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RACIAL PREJUDICE

The editor thinks enough has been said about the police uniform question, especially as controversy is tending to un- profitable racial recriminations. He therefore applies the closure: The idea of the China Mail is to give full publicity to all sides, and to burke no discussion; but of course there has to be a line drawn somewhere.

See the conqueris : | CASUALTIES dollar swank along Four and Eightpenny Street, a wartime protte fiteer if ever there was one. Some Brass Hat, our dollar is His sister Rupee also puts on airs. Poor old Quid copped one, and limps a bit. It seems be was badly set by Dr. Bradbury. But bless you, be has nothing to grumble at. Look at Herr Mark, poor devil, unable to scrape eight farthings together, and Monsieur Frank, his enemy, unable to keep pace with his pals.

Brown Man's "excellent letter would have gone in, but it was writ ten on both sides of the paper, and we had no time to copy it.

HOW IT IS

.DONE

LOCKE AND GENTRAG.

It is reminded that the last Xmas 'mail will be despatched per the 8.5..

“Yokohama Mari" to-morrow.

Quarantine on steamers from Shanghai to Tsingtao has been lifted. Quarantine on vessels arriving at Nagasaki has been reduced to one day.

An interesting"Whist drive" was held at the Police Recreation Club last evening. There were seventeen tables admirably supervised by Sergeant Reid who acted as M. C.

" and

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19. 1919.

YACHTING.

THE ROYAL HONGKONG »

YACHT CLUB.

The first of the series of Club Championship

for Racing Races Yachts was sailed off on Saturday afternoon over No. 9 course for all classes.

Course-Mark boat in Quarry Bay (P), Channel Rocks (5) Lvemun Beacon (P.), Mark boat in Quarry. Bay (S.) 9.5 miles. Results:

HANDICAP CLASS.

(Start at 2.30 p.m.)

Yachts,

Handicap

on Course.

ពួកគេនិច - Finishing.

Time.

P& Corrected

Time.

707"

M.S. H.M.S. HMS.. Scratch 4.12.12. 4:12.12 Rolla

do 4.12.06 412.06 Jessica 1'55"

4.38.40 4.17.05 707" 4.13.26 4.06,18) 7075"

4.20.20 4.13.12

D.NS. D.N.S.

Points for race.

8..

6

Lloyd George does not now deny that there “All very well for

.was a breakfast-table A PERTINENT YOU to jeer at

discussion with Mr. The T.K.K. 3.3." Nippon Maru," Reuter's attempt to Bullitt, but "it is cate ically denied went ashpra on a rocky reaf off REQUEST.

plain the Royal that any statement. 13 given for Point San Pedro, zineteen miles Society's announcement," writes a publication" Quite se lo-one double south of San Francisco, on October regular reader. "I don't complain. I that. In the ordinary course such 22, but was "refloated without any nearly always read you with enjoy-discussions are private, confidential. noticeable damage and proceeded to Dione ment. But if you know all about it, not to be repeated. But if one party San Francisco. why don't you explain it for us?" stands up in public and tells der-

Of: the German vessels scuttled Dorothea If we knew all about it we would, agatory lies about you," are you but we don't. We know next to bound by the convention, or by the at Scapa Flow the battleship Colleen. Hothing about it. We don't even implied pledge of secrecy? We do "Baden," the cruisers "Frankfort, Diana 707

o fair man would think Nuremburg” know what the announcement was, not think so..

