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| ated vegetables, in a mug of fermented recommend a little attention to the cle

·LOGAL AND GEKENAL.

To-day's dollar is worth 4/2.

| liquor? But you have to be radianthe † mentary rules of proendy, would then healthy to tackle it, sound and sane have learned what it may meanor to in both mind and body. "Steak and let sleeping dogs le. The politics. onions, for the funny uns, healthy, of such people,, in strike time, always | 11/16d. hearty carniyores. Beef and beery remind us of the small boy throwing un, best critérion, of a life that never stones at a hornet's nest. bores." We offer a prize of a plate exciting fun, but apt to be incom of steak and onions, with beer, for venient. for other passengers who, the best set of six verses modelled | prefer a quiet life. on or approximating to that faulty stanza. It is to be sung for charity.

OUTSIDERS.

All mea bave a great deal in com- mon, and it is this admitted and in escapable fact which the academic. democrats insist upon. But with much in common they have also differences which bar full association. There are incompatiblities which make clubs and lodges and social

sets not only necessary but desirable. It is no good blinking facts.

Racial prejudice can be carried too for, but also it can be disastrously ignored. When east is feeling eastern, and west is feeling occidental, it is better for all parties that they should not meet. Why, even in men of the same race, and even with men who have tastes in com mon, there are things that make the ontente parfait impossible.

Last night in the sanctum sape- torum of the China Mail ofice three men sat and talked. All were bons viseurs, and had that in common. But one was what is called “an oats i

OUR LOCAL POETS.

SUBVERSIVE VERSE~

Whether with reason or with instinct

blest

Know all enjoy that power which

To bliss alike by that direction tand.

suits theat best; " And find the means proportioned to

their end.

Say where full instinct is their ready

guide,

What Scott or Haraton can they

need, beside ? Reason, however able, cool at best; Cares not for service, or but serves.

when pressed; Stays till they call, and then not

often near;2 The carping justinct comes their

voluareer. ***

Who owning shares but hopes for

dividends?

He to his failing slaves his talents

lends

On rhymed sarcasm much time has.

spent

The Rav. Alec, Fraser departed on the sa "Dilwara" yesterday.

The 4.3. Horbo (Capt. Evans) sailed for Foochow at 2 p.mi, to-day with 300 tons of general cargo."

The $3.

The as. Telemachus (Capt. Bently) sailed for Saigon at 4 p... to-day with 1,000 of general cargo.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 71919

OUR HOUSING PROBLEM.

HOW IT FAELÝ IN SOME QUARTERS.

K

CRIMINALS INFEST

CONDUIT ROAD.

From time to time, men are ord

ested on suspicion in Conduit Road, and at the Station, their identity an Following the not altogether undangerous charactors is made known, exported news that civilian familles especially when lethal weapons are The 3.5. "Sunning." (Capt. Beaving in Military Quarters have found on their persons. The road is son) sailed at 5.30 this morning for quarters by November 1, China the Police are seen at night duty up received notice to vacate their very lonely, and it is very seldoms Canton with general cargo.

Mail reporter Interviewed several there. Only recently, some inmates of the beads of the large families, of a house sw two men in h who are affected.

In conversation with one of these, gaaton door. A sharp eye was kept daylight inspecting the look at the a Dockyard employee, our man learn for the rest of the day, and, at abe ed that although he had anticipated "Tahchee" (Captain such a step on the part of theouring of night a dog was placed in Mackenzie) arrived from Calcutta Military Authorities, he never for loud backing of the dog was hened, the garden. At, about 2.30 .., yesterday. She brought no cargo. a moment thought that the nad innrelately the house cooling

tice would come so soon. was fully convinced that it would up and saw two men holding a happen in May next year at the alam was raised, and the would-be Egot at the entrance door. An earliest," he said, "and had been consoling myself that by then it urgans essuped. On another occa- would not have mattered a lot if it on, while a weraan was going into came at all as It is quite the kitchen at about 11.30 p.m., she proper to think that by that time the government, however słow it might move in the matter, The "Taikoo Wan Yi,would have put up some houses (Capt. Ainslie) arrived from Panar-into which we could kan yesterday with 1,000 tons of make room for the military familles. her voice disappeared. At about 5 sugar.

