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sightly mental and spiritual naked- One might put up with a large amount of tawdry, extravagant display and witless vul

To-day'a dollar is worth 3s. 9 garity treating it as mere holiday 15/168. exuberance—if alongside it we had a vigorous,

drama modern that addressed itself to

sane,

Concerning communicable dis. esse, there was another blank return

telligent audiences. But the to-day.

music-hall bas Esurped andi devastated nearly all the evening

The s.s. "Amazon Maru "left leisure of our masses. It is our for London via Singapore at noon national school of taste and manners, and it clearly indicates the level of today with 1,200 tons of general Our Popular Education... Consider, sir, what is implied in the A man stole three eggs from fact that the groundlings in Shake wiseman's cafe and was sent to quod speare's day could understand and

for fourteen days by Magistrate

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follow with delight the lofty diction of his noblest passages, with their swelling torren's of passion and emotion: his rich native humer; his pride and patriotism: his deep te searches into the human heart; his massive portraiture of permanent types of character; his bright wis- dom and philosophy of life. To the

and for the most part even meaning- less and unintelligible, says Mr.Jones.

cargo.

Lindsell.

drunk and incapable in Hollywood W. Dobson charged with being Road was fined $5 at the Magistracy, this morning.

On her way out from Marseilles,

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GOVERNMENT SERVANT AND CORRUPTION.

WHY MR. J. O. MACKAY IS PRESSING THE CHARGE.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1919.

INTERESTING ́" SHELL” BOOK.

Witness, proceeding.. said that complainant came into his office and told him he had asked the clerk to ¡expedite the issuing of a permit, and

also told him that he had paid the The "Shell" petrol people have clerk certain sums of money. Witness published a remarkably interesting told complainant that if the clerk little book entitled "The Shell that promised to expedite the matter he Hit Germany Hardest", by P. G. A. PEOPLE THINK I AM RECEIVING had better see the clerk. In less than Smith

Theoretically, the trained two minutes, before any satisfactory observer whose business it is to write THE MONEY.

interchange of words could have been should provide the best account of made, the defendant came into his what he sees. War has shown us Cannot you do otherwise. War correspondents are

The hearing of the case in which room and said: a Government servant, the No. 1 something to get the permit issued? only interesting when telling us about coolie of the P.W.D. was charged It is so long outstanding." Witness war correspondence. Of the war, we with receiving a bribe of $5 from a asked defendant to get the file, and got the best pictures from men, who boatman at Shamsuipa on August 9 when it was brought he looked through engaged in it. It is always so. The on the promise of expediting the issue the papers and found that the piece of man who talks "shop" is the most of a permit for a piece of land, was land had been applied for by interesting talker, and no outsider continued at the Magistracy, this and granted to somebody else. Wit gets the proper point of view or ness told complainant that he would attains the sympathetic. understand- morning.

Previous evidence pointed to the be getting a new piece of land in the ing necessary to put it across."" fact that complainant's wife com vicinity. Complainant and defen- The Shell" Company "took a big plained to Mrs. Mackay of the difi-dant then left the place together part in the war, as this book reveals, culty her husband experienced in and three minutes later the cont and we get an astonishingly vivid obtaining a permit, applied for from plainant returned and told witness impression of its own importance in scheme of things. It supplied these things are tiresome and dreary rough weather. She was caught in evidence, Mr. M. K. Lo, appearing him a new site and would go to see 80 per cent of the total output of a monsoon soon after passing Suca. for defendant criticised as inadmis him on Saturday. Witness then in toluoi, for TNT. (tri-nitri-toluol) sible, and Mr. N. L. Smith, the formed the Shamsulpe Police and and the story of how it did it is very The following ships are amongst magistrate, agreed. Mr. J. C. Mackay marked a $5 note, which he handed interesting. (Fages 11 to 19). It is It is probable that the Elizabethan the

inport.the Land Bailiff of the P.W.D. then to complainant. Defendant had no pleasant to find how little Red Tape groundlings did not see as much in

there is whan real pressure is brought Taiszema "Nile ".. "Haiyang".said: The reason why the man came power to issue permits, but was Shakespearian drama as we do."Tenchi Maru" and

