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lishment charges go on just the same, the balance is against them, and to be accused of profiteering on top of that is rather hard. We are all profiteers in one sense, try- ing to buy in the cheapest market! even when we are Bush of money. It is profiteering to remit more savings Home than usual when the dollar happens to be high. It i profiteering to order things from Home for ourselves when the dol-} lar is high, and to call upon onr tradesmen to import theng for es when exchange is low, When demand exceeds supply, when A.B.) and all ask for an article, only two of which are available, wliat more natural and fair a method of distributian is mossible? Hot Grld. the possessor dseids between the rival claims of A, B, and C other] than by letting them compete, and banding the things to the highest bidders? One of them would have a grievance, even if the price did! not rise. Fres competition is the life of trade. In default of a ber- ter system, which the curser of profiteering has not yet put for-
mudiast.
TRUTII.
Achake and congested with loves tion in the matter. It merely
ly emotions,
authorizes any policeman to kill a Inchoative cries that awaken straying or wandering dog at night;
faint echoes Echoes of mammars heard only
in dreams, b Heroic in spirit and gallantly
daring, Venturing fights that the eagles
avoid,
Soaring aloft in the welkia's wild
cadence,
And coming to earth to be snared
in mere syllables. Sighing and singing as from a
far distance,-
ous essayists Wooing the muse in the wisest |
of ways,
Wistfully, wantingly, attending
ber-ardently, Devotedly worshipping, chanting
het praises.
In phrases enchanting, enhance ing the charm of it,—-- So Esunip sings.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1920.
LOCAL AND SENTRAL,
SPECIAL CABLE,
SINGAPORE AVIATION.
obviously leaving it to the police Alla Nazimova (Mrs. Charles man's discretion to decide whether Bryant) the famous Kinema actress such killing is necessary. Commen-is expected to visit the Colony shortly-GOVERNMENT'S PROGRESSIVE sense shouts alond that there was no conceivable necessity in the of "Jinks."
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SINGAPORE, ACFest 5 The Government is laying out an official aviation ground..
OBITUARY.
MRI. ILIZABETH- WALKER.
Hospital, Causeway Bay, yesterday,
The death took place at the French of Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, wife of Captain E. Walker of the Douglas SS. Company, who is at present absent from the Colony with his ship. The deceased lady who had been a resident of Nathan Road, Kowloon,
The journey from Tientsin to Peking on July 21 occupied twelve It is too late now to make amends hours, and there was no dining car to "Jinks" ar to his bereaved on the train. owners. But it is not too late to get up a petition to the Governor. On July 16 the B.I. s.a. "Gerals” signed by all dog-lovers, to issue an arrived at Colombo with a consign- order to stop such unnecessary ment of German toys, tinware, por- shootings; and to request the celain, and hollow glass, from Ham- Songs that are silenced before Legislative Council to reconsider burg.
they are heard.
this law made in the very earliest Of such are the Esanips, emul-days of the colony, and probably on The tramway service was dis-
aimed only at pariahs.
organised on Wednesday evening. Incidentally, is the Morning Post when a car ran off the lines in front correctly informed when it states of the Sailors' Home, where repairs that the Central Police Station off-berg carried out to the tramway
track. cials sent Jinks' collar hope with the message that they were sorry The total output of the Kailan they had made a mistake. If so. Mining Administration's mines for we protest: That looks as iftbey the week ending July 17, 1920, believe they have the right to dis- amounted to 87,763 tons and the criminate, whereas they are author- sales during the period, to 55,911 Let the reader who is uncertain ized" to shoot any dog in the toss. ward. the devil must still catch then his standards of judgment, and circumstances set forth. What was their mistake?" Do they mean that who seks expert direction, care- fully note how exactly Esanin "as an admission that Jinks was went ashore in Shita Bay, St. John's for the last seven or eight years, in to-day's poem reproduces the straying or wandering or Island, on Saturday during the 15- went into hospital same two or three natural vacillation if the music lover merely that they will not kill the phoon. There is no information to months ago for treatment for an who loves y wonders, who desires Pets of well known people if they hand regarding damage. The Chinese affection of the feet. Her case, was The Young and the naive (which yet doubts. It disturbs him; he recognize them? Suppose they see crew arrived in Hongkong on the not then considered serious, but, The master is standing by the despite skilled attention, complica does not necessarily count anno begs that it cease: its echoes still dog they do not recognize, and it 4th.
