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act ne-a sort of safety valve, pre-been leaders, but for their unfortu- venting a painful explosion in the nate diversion toward the fetich of moral boiler, and averting a dis military organization. England has uption of the mental economy, decided against it, British Malaya If it cases a man's heart to be being a freak within the Empire, dithyrambic about the wetness of that will presently be called to heal. a holiday and the frustration of his America has turned it down. Russia plans, that is so much to the good will certainly follow suit. and in strict accordance with that Japanese and the Latine-what principle of adaptation which is will they do? If all goes natur necessary to survival. Apart from ally, they will join the procession. all such considerations, the present When a schoolboy gets a knife, he danip weather,, forbids equanimity simply must eat things. It is so by reason of the effect it has upon with conscript annies-a use has tobacco. It packs and burns bad-¦ to be found for them. Let us hape ls, and seems to lose its taste. That the race for armaments will This is the acme of human discom-now change into a friendly rivalry fort, which makes euiriery im-sining at true civilization. possible, and leaves us poorindeed.

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THE UNIVERSITY.

PUSSYFOOT."

SPECIAL CABLE.

AVIATOR" CRASHES.

ACCIDENT IN JAVA.

CAPTAIN POULET SLIGHTLY HURT.

[China Meil SPECIAL]

SINGAPORE, August 3.

LATE MR. R. A. BRAND.

**

A SHANGHAI TRIBUTI.

The Shanghai Mercury, announcing the sudden death of Mr. R. A. Brand,

TUESDAY AUGUST S, 1920;

PASSENGER FARES.

class.

ANOTHER DICREASE.

- KIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,

to

CORRESPONDENCE.

KICK.

To the Editor of the " Chira Mal"}

SIR,-The attached cheering notice is to hand from the Dairy Farm",

This presumably is a sort of back-

Your obedient

servant, "MILKED.”

*The notice states that from this month a charge of 50 cents per month will be made by the Dairy Farm Co., against all its milk cus- tomers for the use of its milk bottles.

Following the announcement of an increase in the Blue Funnel ("A" Class) rates from Hongkong to London (£72 to £102) comes an intimation by the Nippon Yusen handed way of putting up the price- Kaisha that the first class face to of milk. First ice is up, then London from Hongkong has been chickens, and now a charge for the Captain Poulet crashed at Batavia.raised from yen 720 to yen 940 to use, the use mark you, of milk bottles. He was slightly hart. The propeller London, and the second class fare And all this with a high dollar. of his machine was broken.

from yen 500 to ven €50. To The gentlemen who supply us with Marseilles the increase is from yen whisky will be charging us for the 660 to yen 860 first class, and fram use of their bottles next. yea' 460

Of course fifty cents here and five yea 600, second This brings the Nippon nts there make no difference to the Yasen Kaisha fares to about level well nourished directors. The only with the new P. & O. fares, which inconvenience they suffer is possibly Now that "Pussyfoot" Johnson

are £120 first class and £56 second the difficulty they have in getting Although we cannot entirely the hireling apostle of Prohibition..

class to London and £116 and as the money out of their trouser deny the journalisti instinet, and has given an interview to Titbits,

pockets, owing to their configuration. respectively to Marseilles. its appreciation of the fact that it he has, as the French would say,

The Glen and Shire lines have not possibly also they don't consume any must have "copy" value, we dojranged himself. Titbits. He tells while bathing at Yokohama, says fare by these vessels stands at £78 yet announced an increase. The

milk, honestly think that the report of that intellectual periodical bow be It is conjectured that he had been for the present. Fares by, the Llord to get mine sour in future, I enclose I do however, and as I don't want the admission that recently en- got his nickname of “Pussyfoot." suddenly taken with cramp or beart Triesting to Venice remain from £105 my card, and beg to remain. į quired into University affairs shoult A saloon keeper had threatened to failure. The made publie as soon as possible.] shoot Him on sight. He rode up to

first class, to £70 second class. By "Bobbie" Brand-for so he was the Messageries Maritimes liners the Any idea of shelving it for the usual the saloon, tethered his horse, and always hailed was in only his 27th fare to Marseilles is £160 165, first period, to give the public a chance went in.He pussyfooted up to the year. He was born in London on class, and £108 second class. of forgetting all about it. is wrong.big bully, snatched his gun from 5th December, 1893, and while yet a It will not work. In order to get us hip. covered him in correct youngster was brought out to Shang-{" money for the University, a lot of kinema style, and-somehowr the bai. He received his early education unwise bragging was done, and it story becomes vague, and we are at the Shanghai Public School, this is unfortunately the case that the not told what happened after that. being completed at Clifton College. institution has not “made good." It may be so, we do not know, but has not delivered the is it sounds to us, it really does it with the Union Insurance Co., in