Shinyo to my house to see me, and later to allowed to go to witness and ask to bear on the Circumlocutory Pan- Life was simpler then, less complex,

office, was that he could not suffer him to expedite a permit. Delen-jandruma. This record of work done more concerned with elementals, and

any more squeezing. When mention dant was nominally the No. 1 coolic, makes racially proud. The the language of the time was also

was made of previous incidents of but he did a little clerical work in romance of double-bottom boats (p. like that. Even the Elizabethan "lower

alleged corruption, Mr. Lo vehemently regard to handing over permits. after 26) is another interesting disclosure orders" spoke

payments of half-yearly rentals bad of good work done quickly, while the "better English

been made. than you and in modern newspapers.

objected as irrelevant.

distributing of 10,500,000 gallons of Mr. Smith inquired how the receiv petrol each month was in truth a It wasn't "better English" to them; it was just English, the only English

ing of $5 by defendant would marvel of organisation that deserves

its place in the record. It is not too;" Ltd. that they knew. Mr. Jones has a

expedite the issuing of permits.

Witness: He presumed that he much to say that without "Shell" could get me to expedite the permit. we couldn't have won When he gets the issued permits into thankful to the Asiatic Percleare his hand, he could hold them back Co. for letting us have this very as long as he liked, because we do interesting bock. not bother about the matter once the rentals are paid.

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The s.s. "Shinyo Maru" arrived in port at 8.30 pm yesterday from Kobe and Shanghai. She brought 1,523 tons of general cargo for Hongkong and 10 bags mails.

Thess. "Tenchi Maru" (Capt. dimensional advantage (if it be an advantage over them, just as the T. Fujita) which arrived from Singa globe-trotter has an advantage (if it pore at 6 p.m. yesterday brought 190. be an advantage) over Columbus. tons of rice and 120 tons of cotton Language grows with social condi- and general cargo for Hongkong. tions, arising out of them, adapting itself to them. Give us again Eliza-

400 tons of general cargo and 3 bethan conditions, and we will bags of mail were brought in from promise you another dramatist Pakhoi and Hothow by the s.s. Taiszema" (Capt. T. A. Lemos) greater even than Henry Arthur Jones. Could Shakespeare himself which arrived in port this morning. bave made music out of names like bicycle, radium, trinitritoluol, or volplane? The fact is that we look upon Elizabethan English and Elizabethan drama as some men do

CONTINUATION OF EVIDENCE, Complainant deposed that he went to see Mr. Mackay at his office on Augus: 6 about the permit and met who showed. him in. defendant. Defendant spoke some words in a strangelanguage to Mr. Mackay, and afterwards, when complainant was leaving, intimated that he would see him on Saturday about $10. Com- plainant notified Mr. Mackay, and a constable was sent to witness' house.

Sergeant Grant: The men are When defendant visited his house on under the impression that defendant the Saturday he told witness that the can get a permit, when he likes. We permit for the piece of larti would be want to dissipate the idea. That is While near Suez, some excite-ready in another week. When wit-why this prosecution was commenced. Mr. Mackay: He must have told ment was caused on board the s.s..ness handed him $5 he asked for

$10.

people that he had power-he cer Nile "when a Chinese, one of many

labour coolies from Mr. Lo: I put it to you that fainly has some power to withold repatriated

Saturday, because you promised to into his hands. The reason why I drowned.

lend it to him.-Witness No..

am pressing this is that the people Mr. Lo: What took place was this. think that I am receiving the

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Mr. Lo: The land that complain- ant applied for at first he has not got?

Witness: No.

Mr. Lo: On August 6 do you remember defendant bringing com plainant into your room.

Witness: He never did come on

Mr. Lo: Have you seen complaio- ant before?

Witness: In the course of my

upon their boyhood. as others do France, jumped overboard and was defendant came for the money on permits or issue them when they come August 6; it was August 5.

upon the "good old times, with eyes enchanted, by distance. Time and memory are glamorous things,

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to the theatre for their own ends.

