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secréts. All of which makes the letters M. D. D. C. Ltd, they SPECIAL CABLE. think he ought to, go back to it, or said. Was it dat perhaps MDCCLA look under it, or something.

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annus 1750 In that case the original During November Owner has no further use. for it. The LEGAL ROBBERY, the Bank of Eng woman told a not utterly unbeliev

land rate was in-4ble story of where she found it. Ten creased to six per cent. That makes dollars or 21 days for ten cents worth the Government's borrowings more of ownerless iron seems not quite. expensive, and as the Coalition Gang are the most reckless borrowers we ever had, the dnfortunate taxpayer is bound to get a compound fracture of the prosperous bone, and phlyc tenular conjunctivitis of the purse. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. the gifted Austen: Chamberlain, who certainly would never be trusted to

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Today's dollar is worth 5s, 534.

and an effective gold standard re resume duty socn. stored. That, you will observe, is the precise equivalent of saying that

A PORTUGUESE CHAMBER OF

COMMERCE.

DIRECT STEAMER SERVICE TO PORTUGAL.

[China Mail SPECIAL].

CHINESE GENERAL SHOT.

→TUESDAY, · · FEBRUARY 8, 1920..

MOTOR FATALITY.

A DIVIDED VERDICT.

ARMED ROBBERY.

MISCREANTS GET CLEAR AWAY.

Before Mr. J. R. Wood, in his

An armed robbery is reported to capacity as Coroner, and a jury com- have taken place on the first Boor of posed of Messrs. C.H.W. Kew, D. J. No. 184, Des Voeux Road, at about Murphy and J. F. de Souza, late 7.45 p.m. yesterday. The premises. yesterday afternoon, the hearing was are occupied by the Hop Wo firm, concluded in connection with the dealers in shark firs. Four men gain- SHANGHAI, Feb. 3. enquiry held into the circumstances) ed admittance to the premises under On the eve of the departure' for the attending the death of a Chinese who the pretext tha: they wanted to see the homeland of the Portuguese, consul, was knocked down in Praya East on master of the shop. Once in the pre- a valedictory luncheon was given by January 22, by motor car No. 241.mises, two of them produced revol We are glad to learn that Inspecteresting scheme was outlined for the

the Portuguese community. An in-owned by Mr. A.M.L.. Soares.

vers, and the other daggers, and with run a branch of the Chartered Bank, for Kent of No. 2 Police Station has establishment of a Portuguese than as to the nature of the injuries, and his fokis, threatening to shoot then if After Dr. Scott had given evidence these they terrorized the master and says nothing matters very much so sufficiently improved to be discharged ber of commerce, for steamers direct a Chinese had given evidence of they raised an alarm. long as credit inflation is reduced from hospital. He will be able to between Portugal and the Far East, identification, another witness cave men guarded the terror stricken in- Whilst wo the formation of a bank and insurance evidence and said he was in a timber mates of the shop, the other two can- The war has created yard, when he was called by one of sacked the place and breaking open company etc. a stimulus to Portuguese aspirations,

his fokis. He went out into the rot d. two boxes. they extracted $1,100 in and there saw the deceased lying in notes. A fifth man, who was armed the middle of the read, in an uncon with a dagger, stood on guard on the scious condition. There was a motor staircase whilst his confederates ran- car standing nearby. Assisted by sacked the premises. He was accost- his fokis, witress removed deceased to the side of the road. neighbouring shop, who suspecting theed on the staircase by a foki of the SHANGHAI, Feb. 3. When the deceased shot by an unknown assailant in the too to hospital, and called in anarined, this man was handicapped General Tsang Mang-kia, who was consciousness, be refused stubbornly door. went over to investigate. Being recovered that every thing was not all right next French concession on Thursday, died Chinese doctor to attend him. He in his fight with the guard, but never- in hospital on Saturday, He was died on the following morning. Hetheless, he grappled with him pluck- We had to pour gold over them of the Hongkong University, will | Anhui, and was prominent during the was, with the assistance of another he was stabbed in the back by the. Professor G. W. Ferguson, M. A., formerly a revolutionary general in was a foks of the timber yard, andily, and in the course of the struggle,