joined Ltd. Hence the failure to get funds from sounds to us like a lie. In any

the Rockefeller Emation. Which case it is a crude boast. How the served, with the exception of the whose employment he has since funds, however, are as good as pro-pallid teetotallers at Home, those years he was engaged on active misel when the University proves pussyfooting dissies, will look up to service. He served with distinction that it can apply them. Orber Johnson now and worship bituin the 2nd Battalion of the Scots benefactors. hearing that all is not Weakness admires strength, an Guards and was the recipient of the grity, what should be, will bollenwardice courage. What probably Military Cross. On his return from aloa! peneling the publiention and happened was this. The salon service "Bobbie" resumed his posi analysis of this report. Meanwhile, keeper did threaten to get Pussy- tion with the Union Insurance Co., at contracts. it is distressing to find that beally and that heo immediately Hongkong and it was only recently The statement of claim was the time attitude of the Man in thetook ship to Europe.

that be was transferred to the Yoko effect that by an agreement dated Str Huripan naderstood, is i

bama branch from where news of April 19, 1920, Chan Hung Pan, act- taisympathetic. He has no was for t

the sad fatality was received in ing as manager for the defendants put forward "moral and material the University, and cannot estimate

Shanghai during the week-end. Death, agreed to sell to the plaintiffs the advance" as a definition of progress. its possible value to Hongkong. It

according to the messages received, sum of Yen 50,000 at exchange 155. He even goes so far as to assert that is for the audities to make a

was the result of a bathing accident. By an agreement dated April-27 the there are "a thousand things evidenc showing.

He is survived by his mother, his same person agreed to sell Y.100,000 ing" this advance. Let us look for A meeting of the Sanitary Board brothers, J. K. and David, and his at exchange 193. The defendants them. "Democrat " himself can only sisters who are resident in the Settle refused to carry out wholly the agree-point to a possible internal revolt mert but are just now on summer ment and in consequence plaintiffs when next a nation wars for freedom." vacations. To each and all of these suffered damages to the extent of That is all very well, but I seem to the deepest sympathy of his scores of $16,316.49.

remember various occasions on which

themselves

were friends in Shanghai, in Hongkong, in Mr. W. H. Drummond, instructed revolutionaries Yokohama, and elsewhere will be by Mr. Cully, appeared for the fierce and crueller fighters under extended. His eldest brother, James, Mr. Drummond explained that after same men) were under the old.

plaintiffs.

the new rule was killed in the war.

than they (the

LADIES' DEPARTMENTS ONLY,

BARGAINS IN MILLINERY, SUMMER

BLOUSES, UNDERWEAR, CHILDREN'S OUTFITTING.

A FEW SHOP SOILED.

FROCKS-

BLOUSES AND VOILE DRESSES TO BE CLEARED AT

BIRTHS..

HUGE REDUCTIONS.

ENKLAAR-On July 23, 1920.

Medan, to Mr. and Mrs. C. G.

O. Enklaar, a son. ...

ENSOR.-On July 20, 1920.

toms.a son.

DEATH.

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STEAMER FARES..

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

will be held this afternoon.

The subscriptions to date to the Bishop's House Fund, Singapore, total $17,451.

Mr. William Duncan has been nominated as an unofficial member of the Federal Council of the F.M.S.

He ment

returned to the

and

AN EXCHANGE DEAL.

Settle CLAIM BY BANK OF KAST ÁSIA.

upt

"The small charge is not to be considered in any way as constitut- ing a sale of such bottles which are, the Acting Chief Justice Mr. Justice of the Company" The notice is In the Supreme Court this morning and will always remain, the property Gompertz, heard a case experie in dated July 2 which the Bank of East Asia claimed from the Kin Cheong Chan the sum

..

of $16,361.49 being difference in Tais 15 MEANT TO BE FINAL, exchange of Y150,000 purchased by plaintifs under two separate

To the Editor of the China Med.]

"

Sir," Democrat" it seems would

Few people believe that the in- cred's in steamer fans are justi- fed. They regard it as a hold up. and gomily dwell on the looming

It was as a sportsman of the finest the contracts had been made plaintiffs Were not France's great deeds possibility of finding themselves

type the "Bobbie was best known received a telegram from their agents done after she had come fresh immured on this island like Napo

Thirteen farmers of Sha-tin, in the Settlement, in Hongkong and in Japan staring that Y30,000 had from the sacrifice at the shrine of leon on his.

