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about this slap in the face of progress is that it has to be attribut- ed almost entirely to the respon sibla enthusiasms of merely party

LOCAL AND GENERAL»

To-day's dollar is worth 5/-

| politics, which seem to be keener there (1/48. ·

than with us. If America is to fall

us in this way, we shall be no fors rader than we were, before the war, The reactionaries will beat the re-day per s.3. "Suiyang." formers, and our children's children will suffer for it.

A mail is due from Shanghai

To-day's return of communicable "We ought to have disease shows two cases of enteric

heard by new of a fever. Japanese apology to China, and a disavowal of the miscreants who did the shoot

IT ISN'T FAIR.

Lieutenant F. C. "Roberts

ing at Foochow. Whenever Chinese Hongkong boy who recently return commit outrages, the Chinese Gov. ed from active service left for ernment is made to eat humble pie. Home on Wednesday by the Em and to go through a formula of press liner. repentance that no sovereign and self-respecting Power would submit to. Shakespeare says it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but he suggests a more gentlemanly way of using it. The Japanese Government ought really to have hastened to offer amends to Chins in this instance, but if it had done so, surely we would have heard of it before now.

Local residents who left, the Colony on the s.5. Empress of Japan" were Mr. S. Steckmest vice-Consul for Norway, Mr. P. C. Potts, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. F. Raven.

Madame Flint made the bride's wedding dress for the Murray Chap: man wedding reported yesterday. It Maie. Leite made. was the

dress that going away

"Ship" writes to this A SHIP morning's Daily Press to ASTRAY. express his disappoint.

ment

noting On

the absence from the deliberations of the Consignees of Cargo ex M. M. Shanghai Conference of Chambers of

"Andre Lebon" 5+3+

are reminded Commerce

of any resolution to that their goods not claimed after approach the Government on the the 26th at noon, will be subject to question, of the supply of extra rent and landing charges. tonnage on the China run. He says: We have now had a clear | year of peace—that is, as far as free-

!coast,

to

td Grecks

RE-MAKE BEDDING

THE RE-MAKING OF

BEDDING

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OWING TO THE HIGH PRICE OF ALL MATERIALS IS NOW

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about the Government in the right way. We are too patriotic."

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CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN GIRLS' SCHOOLS.

"A DOXOLOGICAL DRUBBING,"

Recently, a Miss Margaret Choate, Principal of the Methodist Girls College, Colombo, Ceylan, was fined Rs. 25 for having caned an eleven year old girl. The writer of "Stray Thoughts in The People, of Ceylon,

Principal, sang:

Praise God fron Whom all

blessing flow, Praise Him all creatures here

below,

Praise Him all ye heavenly host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy

Ghost!

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER *21, 1919.

A. HEARTLESS CHEAT.

Before Mr. R. O. Hutchison yester day at the Magistracy.the case was again heard in which a man was charged with cheating a woman out

RUSSIA AND BOLSHEVISM.

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(China Mail Special Article]

It has been the custom in the past to speak of Russia as remote her

of $30 by promising to get ber son millions have seemed to the English out of jail.

Sergeant Willis stated that while distant as the Pole, an unkempt. going down Pottinger Street on Nov. uncivilized people. Tolstol and the 13 be noticed two women running in modern Russian musicians have done in his direction in an excited condi-much to convince these at home of tion. One woman was holding a the growing enlightenment of the

who had

been

sentenced

promise perished heroically in the last offensive and the dawn of the real Revolution.

few.

-/says:

Every right-thinking person will piece of paper in her hand. Witness nation, while to the Far East Russia admit that corporal punishment of asked them what was the matter, has always been nearer, and ber school children, however light, should and one of the women replied that problems more important. During be strongly deprecated in these days she was going to the jail with an the earlier years of the War the her empire of the Tsar was called the of enlightenment. If administered order for the release of

"Steam-roller" her vast army WAS with severity it is a perpetual and ¦ son, living horror to sensitive natures. to three years' hard labour pictured pouring, irresistible, through It is not easily forgotten.. The for armed robbery. Witness East Prussia, to suffer but a tempor- mutual good feeling that ought to examined the paper and found it to ary halt at the very gates of Berlin. exist between, teacher and pupil be a fraud. He asked the woman The Tsar fell; Kerensky's com is lost. Forbearance and Christian how much she had paid for it, and charity (love) enjoin us to bear with she replied $30. He asked her from an erring one. The ghastly incidents whom she obtained the paper, and of the great War, which we have read she replied that he was an interpre