"Lord Dunsany: The revolution. The murder was due to about 25 feet long to a neighbouring fiki. carrying a plank measuring

He raised an alarm, and other man. No trace of the

timber yard at the time of the ac- the robbers dacamped. When the cident. T

Police arrived, the wounded man was The boy who helped the deceased removed to the hospital. His condi- to carry the plank, gave corroboration is not considered serious. The tive evidence.

robbers who got away immediately Miss Edith Soares then went into after the alarm was given made good the witness box, and said she was on their escape. Although the Police her way to the French Convent are making investigations, they are School at Causeway Bay in motor car handicapped by the absence of clues. They

A big lot of silver burgled from it doesn't matter about the patient the house of Mr. Edney Page of being dangerously ill if he would only Shanghai has been recovered by the get better. The simple fact is that police. They found it on a whart. 25 things are there can be no waiting to be shipped away. deflation of credit, for currency notes are still being issued ad lib. and they are credit's prime indaters The obstacle to the other thing, the getting back to a gold basis, is that

those nations with whom our trade balance is favourable show a shy reluctance to part with their gold.

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Communicable disease in to-day's return, nil. Last week we had a case of smallpox, two of diphtheria, one of scarlet fever, four of enteric, and four of cerebrospinal fever."

during the war for it was said we must) in order to "adjust" exchange;] lecture on

[China Mail SPECIAL]

and the "adjustment" is still as Man and his Work" at the Helena political motives. much in view as a patch on a May Institute at 5.30 pm, to-murderer has been discovered. prominent part of a man's clothes morrow. when he is stooping to pick up a

Ltd pingpong ball. The increased Bank

will commence on MONDAY, February 2nd.. and continue for Three days only.

LADIES'

WINTER COATS, COSTUMES, GOLFERS,

FOR SETS. 25%

DISCOUNT.

GREAT BARGAINS IN THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT.

BIRTH,

JONES. On January 23, at Shang- hai, to Captain. and Mrs. Revan Jones, a son.

DEATHS.

KEMPFFER.-On January 23, at San

rare would be meant to re-attract gold. It didn't.

open windows, etc., to-day began with

WHERE а

The Annual Meeting of Union Church seatholders will be held to- morrow (Wednesday) evening at 94 o'clock in the Church Hall for the pur-j pose of electing officers and receiving the Balance Sheet for 1919.

OUR SHANGHAI CORRESPONDENT IS MOYED.

CHINA MAIL SPECIAL.]"

SHANGHAI. Feb. 3.

An awful tragedy was witnessed in No. 241 on the morning in question. No arrests have been made. broad daylight in the French conces-when the accident occurred. The don't even know which way the rob sion. A Chinese about thirty years deceased and another bey, who were bers went. of age fall on to the roadway from the carrying, between them, a long second storey of the great world plank.stopped in the middle of the building. Death was instantaneous road, as the car approached them. His identity has not been established. The chauffeur moderated the speed of the car, and sounding his born. and it is not known whether it was a suicide case or an accident.

was in the act of passing them, when FORECLOSURE ON A MORTGAGE. they ran forward, and the collision occurred.

REMINISCENCES OF

CHINA.

LORD FISHER'S "RECORDS."

certain a

Was

amount of neg

not

A SHIPPING ACTION.

Mr. Alabaster: I was on the deep.

being unable to attend Court yester- This arose out of Mr. Alabaster day owing to his being fog bound.

After four days of un THE FLU. seasonable warmth, cul- minating yesterday with an apparent temperature that f

Consigriees of cargo ex 5.3. led people to adopt lighter clothing. "Muncaster Castle" are reminded a distinctly "parky" feel, and muters that all cargo remaining undelivered and heavy coats reappeared. The after February 4 will be subjected to day also began with a cablegram an-rent. Claims against the steamer Douncing that influenza is rife all for broken, chafed and damaged over the world again. It is almost goods, will not be recognized after more trouble to keep alive these days February 20. than it is worth.