The Japanese line, Sanwai, were captured by Leung in Yokohama, and his particular been delivered at Kobe. Defendant the goddess of Reason? Is Russia which in the dear dead days beyond yun, a bandit leader, and six of the forte for many years before the war failed to make further delivery and less inclined to war? Perhaps, but recall used to take a man from victims failing to pay ransom were was the cricket field, though latterly plaintiffs had to purchase in the she has greater opportunities, in Yokohama to London for about shot.

he was also very keen on tennis market resulting in the loss set out spreading the gospel of international into your coffee, and to sweep the that. The fare from Hongkong tỏ 135, now wants about four times

and golf. But in the years preced in the claim.

peace, for the exercise of war. After evidence had been given by floor round your feet while you are London is 940 gef, an increase on pore just now and the weather is as one of Shanghai's best all-round the chief accountant. of the Bank,

There is a heat wave in Singa- ing the call to arms he was classed still lingering over the pleasurable previous rate of 220 get. The Blue extremely trying night and day. The cricketers and when one remembers judgment" end of the feast. His great joy is Funnet, pants £122, and the P. & F. M. S. residents do have as a rule

was entered for the to be asked to bring a glass of ice. 10. The Lloyd Triestino asks colder nights than Singapore. water. It makes him happy

The Glen and hire lines

the standard of Shanghai cricket this plaintiff.

is saying a great deal indeed. Bat Clifton College has always been

Surely the whole idea of progress is illusory? We do progress in the sense that the earth is older than it was last year, but are our morals better than those of Marcus Aure lius? Is the average man more

in

Kuling to Mr. and Mrs. E. pretend to forget it, and be asked to date both very comfortable and Ensor, Chinese Maritime Cus-in. It is a curious thing that jolly, are content with 478. It is, having to institute a motor casualty cricketers and this is rot surprising

The Straits Times contemplates noted for the quality of its leading AMERICAN CONGRESSMEN. best now than he was, say, a couple of thousand years ago? Ishe any more in such a large. Universal Provision of course, our old friend the law of column, so numerous are the Singa- when one recalls that for years the

Convinced that he desires honesty? SHERIDANU July 26, 1920. Store as Sinceres, where there are Supply and Deinand that is operat pore accidents becoming. In Hong-coaching was in the hands of the NOT COMING TO HONGKONG.

Are our material surroundings (say 21 Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Laundreds of assistants, it is imposing. The puple themselves, an kong our average is a little over one great I. T. Tunnicliffe, of Yorkshire.

the London slums better or Harold J. Sheridan, a daughter. sible to find a jurp. How is that? us to get away, and being fush a week.

"Bobbie" was a brilliant man to

worse than formerly? Slums, poison- How do they get all those young of money, have made such bids for

watch, whether batting, bowling or men to Hongkong and Canton has Faith, Hope, Charity and the Adver- The visit of the American Congress-gas, Dean Inge, the German Empire, attentive, while in our restaurants the companies to revise their rates on the notice board of the Star Ferry sidered "Bobbie's" place in the team The "Great Northern's" schedule has of mas. men to be so politely and cheerfully passages as practically to compel the China Seas warning was shown saying, that when the time came During the last typhoon threat fielding. It goes, of course, without

been abandoned.

sarian, are all modern accretions on the waiters are all jarps? There As one business philosopher put it and it is understood that the decision

The reason for this alteration in that admirable and non-progressive for interport honours to be con-

the original programme is not knową. state, ideally happy, the natural life order a complete staff of waiters they have a right to it.".

one restaurant that gh this iterning.." If they can get it. from Sincere's. to see if it is the

has been reached to display the was understood. He represented been changed and the party will g0 signials at the Post Office, Harbour the Settlemen: on several occasions. direct from Manila to Shanghai, people who want to praise the world If Democrat" and all these nature of the job that makes them

Office and Star Ferry wharves in Since his return to business from where it is expected to arrive on for getting older will look quite jurpish or just the nature of the

the Scots Guards te had been beast.

Thursday. On further reflection, it is

playing, in Hongkong.at least, more

honestly about them they will find recalled that jurs are rare in the

that Progress is only Change, about The through railway traffic to golf and tennis than cricket, but Chinese restaurants, so that it can.

equally for the better and, the worse, August is a month in which con- Canton was yesterday interrupted cow and again he returned to his

Rodney Gilbert, telegraphing to but change only. not be the nature of the duties vinced republicans are entitled to owing to a washout on the Chinese old love and figured in the Hongkong the N.C.D.N. from Peking on July which induce impishness.

