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shipping people must be neutra), since their only interest is in bringing the globetrotter here and talding him away. It cannot matter to them how- He is, of course, labour-long he stays. We ought to be in ing under the common | favour of the proposal because it is cer- illusion that the ego is ↑ taln they would all buy China Mails, it

LOCAL AND OPIERAL.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Today's dollar is worth 4/5 woinding a BuxoFBAN SERGEANT. 7/164.

Today's retur, if communicable

The hearing of the case in which a Chinese named Tang Sang is. in-

of the Police with intent to murder:

proved by its apparent continuity only to send Home and prove to their disease shows one case of enteric acted for wounding Sergt. Lannon

during life. In fact he says so, în friends. In the States that, contrary this style, which is much more lucid' to common. American belief, there is than the rest of his contribulon such a thing as a live British paper. Mr. Fill as a icetus is dead and But that's the way we see it, and we buriedeln Mr. Hiil the infant and the cannot help it. They do raise prices Infant fedead and 'buried In the for local residents.

And they do schoolboy and so on to manhood. patronize us. 8o. Yes. I certainly Nevertheless the 'I am' in the midst think the buildings In Hongkong of all these lives and deaths is are fine. They are very fine, finer still the identical, self-same being." than any I've seen in the Orient. He is wrong there. It is not. Mr. But you should just see the main Hill the foetus had no desire to street in my home town of Bloggs- explain the riddle of the universe, to ville, Wis. For that sort of thing himself or to others. Mr. Hill the the present writer had to shoot one infant was too keen on the Drink to of them at Nikko years ago. We hid bother with such things. The ego the body behind the third pillar of of Mr. Hill the adult philosopher is that big temple just past the second not the ego of the Master Hill who clump "of bamboo. So far as we played marbles. The ego might know it was never found, and it almost be expressed in his successive doesn't matter now because we can ages, since it is at all times a pro-prove an alibi. But they are some. gressive gum. Think of the 'I am"¡ times awfully provoking. We've got as a sum, please. At 8 years of age mere of them here right now than Mr. Hill (or the sum) said 'I am," we know what to do with. and of 4 plus 4 he (or it) said, "That's me." The sum has grown since, but it is still the "I am" to itself. It could not be otherwise.

all we know.

and two of gastro-enteritis..

A GOOD HAUL OF OPIUM.

J

INGENIOUS DEVION IN

SMUGGLING.

Two men were charged, at the

Shanghai and North China arrived to prevent his lawful arrest: and Magistracy, yesterday, before Mr.

A mail from the US, Canada, with maliciously shooting with intent this moming by the 1.3. "Empress of with maliciously wounding Sergt... Lindsell with being in unlawful Lannon with intent to disable was possession of 4594 taels of opium Japan."

after several witnesses had been valued at $6,000:

Mr. A. E. Hall appeared for the heard, adjourned by the Chief Justice

defence. until this morning.

Commodore, Mrs. & Miss Gurner have come down from the Peak and taken up their residence on H.M.S.

Tamar."

The hearing was contrived this morning when Yue Fat, the keeper of an opium divan in Tatit Street, Samshuipo was called by the accused

Mr. R. O. Hutchison resumed his seat on the Bench this mornings witness. for the defence. at the Police Court as first Police magistrate.

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Replying to his Lordship this witness said he knew the accused He first made his acquaintance The opening cruise of the Royalten twenty days. before Hongkong Yacht Club will be held bis arrest. He used to come to witness to-morrow afternoon. Guests are divan to smoke opium,

By the accused: It was true that Invited for 3 o'clock.

on August 24 he slept all night in

The Hing Wah Paste Manufac-witness' divan. turing Co.'s new factory opposite the Bay View" Police Station will be formally opened to-morrow after

noon.

sary of the Emperor of Japan on On the occasion of the anniver- Friday, the Japanese Consul will be At Home" at the Hongkong Hotel from 5 to 7 p.m.

Mail is due to-day by the "Sur A Shanghai and North China

ang." while a mail from Japan is "Nikko Mara," expected by the s.s. which is also due in port to-day.

