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Here are the verses which the China Mail reporter failed to catoh.), at the wedding reception

republic. They have, according to were playing a lone hand. It will the news given out in Peking, sent not be any good for them to suppress agents to all the south-western pro- the China Mail (supposing they can) vinces to agitate in favour of such a unless they also suppress the public new republic and to get the people feeling that is behind it. We now to send petitions to the southern speak for the majority of the people, Parliament demanding this judging by the support we organization,

the will getting, of the people" is created, the Parlia-| ment will pass a bill ordering the establishment of a republic. Follow- ing this, so says the report, General. Tang Chiyao, Military Governor of Yunnan and Conqueror of Szechwan, and other military leaders will send in a joint telegram approving the action. Then a republic will be formed; a President elected and a Cabinet organized. Finally the recognition of the new government by the foreign Powers will be sought. Such is the plan under consideration by the South..

General Lu Yang-ting is believed-i to Kave been aiding the movement,

The Manchester Guar- dian is reluctant to VERACITY, call the London jour-

nalists deliberate liars.

It says "The trouble is rather more subtle than that. Its manifestations are more in the na- ture of the headline that puts a sensational or partisan colouring CD the news that it covers, in the sub

pression or minimising of facts that do not suit a given policy and the

OUR LOCAL POETS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL..

Today's dollar is worth 44 11/164.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1919;

די קר!

THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS. LATEST SHIPPING

A BIG CALENDAR.

NEWS.

ARRIVALS,

The September and October Crim There will be no issue of the Inal Sessions opened in the Supreme vernacular papers to-morrow, to-day Court this morning, with both Judges being Confucius' birthday. The city pitting. has a brave show of Chinese flags In cases on the calendar and no less Monkman) arrived from Canton thi There are altogether 15 The B. & S... "Shantung." (Capt honour of it.

than 28 accused persons--27 Chinese morning with no cargo. and I Indian. Fifteen Chinese are Messrs. Wiseman's are giving indicted for robbery, one for wound supposed to be spoken by the bride dances on Saturday next. Full parto maia, two for kidnapping, two from Swatow, with a cargo of ten.

on Saturday. They are another of their popular dinnering, one for assaulting with intent. Stewart) arrived yesterday evening The as. "Haitan" (Captain A. H. ticulars can be seen from our adver- for disobedience of orders of banish tisement columns.

ment and six Chinese and one Indian for murder.

Today's return of communicable disease shows a fatal case of puer

Peral fever. Is it quite correct to include this in the category of

communicable diseases?

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BEFORE THE PUISNE JUDGE. * tice Melbourne was that in which Eve The first case tried before Mr. Just Chinese-Man Wo. Tsang Wai, Tong

The N.. Y, K. 9.5. "Tamba Maru" (Capt. K. Itsuno) arrived this morn ing from Singapore with 584 tons of cargo..

and make play on the curious hame of the bridegroom, Mein-Austin, which it seems is pronounced "mean" or mien. Presumably they were perpetrated by Mr. Severn:

To-morrow, Austin, you'll be mein Far better or for worse, I mein; Let's hope the weather will be fain

The J.C.JL. "Tjibodas" (Captain Or better than it's lately bein..

Tak Piu, So Fat and Sin San-were J. van Buren Schele) arrived Mr. A. H. Hollingsworth has charged with robbery and with at yesterday from Kuchinotsu with In mutual love let us surmeise

been nominated a member of the tempting to wound one Lai Mok Chol 1,500 tons of coal. We shall the fields of rapture Board of Arbitrators in connection and her son, with intent to disable,

glein;

with the resumption of Section I of at Luk Chau, Lamma Island on July

The OSK. 5.9. "Soshu Maru" And may occasion ne'er areise Kowloon Inland Lot No. 107 and of!

9 last.

(Captain U. Toyata) arrived this For me to strike the happy Mein.Section D. of Kowloon Inland Lot

The prisoners pleaded not guilty" morning from Amoy with 40 tons No. 108.