tions seem to have set in.: Dominit are the only people who stir his soul: bis grer nakes him is walking. How do they know it vessel. really mean truth when they men-courageous to bear it: though it is wandering: how do they know it
The deepest sympathy will be ex tended to Captain Walker in his Ltd on it, and they mean it for the pains him, he desires more of it:
is not going straight home, or even a lawful errand? How in
bereavement. Mrs. Walker was, we simple reason that they do not yet he longs for further stabs of that know it. The sophisticated, who sweet sorrow: and he invokes the short, do they guard against making
understand, a native of Lancashire. have seen truth, and seyn that it musician Is not this just as it mistakes? The whole position Mint was so badly flooded, on the is borisi, mean camonfiage when happens? Is not the psychology of quite plainly impossible, and the morning of August 3, that the em thes Haze truth, having agreed it subtly correct? It is. And the Public which pays dog licences re-ployes of the Mint could not report together, for their soul's reace, to words with which be manages this quires real protection of its pr for work. he periphrastic and pseudonymus effect, how simple. how seemingly perty against such mistakes." Raw ani naked life is disgusting but low deceitfully artless they are. The shooting order and the clause until we clothe it in the fig-leaf of The maker of doggerel would have which permits it, are themselves convention, Our Adversarian was leaped at the obvious rhyme in the toa mw, so we have banished him | seennd stanza, would have said that awhile until he learns that clothes grief gave him courage to bear. are important to comfort, and not! That would have been banal. the impostures he deemed then. Esanip," withi a
rare "instinct. Mr. Robert Greening has started in selected the word """care," which Perang a paper called. The Eastern inports the sense of the dual cere, Truth, two sample copies of which bration involved in such an analy have just cutie to us, and inspired sis. He falls asleep with the tor- these thoughts. Mr. Greening is turing tune still jangling in his not à muthful person. He is too brain't at the peep of day he is old and too wise to be so silly and draming as it hids him to dream: impractical. His paper may call and his first waking thought is to itelf Truth, as others have done: undergo the experience afresh and but it is and will be less intra- again. This is very human, very sigeant than its title. No paper can true to life. Hence these respect tell the true truth continually and ful compliments. survive. It makes people uncom-. fortable, and threatens the founda- tions of society. What is truth?" asked Pilate, thereby showing that
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The China Mail.ently fastened. To make quite opinion that the things we have all spectable pouple by whom he was
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BONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1990.
TIDY HONGKONG,
Prophets have home save in their own country, and the things that are ever under their noses, the people do not see. This explains
bad.
he knew what we all know. Sen- Jinks. natiable and well them, and to keep them perwan-Įsible men Are
unanimously of bred fox terrier, belonging to re: sure, we are putting a tax on win-agreed to deceive ourselves into well cared for, is dead. He was in dows. If you unist have a window, happiness with are the best brand the habit of going about calling on You must pay for it. You will be of truth. In that sense most suc-various friends, and was well granted a window permit, if you feessful papers are entitled to in-
known. He was murdered in can prove that you are a suitable elude the word truth in their title Pedder Street by a policeman's person, and not likely to open it or their motto. when burglars are about.
That would sanely please is, Would it? Some of us would pre- for to take a chance on burglary, Well. Hongkong has decided that
it doesn't want Germans here for
THE ART OF ESANTP."
You should all know the story of the farm labourer who found an
mistakes.
OUR LOCAL POETS.
OH, THAT MELODY:
[TO. PROF. GONZALES.]
Stop to play that melody I pray. It creates discord within my breast
By-gone thoughts recalled every day And my heart mourns at love's behest!
whene er melodious tones I hear; I know not why I leel depressed
Is it because I am oppressed That grief lends me courage to care?
I heard you play that melody, Which reminds me of love so true;
My soul dreams at the peep of day And yearns again to be with you!
Hongkong: August 4.
--ESANIP.
MORPHIA TRADE,
revolver, while lying down and annoying nobody, not even the NOTORIETY FOR HONGKONG. policeman. He was wearing his collar and licence tag at the time. Enquiry shows that he was slain in consequence of a departmental order, issued from time to time in
SHANGHAI PAPER'S COMMENT.
In view of the campaign which
Because of heavy rain during the last few days, many streets in Canton have been flooded to a depth of two or three feet. The Canton
MBS. EEL LOCKWOOD.