You can therefore imagine my shock this marking a man was met when this Bomb shell suddenly by an Indian constable on the road, burst upon me.”

and arrested of suspicion. When . What are you going to do? je

scarched, the man had house-break 'What can I do? I can't find an implements, and he was taken raz hole to move into anywhere in to the station. At the station, his this Colony. If it comes to the push, identity was made known as a re- I shall have to accept the inevitable turned banishee, He was brought and stay on until I am thrown out, betere Mity Smith, this morning, and Then you will see a big scandal: a

was sentenced to a year's hard Hongkong; it will perhaps be the labour, six months "an eich charge. first time in the history at Hongkong. Lieut. R. O. Perrott, RG,A. left that a white man's furniture has the Hongkong-Singapore R.G.Abren put in the street." yesterday on proceeding Home by the 5.5." Dilwara."

The sa." Hanol (Capt. Morvan) arrived from Haiphong this morning [mail)

with 700 tons of general cargo and

The as. "Shantung,” (Captain Monkman) sailed at noon to-day for Shanghai with 450 tons of general

cargo.

The 3.5. Yatshing." (Capt.

morning with 1,426 tons of general cargo.

Ltd der Abegan to talk to B. and To leard 'tis jealousy, 99 per cent. Mitford) arrived from Calcutta this

or the face of B it was written, At least his leader writer makes that asin an open book that be point:

OUR AUTUMN DISPLAY

OF

CHIFFON VELVETEENS,

FACE CLOTHS..

CHEVIOTS.

GABERDINES.

SERGES.

TWEEDS

and COATINGE, Etc.

FOR LADIES WEAR!

The China Mail.

*** KADTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."

HaGIONS, TUESDAY, OCT. 1, 1919.

TWO FETICHES.

Lonely in a grove of trees the ugly image stood, a bit of wood, useful inasmuch as it served to keep alive in the bearts of men that spark that was later to glow intu Religion. They called it religion even then, poor fools, the medicine men assuring. them that it was so. They prayed to its deaf ears and at the proper seasons offered it sacrifices.

eyes.

The CO., and even the Brigadier, had pleaded for them. Everybody knew that they were brave men, and not deserters. But King's Regulations are the ritual of a fetich, as deaf to prayers as was the wooden ote before described. The only answer

could not

Ah

of Joint

сред his heart to And puts his master's nose quite our A because of the presence of C. Otherwise he would have done it. C is a man who can eat, drink and be merry, and when so engaged is congenial to both A and B. But he

an outsider. It is known that the beggar, has an inner life, a mental terra incognita. You never can be sure what he is thinking, and he rabs a fellow of that cocksureness which is his normal prerogative. It is. a relief when he goes..

As Keble says:

Not even the tenderest heart, and

next our owI, Knows half the reasons why we

smile or sigh. -

With such strangenesses possible among men of what you might call one blood, must it not be admitted that so far as clubs are concerned the racial bar is excusable, natural, unavoidable? Every man has, the right to feel at ease, chez il, at home, unbuttoned. Varb. sap. The outsider robs him of that comfort. So out siders must be kept outside. After all; they too have their own insides,

to which the other Insiders are out- siders. See?

THE STRIKE. ·

It is, as Lloyd George himself said,

well! old dogs are not destroyed by limping verse

Not worried by the yelping of such

curs.

POPE & CO.

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The ss. Lienshing." (Captain Cullen) arrived from Saigon yester day with 1,300 tons of general cargo HONGKONG FOOTBALL A BỘ

and 6.bags of mails.

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"LEAGUES

YESTERDAY'S-MEETING.

At the R.G., Recreation. Room, Victoria Barracks, yesterday evening. a meeting was held of the Hongkong Football League Management Com mittee.