Mr. W. E. L. Shenton represent. ing the plaintiff in the recent Bernardo R. E. Lindsell at the Police Court Matrimonial Case, informed Mr.

By his Lordship: The accused did not leave the divan on the night in question. That was the only occa sion the accused slept in his divan..

on

August 25

when

out

was the

years a powerful antiseptic in the automatically to an end on January this morning that the parties had after 6 p.m., on August 24. Witness to the effect that the fish was being

it

agreed to a settlement.

too

sept:

Inspector Grant stated that on Saturday the Police received informa.. tion that the Sui Fich would be arriving in harbour with fifteen bales of salt-fsh.. The informer believed that three of the bales would contain a quanity of opium Witness sent Sergeant Stimson and a party of detectives to the vessel, and when they got there they found first defendant sitting in a boat by the side of the vessel with a delivery order-book in his band The bales of fish which the Police were looking for were being loaded into the junk. When this was completed the first Whatever

rogues like

defendant signed the bill of lading in DEFENCE Winston Churchill may

the presence of the Police, Sergeant CORPS, do, the local Government!

By Mr. Pollock: Witness fell Stimson examined one of the bales and may not quibble about When the duster of death wipes the the date when the period mentioned

asleep soon after 6 p.m., and did not found it contained a quantity of awake until 10 o'clock. He did not opium. The junk was then taken chalk off the board, there is no more in the Conscription Ordinance has

know what the accused did while he ashore, and the first defendant in 'I am." Mr. Leveson says there is, on arrived. some "higher plane" where they clusion of the present war

Six months from the con

was asleep. It is only 10 minutes formed the Police that the account- ought don't use arithmetic, and where (be surely to be six months from the day.

walk from his divan to the junctionant of a Chinese shop where he was of Bedford and Taipo Roads. When working had sent him to take de- Ltd defies you to prove the contrary) when we officially celebrated Peace, two plus two may make eleven, for for peace being the antithesis of war:

cused was still in the divan. He did Police to a house in Connaught witress awoke at 10 p.m., the aclivery of the fish. He conducted the the celebration of peace cannot but

not leave the place until 6 a.m., Road West and pointed The most striking be the celebration of the cessation of

he said the second defendant, who LIFE AS AN argument he makes war. It might have been argued

he was going to catch a train also arrested and taken to ANTISEPTIC. is this. "The physical that the war ended when the fighting

and return to the country. Witness Central Police Station. The second embodiment of life is stopped, but we don't join in that. its best test. For there is nothing Fair's fair, and if the Government

remembered that it was raining on defendant was evidently the man in charge of the firm, for he had the so prone to death or decomposition stands to its own acts, the official

the night of August 24. as our body, and yet life can main Peace celebration included, we'll be

accused come into the divan soon from Saigon was found in the safe keys with which the Police opened By his Lordship: He saw the the safe in the room. A telegram talr it healthy and fresh for 100 satisfied. That Ordinance comes

was then talking with some of the midst of a furious conflagration of 19th, 1920. But there is no good

other customers. The accused sat decomposition!" That thought reason why cur Defence Corps should

Mr. Hall failed to see how the persuades him that life is some not be more or less tacitly released R.AM.C. was the lucky winner of a laid down on a bench and smoked second defendant was concerned in

Sergeant Major H. J. Loder, down for a while and then went and thing separate from the body, before that. They've done more handsome Silver Cup presented by opium. Witness also smoked opium. the case. He was charged with and therefore capable of per than." their bit," and any attempt to Major D.L. Harding. D.S.O., R.AM.C. He saw the accused fall asleep and being in possession of the opium, sisting after decomposition. If squeeze more out of them will be for best revolver shooting at the soon afterwards he

is an independant something mean. Moreover, a considerable pro-

dozed but, according to Inspector Grant's called life which preserves the body portion of them will surely join the annual course. The Major is to be off. When he awoke at 10 pm, settlement, the only reason why he

was still asleep in was arrested was because he possess for 100 years, why does it not new volunteer organization that is commended for his thoughtfulness in the accused carry on? Why does it tire? If projected, while in their present mood supplying such an appropriate in-the same position as when he sawed keys which suited the safe in in the the 100th round death gives But if the Government by its attitudecentive to his men.