The ss. Haiyang" (Capt. W.

:

parents of fond illusions. It is true. Passmore) which arrived from Penang ; You called on defendant and told kim money and that these men are my duties I have seen him. He had not of course, that the stage cannot now and Singapore at 6.30 a.m. to-day of your application, that you had tools. That is why the fishermen been to my office before August 5. be regarded

THE JUDGMENT. an educational brought 1,200 tons of general cargo sent it in over a month before, and are frightened to complain.

Mr. Smith drew attention to the asset; but it isn't true that for Hongkong. She also carried that you had not received a reply.

Mr. N. L. Smith gave the following Defendant told you he could do Ordinance, which was to the effect it educated the Elizabethan cabin and 273 deck passengers.

nothing except see Mr. Mackay about that Every public servant who judgment:-I find that "the prosecu groundüngs. Like us, they went The China Mail ss. "Nie, and, before taking you in to his accepts or obtains, or agrees to tion has not sufficiently proved any Like us, they carried with them (Capt. J. A. McKenzie) arrived from office, he said that, owing to the accept or attempts to obtain, or improper act of commission or omis that which either tends to proft Marseilles at 8 am. to-day. She had difficult times, he was hard up and causes or procures to be obtained, sion for the doing of which the money on beard 20 European and 19 Chinese wanted a loan of $5. You promised from any person, whether by himself in question was given. It was part and pleasure or to disappointment.

Mr. Jones thinks that a very large cabin passengers and 1,704 repatriat- to give it to him and asked him to or by any other person and whether of the defendant's duties to assist in call for the money on Saturday? for himself or for any other person, the expeditious issue of permits, and number amongst Shakespeare's audied Chinese labourers for Tsingtau.

Withess: No.

any bribe with a view to influence his to receive a present of money denier-well, he by his actions gives "ences must have understood and

Complainant's wife, giving eviden- conduct as such public servant, or, merely in return for the promise of himself the lie.

enjoyed his plays, or they would not A Chinese, answering this morn- The silent chauffeur drove on. In have been popular.

You cannot ing to a charge of wounding and ce, explained that she was deaf and contrary to the rules of honesty or performing this particular duty, the quiet bay, embraced by brooding drag people to see plays that d. not cutting a Chinese woman, gave his shortsighted. When asked to point integrity, to do or to omit to do any however reprehensible it might be in hills, the junks lay black upon the amuse and interest them. How is name as "So Sick." If the allegation out the man to whom her busband act, shall be guilty of a misdemean a public servant, is certainly not picture, like ferries waiting on the it, sir, he asks, that the common is proved, and the man goes up for had paid money she said she was our." Mr. Smith wished to know bribery within the meaning of the Styx. The tide drumming the curve people in Shakespeare's day had trial, "So Sick" should become still unable to do so, although she was whether if a man received a present Ordinance. There is of course the present in the room when the money of $5, on account of some work he implication that if the money was of the beach made a sound like dis received an educar on that fitted more so.

changed hands. The whole matter did, it would be bribery within the not paid delaya. might result but it tant tomtoms, and the flat turf them to enjoy and appreciate him THE PARABLE OF THE SILENT before us wore moonshine" as a as popular entertainment, while

$100 subscribed by the Com-rose over a piece of ground, and meaning of the Ordinance. Besides, was clearly proved that it was.com- CHAUFFEUR.

garment.

Popular Education to-day seems to mittee Hongkong Police Reserve when her husband handed the man defendant having no influence what-mon knowledge to the complainant. ever, his conduct could not be in- and others that defendant had little It was one of those enchanted fit them to enjoy little but stewed Gazette for the Blinded Soldiers and $5 he asked for more.