The many friends of Mr. E. H. Lockwood, Secretary of the Canton The China Navigation Co. and YMCA, will regret to learn Indo-China S. N. Co. have also granted death of his wife, Helen, of the increases in pay to the Chinese crews Matilda Hospital yesterday. in their "vessels. The allowance per The deceased lady, who is an month of $100 for the payment of American, went to Lo Fan Mountain wages in the catering department for the benefit of her health. There has been increased to $120 per she caught an attack of malignant month. An increase of $5 monthly malaria, and was brought to Hoog- has also been granted to the sailors kong a week ago. Much sympathy and firemen.-S. G.
will be felt with the bereaved bus- band and the two little children.
It has been decided to hold a Motor Gymkhana in Ipoh this month under the auspices of the Ferak Motor Union. It is proposed to hold COMPRADORE ASSAULTED. events for ladies and gentlemen, and open (confined to members and their families) z syces competition. Among the events it is understood that there will be a Ladies' driving race, a driving backward race "for men, and a speed test.
MOTIVE NOT KNOWN.
VICTR OF CERCUMSTANCES GOES TO JAIL
The Straits Echo hears that At the Magistracy yesterday after private advices which are to a certain noon, Magistrate Smith beard a case extent confirmed by what the Bangkok | in which a Chinese was charged with Times stated the week before last having assaulted the Chinese com- indicate that Siam rice crop prospects pradore of the Douglas S.S. Co's are the reverse of satisfactory at ss."Halching." present, owing to drought. Last year. Mr. M. E. Turner prosecuted. the country suffered severely through The defendant was represented by floods, while this year, shortage is Mr. H. K. Woo, threatened through inability to plant out at the proper tinie.
The Pinang Gazdte understands that the E. and, 0. Hotel property has changed hands, and Messrs. Sarkies Brothers are arranging to have a three storey building in place
Mr. Taner said that his client could not suggest any reason for the assault, but be believed that in the discharge of his duties as com pradore of the "Rajching." he had made some enemies on board, and these people must have employed the defendant to assault him.
The complainant, in the witness ship's arrival, in port on Tuesday
.why our gratification. wherrvisitors some years at least. It is not tooartist" painting an old barn, and order to induce people to keep their has been carried on in China for of the present main building, which box, stated that shortly after the
praise our town, is always slightly much to assert that if Hongkong directed his attention to a new barn dogs indoors at night. Thus we some time past, and the action which will consist of a dining room to seat tinged with surprise. Just what is levis: that way about Germans, it more worthy of his efforts. The gather that we pay a dog licence for has been taken in England and 300 people, private dining and recep afternoon, he went ashore. As he Aute? Yes, after all, it is not so them out. It has hired the Guvern- plumb. The old one had rugged daytime. No licence is necessartment for the arrest of the sale of land a huge hall with a stage for per Central from Douglas Street, the that they admire? The architec-bas the right to take steps to keep old barn leaned, the new one was the privilege of keeping a dog in the America in sympathy with the move | tion rooms, and on the present vacam was turning into Des Voeux Road The covered sidewalks?ment and its d'asszert Dejartinent outlines..the new one was severely i for a dog confined in a house over.morphia, it is lamentable to see how formances, kinemas and dancing- defendant came up, and without Truly, they are a good idea, uford to bar the Germans. The Guvern-straight. One of our readers, cri- night. Let us mislead no one. We
a British Crown Colony is having When the building is completed with ing shade from sun and shelter from went has turned round on it and ticizing the poenis with which Mr. may be wrong about that. That is notoriet upon it says the the present new addition, there will warning, struck him with an iron rain. The splendid roads? Those, said that by travelling we create Esanip favours us, said things how we figure it out.
Shanghai Mercury.
The confession has just been made the three annexes.
be 150 rooms facing the sea, besides rod. The blow was aimed at wit- of course, are really good, with a crowd in which a German or two that caused us mentally to rank
The law under which the depart by a Hongkong newspaper that there
ness's head, but luckily, he saw the better surfaces than are usual in tight try to slip through it for him with that farm labourer as mental order is issued is an evident is no doubt whatever that a lucrative
defendant in time and side-stepped, other places. We may admit this bids us to travel, exce of certain regards the art sense.
