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الخالقيط

As the thunder of our eloquence DR. WU AND THE MONEY. verbal distinction evolution or dwindles through the peroration, t revolution. It is certain to be its artistic "dying fall," we scan decried by the aforesaid Tozy Fere those signs of animation in the faces in the audience and ob as revolutionary," and ergo bail.

ACTION OPENED IN HONGKONG.

FRIDAY. APRIL 30, 1920.

HOUGH OR LOWE7.

BY-ELECTION FOR M.L.C.

141

ARMENIA.

The future of Armenia is one of the most interesting problems fcdn.

For them, King and Constitutione pale pink bladder of a tace go together, as unalterable as the that portends the more or less in-

The Hongkong Justices of the Peace, tingent on the settlement of the near faws of the Medes and Fersions, telligent "heckler. Yes, it is even Mr. Justice Gompertz, sitting in less with the pence, are asked to Turkish treaty, Far a small place Before the Acting Chief Justice, who have little to do with justice, and Easter question in relation to the. though dynasties disappear and as we thought. Bis fish-like mouth the constitutions (which does tot opens..and athwart our reverbera. Chambers at the Supreme Court this decide which of two gentlemen salli Armenis attracted a lot of attention. even exist as a concrete or discrete tiens comes that squeak that has so marming the action was opened in have the honour of the honorife even before the war burst onton, which Dr. Wa Ting Fang, Minister" bocourable "added to his name place time and again in that country expressed entity) grows and evolves often before plunged us into Violent of

The massacres which have taken Finance for the Canton during the temporary absence of the and changes its appearance like age. He asks.

Military Government, applied for Hon. Mr. Pollock. plant. Like electricity, it is amor-

But what do you propose?""

bave claimed the sympathies of an order from the Go to blizes.

Court phous and get very real and afect-

Their choice lies between Mr. T. Practically the whole world and against the interim injunction granted E. Hough and Mr. A. R. Lowe.

have paved the way for a hearty lag Like a lettuce, t has grow?

Hongkong last week, to

detestation of Turkish methods -of Manchester man, which means to the there was a unanimous feeling that

Mr. Arthur Rylands Love is a

government.

When peace

came knowing Englishman a man of brains.in any settlement Armenia should be is a member of the Committee of the develop under the protection of ope He has been over 20 years here. "He freed of the Turkish yoke and should Constitutional Reform Association.

question of who shall hold the man of the associated powers. It is this

LOGAL AND GENERAL..

*

To-day's dollar is worth ds. Sąd.

The Dog, Cat, Poultry and Pigeon show takes place to morrow at Happy Valley.

Nominations for the seat on the Mr. L. E. Pollock's absence close to Legislative Council during the Hon.

morrow.

heart." and is now running to seed, alt stalk and bitterness. Were it not so, a man like the Speaker would not consent to have it touched or tampered with. With- out attaining to lively hope of or real faith in any ultimately perfect system. all thinking men have at last arrived, their later stegs hast- ened by the great war and its sequel, at the conviction that some vital change is necessary. Tho weaknesses of Parliamentary gut- ernuent and the party system have been too glaringly exhibited to be are to take place at Repulse. Bay The usual tea and dinner dances: much longer tolerated. Some new Hotel to-morrow, with an orchestral type of political institution, that concert on Sunday will possese greater power and flexibility, and harmonize more with dinocratic uspirations, is is reducing the price of its current The Hongkong Electric Company being groped for by the intellerfor lighting and fans to 18 cents a tuals. The Bussians think they unit from to-morrow, have found it in Bolshevism. The Americans think they have found The half yearly meeting of the it in Republicanism. The Irish Hongkong Jockey Club is called for Ltd (sentimental reactionaries) dresun of tomorrow at noon at the offices, finding it in Nationalism. The Hongkong Club annexe. Germans tunimaginative and liter- ally-minded cynies) were sitre they

The China Mail is informed by hait found it in Militarism. There the Colonial Secretariat that the ought to be some sort of spiritual quarantine

imposed.

withdrawn.