The

|

move to

two men in the back yard. The woman never expected robbers to

porr ut suot an early hour, and she called unt Ane your robbers For ghosts! The men on hearing

Another man said: "1 am banged learn that it is only the six famffor if I know what to do.. I can't in quarter known u Bast Block afford to go into a hotel. The that will be permitted to remain on money I am getting won't permit a weekly tensnoj after Nov. 1, if the hotel in the Colony, it would cost will have to vecite their quartery by, It. Say if I went into the cheapest quarter are not required, the othom myself, the wife and the daughter Nov. 1 whether they have found $50 each per month. Add to that another place to go to or not. $45 for the boy 'and you will find Another point that we would like that the monthly expense is $815, to make is that the military have and that COVOB only the made no distinction between those bare necessities of life, mind you wish large families and those with What about clothing, school fees, small ones, all are treated in the servants' wages and petty expenses?sume callous way. Not even those The 3.3.Yuensang," (Captain A man can't keep body and soul who use rendered service to their Kennedy) arrived from Manila yesterday with 532 tons of general together in this contry nowadays King and wentry in the war are cargo and mails for Hongkong.

on less than $500 a. menth, given consletation. In fact, it is and then

Live you only

on those who have: fought and risked a moderate scale."

their lives who have no respite. But don't you get house allowance? They will have to quit, that's all "Yes, and I would gladly give the military authorities Imow, they

5.4. "Nanking · Maru;". (Capt. Mori) arrived from Yokohama yesterday, with 300 tons of general cargo and 18. bags of mails.

Master Guiner G. T.-May R.G.A., presided, and was supported by a full Marshall) arrived from Vancouver

The s.s. "Bessie Dollar," (Capt. | committee.

St. Joseph's College was admitted Yesterday with 1,500 tons of lumber every cent of that for a place to don't care if these men, who are to the First Division of the League and general cargo for Hongkong.

sion.

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•The s... Chaksang." (Capt.

and the 1st Garrison Battalion Manchester Regiment and the Royal Navy Reserves to the Second Divi-Courtney), arrived from Kobe via Moji yesterday with 800 tons of The entries in the two divisions general cargo and 6 European pas of

the League up to dates are sengers. as follows: First Division, six Clubs. namely, Hongkong FC Royal Navy, the Hongkong Football Club will be The annual general meeting of St. Joseph's, RGAs Police and Southheld this evening at 6 o'clock in the China. Second Division, eleven Clubs, offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson namely, Staff and Depts, South China & Co, LE PE Club de Recreio, Royal Navy (R), St.

to these prayers was, "Discipline an armistice. There is a truce between "B" South China "A.' Indian, R.Cold w

must be maintained Discipline is

the name of the invisible felich.

Not but what, mind you, discipline is a good thing.

Yes, religion is a good thing, and discipline is a good thing, but when either is made a fetich. it becomes a horror and a thing of shame:

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CARNIVORES.

There something in the appear ance of a grilled flet steak with fried onions that calls for comely words of praise, as well as an aside

the present Government and the

forces of organized' labour which gives us until the end of the year: During that period any of several

go to

The a.s." Sunning" (Captain FC, United FC., and R.G.A. (R), Joseph's (R. Manchesters, Kowloon Hinson), arrived from Shanghal

ex-

live in if it is obtainable. This chap here (pointing to a collea gue across the table) has been trying for the last four months to get somewhere to go into, and he is as far from succeeding as I am from the moon. Isn't that right John ?" + - "Yes," "chipped in, the other, you. Mind you, I am not

it is quite a problem, I assure particular man, I don't mind living under a Chinese or an Indian as long

as I can get a roof over my head and a home to go-to after work and yet I can't get a piace."

I

many in high military circles, will deserving of more consideration than have to camp on the hillsides or live

manode.

MORE NOTICES TO QUIT.

