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the other day. He suggested, that Mr. Severn must be fed up" with rice. That was good, and gave us

THE CHINA MAIL.

SPECIAL CABLE.

A FORTUNE PER VOYAGE.

DIES.

the merry haba; but he spoiled it by 9HANGHAI OLDEST RESIDENT adding that rice is always the big feature at a Chines dinner. It isn't. The Chinese eat rice at home, but not always at ceremonial banquets, which are not meals, but gourmetry between drinks.

An old resident 'tald

A FRASER SMITH STORY. story

[CHINA MAIL SPECIAL]-

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Today's dollar is worth 58. Std.

Communicable disease to-day

17.

Inspector Brown, in charge of the Hung Flam district is shortly

relieved by Crown Sergeant Aires.

§ E CHIOZZA MONEY AND

SHIPOWNERS.

cost

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920

HONGKONG HORTICUL

TURAL SOCIETY.

THIS YEAR'S SHOW.

Although there is nothing in the nature of waning interest in the

IMAGINATIVE WRITING.

THE CASE AGAINST TOO MUCH

CLEARNESS...

Think of ships which

At the Manchester University Mr. £600,000 earning £1,400,000 per Hongkong Horticultural Society or

In this year's show, it is feared that c. E. Montague lectured to members of the English Association on the sub-

annum!

A

+

There were dozens of current-

The Advetsariani) going Home on leave, and will be ships and factories: to private capital Some good bright weather however, seriptive writing, bordering on Action,

A dinner dance is being held a: Wise wan's Cafe to-morrow night. A special menu will be provided at $1 per head, the same charge being made for dance tickets.

Representatives from each team entered in the Hongkong Basket Ball League are requested to attend a meeting to be held at the Chinese YMCA on Friday, February 27th, 1920 at 5.30 p.m. One representative from each team is required.

PAY HEAVILY.

the

reader's

SHANGHAI, Feb. 27. The death is announced of Mfr. What ought to be done now is the entries will fall considerably short of the total recorded last year. Fraser Smith Jenner Hogg, Shanghai's oldest again to requisition the whole of the This is mainly due to the cold and ject of clearness in imaginative write

resident, at the age of 82. He arrived British mercantile marine at Blue- yesterday. Fraser Smith was in China in 1857 and was a director book rates and to devote the great damp weather during the past three Ing.

consequent profit to the substantial weeks, many promising plants Hongkong's most famous journalist. of many companies. It seems be held a post at the Kow

reduction of the cost of living, having been rendered useless for Phrases, he said, which seemed to Every man and woman with a vote show purposes. Amongst the variet imply that self-expression was always loon Docks before he became a news.

should tackle members of Parliament is that have suffered. most are a kind of rendering up of something paperman, and that be bad racing

geraniums, sweet peas, dahlias and measurable. pre-determined, and on the subject." ponies. One meeting his stable was

Еде plants that usually provide. LEO CHIOZZA MONEY very successful, and the story goes

mistakable. Yet, there were many that the Jardine taipan of that period.

Sir Leo Chiozza Money makes exhibits in the cut flowers class.

So far there is only one who would like to pipe up in protest. (whose name happened to be John

these statements in a notable article

entry for sweet pezs (Peak)

against certain kinds of intensive cul- stone) was peeved at the idea

In the Daily News in which he points as against aire last year and in the that a Dock clerk should beat-

out how the shipowners with high open class there are five as againsttivation of lucidity. Mr. Montsgud him. The yarn says that Friser The meeting of the Hongkong freights are keeping up the cost of ten last year. In pot plants (open) mentioned the kind of journalistic Smith was told he must either and Shanghai Banking Corporation living.

there are 100 entries less than last polemic in which a show of clesthese give up his ponies or give up his jab takes place at the City Hall to November, 1918, as a protest against Peak class. On the whole, the total

"When I left the Government in year and the same proportion in the veiled an extravagance of partisan- He let the job go, and Hongkong marrow hoon. benefited by the advent of an interest.