Bolshevism reared its crest amongst from time to time, gave us an insight ter at the Supreme Court. Witness us, a strange and fearsome beast into the varied forms of punishment went to the Court and found that the Money poured like water to finance inflicted by the Huns on prisoners in man had disappeared. The employes revolt elsewhere, and the Revolution order to extort evidence, or a con- at the Supreme Court were lined up ists fought for their faith. They are fession of guilt in spite of their for identification, but nobody was still fighting. Any light that can be victims' innocence. We are not picked out. A Court messenger.how thrown on the reasons for this spas- told that before proceeding to ever, stated that he saw a man whom modic warfare, for the death of carve incisions on the backs of he could recognise, talking to the Britone in this struggle with a nation of woman. Witness told the woman with which they "are not at war "is their prisoners, the authors such crimes chanted a psalm or to go to the Central Station and wholesome and necessary. which took place at a local school mumbled a prayer. The incident make a report.

First, following the Scholastic Complainant, an old woman, stat- Philosophers, let us define. Bolshevik bas created a sensation in view of ed that on November 11 she went means "Majority." The opposite is the methodical manner in which it to the Land Office to make some Menshevik Minority" That sim- Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Duff was carried out. But when such enquiries concerning a piece of land ple word "majority has served dom from sea warfare is concerned K.C.R. returned on the Flagship punishment is meted out to a girl of in Yaumati. After settling her since the foundation of the Republic

and the united efforts of shipyards HM.S.

was leaving the as a term of abuse for any Socialist, Hawkins" on Wednesday tender years, it makes the case all business, she the world over have been directed to evening. He took over the official the more wicked. It is a pity that office when she was intercepted by Democrat, Freethinker, or pext-door the construction of fresh tourage. command of the Far Eastern squad-disciplinary methods of such a nature defendant, who said: "Is it true neighbour with whom we have hap Yet the position out here is almost ron on the 8th.

were resorted to, and we trust that your son is in jail?" Witness replied pened to disagree. So the employer worse than at any period Juring the

in view of the salutary lesson learnt that she would be only too glad to get who called his clerk a Bolshevik war, What is the explanation, and

ta Court by the offending individual, him released. Defendant then told her because the clerk was late or asked can such justify the recent action of

Toe, well-known poetess Ella others will steer clear of such umpar to bring $30 and meet him at the for a rise has really been compli the Goverment in handing over Wheeler Wilcox has died at New donable lapses.

Supreme Court, where, he said, he was menting him upon the vast number some half-dozen good-sized cargo York. It will be remembered that Under the caption "A Doxological an interpreter. He had authority to of his fellows who think the same. boats, recently built on the China na many years ago, she and her Drubbing," the editor of "that bright release her son; his master would assist who are late, or ask for rises. Per- him. He added that if the son were not haps, if the employer had known. syndicate of husband were in Hongkong es guests newspapër says:—— of . att people," It of Sir Henry and Lady May.

According to little Irene, eleven released by the evening of the 14th his tone would have been leas "Ship" had the sense to buy the

years old, the complainant in the case instant the money would be returned. vituperative! To us, in our island China Mail he would have discovered

which generated two leading articles on November 13 witness went to autocracy, the meaning of majority that there was such a resolution. The monthly meeting and onion in the local Press and provok the Supreme Court, and was met at may be less evident than to those This does not affect the truth of the dinner of the Onion Club was helded considerable public

interest the entrance by defendant to whom who have been brought up in an China Mall position, however, that last night, and well attended, with the girls of her college assembled she banded the money. Defendant atmosphere full of the Rights of the resolution, even though endorsed Wer. Bro the G. C. O. in the chair one afternoon at four, and, lustily gave her a piece of paper in exchange Man, of Equality, of hated class- by Sir John Jordan, will rot, bring For the first time in the history of led by the Principal and vice stating that it was a warrant for the privilege. Yet deep in the dust of the ships. The Government is too the club a lady guest was present.

release of her son.

years, we may find amongst our While giving evidence, the witness music the Marseillaise amongst our busy to bother about us. It serves

commented forcibly on the defend Latin tags us right, because we don't bother

Cívis Romanus Sum." rescued forty of the passengers and

In recognition of his having!

ant's behaviour, calling him several impolite names, only stopping when has been struggling for years are The ideals towards which Europe

crew of a junk during a gale in the

ördered. Mr. JO. P. Bland, China Sea on August 22, Captain

They are not mere carch. Continuing, witness stared that she words behind each lies a positive MUST SUFFER once secretary to the Morse of the B. and S. s.s. "Luchow"

went with the paper to the jail and conception of a happier State for EITHER WAY. Shanghai Munici-was presented with a gold and enamel

found it was spurious. She reported which men are willing to live and to pality, has writ medal by the Bangkok Keng Chew-after which she was lifted and the matter to the Police, and a few die. The abolition of privilege is the ten to The Times He quotes Overseas Community.