Emden," and Ayesha We think we know what it was not so. Subordin es in the British service fifteen destroyers, have been floated namely, what the message said it have been trained to put up with and three other destroyers probably W29, Our friend will admit, we sup- that sort of injustice (lt quite often will be raised. pose, that satisfactory demonstration happens) but it isn't fair or right. of a negative. of an impossibility, is In the same way officers in the Army a step on the road to knowledge. are penalized. Whatever they see For instance. We have no idea what they mustn't tell. In effect, though Heaven is like, and so do not pretend good for discipline," ir amounts to to tell you what it is ke. We have an organized conspiracy to deceive no hesitation or doubt in telling you the people, their masters. Note how what it is not like, what it cannot be Churchill wangled the point of like, and that's certainly something Parliament's right to decide to the good, with so many liars about policy in Russia. He didn't deny the right. Oh ro. He admitted it, cheerfully. But he took the military view that while operations are pro c e 'ing (operations not sanctioned

SPACE.

that

No normally developed brain should need to have space defined for it. Space

Another American steamshi service, the Barber Line, has entered the trans-Pacific trade. The Pacific Steamship Co. will be the Agents for the ne v line in the Far East. The new line will maintain a monthly service from New York around the out world.

The later message

Fosition..

(1) Dorothea

· (2) Rolla (3) Dione (4) Colleen (5) Jessica -Diana

Points to date.

8

6

5

3.

Ayesha

ONE DESIGN CLASS.

Yachts.

.. Commander: James. Wilson, R. N. R. late. commodore of the British Indian Steam Navigation Company, who was buried at Reigate recently, destroyed the last German submarine during the war. in mid Ailsa Atlantic two hours before the Bonita Armistice was signed.

hour

is a verbal coln in philosophic cur by Parliament, and no war on) it rency, a token coin. It means empty would not do to imperil them by ness, nothingness, the absence of ex-premature statements. When a tension or form. To talk of a bend or was done, a full statement would be twist or kink in nothing is meaning- laid before Parliament. Isn't that less. The reference tocalculations and impudence. Parliament's rights are The first of the Special Services instruments suggests that it was.some admitted, but they are within celebration of the Diamond Jubilee astronomical problem of refraction held until it is too late to of Union Church will be held next they were discussing. We have in our exercise them. He ought to have Sunday at the ordinary reading encountered the speculation been bowled down. Yet that sort of of morning Service, 11 o'clock. It away out in space," beyond official "assurance "seets to pacify will be attended by H. E. the Gov. our ken, two and two may not make the Press. Why? Is the Press so ernor H. E. Major General Ventris, feur, and the law of gravitation may stupid? No. Then it must be venal and Commodore Gurner, R. N. not prevail. We get the idea, but it is. is idle and foolish. Things which are equal to the same thing must THE STRAIGHT always equal each other, in any dimension. Star light behaving in a certain way "when passing the sun can prove nothing beyond some fact of vision and refraction. Careful astronomical measurements do not take us to the stars, or not into space. They only lead us to the human eye, and to the brain behind it. Newton's establishment of Kepler's third law must stand unshaken whatever their measurements and calculations dis close. We need no new philosophy of the universe where gravitation is concerned.

"Every particle

1

of

LINE.

On a

(Start at 2.35 p.m.)

Daphne Halcyon

Position

(1) Ailsa

(2) Daphne

(3) Halcyon

(4) Bonita

Handicap

on Course,

Finishing

Time.

Corrected

Time.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE NEWS.

GLEANED FROM A SECOND

· HAND SOURCE.

The China Mail notes in its junior

to the effect that His Excellency the morning contemporary a statement Governor visited Waglan Lighthouse on Tuesday.

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[Translated for the China Mail from the Wah Tea Yat Po.]

SHANGHAI, Nov. 12.

Mr. Luk Ching Chang, head of the Chinese delegates in Paris, left, for hame on Oct. 27, sending a cable to this effect.

Italian neroplanes are going to fly from Shanghai to Peking. The Gov....... ernment has given them alighting facilitles.

General Soon Lieh San, Tuchun of Hailungkiang, is now director of the Harbin Hailungkiang Railway, in succession to the, Kirin Tuchun resigned.

The Cabinet deadlock continues, and may cause a dissolution of par- lament. The new premier' is trying. to stop the supply of funds to the An Fook Club..

Chinese military reduction. is to be ordered soon, in three stages. First 127 divisions will be reduced to 100. Next 20 will be disbinded, and after that another 30. making the final

strength 50 divisions.

Ho

AN ESCAPED PRISONER..

Yesterday a man was arrested for M.S. HMS. H.M.S. larceny from another pasON Scratch 4.21.04 4.21.04 was charged and detained in the 422.28 4.22:28 cells. This morning when the pris- 4.21.30 421.30 onem were being brought out to go 4.22.06. 4.22.06, up to the Magistry, the man in Points

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for race

Em

3.

2

5.

3:

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Points manner which is still unknown maWa→ to date aged to disappear without the know

ledge of the constables in charge. When a charge against the man was enlied at the Court, the complain- an appeared, but the defendant was not in the dock, and on enquiries made, it was ascertained that the man had made good his escape.

Inspector Brazil asked his Work ship to remand the caso pending the. re-arrest of the man.

HEYWARD-HAYS CLASS.

Yachts.

Sirius Dawn

(Start at 2.40 p.m.)

Handicap

non Course

Time.

Time.

His Worship agreed, and reaurked

M.S. H.M.S. H.M.S. that it was the first incident of the Scratch 4.28.17 4.28.17 kind to come before him.

4.31.29 431.29

4.23.44 4.23.44 CHINESE CLERK WITH A D.N.S.

REVOLVER.

Ursula

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Liza

II

Owl

DNS.

Position.

Points for

race..

6

3

GAEL CLASS.

(Start at 2.45 p.)

on

Yachts.

Of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha shows that the metro services operating from Calcatta, the politan pundits of the Calcutta-Seattle Line was recently Press are at it again, suspended; the Calcutta-South and this time are upsetting Euclid. America Line and the Java Line were Does this not seem to call for stake kept open by ships operating but and faggots! Our navigators will once a month, as the tonnage offering not be so startled, because their on these routes was small. The Cal "Great Circle" sailing has taught cutte-New York Line has a service of them that Euclid's definition of a two vessels monthly. straight line is good enough--when you can get a straight line.

The training ships "Tokiwa " spherical earth the shortest and "Azuma" with the graduating (1) Ursula practicable distance between two cadets. from the academy at (2) Sirius points may not be a Etama are expected to leave Yoko-

(3) Dawn straight line. We do not know suka on November 24. They will

Liza tween comes the common chap who

where stars are, but only where they call at Sasebo. Keelung, Hongkong,

Owl Colombo, appear to be, and the wonderful Singapore.

Port Said, sees ideas as jolly, harmless play. things, wherever they appear, and is

accuracy" of astronomical calcul- Naples. Marseilles. Toulon, Malta, YOU MAY matter in the universe ations must always have

been etc. Returning they will call at willing to be in the same room with

SKIP THIS. attracts every other

relative," because error would be Batavia, and reach Yokosuka one without holding a handkerchief

particle with a force equal all round. If error be equal May 23, 1920. to his nose. Adventures among varying inversely as the square of in all factors. the result will work ideas make the most interesting the distance between them, and out in practice as if it were During 1918 the total number lives. Ideas about ideas, as you directly as the product of the masses now perceive, make a paragram in

mathematics just as valid. So much and

accurate," and make astronomical and tonnage of vessels which entered

cleared at Dairen was Gael the day's tale.

of light be 186,000 miles a second, for "changing the basis of as 4,417 vessels of 3.812,742 tons show-Toinette and your star at a mean distance of tronomy." We have a University |ing, when compared with 1917 an Joau We saw a coolie with a 93,000,000 miles, one Fight year, as here, full of wise men. Ca not they increase of vessels and 322,296 tons. Thecla A LOST farge patch across the they call it, must equal 5,865,696 help us out of this tangle?

The percentages of the different flags Asthore seat of his trousers million miles, which allows plenty of

were: 87.3 per cent. Japanese: 6.3 Dorothy The patch was of room for error without making a

per cent. Chinese; 3.4 per cent. British; different material and 'colour, and fuss about it or belittling Sir Isaac would have made a member of the Newton in favour of a German pro-

1.2 per cent. Dutch: and 18 per cent. Danish, French, Norwegian and OcHongkong Club afraid to turn his fessor, and certainly provides no

Russian back on the enemy, but the coolie excuse for talking nonsense about was happily unconscious of it.

space. We are a much higher and gave us a perfectly splendid idea, better authority on Space than Sir which we were developing all that Oliver Lodge is! We have so much evening, but unfortunately we got of it to fill every day, confound it. among a lot of Sinn Feiners and Bolsheviks and tanks and things

JONES-On November 3, at Shang dai, to Mr. and Mrs. F. W. "Jones,' n son (stillborn} MARTHOUD:-On November 6, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Marthouri, a son. TINKER. On November 4,

Shanghai, in Mr. and Mrs. W Tinker, a daughter. HOLLANEY.---On November 5, at

at

Shanghal, to the wife of S. H. Hollarby, a suns

MARRIAGE.

ORTON—LACK-SMITH-On

tober 30, as Yokohamn, Thomas Orton to Etho Lack-Smith.

DEATHS.

ATKINSON-On November 6, at Great Crosby, near Liverpool,

73.

IDEA..

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of the two particles. If the velocity

MATERNITY

HOSPITAL.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day's

3/16d.

llar is worth 4/8

To-day's return of communicable disease shows only a case of enteric The leisurely pro sever. cedure of the local government in the

ternity Ward, first pointed out in the matter of the Ma- China Mail, does make it appear

and lost it. It had something to The Rev. J. F. Atkinson. Agedo with Dissenters, and Cromwell, and a bearing on the local Housing HONES-On November 8, at Han Problem, but we simply cannot put

kow, China,

Frank Willeber

it together again. That's the worst Homes, aged 32 years.

of that kind of idea. It will not very strongly that it doesn't worry

Ji

The China Mail.

"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."

KONGLONG, THURSDAY, Nov. 13, 1919.

ADVERSARIA.

IDEA.

Mr. M. M. Maas, the local Kashima Maru." cricketer, has returned by the s.a.

Mrs. and the Misses Woods, the variety entertainers

to rent

The Taiyo Kalun Kaisha, which W29 recently admitted to the Australian Steamship Conference contemplates increasing its capital to Y5,000,000. The increase will be divided into 80,000 shares, 60,000

Handicap

on Course,

Points

Chinese was charged before Mr. to date. . E. Lindsell this morning with the

6

4

Scratch 4.37.08 4.37.08

Position

(1), Joan

4.28.11 4.28.11 4.25.26 4.26.25

Points

for race.

uniful possession of a revolver..

Inspector Grant said that the de fendant was a clerk in a local firm. The revolver was found in a box in. defendant's house. He said it be longed to his decessed cousin who had left it there.

The case was remanded. Bail of $500 was allowed.

**ARMISTICE" MEDALS FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS.

Following the precedent of the 4:36.42-436.42 coronatim medal presented to each 2'22" DNS.

boy in the schools, a medal com- 2 22" D.NS.

memorating the "Armistice" we Points presented to each of the pupils of to date Grant-in-aid schools on Tuesday. On the obverse there is the repre- sentation of Britannia, with the in- scription "Hongkong" just below it, and on the reverse, a wreath of roses shamrock and thistle with the words "In commemoration of the defeat of Germany 1919.”

(2) Toinette

(3) Gael

• Thee a

-Asthare

-Dordthy

* Disqualified

7

5

4

It is hoped that all owners who did

shares of which will be allotted to not compete last Saturday will sail the present shareholders at the rate their boats in the future events and of one new share for one old one. so fill all the classes. The remaining shares will be put on the market for public subscription at a premium...

The Italian s.8. "Nippon" which arrived at Woosung on October 29 brought out two coastal motor boats. with their crews. These boats carry torpedo slings abeam and outboard, their method of attack being to dash at their objective at high speed, drop the torpedo and escape as best they may. A gun is also carried. The vessels will be on the China Station

muster.

SPORTS.

FOOTBALL

CLUB DE RECREIO V. LR.C.

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PASSENGERS JUMPED OVERBOARD.

An

The Jardize Matheson's *.*. Kwai. Sang" arrived yesterday from Calcutta. Cufning in rough the Sulphur Channel," a Chinese passenger jumped overboard. alarm was raised, and, fortunately, a Police launch which was Dear,

• rescued the man.

The s.;

CORRESPONDENCE.

thrive on unlimited beer, and it be unduly about people of smaller well known haves like London snow. If any of means. Taipan wives can be sent arrived by the s. "Kashima Maru." our boozy congregation found it, we away without considering ways and hope they'll return it. We know it means, so there is no hurry. It

Consignees are reminded that was a good idea, but we cannot promises. It buys a building. It remember what it was. Let's hope spends quite a considerable sum in goods per the s.s. "Eastern" not be will be kind to it. All ideas deserve making the building habitable (after cleared by to-morrow will be subject

"Yingchow** which ar- good homes. That's why we run turning out the rent-paying tenants)

The following will play for the rived from Tsingtao yesterday re The China Mail as a sort of Barnardo's and then puts in a government ser

Consignees are reminded that al:

IRC in a League football match ports that while she was on the high Home for Ideas.

vant. If this procedure can be justi-

Idomenetts" not

against the Club de Recreio on the seas; & Chinese on the 11th i fied, we shall admire to see it done. goods per the sa A bygone Frenchman So far as we recollect, no attempt cleared by to-morrow, will be subject

Club's ground on Saturday, kick off jumped overboard, and was drowned. at 2.30 pm. A. O. Madar, All Salim, M. GLIZOT'S spoke of the gross has been yet made to justify it. Our to rent.

B. A. Hyder, M. S. Harteam, (Cap- delusion that, men Government does not even talk to a ...seem to labour under, as the King talked to the Basutos.

Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Bell family To be revolutionary in

The opening of a new line tain), 5. A. Ismail, N. Rumjahn, G. IDEAS. ideas is good. To be re- that there is a sovereign power in I have spoken." It lies low and left for England on the s.3. "Mentor" recently between Vladivostock, and A. Hyder. C. G. Markar, A. L

volutionary in politics is political machinery. That is the says nothing. What do we matter? on Tuesday. They expect to return Tsuruga, by the Towa Steamship Andres, O. Rumjahn and S. Rumjahn. [To the Editor of the China Mail]

Company of Kobe was very welcome Reserves Iran Rahman and A. D. bad, and silly, becatise revolutionary delusion of the Russian Bolsheviks, deeds usually are performed by peo- and that is why we preferred to let

"Keith West" is quite

to merchants, who have hitherto been Hassan ples unprepared. Men talk about General Disillusionment fight Bolshe OUR LOCAL evidently a better poet The two prisoners charged with suffering considerably from the ac

than making laws, but that's a misrepre- vism rather than Private Atkins. It

Esanip," who is the murder of a woman in Lan Tao cumulation of goods caused chiefly sentation. Laws just happen. Laws is also a delusion of the British.

weak on technique and Island were sentenced to death yes by the shortage of cargo space, and it is therefore expected that the adapt themselves to circumstances and a delusion here. There has probably not studied prosody.terday at the Sessions.

steamers on this line will be fully and needs, and men adapt themselves never was and never will be any Our sympathy goes, however, to the to the laws. The mainspring of form of Guvernment that could or regular trier, who sings as the birds On the U. S. R. C. ground yesterloded both on outward and return civilization is constant adaptation, can put everything right. When sing, the simple emotions of his pas-day a hockey match was played v tages for some time to come: Modern communities are very Daddy showed Baby his first sunset, sionate heart. To have gifts like between the Club and the 74th Pun different from ancient ones, and he gazed till the show was over, then "Keith West," to use them only jabis. The Punjabis won by 7 goals In the district of Honam near Canton there is placed for public view. future ones will be as different again. clapped his hands, and said, "Do once, and then only to leer at a to 3.

the body of a Chinese lady aged 60. Most reformers are like the boy who it again, Daddy." Some people are brother poet, is not good. Besides,

What is peculiar about her is that in appearance she does not look like a corpse. There is all the freshness of

·

POETS.

in six months time..