the decision to resign the economic entries are about fifty per cent ship: the sermon whose "imbecile ing and fearless critic. If the story

direction of the nation to the pro- below average is, there are, so far, limpidity played upon a text itself is non vero, it is certainly ben trovate

fiteers, and to sell out the national only 650 as against 990 last year as clear as noon; the kind of de- ists, I pointed out, inter alia, that the between now and the time for the THE CRITIC doesn't always get

nation would have to pay heavily show, will probably enable additional or overlapping in, in which some of CRITICIZED. bouquets. One reader

for being handed over to the vested entries to be made. There should be the tritest proceedings of nature and scolds him for the notes on the banishment case unget

interests," he writes.

some keen competition in the veget-of man are reported with a literal and by Privy Council, and regards them

able classes, most varieties have done as a "storm in a teacup" Very

"The price has since been paid in well, particularly tomatoes, but peas insipid veracity never previously at

tempted, even by Crabbe... well. The Adversarian doesn't care,

much more than money.. We have and beans are not up to standard. if others don't. He has absolutely no

not had imports that we might have There seems to be some mis- "I suspect," said Mr. Montague, politics or principles either, in The match in the competition had if the direction of ships and im conception as to who can exhibit that we simple readers are often private life; and only fills this space for the Billiard Championship of the ports had remained in public hands and who cannot. As a general rule | taken in by the virtuous air with which because he knows no other way of Colony, which was to have been play-If we consider the monetary loss the flat dweller takes it for granted these people are perfectly clear about getting beer money. He cannoted at the V.R.C., last night between alone, however, the results are suffi- that he or she is precluded from trifles and throw their Boods of ligge understand why people who are not Lieut. Gold and Mr. File, was ciently starting. Indeed, the case taking active part in the show be upon the nakedness of their seveal obliged to do so read the newspapers, postponed.

Bot so extraordinary that it is difficult to Heving they would stand no chance | insignificant patches of land.” especially as they seem so easily

tell the plain truth about it without against the lucky house holder with a child would not be impressed by an upset thereby. Adversarians have

being suspected of exaggeration. a garden. This is not the case and excess of lucidity which pliced Mp to be like the Clown at the Circus.

"In November, 1918, the whole of the Ching Mail has been asked dots on one "i". The child felt it When is the clown most funny

the British mercantile marine was particularly to point out that plants would be more civil to assume that when he wears a broad grin and

under requisition, and earning its used for decorative purposes on he could perceive the meaning al one cracks a jest, or when he very

owners the Blue book, or arbitration, verandahs etc stand as good a dot. That was just what one had a solemnly sis about doing some

rates of hire, as raised in 1915 to chance in certain classes as as garden right to feel when reading writers who thing absurd? This reader,

a level which gave a very fair margin grown flowers. For instance, in class lett nothing to the imagination of their apparently, cannot see the fur of a

ef profit: Now only one-sixth to 154 (one pot of plant indigenous to storm in a leacup." We must try

eneseventh of the ships are under Hongkong) the fiat dweller stands readers. They failed at any rate in

courtesy, presuming requisition. It follows that the equal chance with the rest likewise greater part of the British mercantile in class 163 (one pot of herbaceous imagination to be incapable of any cdi- marine is earning for its owners the plant). The entry fee is only 50laboration with the author.

Every urbane writer, even when exorbitant rates of freight which it cents and it is.. hoped that more "Long time no have Residents of the Happy Valley is possible to demand in a short entries will come along in these greatly explicit. would stop short of SUNSHINE. see." we yelled, yester-neighbourhood often boast of its market.

classes. Particular stress is also laid expounding, the last detail of his mean- day, when Hongkong advantages. They hare some fine

Sometimes be would make the HOW VALUES HAVE GROWN. upon the conditions for the table ing. was lit up with sunshine after many scenery and the premier recreation "The following statement will decoration class. A big display of reader wrestle for it for a long time days of gloom. Lord! what a blessed ground of the Colony is within a show how the value has grown of an fine rose blooms in silver vases does in the dark, or a writer, less exact- tonic is Thy sunshine. It lightens stone's throw. Their disadvantages ordinary cargo

Due reing but still tactful, would lead the steamer built in not meet the conditions.