SUNSHADES

in the latest Colourings

Plain and with Chene Borders.

INSPECTION INVITED.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

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his name in

Mr. Thomas Frederick Hough

prevent the removal by Dr. Wu of any moneys deposited the Hongkong Banks.

The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, KC, with Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, appeared for Dr. Wu Ting Fang, and the Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C, with Mr. Eldon Potter, for the enough said. Hough is. Hongkong date for Armenia that has caused a Canton Military Government.

and Hongkong is Hough, and never hitch. Originally it was expected the twain can be parted. The issue that the Americans would come for seems plain enough and simple enough ward and to this the Armenians were to settle itself, without calling for is no way opposed, but of late argument."

America has signified her unwilling.

DENNISTON PLAYERS.

"TEIENDLY ENEMIES."

to

This is how the China Ma sees Dess to take on this responsibility the position. Had the other candidate and the question is still unsettled. been any other man than Hough, waThe difficulty seems to be that A wartime play, with a serious culd have declares for Lowe.. Burno country is prepared to take up the motive, 2

the other candidate is Hough, and that mandate unless the League of Na knotty problem, and intense human interest. Two Geris enough. He is a much older man tions is prepared to give financial German, the other is man Americans. One remains pro- thar Mr. Lowe. Mr. Lowe can afford and militray support, the latter being American. Pro-German has a son is only for five months anyway, and Armenis with an outlet fo the sea. a good to wait another opportunity. The job for the expulsion of the Turks. Another matter is that of providing born in America, who feels American, in view of his long association with That Turkey should retain any con- and desires to go fight for America, the colony, of his inevitably immin- trol over Armenia is unthinkable and His father, not at all unreasonably, ent ranrement, and of the fewness of it is equally unlikely that without points out that he may be called opportunities for rewarding such pecu- the help of some friendly power the upon to kill blood relations, and does bar claims as he has to be honoured country will be able to retrieve its not want him to go. War pas by. Hongkong, we hope that Mr. lost fortunes. It is only necessary not show how pro-American German- sions are illustrated. Play does Hough may be chosen.

There are no political principles Armenian

to recall the Americans

history of the were persecuted In concerned.

atrocities Our two local budding the former propositics untenable.. make

but they were.

K.R.A., are not involved, or if they the activities of the advanced party Last night's audience, a large one, are they are so mixed up with both of the Armenians who sought to The Shanghai Branch of the acting. It laughed heartily at the allocate either to either., The J.P.'s which gave birth to Bulgaria. These was very appreciative of the good candidates that it is impossible to produce disturbances such as those. who are inmune are the pachyder. Royal Society of St. George gave an comedy; it was in sympathy with may indulge a very proper piece of people were steeped in Nihilistic At Home at the Astor House Hotel the thore dramatic passages. When sentiment with a clear, cocscience. terdepcies and formed various secret Churchills and Asquiths and Isaacs on St. George's Day, nearly 400 an audience gets in this mood it we don't believe "Mr. Lowe would societies although they found that and Geddeses and Lloyd Georges, guests areading.

enjoys the play thoroughly and those mind if they did. who cling to, the rewards of office

on the stage are encouraged to do as the Kaiser to his property,

their best. by divine right. The Mother of Parliaments bas become the Grandmother of Talking Shops und a vicious old har at that, with only two teeth, but thank God they meet.

restrictions

musquito-net to protect us from the against Manila have been declared America, on the general suspicion, Tammanies, the C.R.A. and the These date back to 1993 following on

sware of 'isms that are biting so

any of us, and infecting us with. political malaria. The only ones.

grafters, the Winston.

man.

The engagment is announced American School, Peking, to Mr. of Miss Anne M. Ewing of the Chas N. York, secretary of the Army Young Men's Christian Association. Tientsin, says the N.C.. Star.