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INDO-CHIYA SİN. CO.

The following will represent the Sir,--With reference to a rumour Hongkong Club in their League game that an amalgamation of interests with the R.G.A. on the club ground of the F. & O. S.N. Co., Ltd on Saturday 15th inst. Kick, off 4 and the Indo-China S.N Co., contemplated, w are p.m. G. S. Rodger, J. MacCubbin, F. Ltd., is Black, M. L. Railton, J. Stewart, J. authorised by Our Board of W. R. MacPhall; J. Rodger, B. Pasco, Directors to state that there is no D. Relchelman, H. M. McTavish and foundation whalever for such report I. Stalker. Reserve E. Rila and we are requesting our Landon Attorneys to also publicly contradict

CRICKET.

UNIVERSITY † LR.C

in a hurry to grow up, impatient like that with the Government, even his argument against repetition and The wedding was solemnized at to be a man, resentful of intermediate bere. Daddy Government does pull bathos in a love poem could be met the Peak Church, yesterday after stages. When they get an idea off a successful sunset once fina by asserting its truth to nature. A noon, of Mr. G. A. L. Boissevain, of 'Shev want to use it like a while, and they appeal to him to lover addressing his lady is always the J.CJL, and Miss Constance life about her. Doctors have been war club, and wallop other akulla repeat it. They would have sunsets full of repetitions, Repetition is, the Joanna Testas van Oud Wulven, to see her, and al pronounce her

The following will represent the with it. They are a nuisance, in the morning, or any old time, if ars amoris, as any girl will tell you. daughter of Meand. Mrs. C. F. T. dead. The body is 13 days old now. like the proud father of a first baby, the Government could do all they And who, cold-bloodedly looking.on, van Oud Walven-Latis, of The Hague, and yet there is no sign of decom- LRC. in a League match against the At the opposite extreme is the Con seem to think it can. Of course can miss the bathos of the amorous Holland. The Rev. V. H. Copley position. The Chinese say that she University on the latter's ground on servative. When he gets an idea, the most awful case is that where malo Let "Keith West" give us a Moyle officiated, and Mr. G. Grimble was a saint. Since she was 30 years Saturday at 2.15 p.m. A, E

dually by inheritance, be shoves it the Government itself shares the lyric or two touching on the hum was at the organ. The bride was old, until her death, her only food into an ark of intolerance and wor- delusion. Look at the present ours of local politics, and then he given away by Mr. J. C. F. I. Quarles was vegetables and fruit. ships it, and hates all other ideas at British Cabinet, Civilization is a will have a better right to chaff the van Ufford; the best man was Mr. first sight. To him other ideas are baby learning to walk. Governments others. By way of suggestion, he... Haver Droeze, and the brides 21 mad dogs, and he cries for a are in nurses, some wise, some not, might sing us the song of the Laird maids were. the Misses. Mia Soeters

of Cheung-chau. Somewhere be, kas nurses are.

and Kitty Jonckheer, Muaaling Order.

WALLA WALLA" Motor boat

are bulib for your pervign,

We are. Dear Sirs,

"Yours faithfully, JARDINE MATTHESON CO LTD.

General Managers.

Hongkong, Nov. 13, 1919.

ACCIDENTS-WILL HAPPEN.

accident, but it is not in vain, to Rumjahn (Captain). A. el Arcalli, TT may be impossible to pry S. H. Jamall, S. D. Ismail, G. C. Earde. be

for it. Can lain's Pain prepared A. A. Rumjahn, N. M. Baz, E. A Balm is not beyond anyone's Darty sod Moosdeen, G. Partabral, E. Moos-with battle of this finiment you ar deen, and D. Rumjahn. Reserve prepared for almost anything Parale R. Nazaria

by all Chemists and istöreksopere.