gard must be taken for the com-reader, to the full verge of comprehen- It Last sion and then gently withdraw. Value of a Tramp Steamer built in fort of imaginary diners.

year some 1914.

the exhibits, was more blessed for a reader to guess (Per ton deadweight.)

although containing some very right than to be told. If that were July, 1914..

fire blooms, were arranged in such not so we might find our literary fashion that had the table been so models in teases and covenants, with blue sky meant something quite dif- the-road is straight enough to indulge July, 1915 {ferent for all of us. Wish we could in a little speeding. The residents

dressed for an actual dinner the an even light beating on every part September 1916 24 always "have the blues,” that way. generally do not complain, being

people on either side would have been of their level expanses of verbiage. May, 1918.... ....... 25 Say. How did willing-touffer-in-silence rather

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precluded from any kind of conversa-

Apart from the question of cemity Meddlement with privacy was intoler

VERY DIFFERENT. that telegram than that a motorist should consti-

"Let us see what this means in the tion. That is not what is wanted;

as between writer and reader; a limit about the Dub tute himself a public danger through case of a ship of 7.000 tons dead- the object should be to obtain an

of confident clearness was imposed by our aristocracy, and new political linites having to stay indoors at nights want of practice. They do, however, weight. How a Tramp Steamer of effect pleasing to the eye but not in

stunts." are ousting our former strike you? Whether you be Home draw the line at fire engines. For 7,000 tons Deadweight has Grown any way cumbersome. It is hoped the inevitable incompleteness of the culture. A noisy, vulgar, low-class Ruler, Carsonite, or Sinn Feiner, the instance last evening shortly after 5 In Value.

that newcomers will make a point of writer's own knowledge. There was visiting the show enable them to a dim borderland in which knowledge generation has the stage, and new thing should have made you gape. p.m., one of our engines was tear. July, 1919.......£42,000

Each mind ways and methods are tolerated that Do we dream, or is this not the ing around the valley, driven by Chi- December, 1919 ...

realise what can be done in Hong gradually lost itself. would have shocked our

kong. It is a curious fact that many lived, like a prehistoric inhabitant of sires. Twentieth Century? By the way, Reu-nese under the watchful eye of a

a small clearing among Well, well, It is always and every-ter worded it "Irish military officials European. Its rattling and clanking

people arrive with the Impression Britain; in Increase in value...£168,000 where happening so. We suppose have decreed, etc." The China as it passed was most unpleasant. Increase in per cent 400

that the possibilities in horticulture in thick forests; only the forest was part Hongkong are so confined as to of the mind itself, and the mind lived they call it progress. The censor Mail tendering. "Military officials There doesn't seem much chance of The people of Great Britain gained of plays used to amuse as well in Ireland," seems more consistent a remedy but the authorities might "Lest it be thought by the un-render anything in the nature of a surrounded by all that dark part of its at least ran things during the war as to e asperate. The censors of with fact. Had the Germans won, try to find a place where the firemen initiated that I am giving a fanciful impossible. For instance, three years ordinary times remained potensial good show of English flowers on contents and powers which at peither of which can be looked upon literature, being unofficial and power would von Reuter have wired could indulge in practice runs with case, let me give the accountant's as a real blessing. In the first place less, did not worry us. How are we

"May it not be said, with "British military officials decree that out disturbing a residential neigh valuation of ships taken over by the 280 nobody thought of growing only. they had piled up for them a huge to regard the censor of kinema the Bishop of London shall do the bourhood.

Western Countles' Shipping Co., Ltd., linaria, until one Chinese gardener some mah, asked the fearer, rational debt of a size the imagination pictures? The usual human incon goose-step?"

