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SHANGHAL, Feb. 5.

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SHANGHAI Feb. 4..

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1920,"

COMPANY MEETING.

KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING CO. LTD.

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This improvement enables us to pay a dividend of $3.00 per share, a figure which has not been teached since the year 1914.

a redevelop

THE ENERGY OF THE ΑΤΟΜ.

Is there any concealed store of energy recently discovered and not yet utilised? There is indeed. There

that heavy atoms may become lighter atoms, and in so doing must give off a definite proportion of their great

out moral stigma. All it means is

You will recollect that at "our general meeting last year the Chair man stated that the suggestion had keen made that by ment of our property the com. pany would reap greater benefit. matter, but in view of the existing store of energy- Your Directors have gone into this scarcity of houses in Kowloon they have come to the conclusion that the times are inopportune for the pulling down and rebuilding of cur existing cided to postpone for the present any houses and they have therefore de action in this direction.

There is, however, no question that something of this nature must even tually be taken in hand. Meantime the property is being thoroughly re novated at considerable cost.

an embargo on handkerchiefs, all the because the character and diction of men in the Manchester mills would his letter betrays sufficient. It out of their noses. If we have the begins: "A recent issue of the | best "geographical position," if we China Mail, Hongkong, contained have unrivalled facilities, we will the surprising information that one Always have the made. We have no of the two best leader-writers in the Flear of that.

Orientis Editor-Young of Kobe It-f . But now

to the point says one of the things the writer has where the botch was really made, always detested to do is to indulge

The annual general meeting of the are two-one certain, the other Granting for the sake of argument that in personalities--and then plunges Major McBain

above Company was held, in the rather hypothetical: 'the energy of was yesterday Company's Offices, Victoria Buildings, the Atom and the energy of the We don't awarded [presented with ? his force to-day, Mr. T. F. Hough presiding. Ether. I propose to say nothing the correct policy was to let exports into 'em bald headed. and gamblers alone, and to control share that conting objection to per and military crosses at Sir Everard The others present were Messrs. G. about etheric energy. If it exists, as prices locally, did the Government sonalities. The Bible is full of them. Fraser's residence, in the ale presence W. Barton, J. Rodger and T. EI think it does, it is enormous, ex- enter the rice marker wisely? Did it All straightforward writing consists of a distinguished gathering. He Pearce (Directors) W. J. Wilkinson,ceeding the bounds of imagination to make a botch of it? Didn't it of them. Eulogies are personalities. has a splendid record. He brought L. S. Greenhill and R. Tatam (share but at present it is utterly beyond. even forget its own policy of non-Who objects to them? However...

down thirteen enemy planes, and holders) and M. S. Northcote our reach. Atomic energy is rather interference by commandeering stocks

We propose to be as led the squadron in the final rout of (Secretary).

Inaccessible too, but not hopelessly theld for export, thereby endangering

personal" about the Bulgarians. He was recently The Chairman said-Gentlemen, so. It is far less in amount than contracts? Didn't its advent as # JACKANAPES. this jackanapes, this elected vice president of the Shang The report and accounts having been etherial energy, but it is immense buyer make the gamblers busier and

batter in, as we would hat Aero. Club. He has ordered a happier than ever, and shove up the be about Judas Iscariot, or Jack the private aeroplane which is shortly in your possession for some days ear compared with any form of chemical

be taken as read.

or molecular energy, such as that ulready sky high prices? Is it dot Ripper, or any other popular hero, arriving,

The net profit for the year derived from combustion or ex- fact that the mere publication in the beesuse (if he isn't a hireling dummy

$18.92246 shows a slight improve plosives. China Mail of the proposal to restrict put up to throw stones for somebody

ment over the previous year mainly By atomic energy I mean the con- exports fetched the prices down a bit. eise) his impudence in daring 10

due to a decrease in the repairs bill,stitutional energy of an atom-the onis to be shoved up again by the pretend to have an opinion on such a

Rent account itself being only about energy which makes it what it is. If Government's actions? Grant thar subject deserves a whipping. His

$1,600 better.

this energy is given up in any con- there was a chance of scaring away English is not good enough. His

siderable degree the substance ceases only for a tine seme of our entrepôt intellect would be more appropriately

to be what it was, and becomes a trade in rice, wasn't it a certainty that occupied in a rabbit hutch, separating

substance lower down in the scale. by the procedure adopted we should good lettuce from bad. It is as plain.