him at 6 p.m. Witness had two which a telegram was found relative benches in the divan, The accused to his despatch of the fish. Fic life the knock-out, why surmise that changes that mood, and gets them

fed up," they will not, and the new in connection with the Royal Naval was asleep. There were

The opening dance of the season may have left the divan while he asked his Worship to discharge the two defendant His Worship discharged organization will suffer. There is Quadrille Club took place at the Sea- three men all coolies in the divan the second defendant and remanded that for the Government to consider.

men's Institute on Tuesday last and besides witness and the accused wore the first defendant, until to-morrow. If we have not

despite the inclemency of the weather a suit of pongee silk when he visited When the Govern a very large gathering was present, the divan. Witness said be had no offended. Mr.

ment "takes over Music was supplied by Mrs. Tirmas fokis in the divan. The coolies who Leveson by our

AND SOMETHING land it usually at the piano and the duties of MC. must have seen the accused have ANSWERS TO method of decli-

FOR NOTHING. pays through the were ably carried out by Victualling already left the district. He supposes him.

ning his weekly

nose for it. It has Chief Petty Officer Langford. The After Sergt. Henderson. had de IRRELEVANCE. self to be answer-

contribution, with thanks, and our recently been established by law at President of the Club, Chief Writer posed to taking down the last wit pleasantries are not meant to be Home that, Dora or no Dera, the T. H. Smith welcomed all present on Dess's statement at the Samshuipo ing, if you please, offensive we would invite him to Government cannot take property for behalf of the club and explained the Police Station, the last witnesss was Mr. W. Hill's admirable and closely look about him, to bring his mind nothing. Is there any property more reason of the change of hall from recalled and in reply to Mr. Pollock reasoned little essay published in the back from the sublunary" plane" on valuable to a man than his time and previous years. The dancing floor said the other men in the divan were China Mail the other day. It is to which it is wandering, and see it he his liberty? We personally world was in splendid condition owing to earth coolies. us as though an abacus had pro- cannot use it to help us make every-Isee little objection to conscription if the untiring efforts of MAA. Beal asked him to find those coolies but You incur no responsibility thereby. founded a sum in arithmetic, and day life pleasanter and more pro- compensation accompanied it, be and the dance was quite a success, he told him he did not know where was being criticised by a bagpipes.fitable. Not that philosophy is barred cause after all it is a measure design It is hoped the succeeding ones will they were. He says the clay is dead to the tree that grows in it. The tree is dead it is better to have it handied at of society at large. But as it hits

2 subject, but that ed, rightly or wrongly, for the good be likewise.

Asked if he had anything to say to the insect creeping on it. The shorter length, in simpler, straighter only sections insect is dead to the singing bird in thoughts, by those who know some ought to be compensation our of of society, there the branches. And so on. That is a trick of debate which cannot pass. convinced us that he doesn't know approximate equality of sacrifice. thing about it. Mr. Leveson has our social resources in order to Unconsciousness is not death. More what the ego is. We would like to This idea was behind the Labour over, even the unconsciousness is not proven. When he says that challenge him to tell us, "What is talk about conscription of wealth,

my hair cut? I had ample time to The offence is a serious one. The a policeman? This is not one of and is quite sound, though their life and death became two separate those silly "catch" conundrums It methods

do so. The fact that I did nothing jury has found you guilty of shoot- and contrary entities only after the is a serious problem for students of might not be.

of conscripting wealth

Before Captain Taylour, M. this of the sort proved my innocence. Iting at the Sergeant with the intent What we maintain morring at the Marine Court, R. is a case of mistaken identity. I of preventing your arrest. This, Fall" we throw up our hands and sociology. After a reasonable in is that all soldiers surrendering their Jacob Nogueira, Master of the s.s. cry "Kamerad."

He is talking interval, we will ourselves submit an liberty and or risking their lives for The other day, moot- sime language we do not understand. answer, and prove that it is not a the good of society should be well ing passengers when no intimation crossed to Taipo in a launch to catch in the course of the performance of "Hoi Ping" was charged with carry 24 and on the following morning policeman is bound to be protected slept in the divan all night on Aug. as I have said, is very serious. A md proposal for a

Nur, we fear, does he. How can debating society in death (except by poetic imagery as

frivolous question, but one that paid for it. Here in Hongkong there was received at the Harbour Office, the train and return to the country. bis duty. I cannot conceive a more inchong, we pointed the Reaper) be spoken of as an capacity. The most igaorant coolie the Defence Corps, to say nothing the number of passengers carried on and a Sergeant came aboard the constable while in the course of proves or disproves a man's thinking is actually some doubt as to whether and with unlawfully misrepresenting The police launch came alongside serious offence than to shoot a that the "Puble Opinion entity"?

can tell the Government what he of the Police Reserves, should be his ship on his application to the launch I was in and asked me my executing his duty. The sentence of.. He says that the "for wants; but only the thinker is given a measly medal. It is out Harbour Master for a port clearance. name. I told him and be asked me the court is that you be imprisoned FORBIDDEN bidden fruit" in the entitled to tell the Government what rageous. A dozen medals per man,

Defendant pleaded guilty," Eden myth was what is expedient and right. And even with the O. B. E. thrown in as make

to follow him to his launch. I did so with hard labour for 10 years. we call Science; that he will tell it wrong.

Sergeant Parking stated that at and was taken to Samsbuipo Police before acquiring that our first parents

weight, wouldn't amount to com- 630 p.m. on the 10th, while he was Station where I was detained. I was 10.30 on Monday morning.

The session is adjourned until enjoyed only cosmic consciousness

'Once in a while pensation,

on duty in a launch, he stopped and later taken with other men to the (like a tree); and so he gradually

TO ENTICE

boarded the ship off Castle Peak Bay Hospital where that mas there

• somebody is sure

If Mr. Lloyd He found forty passengers on board, (Sergt. Lannon) pointed at me and

THE CHING E ISLAND NORBERY. approaches this perfectly splendi

GLOBETROTTERS. to ask us why we

Five Chinese were indicted for rob and unassailable postulate. We like

George honestly who were not mentioned in the clear- said something. Up to this time I bery with violence on Ching E Island* don't do more to

intends retrench- it so much that we are going to give

ENTRENCHMENT? ment, which is ance papers. Defendant told witness did not know what I was detained on August 29

that he did not know that there were for. It was after returning trom the

The Acting Attorney-General pro- duty of the ship's compradore to shooting the Sergeant. I deny that led as in the previous case. passengers on board. It was the hospital that I was charged with secuted. The same jury was empanel-

The facts of the case, as outlined

MUFFLERS.

SMART MILLINERY.

MARRIAGE,

SMITH-DENJEM St. John's

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Cathestral, on October 23, the Res, Copley 3boyle athelating. nor saith, at New York

Emil Bunje, pl Hongkong,

The Cir Mail.

TICTE, JUSTICE. PUBLIC SERVICS.

Hongrose, Friday, →er 24

ADVERSARIA.

NOT QUTÉH THE IPA

1919.

column of the China Mail was as good a forum as any debater could desire, and more frequently accessible than any vocal debate would be like- ly to be. A correspondent, Mr. C Leveson, seems to have regarded that as an offer of about two columns of our space every Saturday." The only thing he regrets is that whet he has to say on "After Death" and kindred subject, he feels it impos- sible to convey

"in a few lines or even columns." We all feel like that sometimes. The point is that in any properly organized debating society he would be obliged to limit his discourse to 3 certain length (there are others) "and to stick tc his subject. The only

correspondence columns is precisely

chairman, but for those they serve.

..

FRUIT."

it is not permanently knocked out? Why continue to call it the champion? The antiseptic argument is good for a century, but not for eternity,

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SHORT LETTERS ON EVERY DAY SUBJECTS.

persuade, why we don't do more to

it a paragram all to itself, thus: induce the Government to persuade,

What I mean to say is that life

9D. FOR 4D.

RETRENCHMENT OR

sorely necessary,

as now.

and those places. That increase of ministerial salaries)

MARINE COURT.

SHIP MASTER CHARGED.

A clerk of the Clearance Office

or

CORRESPONDENTS.

"War Tax."-We want to print

your letter, but we will not break the rule that requires all letters to be Insp. Gerrard had authenticated by name and address.

Why so shy?

DLS-We have no use for con fidential communications. We are a the accused said:-According to public newspaper. In any case, the the evidence given in court, the telephone is the last medium to use. Sergeant's assailant wore a dark for confidential disclosures. suit and had long hair. Had I

been the guilty person, could I

not have changed myclothing and got

I am the man.

said that defendant went to the office His Lordship then summed by the prosecution, were that six men twice in respect of the clearance of up in the course of which he told hired a sampan and went to Ching E the ship, and did not mention to him the jury that this was a very im- Island, telling the sampan people that portant case and one to which he they were going to do certain work

The case was remanded until

to

LTD.

INCREASE OF CAPITAL.

The men

the globetrotters to stay longer in there are very obvious directions in can never be absolutely non-life or Hongkong and so leave more of their which he can make a good start, lifelessness for the simple reason that money here. They have it all taped without long deliberations. He can, it is life."

out in their minds. Develop Hong-for instance, tell Winston Churchill to We are irrevocably convinced that kong as a tourist resort. Provide resign, and stop the expenditure on that is one of those perdurable and attractions, good accommodation and the Russian side show, which is true truths that have reverberated facilities, and advertize. Look what costing millions a month. He can through the minds of every, man, clever "boosters" Americans are sell all the departmental motor cars any passengers. interference an editor applies to his woman, and child for centuries, and Even now a New York hotel syndi and let our well paid ministers and sible that the summens should have attention. He reminded them that Island, four men went ashore and the His Honour said it was quite pos- hoped they would give their entire on a grave. When they reached the that the scoundrel who would deny it cate, co-operating with San Francisco generals pay for their own trans-been served on the owner of the the onus that which the chairman at a debate deserves the unanimous reprobation and Honolulu, has given the great portation, instead of,

of proof rests with two others remained in the boat, applies. This is necessary, not for of all decent society. But we really the Far East, and travel about for an army of red tape manipulators. Chester Doyle $20,000 to come to maintaining an army of chauffeurs

ship.

the Crowa. In every British pointing revolvers at the empan the convenience of the editor or the cannot afford a couple of columns In

Court of Justice, he told them, man and his wife to prevent then a prisoner is considered innocent from running away. the China Mail every Saturday to for a year, boosting for that He can (instead of proposing an morrow,

until he had been proved otherwise who had gone ashore robbed the How necessary such establish such propositions. It pute

by the prosecution who have to pro occupants of a house of a silver LOGORRHOEA, à functionary is in wouldn't be fair to our contributor is so. Give us $20,000 and send us make anali round reduction | HONGKONG ELECTR.C C0. duce evidence to prove to the satis- bangle and a quantity of cloth

the case of contri- Mr. Hill, who was content with over to the States and we'll make for the make of example. hutors like Mr. Leveson will now less than half a column, and who in such a noise there about the beauty They wouldn't starve on a thousand

faction of the jury that he is guilty.ing, worth about $30. One" of, appear, After a cotiple of sticks of that space did manage to say some Hotel Company will have to put up show good faith. He can-but whar's and charm of Hongkong that the a year, and such a reduction would

Personally, he did not think that them was seized by the occupants Sergt. Lannon will want to get the and tied up till the Police arrived. preliminary cackle" (a stick" thing cogent and clear, without

accused sent to jail if he were in The others got away, but four were being a compositor's tool which hyperbole, analogy, allegory, or de tents on the roof and hire the jail as the use? They don't mean what holds a convenient handful of lines pendence upon any folk-myth.

nocent. He must be pretty certain of arrested later on information gives an annexe for millionaires. We are they say, those fellows. They are of type) he proceeds:

At a meeting of the Directors of his man. However, it was up to them by the man who was first arrested. not against the proposition of making "on the make "quite as much, if not the Hongkong Electric Co Ltd., held (the jury) to balance the evidence During the The nearest Mr. Leve. Hongkong more attractive than it is more than some of the "profiteers" during the week, it was decided to and decide for themselves who they Attorney-General added a charge of proceedings, the HIS.

sou comes to making (and that's some) nor of advertising they have legislated against. If we shortly apply for power to increase would rather believe, the Sergeant or receiving stolen property against the POINT.

any sort of point lite attractions, But this is the way were privileged like Sir Edward the capital of the Company to the divan keeper. His Lordship then second prisoner at the suggestion of answer to Mr. He we look at it. ratiocinations is exhibited in the

Carson, we would be tempted to say $3,000,000, to capitalize the reserve dealt at length on the evidence of his Lordship. FIRST À Hongkong is primarily that the first step to retrenchment fund of $600,000 by issuing one both the prosecution and the de The jury brought in a verdict TRADE a trade emporium. By is entrenchment-meaning sanscu- bonus share for every old share, and fence, after which the jury retired of guilty of robbery with violence of that,

EMPORIUM and for trade it lives, lottes and barricades. But in that to issue a further 120,000 shares at for 20 minutes and returned with against four of the prisoners: The which is offered as mental states, but who can prove it from the "Songs of Kabir," but to us that the I am the means the Ita regular residents are in trade or sort of talk Carson has an officially $10 per share to Shareholders, leave a 4 to 4 verdict. His Lordship second prisoner was found not guilty we are offered nothing to show ego) cannot function on a higher hangers-on. Globetrotters would shove granted monopoly.

ing 60,000 shares to be issued at said that it was necessary for of robbery, but guilty of having jjs connection with the theme of life plane than that of the Tree of Know-up prices, and the regular resident

some fure date, should the neces them to be either. unanimous received property which he knew to and death. No doubt there is a con- ledge or Mind?" Mr. Leveson is as would be penalized without receiv

Bity arise. The new capital will be in their verdict or to bring in a 5 to be stolen. rfection in the mind of Mr. Leveson, bad a logician as Bentham was, when, in any corresponding benent. The CHAMBERLAIN'S FAIN BALM. required for the extension of the 12 verdict. After retiring for another determined to do its best to stop the His Lordship said the Court was but that is not enough. He must show by ever that these is no such thing as retail tradesmen as cater fer globe THERE is nothing so good for musca traordinary meetings for the purpose 5 to 2 verdict of guilty

Company's plant. The necessary ex five minutes the jury brought in a robberies now rife in the Colony. He other minds the connection. He covered that there is as trotting buyers are the only ones inust, anthe saying is, put it acroes

lar rheumatism, sprains, lameness will be called in due course. It is Addressing the prisoner his Lord sentenced four of the prisoners to and get at over. He doesn't even tell as lower than the hypothetical who would gain by an influx and cramps of the muscles brules and like not anticipated that the above issue ship said: After careful consideration four years labour each, and ten whether the swan, like. Balaam's plane" to be proved. Mr. Leveson prolonged stay of these people. The wise Chamberlain's Pain Bala will take place until the commence the jury has found you guilty. It is strokes with the "cat. The other

It will effect a cure loas time than ass, answered back.

does his despising with his mind, others, all the others, so far as we any other treatment. For sale by allment of the Company's next financial their, verdict, not mine. My duty prisoner received 12 months' hard

can see, would lose by them. The Ubomists and Storekeepers.

year, viz, 1st March, 1920.

is to give effect to that verdict labour.

Tell me O swan, your ancient

tale.

From what land do you come,

O swan?

following passage: Our life is

To what shore will you fly?

There are a dozen more lines made up of running and vanishing

a moral sense in man. Despising mind

Hotels, the restaurants, and such

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