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A.S. WATSON & CO. L'D.,

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AND China.

man than with the one she leaving.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

was part of a propaganda for other pur poses. You have been told repeatedly Passengers have been that the Bolsheviks have German HORRID much annoyed and officers in their pay. It may be true.

Today's return of communicable JAPANESE have complained great. It is also true that Denikin is employ disease shows one case of gastro- PRACTICE. ly about a practice at Ing German officers, but the pro-enteritis. Japanese ports of mak-pagandist does not dwell on that. ing tests for cholera. As the Japan | Now do you know where you are?

Mr. F. C Jenkin, C. B. E Is

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1919

HONGKONG DEFENCE

CORPS.

A TEAM FOR THE RIFLE LEAQUE

V

Chronicle says, it would be false If you do, you're clever. We don't, returning to the Colony on the 3-ters, last evening, a meeting was

NATHAN ROAD-

NOT A PLAY.

GROUND,

a

Dilwara" about the 16th inst.

At the Defence Corps headquar

held to discuss the formation of a

INTERESTING ARMS PROSECUTION.

|CLEVER BUT UNSUCCESSFUL DEFENCE.

1

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at The

team to represent the Corps in the Magistracy this morning, a Chinese, coming Rifle League matches. Major was charged with the unlawful pos- Y. H. Wakeman presided and Cap-session of a revolver and 200 rounds tain G. E. Stewart acted as Hon. of ammunition. Secretary.

Mr. Leo. d'Almada appeared for The following were elected to the defence, and pleaded "not guilty."

them.

THAT HONGKONG

SENSATION.

A KOBE COMMENT,

the ammunition enclosed in bores.. He had defendant arrested and brought him to the station.

Mr. d'Almada:-Did you know that defendant arrived in the Colony only a few days ago by the ss.

Nanking "?

delicacy to pass over the disgusting and we resent being at the mercy and unscientific method of demanding of such unscrupulous fiars. samples of excreta for analysis. It We have been told over and over

Mr. J. H. Congdon of the Vacuum would be false delicacy to pass over again by Reuter recently that the Oil Company is reported to be leaving one very good reason why it is Bolsheviks are almost defeated. We Hongkong for South Africa about

unscientific" of which our Kobe will not be a bit surprised to learn January next. contemporary may not have heard. later on that it is the other way We have heard one passenger boast about. We have a strong suspicion

An extraordinar" general meet. that, as it was inconvenient to supply now that the anti-Bolshevik campaigning of the Royal Hongkong Yacht make the necessary arrangements — what was asked, he borrowed from is no torrader." If it was worth Club takes place this evening at Hon. Secretary: Cpl. Lyons (sub- A Chinese constable said that at a fellow passenger the sample neces-undertaking, it should not have been North Point at 5.

ject to the Pte. Jenkins not wishing 4.45 p.m. yesterday, while he was on sary to permit his going ashore. so bungled. Winston Churchill is an

to serve); Committee: Cpl. Grimes search duty on board the s.s.. "Son- Kowloon parents CXPEDsive ret. C. M. G. Churchill The Chief Justice, Sir William and Sergeant Frith: Representatives ning." lying on the Hau Tak wharf, are earnestly re must go.

Rees-Davies, will be leaving for Home on the League: Cpl. Grimes and quested to assist.

Considerable inter-in May. Mr. Justice Gomperts will Pie. Jenkins or substitute. Ammunt the defendant's luggage was search- the Police with

ADVERTISING, est was shown in act as Chief Justice, and Mr. J. Rtion for competitions will be provided ed. The key to open the first box was regard to traffic.