Utilisation of atomic energy would Eise more in a month or two than that as a pikestaff that when we praised

involve the degradation of matter. trade would be worth to us in a year? Mr. Young as a leader-writer we were It was decided at the Cabinet

The term la purely technical-it has The answer is in the affirmative. It thinking of his erudition, his com Meeting that in dealing with the

been already applied to energy with was realized that the Government position, his conspicuous style, and Shantung case moderation should be Codeble not of his personal preferences in observed. Suggestions to take drastic would have to face a Floss. Very well, then, Wasn't u

politics. Yet this journalistic rodent measures will not be accepted. chate and we still insist on it here once touching on his English, and has been abandoned in favour of refers throughout to his politics, only The students decision to strike ludicrous lie. resumption of schooling. They bew

This spontaneously happens in the In 3 long letter of almost ever propose that their spare hours

phenomenon known as radio activity. Babu English. this Kobe be taken up for the delivery of

If it had not spontaneously happened, the Valu-lunatic has the amazing effrenters Speeches to the Pablic.

we should havé knowa nothing about we phrases" Blockhead He says Mr. have jointly telegraphed to all pro to accuse Mr. Young of "stereotyped The Ministers of Finance and War

the energy concealed in an atom. The explosive or radio-active atom Young "delights in emulating the vincial authorities that the military

has given the secret away. All atoms spirit of contradiction." Ass! Of expenditure be reduced to a minimumi

possess energy, but some cannot hold roarse he does, (though "emulating" as the military cost for the 8th year

it all. These are the radioactive wasn't the right word) since he hap of the Republic is already $16,000,000

elements, and they periodically fire pens to be a lonesome learned and above the estimate.

of projectiles with more than vol- Somebody said, the other day, that wise man in the midst of a crowd of

Tientsin is under martial law.

canic violence, A radium atom Whitaker provided interesting jabbering journalistic idiots. Final- It is reported that the Japanese

You have no doubt read a great firing off a particle, which toms out reading. He does! Dealing with ly, Mr. S. R. de C. Josev-nasey suc- Minister at Peking has received in deal in the public press on the to be a positively charged atom of Hongkong. Whitaker says much gests that the China Mail must have structions from his home Govern subject of rent raising in Kowloon helium, is like a two-ton gun firing a eneuragement is viven by the Cev been joking. We were not, and wement to oppose the Shantung case and our property amongst others hundred-pound shot. That is about comment, to educatich in the Colony," are not joking now, when we say being dealt with by Mr. Lu Ching has been referred to. We are not the actual proportion between the Salyingpun School is the tangible proof that the editor of the Kobe Herald Chang, and also to suggest that the concerned with the action of other prejectile and the rest of the atom,

to educa ought to be ashamed of himself for conference for the case be removed companies or individuals, but it may ena uragement

which naturally recoils each time it sion by the Guvernment. Pupils are publishing such a spiteful, stupid to Tokyo.

Admiral Sah Chun Ping, the naval a few words on the subject so far Before it

perhaps be well that I should say fires. The recoil has been observed. turned away and a play ground mea- letter. If no men were employed on

has exhausted its: suring about thirty bv ten yards newspaper staffs in the Far East Minister, proposes to reform the as it concerns ourselves. As far ammunition it fires off Eve jaccommodates over 350 beys. Mat- other than those who could pass Lungkow harbour, Shantung, as a

back as 1914 the monthly rent pre- such projectiles, and then sheds for cless rooms and other in-some test of educational fitness, the naval base.

vailing for each of our houses in settles down into a quieter existence 2d3quare provision for schoolboys, of market value of the few able ones

Knutsford Terrace was $110.00, In as lead-ur, if not exactly lead- a nature calculated to knock the stuff-would be remarkably enhanced. Be-

1915 when about 50% of our tenants something chemically indistinguish- ing out of any enthusiastic school tween the Japan Chronicle (Mr.

from various causes left the colony able from lead. A uranium atom master, constituie the

Young's paper) and the piffling pub- encourage-

and the supply of houses exceeded had already fired off four proiectiles lication in which this offensive criti-

the demand, our rents were some in order to become radium. Radium: cism appeared, the dfference is as

what reduced so as to keep the pre- is a temporary half-way house bet- that between the sun and a tin lan-

raises occupied, but the demand now ween uranium and lead: it is active. Before an audience of about a having exceeded the supply our rents but not so fiercely active as some of hundred people among whom were have automatically rigen until they the intermediate substances which many University students, Prof, are again upon a prewar basis and last so short a time that they barely Ferguson, who arrived here in the they are not in our opinion have, names. They destroy thern? middle of January to teach Education excessive.

selves by their own activity, and] CHARTER PARTY CASE. at the University, gave a most inter The "report" and "Statement of consequently are very scarce-like a

esting talk on Wednesday afternoon accounts were adopted on the pro population with a high death-rate about Lord Dunsany's plays. He intro. position of the Chairman, seconded Radium is of moderate activity: its daced in a concise manner the author by Mr. G. W. Barton,

lifetime is of the order a thousand and his leading ideas, which are a

Mr. G..W. Barton was confirmed years, whereas the lifetime of some of sardonic view of life and a great on the Directorate, on the proposition the intermediate substances may be In the Supreme Court, this morn-love for dream. One of Lord of Mr. Greenhill, seconded by Mr. measured in weeks or even minutes. ing, berore a full Court, the Chief Dunsany's favourite characters' ex

Tatam

Yet they are real elements, with a Justice and Justice Gompertz sitting.cl ims: "There is still place for

Messrs.-T. F. Hough and T. E. place in the series, and they have job to look after ourselves first. last, (although all good judges declare application was made by Toong Yue mystery and wonder of things Pearce were re-elected Directors, definite spectra and chemical pro- and all the time. As for the "policy that an ounce of "dversaria" is Council against the decision of the that

for leave to appeal to the Privy even in this world of science on the proposition of Mr. Rodger,perties. of non-interference." the report itself worth a ton of leader) we take back Full Court of appeal of Hongkong, of his most popular

is "of truth." In one seconded by Mr. Northcote.

Do not suppose that the well-known mentions that the Secretary of State all we have ever said about the delivered on January 17th last, in "The Tents of the Arabs" we see auditor with a remuneration of $50, It would seem that all substances of

comedies

Mr. H. Percy Smith was re-elected radium is an exceptional substance. was told that careful watch was stupidity of leader-writers. Our being kept on exports, the endeavour usually stodgy colleague has achieved the case in which the Castlefield both king and camel-driver lost in the on the proposition of the Chairman, very high atomic weight are liable to behave in this way--it is only a ques normal amounts to, ordinary destina- in his article' on what he calls." General claimed from Toong Yue, lege should not be bestowed on sover! dividend warrants were ready, and means their whole energy that the being to prevent the export of ab-something Uke sraightforward talk Steamship Company and the Attorney world of dreams. But such a privi seconded by Mr. Pearce.

The Chairman announced that tion of degree. And it is not by anj tens, and to limit the exports to coun- rice botch." "Butch" is a good word abipowner of Shanghal, damage for eigns: A King's crown should be rries which did not normally draw on with an expletive value. If we may

tied to a gold chain and a sceptre could be obtamed on application to thus exhibit, it is the energy the Hongkang, etc."

Mr. C. G. Alabaster, on behalf of driven stake-wise into the ground so the office.