A Chinese detective stated that Mr. Buenced. He did not issue the authority in such matters. I, there- Hongkong nights which make men and clotted vulgarity and nonsense, Sailors Care Committee, St. Dunstan's, Mackay came to the Shamsuipo permits.

tore, discharge the defendant. It was one of those glorious Hong-reluctant to go home.

and scarcely anything that demands realised £18.188. 5d.: which sum has Police station and marked a $5 mote,

Mr. T. L. Perkins, the Assistant kong nights that make men reluctant

Mr. Lo remarked that that was Director of Public Works said that Yet there on the pale ribbon of from them a moment of serious been duly remitted by the Hongkong which he gave to witness to hand to exactly, the point he intended arguit was very serious to allow a man to go home. A watchet zenith, a gib road beside the sea, the road that thought or energy of attention? and Shanghai Bank.

complainant. Witness went to com- bous rnoon, and an unceasing susur-twists and turns with many ups

ing The answer is that the Elizabethan

plainant's matshed, situated near the

to go on taking bribes by imposing Mr. Lo, cross-examining Mr. rus of cicadas. Up, up, and round and downs, the road that leads homeschool was the school of life, and

A Chinese was arrested in Sai

seashore, and concealing himself along about, the motorear swung clear of at last, the silent chauffeur was that the best educated people to day Street with 33 taels of non-Govern with another detective, awaited the Mackay, said: You say defendant or the credulity of poor, ignorant peasants He could not keep thinking are those who learn from the aniverse rent opium in his possession. When arrival of defendant. When defend does various other duties. What is it was bribery, because the man the housen, out among the darkling waiting. pines, to where by whiles the moon.

without the "ity." But life then was charged at the Magistracy, this ant came in sight complainant's wife his actual position? What salary is could tell that he could help people.

he defended himself path on the sea made a panorama

simpler, more elemental, its appetites morning.

warned them, saying: "He's coming," he getting? A man might, because It Was serious to the depart- of magical beauty. The dear, dark

less artificial, its palates less cloyed. by blaming another man. The opium Whet defendant reached the matshed he is intelligent and willing to learn, ment, when a man, a Chinese promontories framed these vistas.

No Government School system can was concealed in 54 tins. Mr. Lind- Someone said something about Byron

and was told it would be ready in a superior officers.

without supervision, traded on this A novel by C. E. Lawrence with give us back those excellent condi- sell fined defendant $2,500, with the complainant asked him for the permit be given other work to do by his who had power to hold up points that title is being much discussed. tions for enjoying and appreciating, alternative of six months' hard) week's time. Defendant added that he coolie. He merely looks after the the magistrate would assist him in. and the moon's mischief. Another

Mr. Mackay: He is the No. 1

"to impose on peasants. He hoped desired to hold a pale, small hand and quote poems. Another laughed Noyels are not to be taken as serious by natural aptitude, such elementary labour.

contributions to philosophy, but as

stuff as Shakespeare gives us.

Mr. Mackay to expedite the issue of delivery of messages, etc. He is now framing some other charge against coarsely. Like the moon," he was

Sergeant Dorling of the Central the permit. He also mentioned a doing better work. He sits at a desk defendant. most of the parrots get all their gibbous; nearly, but not quite, full.

Police Station executed a search permit for a new piece of land, and and writes with per and ink, and he philosophy that way, in homeopathic The silent chauffeur drove on, more

warrant on a house in Queen's Road then asked complainant:

is almost classed as a clerk. *Have doses diluted with fiction, and

and discovered a quantity of inferior you got the money with you?”

Mr. Lo: What is his salary?" of a shapeless shadow than a shadowy shape

Witness: That I do not know. a bottle which was left to cool in a gave him a $5 note.. whereupon

Mr. Lo: Would you be surprised There was talk, there was laughter. Once someone spoke of the way we

bucket of water. He arrested the defendant said. "Is this all? Cannot to learn that he is getting only $13 tenant of the house and produced were spinning round corners, and

you give me something more?" a month for doing clerical work? asked another it he were insured. It

him at the Magistracy, this morning Complainant replied that owing to Witness: No, I am not surprised. was like the Salvationist's query,

before Mr. R. E. Lindsell. The case hard times he was unable to give 1 never said he was a clerk; he is a "Are you Saved?" This should have

was remanded, bail being fixed at defendant any more. interested the chauffeur, but whether it did or whether it didn't, how could

we tell? He made no sign. He held

silence. But he drove on.

It is a not to believe in God.

terrible, terrible thing

Without God all this beauty is

tainted with melancholy, all this happiness rings hollow and has echoes of sorrow... Man is a queer animal. He talks of God

..

chauffeur can drive. We do not know for certain that he is sober.

We don't know that the car is sound.

SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS.

had been to the office, and had asked

the reviewers are very often mere THE BANVARD PROBLEM, opium, valued at $48, concealed in Complainant replied, "Can do" and

journalists belonging to the aviary,

we get some quaint comments. The here in this novel, says one such comment, "suddenly developed materialistic ideas." He, insulted

Was last night's Banvard show

a

his pastor on the subject. Then good show? We say Yes. But we "he fell off an omnibus and heard one or two "knocking" it. The

got concussion." After that he saw man with us, who has seen a few, things, and it was borne in upon said it was the best among profes him that "the only real creatures în the world are those that have vitality sional touring shows that he had enough to outlive their death." Aséen out East. specialist trepanned him, and his

book as

phenomena. We suspect that the

$300.

Defendant sort of assistant clerk.

Mr. Smith said that a charge of obtaining money by false pretences" would have met the case. The law was de alte on bribery. Supposing he (the magistrate) had power to issue a good piece or bad piece of land, and receiving monty, save a man a good piece of land. that would be bribery. The defen-

dant did not have that power.

then left the place and went to à tea- Mr. Lo: Whose position has he, Mr. Perkins argued that the man house, followed by witness, who filled?

had power to hold up the permits. Anna Almeida a Portuguese asked him to accompany him to Witness: Nobody's. He has been He could hang these up and the working as an assistant clerk for six applicant would get disgusted and weman, who was sentenced to a the Folice Station. short term of imprisonment. för re-

Mr. Lo: The impression on your weeks.

might not make another application. turning from banishment before the mind was that the $5 was given to Mr. Lo asked whether on August | That sort of thing might happen. It It is perhaps like a book. You can expiry of her term, was released yes- defendant simply to say a friendly. 5, when complainant spoke to was not fair to the department. visions ceased. The reviewer from only get out of it what you bring to terday and deported to Macao. Al word to Me. Mackay about expedit witness about asking for a bribe in Mr. Smith: But the people could whom we have quoted regards the

an argument against it. Personally, we would go every meida is known to the Police as a ing the permit?-Witness: Yes, of return for the expedition of the go to the head direct.

woman of immoral character, and course. Ninety per cent. of the peo permit, witness explained defendant's Mr. Perkins, replied that ignorant materialism." Nor having read it, night in life to see that "Egyptian "had been banished from the Island,ple know that permits are issued exact position in relation to the peasants did not recognise that we cannot say how the author in dance that we got last night. A because the Police considered her to only by the Europeans. The com matter.

They were impressed by the coolies and acts as if he doesn't really tended, and we do not suspect the slender maiden with a face like a be dangerous to the safety and well-plainant himself would know that believe. He professes unfaith, and author of the dunderheadedness of

Mr. Mackay replied in the nega-"riding a car?" and went to them, Another detective stated that be tive, stating that he did not see the thinking they had power. He was acts as a believer. Who shall judge his reviewer. All we say is that on flower, whose every movement is being of young girls, many of whom

she led astray. him? Certainly not himself?

fore even looking at the note defend relation. What he endeavoured to sorry to say, with deference to the We do not know whether this the reviewer's own showing, the graceful, held us spell-bound. For

ant asked: 'Can you not give me get was some proof concerning the magistrate, that he did not agree Notwithstanding other attrac$107" argument is a demonstration of the us, that was the show.

bribery.

with the decision. But for fun, for laughter, for tions, the Hongkong Theatre has At this stage Mr. Mackay went Mr. Lo: Did you tell complainant. Mr. Lo intimated that the evidence purely, material origin of." spiritual"

all the rest. We are not going to week This shows that the pictures evidence, which had been interrupted. the matter?

kay was the man in authority and keep on cataloguing people so weil screr.ded there are appreciated by He said that on August 5 com

the peasants knew that well. The known. We are sorry we don't know cinema- goers. Both the Moon plainant came to his office and in-

defendant merely tried to use his the name of the classic dancer, that Child" and the "Bull's Eye" films are formed him, **...

influence with Mr. Mackay and asked we might print it in large capitals. among the best of their kind that Mr. La: 1 object, your Worship;

him cannot you do this or that" |She lava dryad 'from a poplar in | have been shown of late. Tomorrow no hearsay evidence can be given.

Mr. Smith: I don't think any good Lombardy, she is a serpent of old the 9th and 10th episodes of the Mr. Mackay: I have cut out the

purpose is served by this sort of To point a moral and adorn his Nile, the is the nymph from the "Moon Child" will be screened, part about complainant's wife going Mr. Mackay I think what I said thing. proper tall, Henry Arthur Jones brake, she is the Incarnation of Look for the matinee programme, a to my house I am speaking of was that complainant had given del suggests, in an address to the Minister Heart's Desire of all the ages, the beautiful picture has been selected.. what took place in the office. There fendant certain sums of money on of Education, that the Elizabethan poetry of motion, the emotion' of

is something important in regard to certata dates on the presumption multitude had a higher level of culture poetry, the... But what's the use?

A RICE CASE.

the way defendant acted in the office. that he would expedite the issue of Mr. Smith replied that it made no Imagine a passenger that did not than we.

We shall only get ourselves misunder

Complainant complained to me that the permit, with difference. He read the letter of the trust in him, that fussed and meddled. In no place, says he, can you more stood again.

Mr.Lo: No, you went further than law and discharged defendant. A Chinese woman was seen a certain clerk, as he called him, in and reached over and tried to take surely get an authentic revelation of She is a perfect stranger to us, unloading some rice into her sampan the Survey Office, had abstracted that. You said Endeavour to ex- Mr. Perkins wished to know it it the wheel, or that cried out upon as the mental capacity tastes, and yet we have known her intimately from the Nam Hai" by a Revenue from him on various dates.

pedite mattera with me.

was of any use to proceed with the Mr. Lo I think your Worship to get out and walk, or that denied habits of the people than in their for a million years. She may be a Officer who arrested her. This mor

Witness: No, I did not say that. other incidents of bribery, and, was Mr. Lo: The permit has never) Informed by: the Magistrate that if the existence of the silent chauffeur. popular theatres You catch them healthy young woman who goes ning charged with being in unlawful made it clear that any other transac The meddler, the fusser, professes to there in mental and spiritual dis- right through the hotel menu, but for possession of 71-catties of rice ign than the 35 mentioned in the been issued to this date

the evidence was identical with that Mr. Mackay: The land is being given in the present case it would be know that the skilled, chauffeur is habille. The English stage has lately as she isn't really real. She's a before Magistrate Lindsell, she was charge was irrelevant. I am here to

defend one charge.

filed in; he has received a permit, there, but does not trust him. The been a hideous exposure of our dream. She's the dream.

We don't even know the chauffeur's/ author was wiser, and 'that he w/ music, for colour-well, there were been well patronised during the past into the witness box to continue his that defendant had no authority in made it perfectly clear that Mr. Mac-

and that dreams make the best life.

name. He may have private plans showing how the best life is a dream, of his own, or he may be proceeding in a dream like oura. Yet we loll. there and put our trust in him."

• Our faith is in the silent chauffeur, that he knows the road, that he is capable of dealing with circumstances. as they may come, and that ultim ately he will set us down in that fair haven where we would be--the portico of the Golf Club.

ELIZABETHANS,

fined $25.

-Witness: No.

Mr. Lo: You said in your evidence in chief that complainant told, you that defendant promised to use his influence with you to expedite matters.

A

Mr. Lo stated that he objected to Mr. Perkin's statement about other. moneys and other charges.

futile.