovered, witness was tied with and when his cousin's escape. was

When his guard went

"Helenus," which left here recently gallant war service under her present for Shanghai has seen some very commander, having been for the cen most part employed in carrying out of the house however, witness troces to the Mother Country and broke loose and escaped to the main France. During one voyage from road where he met the guard and New York to Liverpool in October was recaptured. He was taken back 1918, at the time when the much to the cockloft. The chief was then summoned and himself tied witness's dreaded "Spanish Flu ing across France and Great Britain, wrists together.

was sweep

no less than 28 American soldiers. were buried at sea through this epidemic, and from the whole con voy, there were landed in Liverpool 1200 soldiers suffering from the

"Flu"

S. O. S. S. O. S.

Government.

please get busy. People get busy. Tell 'em. Wire Stop the soldiers coming. We don't want them as much as we want the

Cheung Po, the last witness's cousin, said he saw the guard asleep, and a student of Elis Kadoorie School, taking his revolver from his girdle shot at him but missed. A second shot wounded the guard in the left arm Witness then, jumped down When Messrs. Elder Dempster & from the cockloft and with the Co. got back the s.s. "Appam" from butt end of the revolver broke the America, whither she had been taken padlock and freed himself of the

chains.

the He escaped, on to by a German prize crew after being captured on the high seas, they main road and made his way to changed her name to "Mandingo," the nearest Police Station where he and on her first visit to the West reported the affair and led six police Coast under her new guise she men to the den where the wounded caused quite a stir, no one outside guard was arrested.

The prisoner denied that he was a the local agents having any know- ledge that the Company possessed robber chief. He said the house (such a vessel. The mystery was, of in which the boys were kept was course, soon cleared up, though we his. They were taken there during know of a coast resident who having his absence and when he found them made a bet, as the vessel dropped in the cockloft he set them free. anchor in the port, that she was the

Appam,"

paid out on learning that she was the "Mandingo," and was repaid in the club the same evening

when the facts became known. We now learn

Dempster have given the vessel her old name.-Syren.

that Messra. Elder

The charters of the German and

corrupt Civil Service, and honest in London (unnamed) had proof R.G.A. well known in Hongkong eight Austrian ships seized in Chinese accounting with everything in the (unspecified) that a "foreign source" years ago for his prowess on the waters at the time China entered the public eye, is a big jump for China (not more particularly indicated) cricket field, has been awarded the war are about to expire and there to make, and old-timers will think the had been providing money to encour D.S.O. for his work on the battle will probably be another struggle consortium is asking for more than age the strikers (which?) at Home. fields of France and Flanders.

it is likely to get. But who knows? The simple-minded here bave now

It is easy and cheap to be cynical. got it that this was more German

reform is at hand for each. can be no harm in hoping.

His. Worship ordered the prisoner

to be kept in Victoria Jail to await extradition to Canton.

BANVARDS AND THE

HIGHER LIFE.

"When the little birds begin to

sing,

They look at her and think it's

Spring:"

So sang last night Roy" Haig with

houses.

HONGKONG DEMOBILIZA-

TION.

HOW TO DO IT QUIOELY.

A marine engineer in the Navy for the period of hostilities had been kicking his heels on the "Tomas" passage Home. for nearly three months awaiting a

An opportunity presented itself for an engineer's job here provided he could take it up at 24 hours notice.

His application was turned down' by some official or other, the reaso given being.

1. That at least 48 hours notice was necessary.

2. That two doctors must pass him

conveniently at hand. our of the Navy and two were not

Grievously disappointed the engi ter informed the Supt. Engineer of the steamship line willing to engage him. As it happened, the Supt. Engin eer who was dining out that night, met a Naval official able to get things done and the whole job was fixed up next morning.

Yesterday the marine engineer was. demobbed" To-day he sails for the North in his new bertin

THE S.S. "ATREUS.”

The Blue Funnel s.s. "Atreus" is hastily being made ready for the conveyance Home of about 1,100

sailors and soldiers.

The Naval Dockyard are doing the

job and we hear that printed price

lists of articles for sale in the canteen are to be hung up.

It will be the duty of the officers commanding the drafts to see that the prices are adhered to, and so avoid further complaints.

AN APPEAL.

.

Your dark clouds have shifted, It was they who lifted From your hearts the fear that

none else transcends.

SHIPS IN HARBOUR.

