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HONGKONG.

EASTERN OUTPOST OF THE EMPIRE.

A. GREAT CLEARING HOUSE.

Telephone 29.

pared with a total of 5,274 foreign. ships of the same type. In tonnage, the year's figure for ocean-going ves- sels was 144 milions, an increase of 4,000,000 tons over the preceding 12| "months.

FARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

{Router's Service to the China Mail.)

"LORD FISHER DEAD"

LONDON, July 12.

Messages of condolence with Baron Fisher are pouring in from all parts of the Empire. His Majesty the King. the Prince of Wales and other royal- ties, the French and other military and naval officers have telegraphed mes-

| sdges of sympathy and regrets.

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mel)

SPA CONFERENCE.

GERMAN REPARATIONS.

LONDON, July 12 There will be a public funeral at

The text of the German reparations plans is a most lengthy document. Westminster Abbey at noon on Tues. It begins by declaring that any arrangement must take account of the day, after which the body will be economic and financial capacity of Germany. International economic cremated at Golders Green" and con- sources of supply must be regained. It proposes that experts of both veyed to Kiverstone Hall, Thetford, parties meet as soon as possible to fix the instalments in accordance with Norfolk, for interment.

Germany's capacity. In order to ensure quick deliveries of the material The papers conmin columns of a demanded, the Allies and Germany are creating trade associations which preciations and tributes 10 Nestoryof the Navy."

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

the

[BY COURTESY

HONGKONG DAILY

PRESS,"]

PEKING GRISIS."

DEFEATED.

IN TWO SKIRMISHES.

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will act in co-operation with the government and be obliged to furnish a specified quota of materials. It recommends that each of the Allies form organisations for the control of deliveries.

GERMAN RELUCTANCE..

LONDON, July 4

WEDNESDAY,

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

POULTRY

Owing to the high price of imported poultry, our prices for own housefed poultry will be

as follows on and after the 8th inst:-

CAPONS CHICKENS

55 cents per lb. 60

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.

Hongkong, 7th July 1920,

A Spa communique issued this afternoon shows that arising out of the THE WINE OF SENTIMENT. solution of the coal question, Herr Simons displayed reluctance to submit

LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION.

TO REPAIR THE BLIGHT OF WAR.

"

GIRLS' EDUCATION.

EXPENSIVE "EXTRAB

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DAUGHTERS LUXURIES,

the German reparation plans as previously arranged. He said that he had

"Of course I cannot afford it," just learned that the coal deliveries demanded exceeded double Germany's said my host, as he ordered a second economic possibilities and amounted to one. third of her output, bottle of Veisos Cliquot, "but to me That Though Hongkong is far more of a

would reduce the co-efficient of satisfaction for her champagne is not merely a wine. It shipping port than an industrial cen--

needs from 60 to 40 per cent, while the German plans had been prepared to our gallant Allies. It is a token is a symbol. I drink it as a tribute tre, nevertheless the many enterprises

on the other basis After M. Millerand had expressed surprise at the of my admiration for France."

Are boys or girls the more exper- Writing in the Empire number carried on in the Colony by British TUAN'S FORCES COMPLETELY

delegation's new standpoint, the latter conferred, and on resuming, Herr Regarded thus, it becomes almost sive to educate and maintain? A of the Times; correspondent said: interests provide employment for

Simons declared that as the final decision as regards deliveries was not a pious duty to drink champagne on have been dismissed with a shrug of few years ago the queson would Physically, the island of Hongkong. many thousands of natives who are which is some seven miles in length under expert "European supervisión.

being taken until tomorrow when the experts' report would be examined, glassful one has the satisfaction of

every possible occasion. With every the shoulders. and 27 miles in circumference, bears Heading the list are the Colony's huge

the delegation would submit the plans now prepared.

feeling that one is helping a great dually opening their doors to women, To-day, with the professions gra- Striking resemblance to Gibraltar. ¦ shipbuilding and repair yards, the two

PEKING, July 12.

French industry and assisting to re- It appears to rise abruptly from the principal of which are the. Taikoo The issues of the crisis have be

M. Millerand, replying to a remark regarding the object of the Spa establish France Pleasure and duty parents will find that their daughters sea, and, with scarcely any foreshore Dockyard and Engineering Company come clearer as a result of the events Conference, said that there could be no question of modifying Article 233 are seldom so happily coupled

education is in no degree less costly except that created by reclamation and the Hongkong and Whamper Deck of the past two days. Chang Tsan of the Treaty, but the Allies had decided at San Remo that the Treaty unselfish considerations, what would

But apart from any altruistic and than that of their sons. projects, reaches at its uppermost Company, where not only can the big-lin, whose attitude was uncertain sincé

In the very high-class schools "point about 1,800k, above the sea gest liners visiting the port be docked his hurried departure from Peking has would be liberally and reasonably construed. The Germans handed in the the world be without champagne? It girls are more expensive than boys,”

level. The lever part is largely on bur where also ocean-going vessels issued a circular telegram blaming plans.

is the wine of wines. There is no The Daily Mirror was informed by a cupied by prominent business and jare launched in growing numbers.

firm of educational agents. Than Chi-jui and We Pei-fu for the

substitute. banking premises. together with ex- There is only one railway of which resulting hostilities but regarding the

Boys may be housed in long Regarding the reconstitution of devastated regions, Germany proposes but the best of them is a poor thing dormitories, but parents are averse

There are many sparkling wines, (ensive" native "quarters, and then in the Colony can boast, that which links former as the chief oerder. unending succession the hilly back Kowloon with Canton, the capital of taken as an indication of support to including the formation of an international syndicate of contractors, partici: pops quite like a champagne cork, and and the neatly curtained cubicles or This is that work should be undertaken for a great international colonisation scheme, compared with champagne. No cork to this system for their daughters, grond is dotted with imposing resi. Kwengrung. It is a little over a hun- Vu Pei-fu. dendes which rise tier upon tier to the dred miles in length, divided into, twe A skirmish occurred on July 11 a pation in which should be open to all the States which clean up the deva- there is a subtle pleasure in the mere tiny, brightly-decorated rooms all topmost heights of the peak. Access sections British and Chinese respec Koparien, twenty miles to the wes: stated areas and reconstruct industry, agriculture, railways, etc, sight of the amber-coloured wine help to swell the school fees. to these is had by a wonderfully con-tively. The former is owned by the o. Peking, in which Tuan's forces were and

"Between £200 and £250 per foaming and brbbling in slender. erect new homes. The syndicate should be empowered stemmed glasses.

annum would cover a boy's educa. structed series of roads, which in Hongkong, Government, and the latter worsted and fell back on Litliho. to invite contractors and workmen, from the Allied and Associated Powers. themselves are a striking tribute, to by the Chinese authorities. Though Another brush occurred at Langlang Germany should participate in this work, which should be carried out as a shine. It ministers to sight, smell, finishing school, would cost her

There is magic in this bottled sun. tion at a big public school.

His sister, a pupil at a high class Barish skill and determination in the only 24 miles in length, the British which also proved disastrous.

business, not on bureaucratic lines, but without undne profits. If the scheme and palate. A sip of it dispels and face of great physical obstacles.section proved extremely costly in There is also a novel tramway worked construction, being probably one of the the Frontier Defence Force at Isinan, accepted is on this principle, a conference representatives of the Govern brings to the drinker something of its parents at least £250 per annum for own joyous sparkle. It is, indeed, the ber board and ordinary school course, on the wire rope system which takes most expensive bits of railway in the fa disparched a force to seize Tehchow ments of the countries wishing to participate and representatives of the wine which maketh glad the heart of and any extra "subjects would quickly residents to the upper heights of the world. Quoted in sterling. it cos: Arsenal which was occupied by Chinli population of the devastated region should be held immediately to consider man. island.

The European business quar-some. £40,000 per mile, due to the forces. The General of the Chihli the practical execution of the scheme.

There are many splendid wines,

A middle-class father whose son ter is situated on the lower cemral abnormal physical difficulties encoun- Forces advised the Commander of the

soft, silky clarets, rich, generous schools, states that the boy costs and daughter are both attending day levels, and with its blocks of modern | tered.

attacking lorces to mind his own busi-

Burgundies, and right royal ports business houses it immediately strikes: The University of Hongkong, which (aess, and return to Tsinanfu, which

But they have their times and sea. him more than the girl. the visitor as a symbol of Britain's draws students from North. Central, he did. "The Chihli Forces then tore

sons. There is something almost The following are the tables of colonial strength and solidarity. Then and South China, as well as the Straits up part of the Tiemsin-Pukow Rail-

solemn about them, especially about expenditure which have been made there is the magnificent harbour, ad-Settlements and the Federated Malay way to prevent the passage of the In the House of Commons, replying to Sir Frederick Hall, Mr. Bonar old vintage port Champagne is the for each child for the new school mittedly one of the finest and most States, stands in the forefront of the enemy force northward.

Law stated there were fifty-five British naval and military prisonere in harbinger of gaiety and good cheer.

wine of our lighter moments, the term beautiful in the world, having a total | Colony's educational institutions. It Tsao Kan, interviewed by the Russia; also a number of civilians imprisoned for reasons never fully No festivity is really complete with area of some 10 square miles, with was established some eight years ago. mediating General, Chang Kwei-ti, a natural narrow entrance at each end. through the joint enterprise and enthu-declared that if he won he would explained. He hoped that negotiations now progressing would secure their out it.

siasm of British and Chinese sub-demand the heads of Tuan Chi-jui and immediate release. Replying to a further question, Mr. Law stated thera scribers, and aims at bringing to the Hsu Shu-cheng. On the other hand: were still Russian prisoners in England. very door of China an education com if he lost he was willing that his and parable to that of the universities of Wa Pei-lu's heads should be for- the United Kingdom. When it began warded to Peking.

Genera! Ma Liang, commanditg

On the mainland are situated Kowloon and the New Territories, which carry British jurisdiction well into the hin- terland, and where live thousands of native villagers and fisher folk enjoy ing the security and protection of the its career its staff was of the smallest A most significant indication of Union Jack. The whole colony has dimensions, comprising, besides the Tua Chi-jui's declining prospects is an area of well over 250,000 acres.

Vice-Chancellor (55 Charles Eliot), the visit of Tsao Ju-lin, as Tuan's phils the population, estimated at one professor, a registrar, and one missary, to the President, beseeching about 750,000 includes, roughly, full-time lecturer, all the others being him with tears in his eyes ro issue, a some 15.000 non-Chinese, not count part-time men. So great has been the mandate forbicding fighting- ing the garrison, of whom about 5,000) growth of the university that at the are white."

present time the staff totals over 20, It is not here necessary to deal with and the number is constantly increas- historical matters, save to say that ing.

There are also many colleges. Hongkong came under the British and schools in the Colony, it being Crown by the Treaty of Nanking in calculated that some 10,000 pupils 1843, that the Kowloon Peninsula was attend the Government institutions, ceded to Great Britain 17 years later, and over 15,000 the vernacular and that in 1898 British territory was schools. extended on the rainland by a further 376 square miles.

and

FINANCE.

TRADE UNION'S LEGAL AID,

SUCCESSFUL LITIGANT MEMBER ENTITLED TO COSTS,

!

BRITISH FRISÖNERS IN KUSSIA.

LONDON, July 12

BRITISH 3VACUATE BATUM.

GEORGIAN TROOPS NOW IN OCCUPATION.

LONDON, July 12.

The British finally evacuated Batum on July 9 without incident. Georgian troops are now in occupation.

PROPOSED EMPIRE EXHIBITION,

REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIES AND RESOURCES.

Sentiment clusters round cham- pagne. It is the wine of great occasions, from the launching of a battleship to the launching of a ! married couple or the christening of a child. Many who never drink wine at other times reserve it for special events, birthdays, high festi- vals, and the like an outward and visible sign of rejoicing.

increase this fee."

Boy-age 12.

School fees including

daily dinner) £15 15 0 Pupil's season. ticket

(3 months)

2 pairs boots Overcoat... Suit

Girl-age 10.

a

School fees Elocution and music

Dancing shipperJr.

1 0

2 16 0

5 10 0

5 0 0

£4.4 0

2 2 0

1 5 0

"My wife makes all the little girl's

calls for companionship. There are clothes at home." he adds, so that

Pre-eminently a sociable wine, it

dour, selfish fellows who may be her outfit costs considerably less than seen in club corners solitarily drink-*I do not know anything about

the boy's." ing a pint on their own. But they! miss the true pleasure. To crack a girls-I have no daughtera hur boys bottle with a crony is the way of the father of a boy at a good public are certainly very expensive," said joyment. How many old friendships have been renewed and old feuds forgotten over a bottle of "boy"? It is proposed to hold in London in 1923 an exhibition representative

It is lovers' wine too and adds of the industries and resources of the British Empire. The Government glamour to romance. And it is the wine for fair women: Pretty lips proposes to ask Parliament to sanction a vote of £100,000 to guarantee a never look prettier than when sipping fund conditional upon an additional £500,000 being secured elsewhere, daintily a goblet of golden champ The Board of Trade stipulations in connection with the proposed contriber, agne.--Daily Mail.

LONDON, July 12

tion include the approval of all regulations. The King has promised his MEMORIAL TO KING'S DOG.

patronage and the Prince of Wales will be Président of the general com-i

INDIAN TRAIN INCIDENT.

SERIOUS ALTERCATION WITH MOSLEMS.

Here, from a Financially Hongkong is in a most small and insignificant Eshing village. flourishing condition. During the war. British enterprise and perseverance not only did the Colony show substan- was given by Mr. Justice Sankey re- A decision affecting trade, unions have built up a commercial stronghold tal financial surpluses, but the Gov-cently in the question of the recovery centre of civilizing influence ernment was able to vote large sums of costs by members in litigation in which have been largely instrumental for Imperial war, purposes. It is ex- which they had been successful. in bringing the foreign trade of South pected that the Colony's revende for Mr. Justice Sankey said that Mr.mittee. Any surplus profits will be devoted to public objects. China to the prominent position which the current year will be close on four William Tadmas Adams brought an it occupies in the world to-day: Those millions sterling, and the expenditure action for wrongful dismissal and re early pioneers of ours could not have about three and a half millions,

covered £94 10s, from the defen- chosen a better spot. Lying close to Harbour improvement is a matter dants, the Lendon Improved. Motor the main arteries of trade and com-requiring early attention. More and Coachbuilders, Ltd., Lupus street. merce in South China, it enjoys" un- bigger vessels are using the port, and Westminster, S.W. Course! For the rivalled facilities for business inter- the Government, alive to the needs defendants then said that Mr. Adams course, and to-day, because of its im- of the time, has under consideration was not entitled to his costs, appar- mense commercial and Financial rami schemes for the provision of deep endy either because he was not under fications and its power as a rival and water wharves and conveniently situ any liability to pay them or could not become the true centre of British in terests in the Orient."

BRITISH OFFICER INJURED.

ABBOTTABAD, July 12.

An official message states that a serious altercation took place at the

A MARBLE FIGURE OF C‘ESAR)

LIES AT EDWARD VITS FEET.

school.

"My boy's boots alone are a trém- endous item," he went on. "Every fortnight they have to be repaired, and I seem always to be buying new ones. Boys, moreover, are always losing their clothes. They are very careless."

AERIAL DERBY.

PASSENGERA WANTED FOR WORLD FLIGHT.

King Edward VII's famous dog, Caesar, is immortalized in the new tomb of that sovereign in St. George's

Major C. J. Glidden, the officer in chapel, Windsor. At the foot of the charge of the projected First Aerial recumbent figure of the king lies the Derby round the World, which it is little dog, in marble, curled up in hoped to hold in 1921 under the sleep.

auspices of the Aero Club of America That this association would have and the Aerial League of America,

military station of the Empire, it has ated storage warehouses. So far as prove that he had retained the solici-station at Kachagari. British military police were endeavouring to evict / been approved by King Edward there has sent out a world wide invitation

A GREAT PORT.

Commercially, the role filled by

Hongkong is that of a great clearing

wireless facilities go: the Colony is tot who appeared for hira. not so well served as it should be."

·

is little doubt, for be was devoted to for volunteer passengers who are

Irish terrier, which accom willing to make a test flight round him wherever he went the world this year, covering all

Mr. Adams was a member of the from the train two Moslem emigrants going to Afghanistan who were There is a low-powered ship-to-shore National Union of Clerks, a trade travelling without tickets, when the crowd attacked, seriously wounding a panied station on the island, but this is by no union having, among other objects. British officer. The crowd also injured two policemen. The troops fired Caesar, in consequence became a points except crossing the Atlantic means sufficient for present-day com- that of providing legal aid to members three shots. One emigrant was killed and another wounded. Excitement national character and was the sub- and Pacific Oceans. The passengers house, through which passes in the mercial needs. course of a year millions of pounds tred now on Hongkong's inclusion in He had duly paid his contributions to exercised a restraining influence. An official enquiry is proceeding.

Great hopes are cen-in connection with their employment. was observed in Peshawar city where the local Khilafat committee jest of endless newspaper paragraphs are to keep a record of their flying and at least one book. On the plate time between points, which will be worth of precious cargoes. The the Imperial wireless chain.

the union funds, and his lordship held

of his collar was inscribed, "I am used as a basis in the race, and so Colony's imports in 1918 totalled | Accustomed in Chine to merciless that the union acted as his agent in

Caesar, the King's dog." After King will aid materially in arranging the 80mm £60.619,335 and its exports extortion, and in constant danger from retaining and instructing a solicitor.

Edward's death his widow, Queen rules for the Derby, £69,953,974, representing a grand the ever-recurring political upheavals that the solicitor accepted such re-

Alexandra, took charge of Caesar, Transportation negotiations are soral of £130,553,309, or an increase characteristic of the country, in time tainer and instructions on Mr. Adams's

who soon followed his master.

being made with firms having the of £64,041,333 compared with the of trouble alien Chinese flock by the behalf, and was entitled to be paid

He is the first dog belonging to an necessary facilities Of last year's thousands into British Hongkong. the costs out of the funds contributed previous 12 months.

| English monarch of whose name transportation from ---- Imports, goods to the value of close No greater tribute to the liberty and to by."Mr. Adams Judgment Was

there is any record. None of King EJ-.. on £20,000,000 came from the freedom guaranteed by the Union Jack "given for Mr. Adams.. United Kingdom and British Colonies could be paid than this fact alone.

and Protectorates, which received Hongkong stands at the door of China,

in exports from. Hongkong almost a monument well worthy of copying £10,000,000. The exchange rate of China reaps the benefit of this inspir-

A GREAT PERSONALITY,

NEWSPAPER TRIBUTES TO LORD FISHER.

LONDON, July 12. The Daily Telegraph says that Lord Fisher created an instrument which, in association with other agencies, brought Germany's world ambitions to the dust. The Daily Mail says that Lord Fisher was never afraid of risks Captain R. C. Thompson, master He too's responsibility before which others quailed of sending battle cruisers the dollar varied during the year from ing presence in a thousand and one of the Indo-China s.5. "Yusang 36. 4d. in January to 6s, in Decem-ways. As one of her pre-Republican who recently arrived in Shanghai from to destroy Admiral Von Spee's ships, though he thereby reduced the strength

officials himself admitted, when China Swatow, served for three years during of our battle cruisers below the German strength The Daily Mail publishes During the past year, the total conceded Hongkong to Britain she the war in command of a British Sup- pathetic letter dictated by Lord Fisher, in his last illness in which he complains shipping entering and clearing the gave away a barren rock; in return, ply ship on the Tigris in Mesopotamia of being forgotten: The Daily Express says that "Jacky Fisher made mary port reached 649,168 vessels of the British, have turned it into a and only arrived back on the China -35,615,168—aggicgate tons. The mountain of gold.—

Coast a few months ago when he took enemies but in death no voice would be raised in the Empire to belittle his treamers actually engaged in foreign

command of the "Yusang" relieving forceful career The Daily Chronicle says that it was his spirit of scientific As to the nationality of the Two new Launches are being built one of the Company's up-river steam victory. The Times declares that Lord Fisher's chief glory was that it was Captain Scure who took command of daring which galvanised the navy into new life and was the essence of its for the "WALLA-WALLA? :ers running between Ichang and Boot, Phone No. $510. Charging

mainly owing to his reforms we played the part we did in the warz

ber.

trade number 41,085, of 21,072,129

ships, nearly 4,000 British ocean-

→going Vrescris came and wont, com

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to

Bangkok to Baghdad via Rangoon, Calcutta, and Baghdad to Dumimary Head,

Karachi

Ireland via Aleppo, Adalia, Salania, Rome, Faris, and Londen

arranga

Milea

2,929

1,266

2,096

2,563

ward's predecessors since the days of New York to Seattle... the Stuarts appears to have beene Yokohama to Shanghai Victoria is said to have had one near great lover of dogs, though Queen Shanghai to Bangkok via Hongkong, Canton, and her when she died. Charles II once Hanoi advertised for a lost pet, black spaniel. It is his majesty's own dog dog, between a greyhound and a and doubtless was stolen, for the dog was not born nor, bred in England Will they never leave robbing his and would never forsake his master, majesty ? Must he not keep a dog?

3,404 The dog's place (though better than Total (approximately) *** some imagine) to the only place

12,257 which nobody offers to beg

Two passengers, are sought, one The dog's name not given-willing to travel East and the other

Wests