The Hongkong Tramway Com- Lloyd's Weekly noticed pany took $12,798 in the week ending

The chauffeur stated in his evid In the Supreme Court this morning WHOEVER in John Bull a state- January 31. In the same week of last

ence, which corroborated what Miss before the Chief Justice. Sir William ment about Hong-year they took $4,551 more than

Soares had said, that he slowed down Rees-Davies, K.C., a case was heard kong's requirements in the line of that, but it happened last year to be

the car when he got near the in which the China Horg. Nin Life outspoken journalism, and comment the Chinese New Year week, which

deceased. The fatter ran in Insurance Company, Ltd., and Li ed as follows:-There is a great falls later this year. The aggregate

front of the car, and the collision Ling Ku, claimed $144,910.85 from deal of truth in what the anonymous receipts for five weeks were $64,824.

took place. He travelling the s.s. "Mo Hon on a mortgage contributor says as to the needs of or $6,071 less than in the correspond-

at about 10 iniles an hour for principal, interest, payment of Lord Fisher is now publishing some before the accident. He first saw wages and insurance. the Crown Colony, The Governmenting period of 1919.

"Records" in. The Times, and in the deceased when he was about system has been a farce for years,

them he tells us:-My Arst chance two feet away from the car. He did structed by Mr. A. E. Hall, appeared Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., in- monopolies rule the place, a few in-

Messra. Macmillan & Co., Ltd,came wher. Admiral Hope sent me to his best to avert the collision by for plaintiffs, the action being heard dividuals have cornered everything, have in preparation a Dictionary of command a vessel in Chinese waters applying the brakes to the car. the Chinese are only permitted to Applied Physics, to be issued pro- on special service.

Had hve. there and pay, many of the bably in four volumes, under the "Favouritism is the secret of e-would have been no collision.

His motto was the deceased stopped running, there ex parte. officials have done remarkably well editorship of Sir Richard Glazebrook, ciency," and though I was only 19

His Lordship, on taking his seat, ber of Russians in a certain hospital. during the war-some of them being who will have the assistance of a he put me over the heads of many the evidence, the jury deliberated not wrecked. Mr. Alabaster.

After the Coroner had reviewed remarked I am glad to see you were 'We have no Russians said the credited with the collection of three, number of distinguished contributors older men because he believed that for a few minutes and then Mr. matron. Oh, but you have," said tour and even five salaries a month. The work is intended to include the I should do what I was told to do, and Kew announced that two of the in the perils of the deep.

Mr. Alabaster: I was in a thick fog. the lady. Just now I asked that No gorerament by the people. Off range of physical science in its ap-carry out the orders of the Admiral jurors were of opinion that there.

His Lordship: I am told you were one what his name was, and he cialdom. There is only one man in plication to engineering and manu regardless of consequences. And so was answered "Buzzoffyewench." (WeHongkong who could and would facture; it will cover,therefore, at did, although I made all sorts of ligence which, however, did have, in spite of our respect for lash out at things and individuals wide ground, and needs the co-opera- mistakes and nearly lost the ship. amount to grose negligence, on the Truth, taken the liberty of camouflag there. He is a newspaper man, too. tion of many writers. ing slightly the patient's idiom.) Name, in confidence."