It is all right to test these fire a company just offered for public tion) with the result, that this plant is imaginative literature to reclaim at put in a specimen (not for competi that it is part of the business of Hardly. On second can hardly grasp. The other acquisi-sistencies are reported. The Ceylor thoughts, Dublin is not, much worse motors, to keep them always fit, but subscription. non was a number of newly rich." censor cuts a little from a film. The off than we are. We may not go every expert motor man will tell you Here is a feet of cargo steamers, now one of the biggest classes. To least part of that forest?" At the these people a visit to the show this climax of a great tragedy, or during The first has been the subject of Singapore censor cuts a little more out at nigh; in a hired car, without that it is enough to turn the engines the total valuation of which is now national concern; the second has given Hongkong deletes something else. the gracious permission of the over with a short spin. All this given as £2,400,000. The total year will be an eye-opener.

finely imaginative comedy, one had a A word must here be said for Mr. sense of having made a glorious incur- new ideas to cartoonists who have Between them all they leave hardly illustrious police. Quite right too. careering about, night after night, is number of tons (deadweight) is never tired of humorously portraying enough to be worth showing. One Bed is the proper place for good little a waste of public money,

only. 105,600. If all these ships had Dewbiggin, who has been working sion, of having penetrated inte an the actions, alleged or real, of this would expect that a film that had boys and girls--after dark. So they

been built in 1914 they would have very hard in organizing the show outer darkness, of having got beyond cost, as nearly as possible, £600,000, and attending to the multifarious the region where the writs of ordi- war which brought passed one British censor might be used to tell us in the nursery.

But, it will be seen, many of them duties connected with the Secretary's poverty and distress to thousands saw visa'd by. the rest, and given a others gaining a sphere of auence chance. That or something like that they never dreamed of. The country must come, for the kinema is becom- to-day is probably more Bolshevising too important an institution to be monkeyed with. The kinema will

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"BUTI, JUSTICE, PUBLIC

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BONGLONG, FRIELY, FER. 27, 1920.

WAR WEALTH.

class. The

AMENITIES.

to provide him with an ocean and a HAPPY VALLEY lump of sugar. Meanwhile, let him' drop Adversaria and read Marie Corelli.

the darkness of our spirits, as well as are but few and one is the fire-1914-

giving our scenery a glamorous machine nuisance. The quiet stret- theches of Wong-nel-chong road are

colouring. Men talk about

blues," and things looking blue," looked upon as ideal places for in quite a wrong sense. Yesterday's learning to control a machine and

For goodness sake read, A FINE and read slowly, carefully, IMAGE. and thoughtfully, the article elsewhere in this issue beaded "Imaginative Writing."

part about the inevitable incom

SPORT.

CRICKET

...

93

12

210,000

of

date long before 1914. "For example, office. It will be remembered that pay thought ran, and yet found ery the "Inchmor" was built 1900, at the last annual meeting of the thing there to be mystically well..

In his Intimations of Immortality”” so that if the war had not occurred Society, Mr. Dowbiggin consented to -I. R. C. v. R. E&LA

she would have suffered heavy de hold the secretaryship on condition Wordsworth had achieved one of these

that be The following will represent the preciation. The present inflated

was not called upon incursions, but he had not schrieved

tic" than ever before in its history, be the newspaper of the next cet It is fine. We like particularly that LR.C. in their League fixture against valuation, it will be seen, is £115,000 to give up two whole days during nox attempted to achieve, clearsess.. being more than ever ready to guestury, and be allowed its own free- tion the fitness of one man's gain out dom." The funniest bit of censoring pleteness" of any writer's know the RE&L.A. on the former's ground for a ship of only 5,800 tons, built

4 scheme of maxation. The official because he thought it improper for a memorandum discloses the rather Chinese to call a white man a pig! startling fact that war-wealth amounts If that were the worst they called to £5,250,000,000. This huge sum us!

ARMY

that nobody else is willing or ness was going to shut himself out the show. It appears however, Anyone who held by absolute dear- able to make this sacrifice, and Mr. from a good many things. For there Dowbiggin will again undertake the were a good many things that could work. The highest possible praise is-Inot be expressed clearly without being due to him from all concerned.

expressed falsely. It could not be The committee this year are as by accident that Shakespeare, in the follow >--

song that ended Twelfth Night," Messrs. L. Gibb (President), J., A. wanted, like Corot, to have the mists Plummer (Treasurer), H. B. L. Dow between our eyes and the landscape. biggin (Secretary), Miss Wallace, From any such confession of faith in Messrs. S. B. C. Ross, J. Taylor, E. Jone great writer it was not a long "Consider the earnings of a single Noronah, D. Harvey, W. J. Tutcher, step to the reflection that, in order to