placed face. downwards on the table, days later identified defendant. It most obvious of all no labourer the Lloyd. George ofgan, The

while the vice Principal gripped her was impossible for her to mistake can fail to contrast his meagre wages Future, as promising in the name

hands, and the Principal turned the the man.

and his lengthy hours with the of the Government a 48 hour week Mr. J. W. Fraser, formerly of child's skirt over, and letting the Sergeant Murphy stated the poor income of his Directors and and a living wage. He also quotes the Shanghai Mercury, arrived in lashes all partly on the bare flesh woman had to borrow the $30. their infrequent appearance.

Even the Times as saying there is founda Hongkong. yesterday, to join the and partly on the portion covered by Another woman gave corrobora the countryman has come to realise tion for the workers' fear that their staff of the South China Morning the drawers, administered twenty-one tive evidence.

that he pays more for his beer present standard of comfort will be Post. Like all journalists who cuts with a two-feet cane. The A messenger employed at the in order to let some big brewer gradually sapped from under them. happened to be able to pass the writer of Stray Thoughts' deals Supreme Court stated that he identi- live in luxury. Even the big He then says it is already sapped. Doctor, Mr. Fraser has been doing with the humanitarian side of fied defendant at a Chinese theatre, brewer realises that he pays high and proves

I it by

showing his bit in France for the past two the affair, and we do not desire to where he was arrested, as the man taxes to provide money for the that in tendering. for Chinese or three years. He has newspaper travel over the same ground. We who had duped the woman,

Government departments, their Government order for £3.000.000 friends here, and we hope he will are interested only in the plea of Defendant stated that the woman motor-cars and their office teas. worth of rolling stock, American make many more.

justification entered by the accused lent him the money. He promised Then, too, equality of opportunity firms quoted 50 per cent. lower than

for her.brutal act and the emphatic to do something for her son, failing is an otvious thing; what. endorsement which that plea received which, he would return the money. their British competitors. He assumes,

bourgeois has not been thankful for naturally, that British labour is

ar the hands of a prominent Wes- Sergeant Murphy stated that de his father's ability to send him to a responsible for that, and urges the

leyan clergyman whose time bas been fendant told the Police that he had public school, or pitied in his more If they don't accept lower wages and workers to come to their senses."

fitfully occupied these several years been married to a European girl who expansive moments the existence of in delivering 'Casual

Verdicts had died in Shanghai in child birth. his employee-comparatively up lower standard of comfort, as to

through the columns of a morning He had given the Police considerable educated, unappreciative of pleasure enable their masters to underbid the

paper, writing a weekly comic article trouble, and they hoped a serious or of Beauty, unable usefully to At the Marine Court this morning, for an evening paper, preaching a view would be taken of the case.

employ his leisure, too tired at the the Japanese master of the steamer few sermons, and managing the Mr. Hutchison sentenced defendant end of a day to do'aught but eat and

Africa Maru," was charged before school at which little Irene was so to six months hard lahpur.

sleep, too fearful of discharge ever to Captain Baal Taylour, R.N., Marine savagely beaten for counding to ber Another charge of obtaining $5. protest until his Union helps him. Magistrate, with failing to exhibit mates the romance of her formimis from a man in respect of a steamer Liberty is a more "abstract idez, the regulation lights on board the ss's secret adventures by the sea-passage to Shanghai was withdrawn. because it seems 50 often ship, in the harbour of the Colony at

merely negative... But Liberty 5.30 a.m., on Nov. 19.

as a positive conception was The accused pleaded not guilty."

the motive

the power of P. C. Wilson of the Water Police really should have seen; but twenty

French Revolution, of the · Italian said that whilst on patrol in the one strokes in public is a barbarous

wars, of the present Russian chaos. - reprisal for the offence involved, small hours of the morning of the whatever it might have been. Such received at the United States Consutions and regulations so nearly les

The telegram quoted below was And the foolishly irritating restric 19th inst.. he discovered that the