It should When I came back everyone seemed part of the chauffeur. The other appeal to many workers, for the fact Well, such tara diddles are harmless

to expect that I should be tried by juror opined that the chauffeur had Opening his case Mr. Alabaster enough; but many other newspaper

After all, Hongkong is that scientific investigation and in Court Martial; but the Admiral only exercised all possible care to avert said this was an Admiralty action for lies are not. We have exposed HONGKONG to live in.

most delightful place quiry form the foundations of new cared that I had done what he wanted the unfortunate accident.

the closure of a mortgage on a ship Newspapers methods of manufacture and are done; and then he gave me command several. lies about Bolshevist

His Worship accepted the divided for the non-payment of the principal SCORES seem always bound to 7 required before any marked advance of another vessel, atrocities, which the papers who

verdict, and thanking the jurors, sum, interest and certain expenses to printed them never troubled to retract News is scanual and evil;

the dark side. is possible is now very fully

realised. It is hoped, in the various reminiscence concerning one of the Lord "Fisher gives an interesting

discharged them.

which the mortgagees had been put. Now at last we have seen

There had been no appearance; and an 13 goud news They give you sections of the Dictionary, not only official retraction of a lie that has stories of armed robbers, armed to supply up-to-date information as first of his captains, who was the

an order was obtained on January .. gone the rounds about Germany's microbes and germs, crimes.

and to what has been done in the past, seventh son of the last Vice-Chancel-

for the case to be proceeded with ex A BROTHEL THIEF. secret army. Watch the other China rugueries, house shortage, rice short but also to give some indication of lor of England, Sir Lancelce Shadwell.

parte. On December 1918 a mori- ccast papers, and you won't see any age. They tell the worst pioneering directions for further pro-

He writes:-

gage was entored into between plain- of thera publish the retraction. And all the white. Hongkong has a gress. The present is a suitable time

Shadwell's appearance on going into Before Mr. J. R. Wood this morn which they were to pay $60,000 dowis tiff and the owners of the ship, under though they have reprinted the lie marvellous capacity for joy, which springing up, did industries are being a Chinese river to capture a pirate with the theft from a broth a whole nat. to exceed $150,000. The Winston Churchill himself in the fis your true wealth.

We went up ing, a Chinese youth was charged and any further sums as required, the for such a work; new industries are a fight I must describe. House of Commons has denied that us, seem to live joyously.

We do, all of there is azy truth in those stories of

reconstructed, and there are few stronghold. Presently, the pirates No. 20, Temple Street, Yaumati, of whate amount was not required and which do not involve some process or opened fire from a banana plantation blanket. He pleaded "not guilty.". Lloyd George has processes based on the discoveries of on the river bank, We nipped ashore One of the inmates of the brethel the mortgagees advanced the sum of LLOYD GEORGE! a bad Press for physics. Pure science, as the pre from the boats to the banana planta-said that at about 6.20 am. she the various amounts advanced. One $130,000. There were receipts for Manchester sident of the Royal Society stated tion. I remember I was armed to returning to her cubicle from the army to speak of, says our ene and hand fairly plainly. He wants to revolution could not be true. Germany has no speech. He seems to have shown his some little time back, may cause a the teeth, like a Greek brigard, all kitchen, when she saw two people month's notice had to be given before only War Lord Winston, on the very hold office, no matter with what sup will be the object of the Dictionary down with my weapons.

in an industry. It swords and pistols, and was weighed going down the staire. She took no the mortgage was called in and this "Editor of the China Mail prints at day that Parliament gets Army port. Defending the Coalition, he to indicate in a concise form the shelter in the banana plantation, but however, she found that her blanket had taken possession of the ship they

We took notice. When she get into her cubicle had been done.

Since the plaintiffs'

for the current year to be £405,000, governed unless somebody coalesced advances of physics to trade and shall never forget it. He was dress-street but could in the crest, the box, and said the owner of the ship Estimates showing our army outlay asked how the country was to be application of the most recent our Captain stood on the river bank. was missing. She ran down to the bad incurred expenses for upkeep.

The second plaintif went into the ed in a pair of white trousers, yellow Whilst she was in the street, waistcoat, and a blue tail coat, with beard someone in the house call out had absconded. As to the disposi brass buttons and a tall white hatthief." She ran back to the brothel, tion of the ship winess said plaintiffs with a gold stripe up the side of it, and in the cubicle adjoining hers, she desired it to be sold by public auction, some other Party. If you coalesce HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS. and he was waving a white umbrella found the defendant hiding under with some Party, it means that you

His Lordship observed that Mr. One of our local join forces with some Party of a part

fo encourage us to come out of the the bed. She handed him over to Alabaster would have great difficulty bananas and go for the enemy. He the Police, who came in answer to in persuading him to make any other of whose political creed you profound- poet's wonders why ly disapprove, exactly as they disap former members of the Defence Corps think rather against our inclinations.

Notices are being circulated to all had no weapon of any sort.

the alarm.

After Chinese constable `had Judgment was entered for plaintifs difference between the truth and China Mail: We cannot very well sounds very sensible, and if he bad Colony in which applicants who del pretty thick) we all had to come out the brothel to look for a friend. He

publish any more poemas in the of a part of yours." That and to the principal firms in the as the gingall bullets were flying about deposed to taking the defendant into and an order was made for the ship to

custody, the latter said he went to be sold by public-auction. the whole truth, or why would the publish any more until some more sped there, he might have been sire to be enrolled in the New Volun- ard, go for the Chir-se. Courts have the well known come in Apparently the holidays

Bat he went on teer Forte are requested, to state Chinese guns were hing at us, and was not hiding under the bed. He SHANGHAL OBIEE 1. ASE.

Once the admitted being in the cubicle, but he formula. for the adjutation of wit upset the divine affiatus and sickened in for Kut that argument alto

as the shelf whizzed over the boat we knew nothing about the stoler nesses? The papers must not tell

the Muse. The only thing resem.coalition, with Labour was

gether, and went on to say that a) the whole truth, or where would we

bling a poem we have seen for some sible" unless they agreed "with" impos be? That is all right, and can pass.

time was labelled A Ballade of

Do we agree with everything in the

Francisco. Edmond Kempfer. MACGREGOR.On. January 26, at Shanghai, Frances Alice Begbie, wife of D. MacGregor, Superin- tendert of Parks and Open Spaces; aged, 39 years.

The China Mail.

* TRUTH, JUSTICE, "PUBLIC SELVION.'

.HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEB. 3, 1920.

TRUTH

Truth, justice, public service."

That is the daily reminder which the

the head of this column as а

guide for bis contributory writers. Does he really mean it? Within reason,, within reason," he says, impatiently, when the Fourth Leader Writer wants to be as candid as a fig in a barrel of molasses. And he waves a lordly hand, grabs a pencil as blue as a Winning Post story, and in two strokes robs Hongkong of a sensation that would make fem talk

for nine days, and probably put him

in jail for nine months. There -is a

Germany's hidden arroies. Sir Frederick Maurice not only said they. were not true: he added that they'

000!

ADVERSARIA.

POETRY..

we have ceased to

present

you

his

You cannot govern except by a manufacture. Farliamentary majority, and I cannot

see à Parliamentary majority unless same Party is going to coalesce with

difficult to answer.

whether they wish to be enrolled in

(a) The Artillery Company, (b) The Engineer Company.

(c) The Machine Gun Company.

will consist of,

So (1

order.

all ducked. "Lay on your cars, my blanket. men," said Shadwell; and proceeded to explain very deliberately how duck-one of being on the premises for thefing Constable Allen (charged with a

His Worship altered the charge to The Judge at Shanghai, in discharg

Some of them don't seem to worry Tripe," and Trotski got that. To-day everything in the Labour party. (d) The Infantry Battalion which {ing delayed the progress of the beat purpose of committing a larceny. big theft of opium) said, Allen, Instry. about fragments of it. We bare just to show that we have no serious Labour party?" he demanded. They

dislike of portry, we retrieve from

of matter with a double headline, our WPB two joyous jingles by

purporting to tell "how a Britisher Brother Hill.

luffed the Bolsheviks." It was told let us be careful, and say it is

reported to have been told--at the

PROSE.

The same gentleman fevours us with an essay about his bed

Victory dinner of the Gaelic Society. He says it has eight sides, six ot

H

Lloyd George agrees with everything

in the Tury party.

OUTSPOKEN ESSAYS.