་

Japanese-

Kashima Marut... Kasado Maru

Katsurd Mary

By the way, here's where we can all do our bit. The lads going Home will want books, magazines, and games (especially dominoes, checkers and old packs of cards for cribbage, to obtain, possession of them. It particular reference to the languid with cribbage boards). Send anything will be remembered that the Chinese lily who dances third from the end, of the sort you can lay hold of to Let us hope that both sides mean all cunning. It is surprising they didn't One of the "Koylies" most Government made a secret agree and one said in one's heart 'twas Major Cassell at H.Q., marking it for they profess, and that an era of attribute these machiavelian endow popular officers when the regiment ment with Japan to lease the ships just. And then again one said that troops going Home. Mrs. Stabb will There ments of unrest to the Bolsheviks. was here, was Captain F.J.G. Agg, to that country, but that, on the when a man looks at the Banvard receive cash donations at the Bank. Perhaps they realized that the the Adjutant. He is now a major cther Allied Fowers intervening, the Beauty Chorus, with its wonderful These will buy a few things to make Bolsheviks are hard up. Anyway, in his regiment with the D.5.0. and ships were divided up among the frocks, its espieglerie, its jambes char- the trip home happy.

Keep the Home lads smiling, those artful Germans are credited was recently gazetted to Bt. Lieut. Powers at very low charter rates. mantes, its appeal to all that doth

With your gifts beguiling Japanese charterers managed to become a man, it is Spring, though with the object of counteracting the Colonel for services at Salonika. SO.NOW YOU KNOW.

Them to think of Hongkong as a advantage which victory gave us

secure two of them, and are now one be fat, fifty, and finished, bald "The Bell Boy" anxious to take them all over as and hopeless.

place of friends. ove our defeated rivals. We are

Acting Major D.W. Moss, M.C., their charters expire. The Chinese (hereinafter persistently referred to We extract this interesting state told that when Germany found that R.GA, Singapore Volunteer Corps Department of Communications con- as the Bell Hop) wolks in a swell ment from the Far Eastern Review, she couldn't lick the Russians Sergeant Major at the outbreak of templates establishing a steamship California Hotel, to which comes where it is attributed to Jike in the field, she secured their war, has added to his war honours company, called the Middle Kingdom Abie Cohen looking for a divorce, Hashiguchi:

downfall by spreading dissension the D.S.O. He has been command- Steam Navigation Company, utilizing Pearl Jardinere looking for Abie, I hereby frankly state that Japan behind the lines. Thus is "history" ing the 174th Slege Battery in the Austro-German ships. The pro- Myrtle, Dingwall looking for her mears to expand and extend her made. We thought everybody knew France. influence in China as fast as is con- that Germany lost chiefly as a result

posed steamship company will be lover, Hazel Boyd after the Bell Hop, sistent, regardless of what her vili- of licking the Russians so badly. The

managed jointly by Government Robert Rylee singing for Myrtle, The death occurred at sea on officials and private business men.

and William Horley looking for List of vessels in port this fiers have to say about her. We German troops, already fed up with

trouble, if he goes on acrobating morning. have already extended our influence bullying officers and chagrined by July 27 of Mr. E. Askelin, chief

as he does. The "story" doesn't British in China considerably during the promises and boasts unfulfilled, were officer of the s.s. "Shunchong." Mr. past few years, commercially and tainted with Bolshevism by the Askelin, who was a native of Finland,

The P. & O. Company has taken matter in the least: it is only an

excuse for the wildest of wild fun, in Namsang politically-more commercially than Russians. If they hadn't won 30 was second officer of the ss. Kiang-over the interests of the Eastern and which Abie and Pearl keep the pot Innamincka otherwise. A friend of mine, completely on their Eastern front, kwan, when she was rammed and Australian Steamship Company, and boiling, Ryles and Dingwall provide British Isles a shrewd managing director of they might still have been fighting sunk by the Hupeh Government, as the change will affect the interests of the real vocal stuff, and the peaches Atreus a large Japanese concern, having on their western one. That is the ming ashore. Death was due to heart-Osaka Shosen Kaisha. The Eastern

Chutsai and saved himself by swim the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the bloom around all the time. large interests in China as well as truthful paradox to the best of ong failure and enteritis, and he was and Australian Steamship Company type won't say more than that if you Yuensang

Cheongshing Pages and pages and slathers of Chipshing · elsewhere, in a conversation with knowledge and belief. "Sowing me a few days ago, said that the dissension" was a weapon we all buried at Shanhaikwan.

maintains a service between Australia, want a good, live show, with some Haihong British interests in China are now used, the Italians very picturesquely..

China and Japan, and operated four dwindling, beyond hope of recovery the Russians simply, our own folk

Which Japanese steamer will be steamers before, the war, but the thing happening all the time, and Kalfong

an eye-feast of colour and shape, Chihli to the former business prestige; rather cleverly. As regards this for the first to enter Germany is a ques greater portion of the authority of the it's easy to get it when Banvard's Monteagle that the British in China are practic-eign money among our own strikers, tion which is of absorbing interest in Freight Conference has hitherto rest Bunch honours the City Hall. Mrs. Laemeden ally living on the incomes from the we await more particulars before shipping circles. The Nippon Yusened with the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Grundy mightn't approve all the way Teenkai estates which wre bequeathed them jumping to conclusions. Even if it Kaisha and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha the Osaka Shosen Kaisha. A con- through, and a dead one mightn't Linan by their adventurous fathers; that is a canard invented to discredit and are arranging to open services to aiderable change in the situation is have his pulses stirred, but judging Pakhot" the consortium to be a monopoly, as the position which the British defeat the strikers we can forgive it. Germany. It is said that a Mitsul expected, now that the interests of by the applause and the bouquets Tyndarens the earlier Group tried to be. We had occupied in the past century because our relief is so great on find Bussan Kaleha steamer will take a the Eastern and Australian Steamship and the laughter there were people Himaang take this assurance to mean that any as exploiters of resources of China ing that the suicide of our homeland full cage of nara timber from the Company have been taken by a con- there who liked it. We'd rather see Chekiang Bank or financial firm with real money has already passed to the Japanese; is further off than we had anticipated. Hokkaido for Germany soon, as well cern of the P. & O's standing. Com the show than write about it, and Orestes may join it. If that isn't so, the and as proof of that assertion he Probably, however, the reference was as beans, bean-ol and other foodstuffs, menting on the transfer of the inter- that tells the story. Go to it." Telemachus proclamation is a disingenuous fake told me that the Japanese interests to the dubious capitalists connected

eats of the Eastern Australian Steam- It has all the marks of sincerity, are fast replacing the British and with the Daily Herald, one of the

ship Company, the Tokyo Asahi says: While swinging off the Hongkew "If supremacy on the Australian

Oliya however, and an excellent point it other Westerners in Shanghai and newest Labour organs.

Wharf on August 3, the C.P.O.S. 8. route is given to the P. & O. Com-

Volute maker is that of no longer ear elsewhere as owners of best business

ARE YOU GOING ON A Huntball "Monteagle" pst her starboard pany, it is clear that the Japanese marking contracts or spheres of quarters in foreign concessions; that

JOURNEY? anchor in the ream. In spite of merchantmen will gradually lose their

Hupeh interest. In other words, the con he himself owns a large estate in

the high wind that was blowing and influence, their place being taken by

Wuht: sortium proposes to be as open and Hongkong, etc.

NHAMBERLAIN'S Colic Diarrh Baron Inchcape Bingtang above-board as it requires China to

My friend told me more, namely, When Rudyard Kipling sang of the lack of her archor, the vessel was British ships. The transfer, of the Hemedy should be packed in Hong Wan L be in their mutual bargaining. The that Japan now basno need to fear the blue road to Mandalay, where turned and neatly laid alongside the interests of the Eastern Australian Four, hand luggage, when going on a

French Consortium is to do away with those that her position in China will be the flying fishes play, and mentioned wharf, Captain A. J. Hosken, RN.R. Steamship Company, should not be fourney: Change of water diet and Cardium foreign jealousies and intrigues overturned by any the vilifiers of that there aint no buses running bad a rough time of it on this, tis regarded in the same light as ordinable, and this medicine cannot be Naneggian

Tremperature all tend to produce bowal which LL Hang Chang regarded as a Japan. MAN KA from the Bank to Mandalay," he first trip in the Monteagle." Weary amalgamations. The transaction soared on board the train or steamship. source of strength to him divide I wondered whether such was probably thought he was uttering gave an account of the Monteagle's embodies the post-bellum shipping le may save much suffering, and incon- Produce

impera; but which are now held really the confidence entertained by something so humorously impossible experiences in the typhoon in yeste policy of Great Britain, and la worthy vendence if you have it handy. For sale

By All Chemists and Storekeepers to be as bad for China as for the all the Japanese business men that it would be for ever true. day's China Mail

of special notice.".

their eyes open. Other patriots who ppose the consortium proposals will be doing so blindly, aud in error.

If this pronouncement is true, there is no idea of substituting foreign con rol for Chinese control, but only o instituting a system of honest accounting that, if half we hear be true, is badly needed, as well

for the sake of the Chinese taxpayer

as of the foreign creditor. Nor is

KIPLING'S MISTAKE.

Ujo Maru Kaijo Maruits Taiwan Maru- Shinyo Maru Masayoshu Maru

Chinese

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