When can first sat upon this earth But the attractions 25, saidDr. Reisch bas telegra as man and not as monkey, they had The get together to tell sad stories of section. According to the Canton C. eleven.

at

IS

EVANS.-On July 25. 1920,

Kalgan. Algemon Francis, sen of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Evans, aged ten months.

The China Mail.

"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PURLIG SERVICE"

JURES.

THE DAMP WEATHER.

SEXTILIS.

future.

days.

LEGATION AGĦAST.

af

AMERICAN INVASION,

The next American invasion is to be one of Congressmen, a large party of whom are due towards the

There are

Yours faithfully,

KEITH WEST.

DUTCH AVIATION.

MESYRS. VICKERS

ENTERPRISE.

Jurp may be found in the Tanks, the check of kings. Tired toilers Times the damage is at Nam Kong of Fanling and Deep Water Bay phed that his" party will consist of arguments just like this, but more HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 150. and banking is very different from have the right to resent the insul- and extends for seven miles. Our were strong upon him and already three senators, 17 congressmen, their honest. And their arguments ended

chow-toting,

From the client ence which added a day, fo this contemporary says it is thought that a good, steady golfer, a few more wives and six others. There will be with a Club So de qua point of view, of course, the bank month, which formerly had only the work of repair will occupy seven years would have seen him u the 48 adults in the party altogether.

front rank of linksmen. :Cricketers The American Legation is agrast jurp is not nearly so annoying as thirty, in order that the Kaiser

and all kinds of sportsmen in Shang- to find that these figures give the 20 the jurpish food-fetcher. When Augustus after whom it was named Since no water could be procured hai and the other towns in which he legislators 22 wives. Gelet Burgess, the eminent you enter a bank you are worried should not appear in any way less from the water pipes when a fire worked will especially join in the Californian lexicographer. defines anyway, and a little, more doesn't than our old conqueror Julius, recently broke out at Tang Hong, tributes which to-day will be paid to

jurp

as a sancy underling: matter but when you enter whose name month was July. Canton, the merchants of Fu Kwoo a gallant comrade. There are local residents who find stau ant you want to stay cheer-Julius has 31 days, I must not have Sai Yuk, near Tang Hong, have

Janix" writing in the Mercury jurgery or jurpishness to prevalent ful and happy so that your digestive less." quoth Augustus. Now written to the Canton Municipality says:--And so "Bobbie" Brand is end of next week on the "Great here. Chair and riesha volies pick processes tray have a fair elance. Augustus the Roman equivalent of complaining about the poor-service no more: the gallant band of young Northern," writes "Janix" in the and choose, accepting or rejecting Jurpishness tends to dyspepsia. 1: All-Highest) was a mere imitation rendered

by the Water Supply adventure (Brand was just over among us those who are surprised

sters who went out on the great Shanghai Mercury. passengers according weight and that the clue? Is it that, perhaps, of Julius, who knew his job. He Company. weather. A fat man or a wet day these waiters eat too much of the was, let us admit, a good imitation,

twenty when the call came) has been to see so many politicians absent will, disincline them to function, dishes they serve, became dyspep and a far abler statesman than A new Bank has been opened in reduced by one more of the type from the States when, the strings PROPOSED SERVICE TO EAST INDIES. They are jurpish about the farestie, and so. consequently," jurp. Lloyd George; but that is no ex-Canton under the name of the which, fortunately, shows no sign of are so busily being pulled for the paid. A-handsome cumia often some? Wenced a Committee of cuse for the overweening arrogance Kwangtung Provincial Bank. Its dying out. But it is one of Life's big fight in November to decide acts like the given inch that pro- Investigation. to report on

A committee comprising the Dire the that altered the almanack and gave capital is stated to be $5,000,000, tragedies that after seeing so much who is to succeed Woodrow Wilson. verbially leads to ell taking. They Prevalence, Cause, and Core of us an extra working day in the and it is understood" that it has of the life where death was a com- Possibly they have paired of" for ctors of Vickers. Ltd. (Holland). regard the generous one as a sim-Jurps in Hongkong,

Sixth Moon. It is not so stated in more than two millions in silver on monplace young Brand could get back I notice all shades of political opinion Royal Dutch Navy), who is chief of including Lieut. Karl Muller (Late the books, but it is at least con- band to start business. The Kwang to the East in safety only to meet represented in the party. There were the Dutch aviation Dept. of Vickers. ceivable that the August Bank tung Provincial Bank is a semi so soon his fate while on a bathing times during war when many of us the ten lange Dept. of Vickers, Holiday was originated as a pro-government bank, the Government expedition in beautiful Japar. The beartily wished the members of the offers of the Dutch East Indies test at this intrusion of an extra subscribing two million, and the war took several of our best sports- British House of Commons would pair Army, are now investigating various men from our midst and because it off indefinitely and in the picturesque problems in England with regard day. Thus Appy Arry with his public, three million dollars. Arriet on Ampstead Eath owes.