WHEN WILL THE GOVERN-

MENT MOVE? MAT

number of families in military Fallowing the month's notice to

notice to quit by Christians quarters, mone untucky people have

I know that many people say have got quite a cushy job and should be able to live comfortably," the flater ur the top ut. No. 4 Quera

These are the families cccupying said the first, speaker, but I don't Road. In the case. It is a case of see how it possible after you

1

per cent

have taken into consideration that living quarters going for ever an the building is to be converted into à much payTM 6Q

bank and offices a of my salary to the Imperial Is is a boring but necessary bun Tax and then on top of that, another

It was agreed to revert to the Yesterday with, 380 tons of general things may occur, If the city rumour procedure in force formerly as Carge and 67 bags of mails for that the Premier intends to

Hongkong. the country

be well founded, the regards the Second Division, namely, Government may (and some think (each Club is to play every other will) have fallen by then. But more Chub once only. It was

The ss. "Shisen Maru" (Capt probably the negotiations will be plained that with such a large entry Rametaka) arrived from Singapore settled to the complete (if temporary) it would be difficult to carry out via Saigon yesterday with 1,475 tons satisfaction of the strikers. They the programme on the home and of general cargo of which 50 tons have given way on the point of "away principle, especially as most were for Hongkong. :

percentage is taken out of what, this of constantly bringing resuming work, but on terms which of the Clubs could not play mid-week

remains as a contribution to the these cases to the notion of the mean that the Government gave way

matches.

Local residents Shortly returning Colonial Tax. When you bave Government and urging the neces on its own impossible position that

to the Colony include Mr. J. Joha reckoned all that you will find ity of early building operations. it wouldn't negotiate until the men

stone, Jardine's taipan, later in the at the end of every

The China Mail continues to do it mouth were back. If there are any who doubt

month, and Mr. Eldon Potter, the that it is precious little hoping that like the little drope of barrister, probably next month. that you get the way of salary. water which wore away the stone, Two taxes on a man's $300 makes ultimately the Government will be.

The First Division will continue to play home and away matches as in former seasons.

The following are the first fixtures bf the season :-**

DIVISION II. October 25, 1919:-

་་

"An Annamite who arrived an quite a big hole. I don't mind tell-acted." the s.s.Hanoi" from "Haiphonging you that I have walked home Our "roaders will remember that Staff and Depts v Indian R.C.

was, this morning charged with the many an evening after works in the China Mail fought a lace fight unlawful possession of 17 tacks of order to save the 10 cents car in bringing to the Government' Recreio.

South China Ath: "8" Club de opium. The case was remanded.. fare. I do that only in the winter notice the consequences of delar I'll admit, but even then, why should when so many civilians were in mill- R. Navy (R) South China Ath

Major J. Coe, D.S.0...R.G.A., has a whire man be required to do that? budy quarters and now the inevitablo St. Joseph's College (R.) from the Commander in Chief of the the whole affair Let the Governments, made up its mind.

been mentioned, in recent despatches It's a howling shame. I am fed up with has happened before the Government Garrison Battalion Manchester Regt British Forces in Italy. Major Coe send me back home, I don't want to Humour, the lying jade, is busy

was formerly in Hongkong with the 83rd Co., at Lyeemun

A/

1st

Mutherhood amongst that primi tive people was very much what it is now and ever will be. After the pains of labour the joy of holding of pity for those queer men who this, owing to Reuter's obvious and feeding new life, watching swallow snacks. The man who camouflage, let them, ask how (save the development of childhood, learn orders a steak and onions most by negotiation) the promise to ing to love the baby hands and certainly contributes that best of stabilize present wages for a full year laughing lips, the busy, wondering sauces to any feast, namely, good ahead was obtained. The minimum.

appetite. Otherwise he wouldn't of forty shillings (announced from Outside the grove a mother went order it. He is not the sort of Wales during the crisis) has risen to and wailed beart-brokenly. About creature who favours languçr and 518, and it seems clear enough that the fetich within the grove the men.lies, nor scowls upon a cheerful the possibility or probability of a under the direction of the witch world with a pallid face and coured general sympathetic strike forced the doctors, danced and howled. their midst was a fair young maiden, patent breakfast food in his life, nor tion. That is to say, we see an In soul. He probably never tasted a Government to abandon its first posi bound, staring from eyes full of thought of it. An egg or two, golden armistice rather like the one that horror, until....We need not targets for the aye of an epicure, ended the world war, with the describe these things. That is her a mite of fish, a slice of bacon that strikers somewhat in the position

**Same here," said the man called would be disastrous and if true mother grovelling and shrieking laughed and saug at its cooking, a of the Allies, badly damaged, but

The Hongkong Tramway Com John, "but the trouble is they won't should be vetoed by the Government: beyond the trees. This is supersti couple of slices of crisp toast, with a on the whole triumphant. Who then

pany's traffic receipts for the week send us away. I don't mind We will send up to Miktary Heed- tion, and a fetich.

pat of .coot butter and the is responsible for the long Reuter

were $15,589, or $158 less than last saying that I shall refuse to quarter and endeavour to find ouk Not but what, mind you, religion chromatic glory of marmalade, message which professes to teach us

The aggregate receipts for leave, and they will have to throw if there is, any truth in it as soon as is a good thing.

probably started his robust and the lessons of the strike, and starts

10 weeks were $588.907; or $36.811 me out if they want to get rid of me. we can outch a reporter with "Kerve Later:

virile day. He would

be the out by saying that it was "a gigantic

The chairman drew attention to more than in the corresponding Then I shall call up the tram enough sort of man who sings, very loudly fallure"? When we get the Tory papers the question of suitable playing period of 1918.

service." and very cheerfully out of tuné, in out about a month hence we shall find grounds. In former years the Eappy

As I have already shewn Enquiry of Mr: Shelton Hooper,

There's a war on. In London a

young wife, working to eke out her

- Kowloon v United F.C.

Bye RGA (R.).

DIVISION L November 1, 1919 R. Navy v St. Joseph's College. Hongkong Club

South China

RG.A. Hongkong Police.

Ath.

Year

stay. bere another moment under with stories about the Military en- present-circumstances." ("

Eaging houses in Kowloon.

This

ties..

...K.

A FALSE RUMOUR ?.

miserable separation allowance, is his bath. It is a pleasure to watch the Government, or more particularly Valley grounds were at the disposal Quartermaster Sergt. C. Babbage, said the other, it is hard Seetary of the Hongkong Land In- soothing a crying baby. In a country such a fine fellow serting about this Lloyd George, reproached for selling of the Association, but owing to the 40. who has been la Hongkong enough for a man in my position vestment, Coy brought forth a cute- village an old, woman, gray haired, is business of lunch. His infectious the country to the Bolsheviks in ex activity of the Rugby Section on a short visit to Mrs. Babbage, with a comparatively smalt family, gorical denial of letting any houses smiling over her recollections of a chuckles de good all round, and his change for a little longer. lease of Hongkang F.C. and the rumoured Manageress of the Alexandra: Cafe; How about those poor tellows, white in Kowloon to the military authors young man who was once her baby, merry face puts even the weary power. If there is a lesson to be Rugby Section of the Navy, that only left for Singapore yesterday, where men like you and me, who have to Both husband and son are at the waiters in a better humour. Hespreads learned from the troublo so, far, as it one ground fand that one considered hea now stationed, by the 8.8. find food, clothing and home for a

Dilwara, his holiday having family of 5 or 6 on $1507 They are state and Finance Company.....on Mr. Humphreys of the Humphreys front, fighting for their King and his napkin across his roomy lap, and has gone, It is surely this that the unfit for league matches) would pro- country. So the young wife and the pretends to study the long list of heads of the workers are not so soft bably be available for Saturday expired.

having quite a hard time in making being asked if he company know old mother believe, and with reason. fancy foods, but he might as well be as their hearts, and that our country League fixtures. With Junior Clubs

both ends meet I assure you, and anything of the proposed letting of But on this particular day they are holding it upside down. All those is in no peril of Bolshevism. All springing up from all districts the

The new vandeville show (Empire there are many of them in Hongkong, houses at Kowloon to the military not fighting. They have done their items convey nothing definite to his that sort of talk, in which as pro- urovision of more suitable playing Entertainers) mentioned in yester. I can mention a scare of names right and bis company had not been ap share of it, God knows, and mind. It in food he is after, paganda Lloyd George participated, grounds should be considered. day's Chine Mail will be given in the off. Oh, it is a damnable shame, it all their comrades and officers know and

[prosched' by the military authorities. a steak and onions is

Dealing with the question of Club's Theatre Royal on Saturday night, makes a man want to swear is discounted by the restraint shown it too. Just now they

On ringing up Major Willett, who are food. He knows this all the while by the strikers. Even Reuter, men colours, the Secretaries of the various October 11. Booking has started at Several other men who were inter- does this business for the military, marching slowly towards what was A tankard of beer goes well with it, tions their excellent behaviour. But Clube are advised by the committee Mourie's. An advertisement will viewed by our representative spoke we were informed that this officer once a grove of trees. A chaplain and completes what the aesthete (if if the die hards in the Govern to get in touch with each other appear tomorrow. Some very special in a similar skin. They all appear. walks in front of them, reading from he could survey the layout without ment and in the Press had had their 30 as to avoid the selection of dancing is promised, with sharp ed to be in the last stage of despora was way from him on FOT WELLY

"The Lord gave, and the shuddering) would call a symphony way, an i persuaded the Premier, not similar colours:

ahooting, comedy sketches, etc,

GOVERNOR DEALING WITH tion R Lord bath talen away," he says in browns. There was nothing to yield, there would have been a

HOUSING PROBLEM. "I don't blame the Military, There are men with guns, who all much the matter with our man general sympathetic strike, and there not be given to an interpost match Brevet Colonel (Temporary Bried one, it's the Government. The Colonial Secretary in sim at these two, in the grove of the at the beginning of the feast would have been a revolution so die with Shanghai. The other branches radier Gen rai) CG Prichard, fault. Surely they are not bind. It formed China Mail reporter the Invisible modern fetich, and fire. The He was good enough to be trusted resing that it would have been of sport, he said, were being catered CMG D.SO. R.G.A who can I could have anticipated tasch, state morning that he had no information two young men die,

a to the "rumour. of the Military even then. Now that he has done difficult to distinguish it from for in this direction, and he did not manded the 88th. Co., RG.A., a few of affaire six months ago, surely Weary, dog weary, they had got justice" to the food, however, there Bolshevism. Then we should hawwant to see football left in the cold. years ago, has been awarded the they can. Why did they not take takover Houses in Kowloon- en a slow moving, go ds train to give is a change in him, bigger than he is cos, visite of The Mr. Wong of the South Chini American Distinguished Service Metai, prompt, mensures at least six months Asked if there was any development them a lift to their billet. Dog conscious of, and more than the ob spirit of the British people. Athletes spoke of the experiences of by the President of the United States. The is an urgent matter, in la conection with the Housing weary, they had fallen asleep, and server can perceive. Let 'em all by which apparently! Reutes means his side's visit to Marila and sald he a good many years ago this offices fact, it is cras that oennot be question, Mr. Fletcher said the been carried far past the place where enne (that's how he feels) and he the people of Kensington or the was certain his Association would was a popular Commandant of ire shelved. If everything else on as nor had an the papers on the they should have got off. They were will shock them. Isn't it wonderful tallers of Tobley Street, where the support the proposal of Training Hongkong Volunteer Corps. The wait, toe cartainly can't

subject and was engaged on i Barested, and charged with desertion what magic is concealed in a frag power was. A local poet, calling interport football on liace similar to older residene of the Colony will Sings writing a short article on urgently. This is very satia uctory in the face of the enemy.

ment of dead flesh, in a few inciner himself J. Scott Harston, to whom we those prower days.

remember him,

the mme subject on Friday last, wewe!

a book.

Mr. Mitchell asked if support could