! If words have say so without seeming to boast, the applicant said that, under the that a King may be chained to it."

expend and get rid of their was mearings. what was that prevention which would be wrong, he has caught rules they were entitled to appeal, Fortunate wandering camel-drivers:

There being no further business, energy--which we perceive. Af tur interference? What was that something of our own limpid style. the amount involved being consider-

the meeting terminated.

when we speak of their explosion, limitation it no interference?

Elsewhere, the dramatist becomes.

is to be noted that the explosion We All the same, as we said when weably over $5,000, asked the Government, we urged it, refused to tackle that rice report. it

more mocking, let us say: espiele;

not a shattering or bursting of we pleaded with it for a temporary only amounts to

The Hon Mr. Sharp, for the res- "Life" he thinks, "is a gigantic

gun, it is merely the firing of a sh restriction of experts when the crisis milk."

crying over spilt pandent, said they did not object to jcke played by the universe upon

except that in the atomic case became acute, and it was seen that it

the appeal but were entitled to be the plans of men just when the

shot was part of the gun. What a pity "Bene- paid the amount of damages and mortal think all the cards are on

| energy retained is far more than was the only way to thwart the bad men who were gambling with the

dictus" left Hong costs awarded by the Full Court. He the table. there is always just one following donations of clothes and tive transformations have ceased Many thanks are given for the energy expended. And when it people's staple food, starving the We fear they will not appreciate his security and guarantee for repayment a clap. Once more the gods have boots: Mrs.

kong for Shanghai was prepared to supply suitable they reckon without. It falls like labouring classes, spreading disease" poems up there as much as we in the event of the Privy Council been too much for mortals."

Rosser. Kowloon, left it in a stable state, like lea increasing the cost of living all round. did. Here is the concluding stanza reversing their Lordships' decision.

socks; Mrs. Carpenter, 42, Peak, gold, or silver or copper, or 'ird and leading to what the China Mail in of one he has recently plain words foretold. namely rice dedicated to one of the k-sisters." no15. "Pulicy of non-interference By yonder gallant insects on the ... which needs no justification.**{ iea, Such icy impudence leaves us gasping and aghast. Nor can the local Gov- ernment escape censure, as it some- times can and does, by pleading that it was subject to orders from London. This precious report reveals the in- teresting fact that the marter of deal-

OILSKIN COATS

WITH

SOU WESTERS TO MATCH

FOR

DEATH.

BOYS and GIRLS.

JOSEPH.-Mrs. Sophia Joseph, wife of the late Mr. J. A. Joseph. at ber residence. this morning, in Rockymount, Conduit Road. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5 p.m. to-day.. Aged 73

years.

The China Mail.

RUAR, JUSTICE, PUBLIO BERVICE.

HONGYONG, THURSDAY, FEB. 5, 1920.

THE RICE BOTCH, “-

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In spite of the long and glozed apologetics of the Government, art fully withheld until the public had more or less Just interest in the sub- ject, it is generally considered in Hongkong that the Government when dealing with the rice crisis made a batch of it. The China Mall has already called attention to gross care fessness that is nor even mentioned in the Government report. A Government cheque for a very large amount was rendered to a firm that had already been paid, and that re- turned the duplicate payment with an intimation to that effect. We have. now to recall our advice given to the Government at the time. as to how to deal faithfully with the profiteers, to note their lame excuses for not acting upon that advice, and to point out and emphasise the undisguisable fact that the merely hypothetical ad- vantages they claim to have secured

ment," And yet within two minutes' walk of Saivingpur School there exists a buliding, situated in the centre of a vest compound, which is practically unused. We commend these facts to the editor of Whitaker. No doubt the"

ADVERSARIA.

tern.

opens with what amounts to a damag- Government will find it interesting THE CASTLEFIELD ing admission that the Government reading." had carly"warning. This was not so 1 intended. It was apparently an at- tempt to claim credit for prescience} and foresight. Gentlemen, wouldn't that make a cat laugh? They should! have seen the inevitable effects of Japanese buying, and stopped it, for charity begins at Home, and it is their

Having had a peep at WE TAKE the proof sheets of the "leader" which as. sumes pride of place to-day in these columns

IT ALL BACK.

V

SOME FOETRY,

humbly

リ

I swear to own thy honeyed lips

and cheeks,

Sweet earthly paradise that mortal

secks,

Fair Angel of my dreams, I'll find

in thee!

I must be admitted by all lovers.

ing with the rice situation was left to of true poetry that when Benedic

the discretion of the local Govern- tus" gets to gallant. insects on the

by disregarding the China Mull's ment. After that, let us never again lea" he comes well up to scratch. - advice have been dearly bought with complain that we are too much ham-

a loss of somewhat near three mil-pered by the London leading strings. lion dollars. The author of the in- There is evidently something to be

*ed in dollars.

Talk of throwing APOLOGIES. Stunes' and spreading circles! One cannot

APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL.

breach of a Charter Party.

The Application was granted,

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.

THE HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.

LAST NIGHT'S LECTURE.

nature.

SIBERIAN REFUGEES.

Dr. Jordan, pro-vice chancellor of socks; Mrs. Grimshaw and ladies of any common element, we are the University whose short address Quarry Bay, nine pairs of socks: Mrs. suppose that because it is quie Stewart Terrace. Peak, therefore it has no store of in followed that of Prof. Ferguson, Quarles, emphasized the educational value of clothes: Mrs. Chatham, Inverdruie, energy. Appearances are dece these plays which carry you beyond Peak, clothes: Mr. N. J. Stabb, Anyone looking at cordite mere words to things of a higher clothes: Mrs. M. Wheeler, a trunk think it harmless enough, an Both Lord Dunsany's and clothes: Mrs. Ross Thomson, is till a suitable stimulus is a dramas and comedies are being pro- Taikoo, Peak, clothes (2nd donation); It does not, or at least it duced at present with great success Mrs. Kring. 8, Tregunter Mansions, Gunpowder and any other e

wanted to, go off spontar in London and New York. This per Mrs. L. Dunbar, boots and exhibits no trace of its secret shows that the general public is be- clothes; Miss Judah, The Den, Castle inspection: nor do the atod ginuing to appreciate plays with a Read, socks and clothes (3rd dona dinary matter show that thesis intellectual and fancy-tales. tion); Mrs. Pennefather, 6, Observa- tearfully energetic, but the Yesterday the Governor received contrasting with the too popular tory Villas, Kowloon clothes (3rd there.Sir Olivet Lodge in a deputation of the Committee of the gue or emotional plays. The Gods

detective or otherwise pure-intri donation); Anonymous, clothes. It is understood His Excellency Constitutional Reform Association.

There has been received from --- of the Mountains, the Golden Dome

..$10.00

GOVERNOR RECEIVES

DEPUTATION.

"LOGAL' AND GENERAL/

repertoire

CANTON..

Anonymous

.5.00

Girls of Belilios Girls' School

lege per Rev. W. H. Hewitt 28.00

(2nd donation), per Miss E. G. Clarke

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18.50

.$61.50

ing.

CRICKET.

CS.C.C. "A".

REGT. "A

it the The following will and at Civil Service Chil on t 2 p.m., on Saturday of A. S E. T. Crocker (AR. For all the above the collectors give Anderson, F. Bacon, er, G. most grateful thanks. The $61.50 Duncan, E. C. Fincheight and will be spent on warm underclothing H. Haskett, W. Hin for children..