HOW FREIGHTS HAVE RISEN, A tramp steamer in 1914, before the war began, could earn about 4s. per ton per month on time charter. This company states that the ships are earning from 20s. to 27s. 6d. per ton per month, or from five times to seven times the earnings of 1914,

of the misfortune of others. Further we have heard of in, a long while ledge. "Each mind fires, like a on Saturday at 215 pm. A. H. 19 years ago ! more the Chancellor of the Exchequer may now be mentioned. The Ger prehistoric inhabitant of Britain, in a Rumjahn, G. C. Earde, S. H. Ismail, has an eye on these war fortunes,

man villain pesters the Chinese prin small clearing among thick forests." S. A. Lamail, A. A. Rumjahn, D. whose possessors have probably not cess, who exclaims (as per rubric): That's true. been cheered by the opening of in- "No, no. Celestial does not mate clearing?

How big is your Rumjahn, M. B. Suffiad, E. A. Moos deen, N. M. Bux, S. M. Moosa and vestigations by a select committee for with pig." Our censor cut that out,

The old game of pull E. Haroon. devil, pull baker has ESTIMATES. begun again. In in

·CIVIL SERVICE XI v. C.R.C. XL troducing the Army The following players will repre Estimates, our pudding-faced Marl sent the Civil Service 2nd XI in their Since when. by burian talked of tanks. We have match with the C.R.C. 2nd XI on the THE WAR MUST the way, was the developed a 30 ton task that goes latter's ground on Sat. next, viz ----

Hun reinstated fast.

But he also mentioned, ap E.T.Crocker (Capt,), S. E. Alderman, ship. The old "Inchmoor," a ship N. L. Watson, R. Baker and Combe very great, an imaginative writer parently without chagrin, that E. C. Fincher, F. Bacon, W. Hill, H. F of under 6,000 tons, which cost mander Beckwith,

| about £36,000 nineteen years ago, anti-tank warfare has profoundly Bevan, G. T. Kinght, H. S. Burden, and which now, through age, is Hongkong gossip advanced" in the devisement of a G H. Piercy, A. R. Duncan and CONSCRIPTION, now has it that the rifle, grenade capable of inflicting W. Sandford.

volunteers are so mortal injury to a tank." It

was made out of the country during

a period of great physical stress.

it is only natural that an effort should

is now laced with financial stress and

EL OVER.

be made to regain something from man"?

those who seized the opportunity to

enrich themselves. Lord Beaver-

brook, for instance, considers that a

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white

FOOTBALL

should have some title-to make súní- lar calls upen-faith, and that he should worth intrinsically much less than for nothing and a big profit besides pect, it, a writer fold nothing but a make them. One might even -608- when it was built, can earn about Mr. Hughes is now building more ransparemly simple tale, that he had £90,000 in single year, reckon ships to run on Australian national hor gone very far beyond the fields of tax on war fortunes would enrich the backward in coming forward that we armour plate and plate-piercing shell

ing the hire at 25s, per ton account, and this naturally gives our ordinary consciousness. state coffers by £1,000,000,000, no are to have conscription. This all over again, and pop goes the

per month, Or if We take umbrage to those who think that Mr. Montague spoke of the element inconsiderable amount. The address ought not to be, but the China Mail weasel. Why? Randy's boy hinted

1.RCV, SOUTH CHINA "B",

the above list of seventeen the first purpose of ships is to make of obscurity in Meredith ** kru of the Chancellor of the Exchequers not going to fight it for you. It at a possible combination of Russia The following will represent the ships, the actual gross revenue they profits for private individuals. Lord him you see things with their catine how that in his opinion it is right is up to yourselves. Whether it is and Germany for the next war IRC. in their Second League match earn, we are told, is now at the rate Inchape publicly scolds the Australian blurred by excess of light, as you see that the levy, it imposed, should be called the mailed fist or pre-

Summing up and strike against the South China B on of E1,439,560 per annum. Think of Government for its impudence in the sun at midday. At times one applied exclusively to the reduction paredness," militarism is alwaysBALANCE ing a balance we may Saturday on the Military Ground, ships which cost £600,000 earning nationalising its shipping.