A farewel concert to the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Victoria and Mrs. Lander is being given at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. to-morrow at 2.30 p.m., by the Hongkong congregations of the Chung Wah Shing Kung Wul

Flearie," she mum- bles. a leer in her evit old eye. in in her breath, pilferage con cealed beneath her apron, and "one leg in the grave." as the saying is. Lately we were told, thanks to the newspaper itch for sensational fen- tures happily no longer provided by

It is reported in the Peking press bloody war, a great deal about the that Dr. Sun Yat-sen has sent his human rejuvenescence that was representatives to Peking again. Dr. the thin end of the wedge." He said to come by grafting some gland Sun is working to bring about the asistently refuses to open the for other from monkey to

downfall of Tsen Chur-suan of the J. V-das-Remedios--and family Windows bis-mind-to fresh air. We are inclined at the moment, Soutt, according to the same report. gratefully acknowledge with thankslept his habitation be rattled by a pending further information by the kind expression of sympathy shown typhoon. It is a wonder he dares Reuter, to suggest that Dr. Low.

The US Army transport "Presid them during their recent bereave. take off his hat to a lady, for she ther proposes to rejuvenate the old ent Grant" which bas been stopping. ht turn out to be either a harridan with some simian admix- Kobe since April 9 was to have wanton or a determined husband. ture. If so, what other can we say From Viadivestock shewill carry 5,500 left Kobe for Vladivostock on April 17, hunter. You must know the type than that no man putteth a piece Czech troops to Trieste. While in It is a common object of our com-jot new cloth unto an old garment Kobe the tounal shores. It is as foolish and without that which is put in to fill about 2,000 tons of coal and 1,100 tong President Grant" took contemptible, no mare and no less, it up taking from the garment, and of goods necessar for the repatria. as the hairy crank of emotional the rear, us by a Hongkong "and-tion of the troops. Radicalism, big with utopion visionsert, being made worse?

ment, also for flowers.

DEATH.

CARVALHO.--At Macau, on April

25. Robert A. de Carvalho. Deeply regretted. London, Lis bon, American, and Shanghai papers please copy.

The China Mail.

SERVICE

"TRUTE, JUSTICE PUBLIC

FOXOFONG, FIDAY, APRIL 30, 1990.

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SHIPPING STATISTICS.

the mass of the people was against them. A series of ertbreaks, easily suppressed, followed, but in 1894 matters bad so far advanced that the Sultan issued a firmin calling on all loyal subjects to aid in suppressing called up and a terrible massacre the revolt. Regular troops were followed. A commission of enquiry accompanied by consular delegates of Great Britain, Russia and France was despatched to Armenia by the action of the authorities was not Turley, and elicited the fact that justified. Though Great Britain

Most of the humour of the play and Mr. Vaughan-Moore as Karl was provided by Mr. W., D. 'Howard Pfeifer and Henry Block respectively. Both carried off their different parts.

The total tonrage of the Messageries well. Miss Shirley Huxley is to be Maritimes now afloat is 369,482 dis complimented on the way she handled placement fons, being the weights of the character of June Block and Miss the 40 steamers now operated by that Valentine Sidney deserves equal company. praise for her success as Marie, Pfeller. Mr. Wm. Augustin capably Navigation Co. controls 2,393, 185 The Peninsular & Oriental Steam filled the role of William Pfeifer, the gross tons of shipping including as American born German, who takes sociated fleets and tonrage now being pressed for reforms, even to the extent up arms against his father's wishes built. The P. & O. fleet is 554,013 of coercing the Sultan, the support and sympathies.

the British India fleet of other powers was not forthcoming gross tons, The production was one with which 851,414 gross tons, the New Zealand and during the negotiation a the company may well be pleased. Tonight another

It gives them more scope than fluff. Shipping Company's fleet 127,078 massacre took place at Trebizend drama The gross tons, the Federal Steam Naviga. in October 1895. Later in that Acquittal" is being presented.

tion Company's fleet 293,385 gross year the Sultan accepted à scheme of tors, and the Union S.S. Company's reforms but never published it and fleer 231,408 gross. The real num-up to 1896 there was a succession of ber of vessels, including these in, the massacres. In that year the revalu- hands of the builders, is 331.