The following composed the jury:of cargo and 51 bags of mails. Messrs. G. E.. Wton, C. Wallace, C. H. Csmuned, J. J. Lorreli, C. J. M.

The 8.5. "Sunning" B. & S. (Capt. ereira. C. F. de Carvao and D. B. W. Benson) arrived yesterday evening

secuted. The accused were unde- de Carvalho.

from Amoy with 220 tons of general The Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster pro-cargo, and 120 bags of mails. fended.

The 13. "Starley Dollar" (Capt. J. After outlining the case for the McClement) Robert Dollar & Co.. ments made by the prisoners at the with 444 tons of general cargo. Police Station. All five men therein

This morning's Daily DEFENCE. Fress backs up the

CORPS,"

China Mail handsomely

Defence Corps, and we are glad to in this matter of the see it. Our contemporary says that in their dual capacity civil and

far harder than the regular officers that the Defence Corps have worked stationed here, and that gratuitously. don't get some suitable recognition It will be a scandalous thing if they

The street, which commences

portion

between Nos, 456 and 472, Queen's of Inland Lot No. 854 connecting Road West, and traverses. Queen's Road West, with Clarence Street, and having a cul-de-sac term- Inland Lot No. 34, is to be known

Chun Sing Street."

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too ready acceptance and glorifica military usefulness, there is no doubt inating at the eastern boundary of prosecution, Counsel read the state-arrived this morning from Shanghai

tion of those that do. This is rear ly as neat as Winston Churchill's

Ltd phrase "terminological inexacti- tudes." But it doesn't cover the actual, fabricated lies. that have been published and sent out here. After all a man who tells lies is a liar, however respectable he may be.

AN

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as

The other fou:

DEPARTURES.

founds of the League will be made or kill. While the Arst defendant day evening from Singapore with Another effort on behalf of the ed that they went on board to rib (Captain Matsushita) arrived yester- admitted boarding the vessel but deni- The NYK. $.9. Toromi Maru" en November 1, when a grand vocal admitted firing two shots he denied 3,330 tons of cargo and mails from contemporary and instrumental concert is taking that he did so with the intent to London.. says there has place at the Theatre Royal Some wound or kill UNPARDONABLE been an unpardon-well-known Hongkong amateurs are denied that they fired revolvers or OVERSIGHT." able oversight in taking part, and the potted revuette that they had such weapons with

the Police Reserves list of honourable mentions. It says part of an attractive programme.

Chin-Chin, Hongkong" will form them at all. All five men were this oversight will strike immediately

agreed in one point only and that! every member of the European con- tingent..

Mr. J. J. Kino, of the firm of was that they asked the complainant

The B. & S... "Sunning" (Capt. European contingent will oblige es at present

If some member of the Messrs. Kino Bros, London, who is to take them out to seize some Benson) left to-day at 4 pm. for with the name of the gentlemaned the story of "the biggest diamond Some one fired two shots in order to Singapore, has conarm they took the boat away by force.

opiui. The woman refused and Canton. unpardonably overlooked, the China robbery that has ever taken place."

The Q. S. K. 99. Mail will cross the t's and dot the Diamonds to the value of £65,000 frighten the woman and her son,

Soshu Maru," i's of this reproach, and get the vanished mysteriously from the 3. I would tell the jury, when five men

Capt. Toyoto left at 2 p.m. to-day Counsel said that, as his Lordship for Canton with a general cargo. omission remedied. Who is it? s.s.. "Merkera" on the recent voyage board a boat in that fashion and between Londor and Colombo, and someone opens fire, it does not mat there is no clue as to the thief.

ter who it was that did the shoot sible if anyone ing, all fire were just as respon