was for the Motherland we took it as language of John Bull "cut the to the establishment of aircraft something to Gains Octavius. A Chinese who was arrested by granted; but here surely was a life of cackle.

usefulness which, spared through Chinese District Watchman No. 12, in Bonham Road in unlawful posses these years, might well have stood siou of a dagger was this morning out a stáning example to the rising charged before Magistrate Hutchison generation, Cricketers in all the ports He admitted possession, and said of the Far East knew "Bobbie" to that the weapon was given to him know him was to love him: and so What a wonderful change in Ger- by a friend. Sectence of six months the sad news will come as a shock to of snatching the bill-of-fare out of repeat to a clergyman or a maiden mans and Germany we shall see in imprisonment with hard labour was big band of sportsmen. the hand of a customer. He got

There are occasions when the next thirty-years, if the Reich-passed. such a box on the ear that he speech is silvern and swearing stag's no conscription Bill is ad- unlikely to repeat the trick, at least golden, and it is for the emotion-hered to. The idiotic worship of Tattooed with the insignia of a not with the same man. But such ally surcharged person to decide nilitarism that was inculcated in bat, perhaps to show they are night interruptions of the career jurpish which metal he will affect. It Germany during the last half cen birds, a gang of loafers with increas are infrequent. Unless hribed to do might be argued that it does notury seriously affected the national ing numbers have made appearance the simple work he is supposably good to talk about it, but that is character, and prevented the Ger in the environs of Shanghai, accord- raid to do, the restaurant jury does a wretched cliché, and hopelessly nans from rising to a height they ing to a local Chinese paper. These In Connection with a letter from it surbil tardily, and insolently; out of focus as regards common might easily have attained, and "hats" are members of the "Hong the Shanghai Lawn Tennis Associa strruing off the fan so that you must kuran experience: -When a box deserved to attain, by reason of Chien Wet the paper says, and have tion suggesting interport melchen

le bam twice to file it on gain. of beat matches exploded in the their really remarkable achieve compiled all sorts of crime during meeting of representatives from the Fle also likes when in a state of hand, the remarks customarily ments in the arts of peace, in the few past weeks. Men tattoned various tennis clubs of the Colony chronic jurpitude to strip the table offered de nu restore the matches science art, mechanics, etc., etc with the sign of the bat are to be will be held in the HKC.C. pavilion complete without It For sale by All the Dutch East Indies. before you have put cream or sugar to a useful condition, but they do in social economics they could have arrested on sight.

on Monday, August 9, at 5.30 p.mi-Chemists and Storekeepers.

pleton, from whom it is expedi- | ent to demand more. The jurp is also extensively employed in "our" restaurants, He likes to stand chatting with another jurp, - the

It is more than probable that while watching an impatient lunch seeker fretting himself into a tem- everything possible has been said per. He will enatch the bill of about the synchronization of the fare from your table to hand, to there is a chance that more things holiday with wet weather. Indeed. another guest, although there is an unused copy on an unoccupied table have been said about it than would close by. There is a jury at one looks nice in print, things that the restaurant who it upon the idea utterers would be unwilling to

aunt.

GERMAN EXAMPLE.

·INTERPORT TENNIS

PROPOSED.

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted below was received by the American Consulate General from the Manila Observatory at 1 p.m. August 2, 1920.

Cyclone or typhoon N.E. of Luzon direction unknow

factories, etc, in Holand and the Dutch Indies. Aeroplanes and flying- boats, to be used in the Dutch East- Iedies military aviation service have already been ordered by the Colonial Office from Vickers, Ltd. %

It is proposed to establish an aerial mail service between Rotterdam, Flushing, and the islands of Zeeland, with regard to the selection of a suit and negotiations are now in progress

able aerodroma at "Rotterdam At the same time it is reported that

SUPPLIED BY ALL CHEMISTS Vickers, Ltd., are about to establish a service between Amsterdam, PHYSICIANS prescribe Chamberlain's Rotterdam, and the islands of Zee because it relieves cramps in the stomach mercial biplanes will be used.

Colic and Diarrhoes Remedy land, in which Vickers Vimy Com- and intestinal pains quicker than sy preparation they the compound ten

bought from any chemist. A bottle with a view to the establishment of~~- will keep for years, and ne bote is an air service between Holland and