tionists seized the Ottoman bank at According to last reports, the the Christian powers, who had left the Constantinople as a protest against Osaka Shosen Keisha had 126 steam Armenians to their fate. The Gov 80,200 gross tons, under contruction. from: 6,000 to 7,000 Armenians losing aflost, and 11 steamers, aggregating a massacre over two days resulted," ers, aggregating 308,468 gross tons, ernment turned loose the rabble and

In January of this year, the Nippon their lives. It is estimated that dur

THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

H.K.C.C tennis tournament was An interesting match in the decided last evening, R. Townsend beating O. Rumjahn in the semi-final

LAST JAIL BREAKER CAUGHT,

+

The last of the three jail breakers

የ;

EINSTEIN SHOUTED DOWN.

BERLIN STUDENTS "RAG

German stúdents are cultivating at

and a surprising faith in the wine be put into old bottles. the essential goodness of human nature, bottles break and the wine runneth character who has no fewer than 21 competition. It was expected that it gag 435,550 gross tons, in com- 33,000 people were killed and the Chan Wing, the notorious bad of the Open Championship Singles Yusen Kaisha had 96 vessels, aggre- ing these massacres from, 25,000 to The superficial thinker. of the breed out and the bottles perish. When previous convictions recorded against would be a hard contes: and anticipassion, with total accommodations destruction of property was enor especially that produces the bulk of new wine is put into new bottles.him, and who was last week remanded tions in this respect were justified, as for 2,267 first class, 1,282 second mous. Further massacres occurred newspaper pubulum. will accept both are preserved. So saith holy on a charge of breaking into a house no less than four sets were played.class, 443 intermediate, and 11,333 in 1904 and 1909. That briefly is that and statebrously, reach the writ, though whether that be a in Wanchal, and biting two Chinese The match opened in promising third class passengers. The Company the record of Turkish government assumption that somewhere be-trusty guide through the intricacies constables to prevent bis arrest, was fashion for Townsend, who took the had six vessels under construction, and now the question bas arisen, by ren the two extremes of rank of twentieth century politics it is again before Mr. R. O. Hutchison first four games without reply, doing amounting to 46,400 gross ros, giv-whom shall the Turks be replaced? Turyism and rabil Radicalism must not for us to say. The glass bottle this morning. His Worship com well at the net, although Rumjabning a grand fetal For the fleet of 103 The most feasible suggestion seems abide the rational mean. Tempted industry must have made a differ-mitted the defendant to the forth occasionally passed him with good vessels of total gross weight of to be first to expel the Turks by the to be specific, this psendo-intellect ence, and doubtless wins is not coming Criminal Sessions.

drives. The first sat went to 500,000 tons.

mited action of the Allies and then CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.or Liberal-Unionism. Or sorge other matter of that, politics are

wight venture to name Liberalism what it was. Beer isn't. For the

Townsend by 6-2. The initial

it is hoped it may be possible to fix Five thousand cattles of Ameri. stages of the next set brought some

up the matter of the mandate. of the fancy party names that are The only immutable factor in the can cotton seeds were sent by the good play. Townsend captured the Causually interesting was the supposed to indicate the existence problem is man, who is still the Ministry of Agriculture to the third first game Rumjaha then coming Reuter message telling us off fine shades of principle. China ogue he was, the fool he was, for distribution among Chinese far 31 in his favour, eventually winding cetten experiment station. Wachang along strongly and making the score Speaker Lowther's seheme for Mail readers. naturally, expeet the self-seeking. well-meaning, "constitutional reform at Home. something less crude and naive.corrupt, stupid, passionate, ment station is sending the American to 9-7 in Townsend's favour, one mers in Hupeh. The cotton experi. by 6-3. The third set was carried J. W. Lowther is one of the best They are right. All this has beca judiced, and intellectually lazy cotton seeds to applicants at 1-2 game only being decided after deuce was arrested in the Colony by some type of Conservative. who was leading up to one or two conclu- animal that he used to be and percatties each with an accompanying had ben called six times. Set four elected for the Penrith or Misions that are unavoidable, if not haps ever will be. His craving fu pamphlet dealing with methods of proved to be the deciding factor and Chinese detectives two days ago. This Cumberland division as a Conserva entirely satisfactory. They are, as leaders seems to indicate that planting, without charge, but inalsts it was keenly contested. Townsend Li Ron Sing alias Li Chung, is tive, and is the last man likely to the Speaker's constitutional reform stich pessimism is warranted. He en having reports on conditions of always keeping the upper hand. 25 years of age. He was serving a spirit of independence which has have changed his views. As scheme ndoubtedly is, what may often tells you, with the air of one growth from farmers from time to With the score standing at 5-3 terebbe years hard labour for manifested itself publicly in noisy Speaker, of course, he has UT be calle.. lessons of the great war. who has deeply pondered it, and time.