Our heading to a letter

It is same time now since Reuter told us that Arthur QUEER. Henderson publicly claim

ed to have gone to Russia in 1917 with a mandate in his pocket to dismiss Sir George: Buchanan, the British Ambassador in Petrograd, and to take his job. worth $8,000 a year. We see the Home papers have been making quite a fuss about it, and that Mr. Fisher, Mr. Henderson's Unionist opponent at, Widnes. was challenging him about it. Mr. Henderson says he A SAD printed to-day, "Pain found that Sir George was a fit and SIDELIGHT. fully Unnecessary proper person for the job, so he left him undisturbed. Mr. Henderson by the reflection that such congratul Praise was prompted thereby shows his own unfitness. If ations provide a melancholy side-light he had orders to oust a man with on the poor repute in which Hong whom the Government was dissatis-kong journalism must have been fed, he should bave obeyed orders placed. For n erely saying publicly Sir George certainly left the Govern- what everybody was saying privately, ment in the dark as to what was they congratulate us. developing in Russia. But the chief newspapers supposed to be for, if Whatever are outery is against this novel method not to speak truth, in the interests frivolous Shanghai has a Quest of recalling an Ambassador, and the of justice and public service? So far gramme of investigation for the ponsible for it. The Mr. Fisher who

as we may do so without absolute Society. Here is its ambitious pro-Press wants to know who was res- was opposing Henderson at Widnes had changed his principles so often was. a New Zealand politician who

that he was nicknamed

the Rain bow Minister,"

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BIRTH.

BOLMES—A 18 Kanford Ter

zace, Kowloon, to Mr. and Mrs.

C. E. Holme, on October 19,

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MARRIAGES.

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IN AUSTIN-GORDON.-At St. Joseph's Church on Saturday, 18th October, Reginald Mein Antin, of Jding, Matheson & Co., Ltd., eldest son of Mr. J. J. Mein Austin and Mrs. Meia- Austin of Black Chichrie, Barr

hill, Ayrshire, to Miss Margaret Grant Gorlon, fourth daughter of Mr. A. G. Gordon and Mrs. Gonion of Hongkong. OWEN PERRIS-On October 11,

at Shanghai, Prunes

Owen.

Alice,

PASSIKIDES BARBOR, On October 11. at Shanghai, Chris- topher John Puikides of Shang-. hai, to May Louisa Barbor, of Dublin (Ireland).

The Chia Mail.

TROUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."

HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCT. 20, 1919,

ADVERSARIA.

season just opening!

possible?

Race Frejudice: Is Internationalist Sex Prejudice; Can woman be the economic and political equal of man?

Class prejudice; Can all men be

economic equals? Wealth; Can power be distributed in

proportion to social service? Democracy: How can the people

obtain honest, wise and efficient governors?

Socialism: Should the State own and manage essential industries.?

Personality: Do the few always rule

the many?

Eugenics; Can the race be improved

by selection ?

sity for the safety of society?

TWO

The China Mail's solution of the Chinese deadlock.

Senator Lodge in

suicide (for the interests against us are powerful) we mean to gan Let the public watch as, and watch being quite candid and outspoken. how we are treated for trying to serve

them faithfully.

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CRICKET.

YORKSHIRE THE CHAMPIONS.

Middlesex

wounded. Counsel also said that WIS killed От

(Capt. Itsuno) is leaving at 4 p.m. The N. Y. K. 3.s. "Tamba Maru'

to-day for Yokohama via Shanghai with 200 tons of general cargo.

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H.M. the King has not been allowance with respect to the Orhis case would be that all five Shing" left at 2 p.m. today for advised to exercise his power of dis dance to amend the law relating to accused had revolvers and these were Tientsin with 900 tons of general The J. M. & Co. s.s. "Cheong. the registration of births and deaths; thrown overboard when they sighted cargo, and 1 European passenger. the Ordinance to amend the Arms the Police. and Ammunition Ordinance, 1930; and the Ordinance to make provision mination of the present war and for for determining the date of the tee- purposes connected therewith.

MAILS DUE.