Reuter Wood, who is returning soon will act free by the Corps. For practices handed him by defendant's friend, recent regulations, by not allowing their telegram that mentioned Rider Hag-as Puisne Judge.

ammunition will be sold at the re-and defendant produced a key to children to play in Nathan Road and gard's anxiety about the future

duced price of $3 per 100 rounds. other of the more frequented continuance of the white race, and The Police have succeeded in Those desiring to practise are invited open the second box himself. After thoroughfares, but to keep to side his rather bald argument in favour bringing the ricsha coolies outside to attend King's Park Range on emptying one box, witness suspected streats. This is a matter to which, of babies before "morals." With the the Star Ferry wharf, Kowloon, to Monday morning, wher instruction a false bottom, and he broke open a we think, the parents should give world in its present state, and great beel. We now draw the attention who possess apertures will bring part of the bottom, and discovered.

will be given. It is hoped that those special attention. As a certain police events happening about which we of the officials to the chair coolles at official remarked to us, some day ought to be told more, such the foot of Garden Road.. there will be a bad accident and then messages are an insult to our in- the cry will be "where were the telligence. We publish three short Over 1,000 profiteering com- Police "

clippings to-day, taken at randommittees have been established, says a Mctor traffic especially is increasing from the latest Home papers London wire of September 25. Many in volume every month, particularly without exhausting the supply, to persons complain that there is no on Nathan Road and the prevention show that Haggard needn't work to do. The public are so used of the use of this public way as a worry about the baby supply. We to being overcharged that they do skating rink and general playground have been tragic enough about the not realise the possiblities of the is surely more a matter for parents, girls who had babies when they Act, or are too lazy to report cases than the police, to deal with. Arthe shouldn't but we decline to be of profiteering. Nevertheless, prices,

The Japan Chronicle of Oct.. 14 had same time we are of the opinion that tragic about those who don't when especially of boots and clothing, are this Ltd the police must take the respon they should. As a matter of strong dezeasing. The increase of 5 in

sibility for allowing motorists to use probability, Rider Haggard wasn't coal is affecting prices in many trades. preaching at Hongkong Cathedral He did not say a word about it.

The Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle, entrusted to him by Lam Tak Kit?—. Nathan Road as a race track. We see really worrying. It was an advertise- Some gas companies are increasing recently, made the starthing assertion every day; cars, and motor cycles ment, as in the case of Conan Doyle the price 1.6 per 1,000 ft. The that he knew a man in Hongkong rame of Lam Tak Kit, fastened to Did you see the cloth tag with the going down Nathan Road af a speed and the spirits. These fellows, no South Metropolitan Gas Company who regularly communicated with of from anything between 25 to 40 longer "best sellers," have to per states that the 6 increase raises his wife in England by means of the box?-Yes, but defendant didn't miles an hour. This should be form these tricks to get the limelight their coal bill by £340,000 annually. telepathy. He could convey news to mention anything about it. stopped. It must however, be said they yearn for. that the principal offenders,aze

:her and inform her of his wishes and The confusion in the British could tell where she was and what knowledge that the box contained And didn't he say that he had no This is the anniversary Chinese chauffeurs, so far as cars

day of Guy Fawkes. Pensions Office seems still to obtain. she was doing. If the statement are concerved.

FAWKES whese alias was John An officer connected with a Govern had been made at a public meeting the ammunition ?-No. The new Japanese

Johnstone. It is difficult ment Department dealing with solno doubt someone would have. to find out anything diers' pensions is reported in a London called out "Name," but unfortunately munition you brought him to the newspaper publish-

about him now. He seems to be paper to have received the following the circumstances prevented any. ed in English at

out of fashion. Our reference books letter: SirMy wife perhaps it such demand. But really the Hong- Tientsin

station?-Yes. is still being gratuitously are silent concerning bin. All we would be more correct to say widow kong gentieman who has such

Inspector Brazil deposed to being distributed in Hongkong and Macao. can recall of his history is that be It disclaims any official or propaganda Parliament. We deduce from this conspired to blow up the British uses, but that is altogether too thin that he was a great and good man, Are the Japanese journalists simple enough to suppose that the foreigners and a true patriot. We wish he were or English-reading public, will prefer

alive to-day.. to read English as they write it, to say rothing of the facts as they chose to present them? Even as propaganda they are useless, because they are usually so badly done. Here is a specimen of Japanese 3/168. journalistic English:

Powell

TELEPHONE 346

JUST ARRIVED

WINTER COATS

AND

COSTUMES.

JAEGER JERSEYS

AND

MUFFLERS.

SMART MILLINERY,

A PROPAGANDA PAPER.

ERADICATION OF FEEBLE IDEA.

GUY

DAY.

Witness-I don't know. Did he tell you that?--No. Did he tell you that the box was

Immediately you found the am-

much regrats that she cannot give powers should come forward in the on duty at 6.45 p.. yesterday in the name of cemetery in which it is such powers those having them in by the last witness with the box. He you either number of my grave or interests of science. If there exist Charge Room. Defendant was brought situated. My body, was claimed by should certainly not conceal them, if asked defendant whether the box was. my wife immediately I returned to only to dissipate the feeling that his and be said "Yes." He asked. this country. I should be pleased if information of this kind is always whether the box contained any arms you would kindly confirm oficially second hand. In all statements as to and ammunition, and defendant said what you imply, in order that my necromantic powers the information "No." He saw the ammunition wife may claim widow's pension comes from somebody who knows enclosed in bores in some pieces of LOCAL AND GENERAL

Also I am anxious to know, whether someone else who is acquainted with boards, and a revolver was also To-day's dollar is worth 4/6 tion for having represented myself them. Mr. Moyle is happy in actuallydant.

1, being dead, am liable to prosecu some other person who possesses found. He then charged the defen- as living, in order to claim partial knowing the telepathist and it should disability pension at present draw be easy for him to persuade him to by me.Yours in the Spirit (of jest). come forward and let his powers be rested. If the gentleman can explain Sir John Simon was about to how he does it, it would greatly assist bring a test case against the British in the revival of trade. Government in regard to the legality of the embargoes on imports when the list was suddenly cut down to

K

There will be a "Tea Dance"

In Apri last week idea was verified 21 Wiseman's, to-morrow afternoon. evidently of its intricacy in the view

The Ching Mail far as the bad cases are concerned, of markets and was was eradicated

TACJI, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE.

ADVERSARIA.

...

:

MANCHESTER WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

Messrs. James F. Hutton and Company Limited, Manchester, report on September 24:

Mr. d'Almada: You knew the man had ammunition in his trunk?

Inspector Brazil —Yes.

arrested the defendant for that You knew that the constable had

reason. Do you think it was fair to put the question to him Perfectly

fair..

་

You didn't caution bim ?--No. And you didn't take down any statement? No, I didn't think it was necessary.

You may think it was not necessary but I do.

Mr. H. A. Nisbet Registrar of slavery" hardly comes in at all. from its root in July last. Since the Supreme Court is going Home on Poor girls will always be the then still many who embraced weak are about November-27. prey of rich men, whatever their idea in view of dull export, value race; and immoral men cannot be point and fall in the price of Cotton

The K C. C. extraordinary sixteen items. Even these, however, HONGKONA, WEDNESDAY, No. 3, 1919. towarted by abolishing technical were existing, especially among those general meeting takes place this are still open to objections from the slavery and ignoring the actual. who had been active since Spring evening at 6 o'clock in the Club point of view of legality and Sir Wide publicity in Chinese, so that last, some were converted into the House.

John, who was in Spain, announced every girl should know she is free, weak after July last, nevertheless,

that he would still endeavour to and has only to speak to the nearest these weak-sighted were almost policeman to prove it, might do defeated by the influence of strong damaged goods per the s

Consignees are reminded that make them a test case. The latest papers, to hand announce tha: Sir West Meanwhile, we will thank and stubborn market turned out in Hartland It is whispered that the good.

Mr. d'Almada said that his client will be examined to

John found it impracticable, owing

had been in the States for twenty- HOUSING last word has not been any China Mail reader for any Sept... In conclusion, the weak morrow at 10 a.m.

to none of the sixteen articles being Cotton prices have been very firm three years.. He was returning PROBLEM. said about the Govern- Fracticable suggestions. Academi-sighted idealist in the light of value,

among the exports of Spain. The during the past week. New York to his native country, and while slavery ment plans to cope with cally, there is

among cost and dull export are considered the housing problem. The hotel at ourselves just as much as among the to have been brought to their graves Cairo" (C type) newly built for however, and has received influential news of heavy rains in the South with a box to be brought back to his The light cruiser H. M. S. Anti-Embargo League formed by Mr. was adversely affected by the threa about to leave America, he was

Hirst is still continuing its work, tened strike of steel workers but entrusted Kowloon is not to be the limit of Chinese. It is only lately that wives breathing their last breath in conse the China Station is now, going accessions to its strength. It is hoped west

by Lam Tak Kit Government enterprise. So far as were emancipated, and if you turn quence of the demand condition of through her trials.

states, with a consequent family, in the country. He was not up Herbert Spencer's "Social Statics," this month..

that it will soon be able to bring a delaying of picking and a probable aware of the fact that ammunition test case, especially as there is some further reduction in the grade, caused was secreted in the box. It was sot reason to believe tha: licences to a very strong market and a rise of right for the man to be charged import the sixteen embargoed com-150 points for Spot cotton on "the under the section of the ordinance modities are being given away to 22nd inst, followed by a further for being in unlawful possession. favoured profiteers.

advance of 40 points yesterday. The defendant was called to the These advances have of course been box and examined by Mr. d'Almada. passed on to Liverpool. Messrs. Mr. d'Almada: You were engaged Neill Brothers have issued a circular in the cancery trade in the states which practically confirms their pre- Defendant-Yes. vious estimate of the hidden surplus

the money available will go, there are

to be cottages also. This is pleasant hearing, but time is still an important factor. The sweet by and by may be very nice, but the next Christmas dinner cannot appease

hunger.

the chapter on "Rights of Children,"

you will find slavery correctly defined there. Let us attack evil wherever.

A passenger from Amongst Government officials PROFITEERING? Japan passing shortly to go on leave are Mr. H. A.

through Hong-Nisbet. Registrar, the

Hon. Mr.

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

we see it, even though it be respec- kong wrote back about what he Claud Severn. C.M.G. and possibly to-day's tably named, and, let us avoid those believed to be profiteering here. In Mr. Justice Melbourne.

people who make of mere names and one item (though we are told locally. cries Pied Pipers to entice as astray. it is not profiteering) his allegation On the outskirts of Philadelphia "Fairplay" of recalled for us that touching revivalist is an admirable stock farm. One day HINTS TO TOURISTS. Canton says: hymn about the glories of Heaven. last summer some poor children were Canton City is The half has never been to-o-old." permitted to go over this farm, and

The passenger wrote: "Sevenpenny when their inspection was done, to By Arrangement with the Wah Tze of cotton in America on July 31, the editions of books are sold in Hong- each of them was given a glass of kong at 60 sen or about 1s. 6d." As milk. The milk was excellent.

Defending the rum A TRENCH ration to the Vicar, ANECDOTE.. the returned soldier explained that Dutch

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we recently paid 80 cents. (or about "Well, boys, how do you like it?" 35. 4d.) for the same thing, we would the farmer said, when they had rather like to know where the sixty drained their glasses. Fine," said sen bookshop is.

one little fellow. Then after a pause, he added, "I wish our milkman kept

a cow."

Yet Fo.]

SHANGHAI, Nov. 4.

figures now being 6,610,000 Bales. Their deduction is that quite a moderate crop will thus meet con- ed to act in conjunction towards a though trading increases a good deal North and South have been persuad-sumption for the year 1919/20, even

question. settlement of the Macao boundary more rapidly than seems likely at

And you arrived here by the "Nanking? Yes.

With your trunk and some other trunks I had only one box and the other belonged to Lam.

control at the time?--Yes.

The latter one.. was under your

In

courage is not a mere trick of the worth seeing and so are the shops imagination. When one stands ankle with their beautiful silk embroideries, deep in cold wet slime, just in the iveries, jade stone, curios, and etc., small hours of the morning, just but it is not advisable to buy any when one's vitality is at its lowest thing for you will be stuck up with ebb, waiting for the signal to go over the high price charged by various the top, the rum ration is a very real shops, as they have to give 15 to 50

And you were also entrusted by bracer. In our trench the lads tamed per cent, commission to the guides.

present: this has however had nosome friends with some money ?---- You should believe

American- guards at the Ching effect on prices. The upward move-Yes. a mouse. It was a very intelligent So it is advisable to go on sightseeing pet. If we said "Cat" it disappeared and not shopping. Guides get com-

HOW THE hardly anything you

Yung gate, Peking, who have acted ment in the raw material has been PUBLIC IS see in the papers nowa-

You got a memo containing the there ever since the Boxer trouble, reflected to some extent in yarn list of monies to be delivered? Yea at once. Ore night we soaked some mission as follows: Silk embroideries crumbs in rum and fed it. When he 15 per cent, porcelain and ivories 15

DECEIVED, days. Even "official"

The Chinese always had a keen were withdrawn on Nov. 1. Chinese prices which although, irregular are announcements are sense of humour, When a boycott is soldiers took their place.

And you were to hand the box to had finished, our mouse sat up like per cent. jade stone and curios 25 sometimes lies. You have probably started against Japanese goods it

generally dearer than a week ago. Lam Tak Wu-Yes. a squirrel, wiped his whiskers, look per cent, old er broidery 25 per cent. forgotten the denial made in Parlia-only causes diplomatic trouble. The are still proceeding. They are making rather firmer. In neither yarn nor revolver and ammunition?--I didn't Negotiations with the Mongolians Cloth prices remain fairly steady and Did you know that it contained a ed round, and asked: "Now, where's king fisher jewellery 50 per cent.

ment concerning the blockade of nearest Japanese consul comes along the best terms they can in exchange cloth has there been any. increase in know. -that blooming cat.”.

A wedding at Farn Russia, but you may remember the and talks to the local Poohbah like a for their surrender of independence. turnover, the markets being still ex- We are, of course, just A WEDDING borough, Kent, the recent telegram mentioning that Dutch uncle. If the local Poobhah General Chu Shu Teang, arrived at tremely quiet. At the same time Kit?-He is in America.

His Worship: Where is Lam Tak SLAVERY, as much shocked as

other day, was made Germany and the neutrals were being happens to be a General Ma, he goes Urga on Nov. 1.

more general enquiry is to be noted anybody else at the

the occasion of a urged to join in blockade. Either out and shoots a few of the boycot Tan KI Sui is to be head of the and there is certainly a better tone Soap and some clothes.

What was contained in the box?-- thought of slavery being possible practical joke. It appears that an that or the official denial was a lie. ters just to encourage the others. So demobilization bureau. Disbandment all round. The upward movement ander the British flag, and the China obituary notice was inserted in a It was the Allies who encouraged the Cantonese exclusionista confine is to start, in the more peaceful has in some

How did you know?-Lam opened Mail is ready to co-operate heartily London paper announcing the time the Ukraine gentry to form an their endeavours to highly commend-regions, at the end of this winter.

Cases made busi, the box and I saw the contents. in any reasonable movement toward of the funeral of a man who was independent government.

ness, which might otherwise have It was able propaganda against the use of Kianga Provincial Assembly has been put through, impossible, but to Lam Tak Wu

Whom were you sending the box reform. But we are not to be mis- on that date to be made a bride-that independent Ukraine govern low-grade goods. Everybody knows denounced the On Fook Club as the on the other hand there is the feeling" led by mere words, nor panicked by groom. In consequence of the ment. (anti-Bolshevist) which made what they mean, but the phrase is chief cause of the deadlock between that a strong market generally pro are obviously brothers?I don't.

Lam Tak Wu and Lam Tak Kit empty cries, nor driven to attack announcement a large number of the first separate peace with Gernot actionable, and it hurts ever so north and south. windmills. Much of the so-called people went down to Farnborough many. It has now rebelled against much more.

vides the necessary incentive for know. "slavery" among Hongkong, Chinese to pay their last respects to their Denikin. Lately we had a lot of

buyers to operate whereas weak. Mr. d'Almada said that as Hong- is less hideous than the word itself friend, and found on arrival that it telegrams about von der Goltz's free

ness induces hésitation. India, is kong. being a port of call, the. What is thought to have been implies, and, as we pointed out yes- was his wedding day. There were lance army, to confirm the popular a second cataract of Niagara has

showing a good deal more interest Chinese in the States returning to than it has recently done, though their country must have to pass terday, much that is technically hasty explanations, which showed but quite erroneous notion of an been discovered at Thorold. "freedom" is the wickedest form of that the obituary notice was the intrigue between Germany and the contractors on the New Welland

only a few transactions have taken through, The sole purpose of bring slavery. Take the case of a wealthy work of a practical joker. The Bolsheviks. You had by this time Ship Canal, after excavating through

place. China does practically nothing ing arms back was for home pro- bat a fair business has been done for tection. He did not think his client Chinese who

buys" poor girls as friends attended a wedding instead forgotten that for some months that 20 feet of solid clay, found a rock

the Near East and South America had any knowledge of the contents handmaids to his wives. Those girls of a funeral.

same German army was 'encouraged bed, smooth and with a series of

Silver is again higher and many in

25 the box,

he. was Stilltalking of elavery, to stay and fight the Bolsheviks, and steps running for a distance of 400

are of the opinion that it may only entrusted to deliver the box. "SLAVERY" you have heard of that as recently as last March Wimton feet. The first fall is in the form of

yet attain new high records. This His Ignorance was supported by the IN ENGLAND. that rural custom, Churchill referred to their efforts in steps for a distance of 30 feet with a The following will represent C.R.C. has led to some buying for future memorandum. The addressee of the among the lower appreciative terms and regretted that total drop of 25 feet in depth. The 2nd XI against Queen's College at deliveries with a consequent rise in box was also mentioned in the in time almost like daughters of orders, by which a husband sells they had met one defeat. Our own depth of the next fall is not deter the C.R.C. ground, Causeway Bay, at the price for those positions. the house: To get at such casesyou his wife. a recent case the idea of their position (unwanted at mined, but the excavation shows a 2.15 p.m. on next Saturday-Wan

entries. It was a technical offence. The whole of the calico printing would have to do core than pass woman was haltered and led to Home and willing to fight for a perpendicular fall for an unknown fu Shing, Yong Him Lun, Lee Ying trade was threatened with a stoppage wishes a heavy penalty to be im

Inspector Brazil The Hon. C.SP. a mere Ordinance. You would have market, and when asked why are Hiring) turns out to have been the distance. There are Indications of Chiu, Chan Hin Lee, Lo Man Pan, from the 20th inet. but fortunately

heavy to get Orders in Council set aside, did not resist, as slavery is illegal right one. That they should be an immense river which connected Hung Ho Chiu, Sun Kwok Leung,

this has been avoided for the present and our pledge of non interference in England, she explained that the accused of Bolshevism after electing Lake Erie and Lake Ontario thou Lai Kaen, Cheung Wing Kul, Lee and it is hoped the differences will

His Worship fined defendant $100, with Chinese customs cancelled. So couldn't be worse off with the new to fight against the Bolsheviks is only sands of years ago,

ordered the revolver and Man Kwong, and Wong Po Keung be adjusted by negotiations."

ammunition to be confiscated.

are treated as members of the family. get better chow and clothes than they would have got from their own parents, and are usually married off

The

SPORT.

CRICKET.

C.R.C, 2ND XI v. QUEEN'S

COLLEGE."

posed.

and