Townsend lost a game when be only armed robbery. He is alleged to be demonstrations, mainly of an anti- -been a party man, and all parlia. Ethnologists tell how some primi-arrived by correct logical processes mentarians of all parties vouch for tive men, when a death occurred that there must be leaders a Chinese was charged with the en-

wanted a point to win, giving a read the man who made the duplicate key Semitic tendency. st an incontrovertible, conclusion, his scrupulous fairness. He

At the Magistracy this morning, ing of 5-4. The final game was a which made possible the escape of Berlin University refused to allow The svidents of a purified the place by burning up stickler for law and order, a ea.e-everything belonging to

keen one, going to Townsend. himsell and his accomplices. He is Professor Nicolai, author of "The the de- that " Someone must lead. What bazzlement of $1,000, the property

The scores were Townsend beat also said to be the leader of the mutiny Biology of War," to speak on the ful, very deliberate oratur. who ceased, including the hut in which an unconscious sfr on education, of his employers. The defendant Rumjahn, 6-2, 3-6, 9–7, 6–4. weighs his words, and never seems he died. It was a sane instincts. Will Asquith now lead Labour? was given a bundle of papers, the

which resulted in the deaths of Ward-ground that he had betrayed the on the progress of social hous, that pleaded carried away by emotion. We are Politically; the analogona plan fa

cot guilty", and said he

ers Speed and Harnam Singh. German cause, and there have been aying to emphasise the fact that described differently according to Not unless Labor is more besot. contents of which he did not know, any taint of Bolshevisin or Social- the point of view. If is from one tedly stupid than we believe it to by his emplayers, in Swatow, to ism or Radikalism could not pos- angle seen as crazy and impractical be. Will Lloyd George lead? Not deliver in Hongkong. The parcel sibly be found in this typical Cum- Radicalism, and especially it is brian squire, this old-fashioned"destructive criticism," favourite present

recover from its was lost during the voyage down, A Chinese monk named Hau Wan, state of abell-shock. He did not steal the money. Inspector Eving in an un-numbered maished at nesse several of whom had already principal grievance was that Pro English gentleman, devoted to phrase of human parrots. English Will Winston Churchill lead? Watt, prosecuting, asked for a re- Kat Loong, reports that an armed gone away, his Worship remanded the fessor Einstein had permitted per King and constitution, doing his men, these unpluranged bipeds love Not until the British nation goes mand in order to get witnesses down robbery took place in his matshed at case until Tuesday for hearing. duty simply, unaffectedly, efficient to tell us, evolute, but do not re-

sons who had not matriculated to entirely blind and deal and dumb from Swalew, and Mr. N. L. Smith 11 p.m., on the 28th inst.

His story

enter the auditorium, where a in the way opened up for biin. volute. That revolution is evolt and crazy. Will Bottomley? Not remanded the case until next week. was that he and, a. farmer

large number of people had assem That such a man should see the tion, visibly acting, would be news left with the slightest interest in borrowed from the central govern- door. As they got out of bed, three a parcel containing 29 taels of pre-tamuft "that he was compelled to

eo long as there is an honest man

were awakened by the noise of necessity for a real constitutional to them. There is, however, a

bled. As the Professor began to The city of Yokohama has some persons breaking open the For the unlawful possession of speak the students created such change at this time is a remarkably half-truth hidden in the core of thought to this quite incidental pro-bearing interest at 4.8 per cent. The another with a dagger, came in. The Chinese who was arrested near the fessor Einstein that they were significant fact. deserving every their damnable iteration, and that blew, but there seem to be prima money will be devoted to the erec-man with the revolver ordered them Wing Lok wharf yesterday, and who formally in the right, and that politics. We haven't given any ment at Tokyo the sum of 7450,000, men, one armed with a revolver and Eared non-Government opium, e cease The Rector Informed Pro- possible emphasia, including even is that we Englishmen have got the facie ground for the auspicion that tion of 300 houses in the municipality not to move. The unarmed man said the parcel, was given to him by according to regulations he could not. the epizanxis, because we know. habis of putting new wine, in old what we are at present suffering to relieve the present congested con- then tied the farmer up, while the a friend to carry, he being ignorant permit lectures to be given in the and you know, that such proposals hotiles, reckless of the scripturally from is the epidemic of leaderitis, dition of the city. The housing pro- dagger carrier turned his attentions of its contents, was this morning University to other than watriculated semanating otherwhence would be indicated consequences.. Even so, party leaders, labour leaders, and.blem in Yokohama has become very to the monk, and after scratching sentenced by Mr. Smith to a fine of students. The Professor will continue received offhand with violent and it has meant revolution, as a cora of coures. newspaper leaders. If serious and it is practically impossi- his hands with the dagger, he tied $1,000 or three moritha' hard-labour.his course semi-publicly, though the prejudiced repugnance. A certain parison of the England of to-day (which heaven graciously forbids in ble to obtain quarters in the city. the monk's bands and feet and threw The drug was confiscated. Bort of Conservative is so very can with the England of two centuries the case of the present writer) we When they are obtainable the prices a jacket over his head. Throwing servative that he deems it bis duty air clearly reveals. Though we are to take politics seriously, we asked are exorbitant and it is to the monk and his companion to conserve even rotting carrion. did not see then move-(as wher should take them like medicine ir relieve this condition that the city in a corner, He swears at the political under the Daylight Saving cranks meddle a bottle, to be well shaken before authorities. appealed to the central proceeded to radsack the matshed. aker, and barricades bimself to with them) the hands of the politi- taken. For indeed it is a black government for funds with which to They broke open a box and a basket. prevent the funeral of his unhole cal seven-generation clock have and bitter, tranghs, and the worst erect dwellings that will in a measure and stole clothing and more, valued

if the mob

-

ARMED ROBBERY,

the robbers

This morning he was brought before frequent scenes in theatres directed; Mr. N. L. Smith and formally charged. against Jewish management. On the application of Chief Detective Recently, Berlin students would Inspector Murison, who said he want-not allow Professor Einstein to ed a few days to round up the wit-lecture on his light theory. Their

E Lime of Chamberlaine Couli SERVES THE WHOLE FAMILY,

Remedy is world wide. It is good or the crap and whooping cough of the have yet whole family For 6-by all Chemista

and Storekeezers.

students, will be given preferential treatment.

According to rumours the word

self states that he heard no- anti- "Jew" was burled contemptuously at the Professor, but the Professor him. Semitic expressions; but believes the Semitic undertone.

unpleasant impression.

some dead.. The thing he dreads gone right round. At present wel of it is that it is, tnost infernally meet the demands of the present at $102. All three men, then de for the deep seated cough of the adult demonstration to have had, an anti- nore than anything else in the nar- are not sufficiently interested, to expensive, and yet never seenus toime. The payment of the loan will camped: The Police are doing all children. The same bottle serves De The incident has created a very...

row diverse of his intellectual per- bother with the question whether the patient any real good from 1922 to 1937. ceptions is what he always calls the Spas

extend over a period of 15. ars, they can but

been made,