Africa Maru" was in total dark punishments produce in the moral late from the Manila Observatory at to a blaze in England beside which Mr. T. Daniel Frawley's talentedness, not a single light being visible.nicle as happening in the physical typhoon West of the Ladrone or but a glow worm, that only the. sphere what newspapers oftest chro 7.25 pm. November 20, Cyclone or the Chartist riots would have seemed company presented to a large He boarded the vessel and spent "house

at the Theatre Royal last quire a long time on board before he world, of highly successful operations Mariana Islands moving Northwest facility of the politicians in making

performed by skilled surgeous but or north-northwest. SIR DAVID shows that The Times night James Forbes' London and found a man to whom he complained with the inevitable result of the BRUCE was inspired to suggest New York success entitled " The of the offence and informed him that patients' succumbing to the skil of an African expedition Chorus Lady." It was a piece which be was going to prosecute the master. the surgeons and the wondrous by Sir David Bruce, but there is no entailed some clever acting on the The defendant said the quart success of the operations. In the harm in that, if the inspiration be part of Miss Beatrice Prentice whose ermaster changed the lights at 3 am. case under reference, the analogy good. Africa really is capable of abilities as the leading lady are now He did not know how they went out. would be truer if we substituted Mr. Lloyd George's part helping to replace the waste of war, recognized by Hongkong theatre He was not aware of the fact that butcher for

surgeon,' because BACK SIDE in the Parliamentary but there will have to be continued goers. Mies. Vera Doria who had there were no lights burning.

debate about our policy war on Africa's peculiar diseases, the misfortune to sprain her ankle

His. Worship said he held the there appears to have been an assi

tant butcher' employed during the in Russia reminds us of and nothing seems to have been on the previous right filled the part defendant responsible. He could

operation, instead of an anaesthetic. the Irishman who put his trousers done for years in that line. The of Sylvia Simpson the Prima Donna imagine bimself that it was a dan wrong side about, so that report pigeonboted in 1914 will be of the show, and although she had to gerous thing for a ship to be without his wife didn't know whether out-of-date by now, as the Times limp rather painfully on to the stage lights in a crowded harbour like he was coming home of going suggests, and there is no man more with the aid of a stick, she very Hongkong's. He would be fined $50sion on the court that, under similar (Capt.), A. N. Other, Ireland, Wey-counterrevolutionaries.

as peppery competent for the job of submitting Pluckily got through her part with

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EBUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."

Bonazoso, FRIDAY, Nov. 21, 1919.

ONIONS.

ADVERSARIA.

Well, the Onion Club

had its monthly dinner

last night and the

Churchill, who will have to go sooner than the others. It is a rotten and Indefensible system that has grown up, and dragged them into its net. by which Parliament is ignored or fouted. We shall not be satisfied until we get a Cabinet that is abse

ut-ly answerable and responsible to Americans, they will have to "fill Parliament. The tendency for the their bellies with the east wind." It Executive to grab more and more looks as if the worker has to starve power is dangerous, and has reached either way, so we advise him to such lengths at Home now that choose the quicker way.

many people who otherwise would dread the prospect of a Labour Government are now ready to wel

*THE CHORUS LADY."

China Mail man, after some sharp come one. By the way, latest ad- THE FRAWLEY COMPANY. argument, was not expelled. We vices from Home, from a well-inform did'nt think he would be. The Onioned source, are that a Labour Govern- Eaters as a rule have too much sense ment is now as certain as Christmas, to be so small minced. Onions bare and nearly as imminent. If this be caused more tears than grief; and so, we may as well be prepared for the secretary's letter, we now suspect, had more advertisement than anger in it. To show that we mean well by the Club, we now enlist the aid

of our China Mail poets. The Club should have its own song.

Come, ye Poets, serious and

funny ung

Make them a song, a song about

FRONT.

to work.

onions.

He was

it out here. What are we going to

do about it? What can we do?

." To-day's telegram

MARINE COURT.

JAPANESE MASTER FIÑED.

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To-night "Forever After," will be staged.

UNION CHURCH THREE QUARTER CENTURY FUND.

another than Surgeon General Sir cut a hitch. David Bruce. It will probably tura out that his preparations are all in train for the expedition, anyway, and that all the Colonial Office has

as a Welsh rabbit in describing the wickedness of the Bolsheviks, and in the same breath earned applause by an emphatic declaration that he was not going to do another thing against them. That a foreign thing to do is to foot the bill. Sir David, WHERE DID THE FLAG GO?"Wellwisher"', happens to be bad is no reason why who was born in Melbourne in 1855, we should spend our blood and trea- knows Africa well. He was director sure to suppress it; but if Bolshevism of the Uganda. Sleeping Sickness is as dangerous to us as Mr. Lloyd | Commission in 1903, 1909 10, and in George and his friends have said it Nyasaland 1911-14. He also served is, they should spend our last man in the South African war. and last shilling in destroying it, before giving up. He boasted that we had done more against it than all

the others combined, and he gave as

a reason for doing no more that

We hope that the Ame

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MYSTERY OF A KOWLOON.

CLUB.