-militaria, and if you suffer it you of debt. We foresee a considerable deserve to. All this "preparation"

SHEET now say that "the war Kick-off at 2.30 p.m.. A, O. Madar, £1,400,000 per annum.

While turning down the nation might feel that it is not all aferta- to end war was M. S. Baricam, B. A. Hyder, S. A. R. amount of heared discussion ahead but after the war reminds us of the profailure, that the League of Nations Lamall, A. Salleh, E. Moosdeen, A. G. paid to the shipowners during the did, however, order the complete these difficult'people are only difficult ·

Thus the British people, who alisation proposal, the War Cabinet on or preciosity, but that perhaps the Comminee's report will be in bationer nurse who woke up the is dead (infaile paralysis), that the Markar, O. Rumjan, A, L. Andree, war their capital over and over requisitioning of shipping, and that because they know a thing or two teresting. The Committee was A

patient to give him his sleeping Anglo-Franco-American alliance is a S. Rumjahn and G. Mahamed.. concession to clamour, but no one draught. It is like as if a doctor" scrap of paper," that civilization has

again, are continuing the process in saved the country an enormous en more than we do." - M-* Years, too, seriously expects direct action on such were to prescribe walking exercise amputated its own legs in order to

peace, and appear to be quite con-1 money, as Mr. Lloyd George has avolded giving, the reader "o: delusive. Lines,

for a man exhausted in a Marathon.escape the discomfort of tight boots

UNITED ATHLETIC CLUB tent to go on doing it even while we confessed. The reversal of the policy sense of finality where there was no We favour volunteering, not for and that there is nothing left now

CLUB DE RECREIO.” are assured that we have not the of requisitioning at the end of last finality, and might dissuasy readers preparedness (because we pay for the philosopher but to eat, drink. The following will represent the money as a nation to build electrical year has cost the comtry an enor who cared for the universal cock- big miltary subsidy and are entitled and be as merry as he can for United Athletic Club in a league power stations or houses for the mous sum, as the Prime Minister has sureness of bad journalism and minor politics." ~ There was a kind of writ- tu expect something for our money) morrow the Bolsheviks will rob him match against Club de Recreio on people. The gross earnings of the not confessed To the old fashioned but for the benefit it undoubtedly is and murder him. Nero a fiddle, at Saturday February 28 at the Naval British mercantile marine this year Lord Inchcape, at the recent ing which was like a tree with no ff meeting of his P. and0, shareholders dooxs -nothing more shout it thay mer CENSORING-Englishman there to the men who join

Referring to the "Chin not such an incongruity as we McLeod, A. E. Simmons (Capel, Mr Hughes had the happy matters with which he had killed writing has its leaves, in the Right and

the Roman conflagration was perhaps Grand Kick off at-2.30 pm will approach £400,000,000. are not many ofl.

O AUSTRALIA'S NATIONAL SHIPS," "did "not conceal his delight at the the eye: The "best of in Irative ese dinner to be given have thought.

A Mason, J. Leonard, D. Elang, C. as "creepy". as the word DINNERS to Mr, Cland Severn in

H. Elake, H. George, P. Brown, E. thought to buy for Australia a few shipping nationalisation by buying its roots in the darknest, and does not cockroach or centipede. Prying

E. Fintber, C. Millar, G. Canbb, old ships. He made so nach profit cut the nation's ships. I grant" Lord "deny s own name for die com WALLA Reserves, C. S. Rosselet, and W. K out of them during the way that the Fuchcape that he had great tinuity of the knew with the un

Australian Government got its ships. triumph."

ADVERSARIA.

us left now) the word censor

CHINESE

View of his forthcem

· was un-English and bad form og departure, Roderick Random" Arbiters of taste were unthinkable. of the Daily Press said a bright thing

Spend your Evenings in i

VALLA ” Lunch

Mason.

Tonbow ren?: