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grinned. Well? What about it? Thanks to M and to G It may be a fact: what we want and to B

THE

there is no book

· LOCAL AND`AKTERIL,

THURSDAY, JULY

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

AND

now is the bearing of it: bow does dearth for the next two weeks.

Louisville-bas-startad a move to

Workmen who are engaged in it affect us? Overcoming our shud- | After that, God will provide.

excavating at Jerusalem are alleged dering repulsion at having to

divas over to the discourage buying a

to have struck a gold reef. The city Don't present prices discourage buy is seething with reports, and a metal- bandle, actually to handle, these

south west shone theing at present prices? millions of microbes, we study the

lurgist has been deputed to investi- ROMANTIC lights of West Point, Laneri further to find out what we

SPIRIT. They gave the man

gate. must do to be sared. For the

who has the roman- moment, so incomplete is normal cerebration, we overlook the fact that our own fingers being made of material substance,, must contain about as many Tacteria, as the in the same way. "I wazit to`land An Indian watchman in Hong paper they handle.

The Lancet down there where the lights are. kopg has been arrested on a charge reminds us of it. Cruel, Cruel.. and go home by ear. And while of committing perjury-It hardly The Lancet is disown there, interpolated Puck. I'll seems possible, comments the N.C.

Daily News. IMMORTAL posed to quarrel with stand a Chinese dinner. There's a MICROBES. à French report that Mahomedan cafe where the noist

Lt Col W. P. Hume, Commis tie spirit an idea. He shifted the stoner of Trade and Customs, Feder belm. Where are you going? dated Malay States, has been gazetted manded his partner. I'm tired of

to act as British Resident, Perak. returning always to the same place,

it

As a consequence of the financial crisis in Japan the Osaka Chamber of Commerce records bills dishonoured at nine clearing houses, including Osaka, to the number of 645, with a value of Y1,130,941.

...

The government of Formosa has placed its veto on the Omotokyo religion which preaches the approach living microhes have chicken is a special feature. The

A Heavenly Foot Society basing end of the world. The grounds on which this action has been taken been found existing in not on other man grumbled, said he pro been started in Wuchang and a pro-

1920,

SPECIAL CABLE,

SINGAPORE NEWS,

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

[China Mail SPECIAL]

ย

SINGAPORE, July 21. Lieutenants Parer and McIntosh flying to Australia left for Java to-day........

REGISTRATION OF SCHOOLS. There is considerable unrest among the local Chinese regarding the registration of schools, which they the Chinese language. believe aims at the suppression of Dr. Lim

amber. They must be millions if Terzeit his comfort. Safe routine/gramme of anti-foot-binding propa.pe that such a belief is prejudicial, education bill providing for

Word has been received by the

the

The total output of the Kailan secret service department of the Boon Keng, a member of the Legis.

Shanghai Military

that

rears old. Millions of years mean was good enough for him. Not a ganda among Chinese women is being to good order and the public peace.

planned by a committee. immortality: The Lancet expresses spark of romance in you, said the doubt, points out the possibility steersman. Romance, snorted the of contamination with organisms other, and proceeded to play on born but yesterday. How often, that word for the rest of the light: says the Lancet, have we not seen In the dark we bumped a buoy, the week ending Joy 3rd, xmquated even trained persons sterilize an Dama said the steerstaan. Why to 90,841 tons and the sales during instrument and then undo their said his partner, it's romance. I the period to 82,999 tons work by touching it with the un-came on to main. Romance, he clean hand. It says the solution of said. Landing had to be made per of Jaly 15 were going about Shanghai problems of vital philosophic in dinghy More romance. saiti he. portance, as, for example, the ques- We began to hate the word. "The lashing weakened trees to supports. The typhoon which edged Shanghai tion of the spontaneis generation unfamiliar steps were wet and slip blew down a number of trees in of life, has depended upon the satis- pery. How romantic, quoth the various districts... factory avoidance of accidental congrumbler. But the roast chicken

a political party whipse name has not been divulged is recruiting soldiers in Shanghai, with the intention of send ing a battalion to Swatow shortly. Is there a local d'Annunzio with the NCDN. Municipal coolies on the morning designs on the southern port? asks

Shanghai on July 16, to the effect Information was received in

that the str. "Loongmow" struck a cliff in the Ichang Gorges, about 15

is combatting misconceptions.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS,

SON ASSAULTS MOTHER.

At the Criminal Sessions yesterday";

taminations. Is this a side slap at and the Watson's E smoothed A junk, said to be 80 feet long, miles above Ichang, doing consider before Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, Tang the late Professor Bastian? Pre-jeverything. There was romance, which was sunk long age at Weeable damage to her No. 1 hold. The Kin Hee, who was sentenced to two hars.

We forget what view the rather noisy, in the next cubicle, sung, near Kowiao, is reported to be vessel, has, however, reached Ichang Fears' imprisonment with hard labour Ltd. Lancet wok of his anouncement but we only laughed.

a danger to river traffic. The au safely where temporary repairs will for having wounded a bullock, was of half a dozen years ago; but as

be effected to enable her to proceed further charged with having set fire it brags of a healthy scepticism."

to a store and a dwelling house, and we may guess,

(2) assaulted his mother, Chán Lin

ATTRACTIVE MODEL HATS and SEMI TRIMMED STRAWS.

DAINTY VOILE DRESSES.

LATEST STYLES

AND

EFFECTS.

SANITLEY BOARD OFTENDS.

If the Sanitary Board thorities have now been asked to does not mind its peas destroy the wreck. and kews, it is going

to Shanghai. No lives were lost.

Bastian took glass |

be summoned by Twenty-two Chinese, who went

A Shanghai Russian paper says Tai, and wounded her with a knif SPONTANEOUS tubes, loaded them

Wanchai residents for on board the s.s. "Soaring" without the Vladivostock Government has at Lantao Island.

The case for the Crown was con- GENERATION. with а culture committing an insanitary nuisance. permission, were yesterday sentenced protested to the Russian Minister at

medium, sealed In, typhoon weather its vessels do to one month's hard labour each by Feking against the action of the ducted by Mr P. Jacks, Acting Crown them hermetically by melting the not collect at the usual wharf. Tuns Commander C. W. Beckwith, RN Russian Consul-General in Shanghai Solicitor.

Marine Magistrate.

in taking over the three ships of the The following jury was called →→→ ends, subireted theui, thus sealed, of refuse are deposited on the road to a hear rasny times greater than sido just beyond the Convent, tura-

Russian Volunteer Fleet and ejecting Messrs. C. Lauritsen, D. A. Goodwin, We tender our most bearty con- the crews. any mice has been known to ed over by dogs, and by the very gratulations to Mr. and Mrs. to crews, the paper says, have informed F. Lafleur, F. P. Shroff and R. S. The delegates of the HL A. R. Conant, H. N. Beaurepaire. survive, and put them in a suunyer Chinese whose necessity makes whom we understand a son was the Fleet agents that the crews will Judah, window. Recognizable bacteria them play Autolycus. The smell is born on Saturday morning says not go to Vladivostock in small His Lordship explained to the appeared inside, Spontaneous gen-strong and very offensive, permeat an excharge. Nothing like being parties, but will insist on going as prisoner that in the Police Court he eration was believed, by himself ing all the neighbouring dwellings careful in journalism.

one company.

was charged with burning down two and songs othora, to inve been deixit that is not the worst of it. The

houses. It was afterwards found nonstmited. Tho. Lgnect itself bo-heap attracts millions of flies, and Handcuffed securely but with

Another suicide due to the pre- that those houses belonged to him, so leves the question to be of vital these vile and dangerous insects legs free to run, a Chinese charged sent economic depression in Japan those houses are not concerned in the philosophic importance.. Why, ii¡ presently invade the houses. The with murder got away from a native has taken place in Osaka. The present charge. He was now charged bacteria are constantly present on Sanitary Board must find some detective at the booking office of the victim this time was the proprietor with setting fire to a store and a every particle of matter, consider & other place of way of dealing with Shanghai Nanking Railway at about of a firm which has been extensively house. He was not charged with problem of origin? Why not as this refuse, even in the typhoon nine o'clock at night of July 15. engaged in trade with North China. burning down the house, but only cept the apparent fact that bacterial season. If we are not to be up-

He stabbed himself with a short with setting fire to it This house life is oummipresent and eternal, to-date and have a proper refuse The tender of Messrs. R. Young sword; and was dead before medical was the one in which he had been. having and needing no beginning? destructor, a crying need, that is) and Co., for the erection of six large aid could be procured. In this case living, but which belonged to some. Because, when the earth was in up to the government. It is up to godowns at Telok Ayer Reclamation, it was the boycott movement com- one else, fux and great heat, they could not the law to protect the residents of Singapore, has been accepted. It is bined with the sharp fall in silver The prisoner said that he set fire to his own houses and not to other have existed? How, then, did they this or any other area similarly rumoured that the amount involved is which caused the trouble.

in the neighbourhood of $1,500,000. exist in Bastian's superheated chosen for an offensive" and un-

people's property. In answer to the tubes? There could be no ques-healthy deposit. The stuff was

Messrs. Samuel Montagu & Co.'s charge of assaulting his mother, the tion of accidental contamination being taken away this morning known war correspondent and a following interesting report: It is and she fell down and hurt herself.

Mr. Julius NB. Wood, well- gold report of May 28 contains the prisoner said that he gave her a pust, unless glass is permeable by but the typhoon season is only just special representative of the Chicago stated in the press that some boys microbes. If there are always and beginning, and the residents want Daily News has reached Yokohama

Mr. Jacks said that the prisoner everywhere immense numbers of some assurance that more will not after a harrowing experience in before" gave away some which a village on Lantao Island, together who had never seen sovereigns was a fisherman, living in Tong-fuk bacteria on every bit of matter, it be put there. We are sure that Siberia Mr. Wood will go to Shang- terrier unearthed near Dublin. As with his mother, his brother and his is a temptation to conclude that the head of the Sanitary Board will hai before returning to Chicago. the younger generation seems likely brother's wife. There appeared to they were always there. Why not? act on this tip, and give the neces-

to grow up in similar ignorance, it have been considerable friction in the Why assume beginning? Or, sary orders at once. otherwise, why not assume a begin-

has been suggested that specimens family, and the prisoner was always should form a feature in local quarrelling with his mother. On ning for matter itself?

museums so as to prevent similar June 18 there was a wordy differ- errors of judgment in future.

ence between the prisoner's wife and his mother on the subject of rice. A Yokohama despatch to the The wife went out and fetched the Asahi says that the Curtis Aeroplane busband. The prisoner worked him- Manufacturing Company, of London, ¦ self up into a temper and went to his Reference was made before the has a project for establishing a big brother-in-law's house, forced it open big earthenware assembled Bar in the Supreme Court, 18ctory in Japan. The message says and Singapore, by Sir John Buckmill, KC that Mr. Stevenow, the manager of pot. He then went to his mother's Chief Justice, to the death of Sir the Manila branch of the British house are assaulted his mother Theodore Ford, a former Chief Jus with the object of building a factory house. The mother's brother ap company, recently visited Hongkong and broke several things in the

ing Derby round the world, or to senr., replied on behalf of the Bar.

obtaining good mechanics and went away. Ee brooded over the

Van Winkle Hiller, daughter of enough accommodation for our that swarmed upon his bloody Editor Petrie for circulation among any more goods by Japanese steamers/original plan, and Japan has ever deliberately setting fire, with firewood The Chinese Food Supply Union workers, and of other adverse air matter overnight, and in the more.

abandoned has passed resolutions not to send cumstances, be

thening was seen by several witnesses the late Dr. and Mrs. Hiller, of commuters," the people who buy sword and upon his meat? He bad the local papers. It reached the Any member who disobeys will be/ually been chosen. This looks like and kerosene oil, to several houses.

This is the sort of talk that goes them. Perhaps that was the ex-which "our"pre-emidence entitles us) tions from time to time to see that Japanese workinen at the expense of houses" of His brother-in-law and ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈

not sense enough to be afraid of China Mail last, instead of first (to punished. There will be investiga & clumsy piece of propaganda for He burned down a store, and the un on the trams, morning, mid-planation. In the days when men

we are unable to regard it as news. the resolution is faithfully carried Chinese.

BIRTHS.

POLLARD.-Oz. April 13. 1920. at Croydon, England. to Mr. and

Mrs. Albert Pollard, a son. HEALEY Or July 14, 1920, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Healey, a son. GRANT On July 15, 1920, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Grant, a daighter. PERRY-On July 10, 1920, ar Han- kow, to Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Perry, a son. CHESNEY. On July 10, 1920, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. John Chesney, a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

things are never the same on any two successive journeys, the ride threatens to be tedious. The threat never fulfilled, but they always expect it to be. They won con versation, to be on the safe side. Some of them read.

AERO CLUB CORRESPONDENCE.

TOO LATE FOR US.

A Hongkong tram journey under existing conditions should never seen stale. These narrow gauge,'

And how on earth are one-bogie, coolie driven street cars

DODGING we to dodge these rock and pitch like a ship in a

inillions of microbes, rough sea. They say we cannot

that are everywhere, have larger cars because of the

on everything we touch, and on narrow gauge. We could have longer cars on two bogies, that every part of our persons? It is clearly impossible. How did the would carry twice as many people, robustly healthy Attila, king of the travel much more comfortably, and Huns, without a modern scientific

The Aero Club of America has save wear and tear on the german medical adviser, defeat these hordes hustling secretary who wrote a long BRITTON-HILLER-On July 15, hours two, three, and sometimes He knew how to conquer men, and 1920, 21 Shanghai, Frank Guyer four cars rim together, a little pro- even the lion and the wolf, but Britton, of Yokohama, to Alice cession, and even then there is not what could he know of the microbes

San Francisco, America:

DEATHS.

SIQUEIRA.-On July 15, 1920, at

6.50 a.m., 21 Shanghai. Estanis

fao Antonio, the beloved son of

Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Siqueira, aged one year and six months.

a

Mr. Grant Jones, being home ward bound on leave, Mr. Black burn has been made senior British Assessor at the Shanghai Mixed Court during his absence. Mr.J. C. Hutchison, fills the vacancy occasion- ed by Mr. Blackburn's promotion.

broke a

ent way. At present at the busy whose throats he 'could not.cura long letter to the Aero Club of Hong ice of the Colony, and Mr. Kock, there, but in view of the difficulty of peared on the scene and the per

the monthly tickets.

day, and evening. We report it, feared the Plague with a fear that we do not originate it. We hear was forced upon thera by terrible

kong, proposing an international fly-

Mars, or somewhere.

The local people sent

it to

The Editor of the Chine Mail sug-out.

mother, and, tried to set fire to his own house. He then left the village From the local office of Messrs. with his wife, but was arrested not talk or read, as a rule, because tales, it was shrewdly observed that would be berter if they themselves did at his house in Kobe, of Dr. R. 1. Eastern Traveller's Gazette, an illus the prisoner admitted that he had Thos. Cook, and Son, we have received when he returned a week later. a Hongkong tram journey quite ore men died of fear than of

The death, took place on July 9 a copy of the latest issue of The For When charged at the Police Station,

it, without engaging in it. We do experiences and still more fearsome local publicity for such items that it gests to persons: desirous of general

apart from the excitement of hold-plague. It may be in deference the circulating.. It has happened Huston, a resident of Japan for trated journal devoted to travel. This set fire to the houses, because

wife of Charles Piens, aged 46 bruises) is a perennially interesting the Lancet we only say it may be Paper for the use of all has circulated about nine years. Dr. Huston was formation of value to the traveller, mother. At the Magistracy, he said

years.

The China Mail.

TRUTH, JUSTICE PUBLIC SERVICE.”

lost en route,

After swal-

It must be terrible to

To the mind that

ZECHARIAH VIII 5.

taway,

PIENS. On July 12, 1920, ating on when the car lurches round to the supernal intellects that write before that matter entrusted to oce some 15 years, and of Kobe for admirable guide is replete with in his wife had quarrelled with his

Shanghai. Emmna, the beloved corners, and arolding painful!

adventure. Whether we look at deadly than they are.

that fear of microbes is moretically, and even on occasion got born in Cincinnati in 1856, and took and contains much that is that when he was 12 years of age his his medical degree at Louisville, of general interest, notably articles father died, and he had supported his the harbour or at the streets there lowing bacteria by the billion,

Kentucky.

03 the attractions of Hong mother ever since. He was now 37. is always something to see that is many years before we heard of.

kong (reproduced elsewhere in Three times had his mother "wished worth seeing.

them, we have grown somewhạt

A quiet wedding was solemnized this issue) the thrills of Pagsanjan, his death. Once she had got him. That slow, frequently halting, reckless.

in Shangbai by the Rev. John Manila, a trip to the Ming Tombs arrested as a robber, and he was sent rumbling, meandering progress

Darroch, D.D., when Mrs. Berynece by sedan chair, and a visit to Cebo to prison for a year. Then she tried through the heart of the Orient

H.Smith, reporter and deputy clerk the oldest European city in the to charge him for not supporting her, conduces to moods meditative. It] READING. be deprived of books. Life in its first day, so soon to fade of the US. Court for China, was Orient. Full particulars are given but his sister had dissuaded her from BanGIONG, THURSDAY, JELY 22, 1990. is so very, very clear that it is just means to stay awake to go on so soft sad tender, so meek and mid: agent for the Firestone Tyres in routes; banking and exchange, etc. quarrel was about rice. His mother married to Jack Ruscombe Harvey, regarding steamship and railway doing so. On this occasion the a section of a much longer journey working, books are stimulants. Just like the flowers in May, caly been Shanghat. we are all making. It is a parable} Some books are food, but these made a day,

with numerous maps and tables. The hit him on the head with a piece of the eternal flux of Life's trajec come early in a studious life, and Fragile and slender, sweet little chipThe machinery for the Shanghai itself invaluable to the traveller in pushed her. She fell over and hort Gazette will thus continue to prove of broken earthenware, and he had tory. It suggests the fight of thereafter few and far between.

[Mint and the Hangchow Branch the Far East.

herself. Her brother came with a The last remark was distinctly, Some are useless, not books in that Premily prancing playing and danc-Mint has been ordered from an Streaming in and out of the large"

rife, cut him (prisoner) on the head American company. These mints | Revenue Officer Ward has had a and slapped his wife. His sister-in- cities America has an army of if inadvertently, humorous. We sense at all. Of such are the repre- ing,

are all humourists on the Hong-sentatives of negligible fiction to Rippling of laughter, voice in a song: will be the largest in the Far East busy time during the last few days law wanted him to repair the door people she calls commuters." what we would call season-ticket kong trams. A few remarks on the we are restricted by local caterers Innocent merriment all the day long and 20,000 odd copper cents in a day ships for contraband. On Saturday so. He first burnt the boat and then boden, suburbans who have made hamours of Hongkong tram travel Mail deliveries are slow, agents at Blending of noises in children's voices,

which, for some inscrutable reason, Beauty, enhancing, loving, entroxing, and will be able to make $400,000 searching incoming and outgoing he had broken and he refused to do

of 10 hours' work. bargain with the transportation will not be out of place. For in Home neglectful. Indeed, the out Song of the Nightingale, Larks of the Before Mr.B. O. Hutchison at the

'night," accompanied by some Chinese | the houses. He refused to go to Revenue Officers, he boarded the jail. He would rather be shot than people, for a reduction of price on stance..... taking a quantity London has What's that, Foreman? Artice put of what our taste calls right dhem. No doubt all large "cities long enough already? Thank good.; books is not large. So the brain Grand though they truly are, just this Earner charged a hawker with using bad made fast to the wharf on that whereas the prisoner had been Magistracy this morning Inspector Haihong." immediately after the His Lordship informed the jury

TRAMS,

time..

have them. What is immediately ess! Boy! Call a ricsha.

ADVERSARIA

for want of stimulants, grows

wing;

my choice is

them to sing

lethargic, or spends itself on tribes. Give me the children God Only the thinking man knows how

a treatise on (say) Zoology, is cap

H

Douglas S. S. Company's steamer go to jail. S

taught defendant sémited possession of tous search resulted in the discovery of cutting and wounding his wife, be a false weight on his scale. The arrival from Amoy. A long and tedi charged it the Police Court with

wight, but denied that he used it. 4,025 taels of prepared non-Govern was now charged only with commen He said that he had a correct weight ment opium, valued at over $50,000) assault. As to the erson; the with him. Inspector Earner-said in one of the ship's lifeboats and in prisoner's defence was that he set fire that the weight produced was 311⁄2 the water tank Enquiries made on to his own property.

mare to the point is that Hongkong has theme Some of them achieve quite an adventurous journey to get

able of inspiring new thoughts on to work or to get home again.

the issues between America and They walk away, perhaps down a

Bacteria are present, Japan, or how a statement regard fill-path, and if they are lucky CROBES. Sometimes in iming the British Constitution may

per cent. against the purchaser. It board failed to reveal the owner of The jury brought in a verdict of they catch u riesha. The tiesha

mense numbers, on supply a re-invigorated conviction BLAZON TYPE NOT-1

was-true that the defendant had a the drug. The contraband was re not guilty on the charge of arson brings them for the tram The tram every particle of material substance to the contrary. One reads almost (HAMBERLAIN'S Colic and Diarrh witness saw him selling roast duck for destruction. On Tuesday the ting the mother

correct weight with him, but when moved to the Monopoly Department and gailty on the charge of assani. ito town. They with which we come in contact anything, because one never knows is Remedy, roods staring bead-inaSaiyanho yesterday, he was insing name offices searched the as

r these panty says The Lancet, and because What may not serve as fuel for that empest tement that all cheint i sel the fake weight The Magistrale king and made baul of 80 tsels to months, imprison.pent the

His Lordship seatessons line 44-attracs "kha, piroho ya Arezmade The Lancel itself is made of Insatiable-metallalleg. The work it spot, at syery famil, knows its imposed a fine of $15 or, in defs

thetram material substance, we dropped it ing brain. How gracious a thing gaine. It harcen med for forty years night have like a bot brick. Then we over in such circunstances it in to find a die jest what its name" im lit,

e weeks! imprisonment with har flat came our momentary panic, and friends that possess and lend sale by all Chemists and Storekeepe

to: kno

or labour, and ordered the confs

of the weigh

Sin one of sentence to run concu

of opium also:

the previous ODE AS TWO-

of the contra: on him on the charre

batid proved fruitle