The following mails are due in the course of the next few days:-

From Shanghai and North China,

per 3.5. "Sunning," Oct: 20. Maru" and ss. "Gregory," Oct. 20,

From the Straits per ss "Tosan in the From the United States, Canada

the witness box and said in reply to" Lai Mok Choi was then put into,

about 11 o'clock, she and her family council that on the night of July 9 at were asleep in their fishing boat at of plants for sale by the Botanical revolvers came aboard and ransacked Saturday's Gazette contains a list defendants who were armed with Aplichau (near Aberdeen) when the

and Forestry Dept. This will be of the boat stealing a jade bangle and former years the sale of plants was boat tried to raise an alarm and the and the Philippine Islands, per 5. interest.to our local gardeners. In some clothing. Someone a part of the regular business of the prisoners opened fire. Both witness "Empress of Japan," Oct. 22. Botanical Department, but in recent and her son were shot at. Her son years owing to increase of work and in his fright jumped overboard and shortage of staff the practice has swam ashore and gave the alarm. fallen into abeyance. We understand in the meantime the prisoners rowed its resuscitation has been brought the boat in the direction of Lamma about at the instance of the Hert Island where the Police launch met cultural Society.

them and arrested all the prisoners.

The case is proceeding. BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE.

DUTCH USE THREATS.

2.

RETURN FROM BANISHMENT.

now serve

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[Translated for the China Mall from the Wah Tea Yet Po.]

SHANGHAI, Oct. 19 Ng Pui Foo, northern troops, wired the GovETE- commander of

ment that the recall of Wong Yap Northern commanders are ordered to take defensive measures, but discreetly, so as not to precipitate

Of the customs surplus, half will kept for departmental expenses.

There is a rumour that a southera "squadron" has entered Amoy. The Hunan Tuchun is also said to have fled.

TYPHOON WARNING.

We were talking about! EVENING men dressing for dinner.

DRESS. A logically minded) not? It is just as easy to put on friend said: "Why after the evening bath as the other clothes." The reply was that it wasn't as comfortable when on. A over and Yorkshire have won.

The race for the championship-is

Wanchai Road which is usually quiet, was noisy in the small hourS stiff shirt. said, "I don't wear a stiff shirt. I percentage of less than four points. blowing of police whistles. It appears "Ah. but," he On figures Kent were beaten by a of this morning with the continuouĘ always wear a soft one." Well, that's On facts they were beaten by half an the thin end of the wedge that is hour. With a little more time at No.-171, ground floor. The inmates, that a burglar was found in house going to oust conventionality in their disposal they youngest daughter of Me and Religion; 1: dogmatic belief a necesfavour of comfort. It isn't conven- defeated

must have a lady and her amah raised the

The Chief Justice had before him Mrs. F. Fers, to William Science: What social theories are Home a lot more sensible about this ahead of Yorkshire. But the patience He escaped through the back door charged with unlawfully returning Tong would quiet Husan province..

at. Lord's alarm, Willing helpers turned out tional. The war made men at and by that victory have drawn but found that the bird had flown.

a Chinese named Leong So who was The Middle Class; Should commercial never felt the war much. It was aggression of Mr. S. H. Saville came

confirmed by scientific research? convention, but in Hongkong we of Mr. F. T. Mann and the confident and disappeared up the hillside.

from banishment after having been and professional men unite to more or less an outside happening. just in time to save the game for

sent away from Hongkong for life. The accused pleaded "guilty.". defend their interests? The Stock Exchange; la gambling themselves look ke butlers and ship for Yorkshire.

Why men should be so keen to make Middlesex and to save the champion-

The Hon. Mr. Pollock, K.C. (At-trouble. in shares a danger to society?

torney-General)" said the prisoner General Chu Shu Tsang goes to waiters is not easy to guess. Correct All proved for the best in this most

had been banished five times and Urga to study the Education; What should the people evening dress always makes a beefy eccentric of championship competi

had returned every

Mongolian lime.. be taught for their own welfare? faced, abdominal man look more tions. Had Kent snatched a win "in ANGRY BELGIAN DELEGATES, for life but was back in Hongkong go towards paying troops and baff

On situation the last occasion, he was banished The Mob Mind; Can the people think beefy and more abdominal than ever. the last hour of act" Yorkshire would

collectively?