Tozaj

H.W. Sandford.

terim report thinks that "the indirect said for government by cablegram. be too careful. Who would 'have expressed himself sympatherically and the Tents of the Arab, are the Mrs. E. C. Hiller advantage to the Colony of the policy The "strong" argument in the report, thought that when we remarked/upon the question of the principle of most successful in Lord Dunsany's Students of St. Stephen's Col- (policy of non-interference with the which seems to have impressed and quite incidentally and casually long, the case of the non-Chinese unofficial the audience to attend the 3 per

election, instead of nomination, in

Dr. Jordan concluded by inviting ordinary rice trade cannot be reckon deluded quite a few people, is that long ago in this column that Editor members of the Legislative Council, formances of the first and the latter

We make haste to one about Hongkong's nice trade Young of Kobe was one of the best endorse that, for we wouldn't under-portage and transhipment) being so two leader writers in the Orient, we also upon the question of thare being play to be given this month by the take to reckon it in cents, let alone big and so important that it should should have brought upon him a a larger electoral body that at pre- Hongkong University Students' Union, dollars. You have to watch these not be scared away. The report itself vicious personal attack a column sent for the election of some of the which will be a revelation of what

unofficial members. people playing with words as you have belittles its own argument, if people lang in the semiliterate columns of

Orientals well trained under able to watch a conjuror handling a pack would only weigh words and scrutin- the Kobe Herald, an obscure little

tuition' can do in that line, of cards. Note that they take creditize them, and think. If Hongkong sheet which would expect to be for a policy of non-interference with possesses such a pull over others, as used in Kobe for soap wrapping the ordinary rice trade of the Colony. the report says it does, in its geo- purposes? Although it could not The Chino Mall never asked them to graphical situation and in its splendid seriously annoy the great man (for teach the ordinary rice trace. We harbour unrivalled opportunities for Robert Young is a great man) we

Today's dollar is worth 5a. 81d.

[China Mail SPECIAL]

on sale at the Helena May Institute urged them to tackle the extraordinary dealing with an immense transhipment feel we ought to apologise to him.

in aid of the Refugee Fund-copies of profiteering and gambling that was trade, how could a temporary restric. We didn't mean' it.

Mr. Peter Hing has gone to the White Horse Knight Sampler going on, to the serious detriment of tion of exports, openly announced as

The vicious personal

Commencing from date and America to see about buying material that was recently to be seen in the all the ordinary trade' of our port, and a lemporary device against a crisis,

attack is signed S. Kuntil further notice, the train at for the Canton Street craina. Con lift of Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. they wouldn't do it. Why? Other "cretie in the great markets of the

de C. Jose, with a caret Present advertised to leave Kowloon struction surveys begin at once. These may be bought framed for governments could tackle profiteers.world" a desire to seek other and

over the fical"

az 12.1 pm, on Saturdays' only will Meanwhile, motor buses will run, $3.00 and unframed for $1.00.. on Saturday 7th Why couldn't they? Why should they interior ports for a business that has suggests he is some kind of a Dago. turning from Stura Chun at 5.04 wall is expected to be down by the sender, and "marked Siberian Re-

be run on ordinary week days, refour being expected soon. The city Parcels, with name and address of p-ma have shown such consideration for been done here and grown here be- We are wondering whether he may

The followi dave been wealthy gamblers? The report cause our port happens to be the not be an employee on the staff ́of | PB,

end of March, all but the northern fugees," may be sent to Mrs. N... selected-inson J doesn't tell us. It never mentions best and most suitable place? 1: is the paper he writes in? Who is he?

section, for the demolition of which Stabb St. John's Place, Garden Road: Stalker, J. V. BM Goodall, that, Both for the things it doesn't against all reason and commonsense. What is he? The office boy, or the

there is no immediate occasion. Mrs. Moorhead, 159 Peak Mr WB D. Evans, KA say and for the things it does, it must. It is tantamount to saying that if the youth, who delivers the papers? We Spend your Evenings la WALLA The military government is gelag Dunner 7 Queen's Gardens, and to Ramday, H. Ole Sousa, E be regarded as a damning report. ht Hongkong Government were to put don't know, and it doesn't matter;

to, Issue premium bonds.

the Helena May Institüle.

Pestonji and C.

WHO IS ne?

that

WALLA! Launch.

Anention is called to the pictures

LEACUZ

K.C.C. Y. HING

Hongkong K.C.C. v. Hongo, at 2.15

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