Four young men baptized in Union Church $250 each... Mr. A. Rodger "Spero" Mr. & Mrs. C. C. Hickling Mr. A. R. Austin/........

AMERICA ricans of the future and staff mysteriously disappeared Mr. E. J. Chapman

Rev. J. K Maconachie ............... Mr. 1. B Chapman......... McH. M. McTavish Mr. E B Cubey...............

AND THE may not have cause to from

L.ON.

well

It is reported that the flag, halyard

the premises of a feel ashamed of the known club in Kowloon. It is Russia was too big to be conquered. towards the Peace Treaty. It is a occurred, the details of which we are Mr. Wra. Dickson

action of the Senate assumed that one of two things Mr Walter Brown That is no way for an Englishman great pity, a very great pity. Apart quite unable to give. All the same, Mr. 3. C. Ferguson ..... to talk Eh? Mr. George not an from the political embarrassment of we are inclined to think that it was Mr. W. Fraser****** ** Englishman? Who said he was?

Europe, about which no American a bit of a stuck up job., We are willing to need worry, its effect upon the pro- PARLIAMENT. Confess that we do |gress of the League of Nations, the not belleve Mr. hope of the world and of civilization, George is wholly to blame, nor any may be most harmful. At present it of his colleagues, except perhaps looks disastrous. The horrible thing

WALLA WALLA" Motor boats

mes built for yeu savie

Mr. P. Plage.

Amounts already acknow

ledged

side. Perhaps, the girl reported a great deal more than she really saw, and saw a great deal more than she

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TYPHOON WARNING.

FOOTBALL.

HONGKONG CLUB A. v.

UNITED F.C.

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and breaking promises saved them..

Russia, then, has put into practice the ideals for which we have all been striving-all, that is, but the honest few who regard privilege and class distinction as essential to the great- ness of a nation. They are honest. there is no argument for them but the argumentum ad baculum.. Rus The following will represent thesia has given her land to the pes what surprises us is that the accused club on Saturday, 22nd November, sants, and the peasants. firm for the expressed no word of regret for her on the Military Ground. Kick-off first time in actual ownership, have conduct, but rather left the impres at 2.30 p.m.-McKenzi, Diekee proved an unbendable barrier to the provocation, she would rep at the man. Carriere. Borgsen, Pilger, Young, given her workmen offence on any other victira that fell McKenzie and Meffan. into her bands: The fear is in- tensified by the fact that the manager

She has

control of.. the factories, and Koltchak and Denikin, backed by British arms and British money, have evacuated Omar of the school considers the brutality notice for trying to uphold at all costs quality and quantity of output under and, Kieff. So mach for the quite proper and deserved, and is, the prestige of his race even where the control of the workers. $1,000.00 therefore, unlikely to exercise any it was.23 clear 43 daylight But alas "There was British, restraint on the accused. His declara to any one that the act complained French and American capital m 1,000.00-tion under oath of the tightness of of was a particularly ruthless kind those factories, and that is lost. 500.00 the accused's action must be proof crime to commit on a child of So America declines conferences with 300 00 foundly shocking to the conscience tender years, and as the magistrate Bolsheviks, England and France 300.00 of the whole Christian community pointed out, delicate and frail in send their sons to Russia and cry 200.00 whose reputation for refinement and form The solemn chanting of the "Peace" from the housetops. But 10000 cultural development is not likely doxology before the perpetration of there is no Peace. 100.00 anywise to be flattered by it. In all the cruelty recalls to us the tale of 5000 probability, the recent example of the Putumayo atrocities, ne told in 5000 the Anglican Church and of the the columns of Truck of the 3000 Baptist Missionary Society in con- Spanish slayer's signing himself with 3000 nection with the European Associathe Cross before driving the machete 27.69 flou's remorial on the riots has been into the side of his victim, or mutter 25.00 100 powerful for Wesleyan Methodism ing a short Ladin prayer in prepara. 2500 to resist the impulse to throw in its tion for the fullest assault on her. I may be impossible to provitam 25.00 lot with aggressive Christianity as We wonder what little Irene under be prepared for it, Chang thain's Paig -nocident: but it is not unDSZÍNEIRO" practised in this country by some stands of the ceremony of blessing Balm is not beyond anvende pure, and 3,500.00 foreign priests; and we, therefore, and praising God and then raising with bottle of this lintment you are cannot single out for blame the blisters on her peran with twenty prepared for almost anything. For sale 7,262.69 clerical witness in the case under one strukea of a two-fect cane?: by all Chemists mad torekeepery?

SOLON.

Hongkong, Nov. 19, 1919.

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN,

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