If clean clothes is the idea, what's have deserved every commiseration.

before very many months had passed, War; Does war settle anything? China; What is the immediate future pyjamas?

the matter with a clean suit of For the northern team had been pre-

He bad served several terms of im- The Belgian-Dutch Commission, prisonment in Hongkong for robbery of the Far East?

vented by rain from beginning their which was to solve the vexed ques and returning from banishment match with Hampshire until late, tion of Belgian rights to cut a canal! whereas Kent had made

Addressing the accused, this Lord. "good

through Dutch Limburg and build ship said that the Police considered Start against Middlesex. THE YELLOW the American Senate position was peculiar two teams prevent another surprise attack on him banished several times but The such fortifications on the frontier to him an undesirable character and had CHINAS. namely, two independent

PERIL. was provided by playing in different parts of the coun- Liege, has made no progress. The e republics, north and south, has gained excellent weapona with which to championship battle with each other. Holland to seek further instructions a long term of imprisonment

Providence with try engaged in a tight, exciting Dutch delegates have returned to back. He

bad persisted in coming adherents ameng the southerners.

would The present position seems to be President Wilson. The Japanese are is not always the best evidence of play the political game against

A championship point percentage from their Government. that Canton in the Ulster and Peking their

years. His Lordship said that. The Belgian delegates, in violent after that term, he would certainly the thinkers now dealing with the that sath stretchid end. Mare Yorkshire have deserved their success of the Commission dealing with the returned again stronger measures Irish question seem to regard the against them would offend. More-It is true that Yorkshire lost three revision of their frontiers, decided to cope with them. There is supposed separation of Ulster as indispensable claims in respect of Shantung was but since Yorkshire played 26 games ment the French Foreign Office was over, the prima facie value of China's matches while Kent lost only one; retur. to Brussels. At the last mo one case a dealer had been found The Cantonese will never be content good enough to secure sentimental against Kent's 14, the former experi able to dissuade them from withdraw charged with returning from banish Ladrone cr Mariana Islands moving

ANOTHER BANISHEE. Wong Cheng Fook who is also There was therefore no enced far more of the wear and tearing, pending a report from the Dutchment, claimed that he was born in Hongkong car owners may fancying cannot think of permitting Can. need for Senator Lodge to resurrect and "the gins and pitfalls" of coma Minister in London.

the Yellow Peril bogie, and prophesy that Japan would ultimately

Hongkong and use rivals.

This report accuses the Belgians of British subject.

therefore a the manpower of China as military island that has the port of Honolulu, seems to be the likeliest solution: China will be writing Home now to Champions; but for all its want of land will not grant any territorial con- order to ascertain the truth of the stabbed two of the fokls who bad.

constantly violating Dutch rights on material. American residents in

ате not spectacular

the Scheldt. It points out that Hol the Secretary' for Chinese Affairs in His Lordship referred the case to

stolen. It was found eventually that negotiation, that promises to be the say how silly that was. The word saving grace of utihty. It has had will never permit the Scheldt to be f

sparkle their batting has had the cassions to Belgium, and that she accused's statement. an enterprising Japanese was dis-outcome, unless some at present"definite date" he claims as a right termination to carry the side round cause the present frontiers are the ultimately" does not give us that the soundness and the dour de come the Dutch-Belgian frontier, be-

attempted to give the alarm. Half sembling them and doing quite a unexpected development occur.