(it) A Light Infantry Company. (1) A mounted Infantry Company.

(ii) An Infantry Company.. iv) A Scottish Company. (v) A Portuguese Company... (vi) A Reserve Company. (Longmans, six bob)Applicants are also invited to state

A new book of old essays by Dean Inge

is en titled "Outspoken what name they suggest for the new

af London by Sir William Sutherland which are equal to their opposites. M.P.An Englishman got aboard atrain The other two are not being the Essays" The title is quite good. We Corps. at Budapest. Bela Kun's Bolsheviks inside and the outside. As he quotes desire to show more restraint in The notice, states that members asked him questions, He had to Oliver Lodge we suspect he wants to praising the contents. For example, under 40 will not be allowed to join passport, and a friend with him told pull the legs of our readers, which He says. To all appearance man the reserve Infantry Company unless them to Buzz off." These words cannot be permitted. Those legs has still a great part of his long for special approved reasons, that the made "a great impression." They are sacred: The bed, has legs, but lease before him, and there is no Machine Gun Company will be armed pasted a notice on the window, and never uses them says he, which is reason to suppose that the future with Vickers Machine Guns and that locked the carriage door.. The notice surely a stromary error. It uses will be less productive of moral and Lewis Guns will be provided for the said: "This compartment is reserved them all the time they perpetually spiritual triumphs than the past." It the infantry platoons, that only men for Count Buzzo" One wanders carry, its weight, He might just as couldn't, you know, very well be less physically fit and capable of going Why Bolsheviks should have treated well say it has castore, but amese count politely. One wonders never takes castorch Although it

That was the headline across country anywhere should join BUT WHY 7 cter a China Mail story the Light infgany Company Sign at the credulity of the Pressmen who contains: the brains of all the world, print and reprint these fairytales. he says, it has no brains, yet it has told how a Chinese woman way Ened

yesterday, a story that allers will be required for the various There isn't, of course, a word of truth head; and although it has four 310, with the option of 21-days in in it. It is a poor echo of that war legs it has only one footHe guesses fail for the unlawful possession of chestnut, about the lady who rei must be a Mason, because it is hammer head: No other owder could Spend your Evenlogs in a * WALLA marked to the matron on the num on the square" and keeps its be found. The piece of iron bare

WALLA" Launch.

...

had stopped its progress altogether i

apparently unaware that his lecture and sentenced the defendant to one glad to be able to discharge you and,

THE MAGIC KISS

month's hard labour.

ARMED FOOTPAD.

though it is entirely contrary to my usual practice, I wish to jerress my concurrence" in the verdict of the jury. I do so because your position is one of great difficulty in view of A highway robbery is reported by that the opinion of one who has your being in the police and think

Do'st haunt me always so it seems," Hapsang" who alleges that whilst and given it very anxious considera a cook employed on board the ss listened very carefully in the evidence

When waking, sleeping, or in dreams

Thy face I see,

So must it be

And ask me off that question sweet

Will you be truc?

Those lips-shaped like an Angel's

i

Those wondrous eyes, so blue and at about 8pm., yesterday, he was at occasion. I don't think it is neces- be was walking along Aberdeen Street ion should be expressed on such an deep,

tacked by an armed man at the junc-sary for me, to warn you against of $98 in bank notes. The Folice shortly, because I feel it for your They search me through:

tion with Gough Street, and-relieved foolishness in the future, but I do sa

arrest has yet been made. are making lovestigations, but no good and I have said it in case by any chance, it should be needed coat believe it is, and I trust you will be able to hold up your head as an old soldier who has distinguished himself and that the verdict of the jury will enable you to resume your duty as a police officer, and I trust you may be successful in your calling."

Yet after that Allen was discharged from the Police Force.

That one grand thrill of perfect bliss

I long to feel:

That seems so real.

A

When thou do'st fel me, pretty Miss, ¦: Just one kiss éteska Ne

'Tis heaven such times as this,

And all wounds heat.

-WILLIAM HILL

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