ROBBERY IN A RESTAURANT. an hour after the robbery, Sergeant big trade in parts and fittings.

from the Japanese, but it serves to an awkward correr. But it has been outcome of the historic development in which a Chinese named Leang Sur Road acting in a suspicious manner The next case called was that Cooper saw the accused in Hollywood Millard's Review on always say, as Japan says of Shan-Yorkshire most formidable and most

He can their out cricket that bas made of Holland'a positive right. It is narrated of THE SOUTHERN Oct. 11 said that tung, that he didn't say when.

was charged with committing rub and arrested him. When searched, TRANSLATION Bshep Stubbs, our REPUBLIC. recent reports from

admirable. Bowlers of all types ex-Holland replies that any attempt on Restaurant No. 15 Des Voeux Road, socks

In answer to the Belgian demands,bery with violence at the Wa Yuen a pair of blood stai ed Governor's father,

Canton revealed pre-..

cept the very fast and fielding full of

was found in his that when he got an Irish rise," a fparations for a Southern Republic,

Long ago the Premier, life and dash by such have they the part of Belgium to enforce the together with others not in custody on coat pocket. promotion that left him worse off They state that after the arrival of SOMETHING before he quarrelled chiefly won their matches. But the garded as a ground for war. Ex. and clothing, and stabbing two of stolen from the restaurant at the proposed new boundaries will be re- September 2, stealing $710 in money He was wearing a suit of clothes financially, he made a conundrum. General Lu Yungting, Inspecting He asked "Why am I ke Homer?" Commissioner of Kwangtung and:

with the Times, told team have had something more than

the restaurant fokis, change. his parliamentary colle skill in batting and bowling; they

time of his arrest and when these He also supplied the answer: Kwangsi, at Lungchow, where a REALIZE.

Because I suffer from translätiun," conference of Kwangs leaders is

agues that it was a have had the true championship

The Attorney general said that the were removed, he was found to be prisoner and several others, armed wearing another sult underneath complete fallacy to temperamenta sturdy faith in being held, Directors Tsen Chun-imagine that a rewspaper could themselves when the outlook has

with revolvers and knives, entered and these had blood stains on them. No life is full that is bsun and Wu Ting-fanz of the ap. work ub an effective agitation unless been dark, courage at a crisis.

the restaurant at closing hour on From information received from the not ever questing, with position government have formulared i there was strong public feeling behind

WHY lot the chil ren rak their little Septer her 2 and after threatening to restaurant prople later, the accused Yorkshire have now won the mind avid for fresh a scheme for the recrganization of it This hint reeds to be taken championship ten times. Their first ner when vua ran so buily emra thir ransack the house and made a the robbers.

hodie in suche istresing mag kill the mmates if they made a noise, was paraded and identifie 3 as one of data. It is pleasant (and somehow the Canton military government and locally, where some people ae in BUCCPSS was in 1893, their last elda with 's bestle of Chamberlain's

surprising) to End that for the establishment of a southern clined to talk as if the China Mai, previous to this year in 1912.- Conch Homerly For mie by a baul of $710 in thoney and some Evidence was then lei and the

clothing. Before leaving. they case is proceeding.

Motor thieves at MOTOR THIEVES. Home are.

rivalling

Dow

The telegram quoted below was

· American prototypes in daring. The the, Sinn Fein headquarters, and all not so popular in the United States form, but most people will agree that dispute with the Dutch at a sitting again be banished for life and if he received at the US. Consulate from

Home police have had to

ormed patrols of motorcyclists to

to be a special gang at work. In

to any settlement. So with China"

paying £50 apicue for stolen cars.

to be dragooned by the north. Pek

support.

small island.

4,000 irreconcilability are aroused So did the

and motorists on Ouhu, the small Pacific perpetuated. Division on ractat lines

until there was quite a series of cars Whether by war or by peaceful

QUESTING.

rather

W

gave the Senator's face.

THEY

SHOULD

Yorkshire

CHILDREN'S COLDS.

Chemists and Storekeeg

will have to be taken.

was

October 19.

the Manila Observatory at 7 pm.

Typhoon 110deg. Long. E. 16deg." Lat N. moving W.

Typhoon near er over the Northern

NNW.

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