raising his armis to protect his head There are afterthought, quite possibly an in- trade in morphia is going on in the
There has arisen of late a from the blow which landed on the without seeming to last. But vexations terins. It is not enough poems that are technically plumb terpolation that was shoved in by Colony, despite the endeavours of burning question, says the Sarawak back of his left ear. Witness grab- what is it that most strikes the visi- to prove that we are not (Jermans. and straight like the new barn, some thoughtless person after the the Police to prevent it Several Gazette, for to judge from reimarks bed the defendant, whereupon for from other places? Is there We are to be treated as if we were Mr. Esamin's poems are more law had been discussed. It is n cases have been heard during the beard in many quarters, flames, and two other men came up and struck anything that he particularly re- Germans. in order to uske the picturesque than plumb, more soul the Summary Offences Ordinance last year or two of men who earned those undying ones, should be the witness on the legs with iron bars. marks? There is. Showing a little Government's job of barring Gerful than straight. They may not of 1845. made when Hongkong was their living by injecting persons portion for such as are reponsible A constable arrived and the defen- surprise in his turn at the need for mans easier. In employing a serbe weatherproof as regards, tech-2 tiny settlement, and when the who wished it, the charge in each for the present state of affairs. We dant's accomplices ran away. Witness pointing it out, he says the feature fant, we do not propose to do with-nique; but the spirit is there, the framers probably never realized case being ten cents. The persons refer to the constant dearth of soda held the defendant and banded him that catches his eye right away is out our chota bazuri to save him essence. If we may so express it, that it would become so conspicu-most prone to this form of dope are water, ginger beer and other necessi- over to the constable. .our tidyness. Every street is so getting up n the morning, or to of barndom is within them. Conously inequitable and senseless as the Chinese ricsha and street coolies, and of Bored. Things have indeed defendant was a victim of circum- ties of civilized life in the salubrious Mr. Woo's defence was that the neatly tidied up. No odds and ends dispense with dinner because sider to-day's example. We dare it now appears. That Ordinance is and it has been ascertained that they of liiter, no ragged edges, as are makes work in the kitchen. As the wager that Mr. Esanip" is total an omnibus law, covering so many use it as a sort of antidote to the sose to a pretty pass when the stances. He was passing when the erramon almost everywhere else. old saying goes. We do not keeply unacquainted wills that buat details. of good order that it is use of opium. A few days ago the prospect of a sodaless Race week complainant was assaulted by the It is as if magicians did it in the a dog and do our own barking.ing poetry of the Germans, which quite easy to understand this item West Point Pulice raided one of these is no idle fiction! night, be says. One never catches But in effect that is exactly what found its most poignant expression would get very little consideration dens and arrested two men who were Hongkong untidy.
A number of Chinese financiers he saw the constable coming, pusbed the retention of the passport sys in the words and melody of Ion Section 17 ipage 17, vol. 1, edition at the moment injecting the morphia "Now that our attention is called tem meзns.
weiss nicht wass colles bedeuten, of 1913) refers to the destruction of into the hands of some of their both in Canton and Hongkong have the defendant violently from Do you travel? Protest. Doyez in Oh that melody" he dogs that wander alone, in the day- to it, and we mentally survey other
patients." One of the officers who formed a company to engage in the behind, and then ran away. The places we know, we realize that you expect to travel? Protest. It strikes the self-came note He time, and without a collar. It then made the
arrest stated that, purchase of properties in the Philip defendant fell down, and the there is much in the observation. Your silence which encourages sings from the heart, rather than goes on, after a semicolon; And in addition to about ten persons pines for the purpose of developing complainant grabbed hold of him, The P.W.D. the Sanitary Board officialdom to carry on with a stunt from the brain. ure understand any such constable is hereby further who were in the room, waiting their Chinese trade. Millions of dollars Counsel said that the complainant turn, there were several outside. will be appropriated in the carrying must have been dazed by the-blow men, and the Police are toe co-it actually seems to like.
never the meaning of those name hathorized to destroy any dog which The Police seized all the parapher out of the campaign. Prospective he had received, and could not lese, haunting strains that sub is found straying or wandering nalia, including several syringes, offers have already been made to identify his assailant even if the real- merge his spirit and dissolve. his about between the hours of 10 p.m.
several property-owners” In Maxile | colprit were produced. for the disposal of their properties The Magistrate said that he was but so far the Chinese haye not made | satisfied, according to the evidence, much headway on account of the that there was little doubt that the exorbitant figures asked by the pro defendant had taken part in the prietors who seem to have scented assault. He would convict him and business ahead. Manila Times, -," pass sentence of three months” ́im-
prisonment with hard labour.
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operative, magicians who earn us these complinients. Let us thank them. Let us admit that they are deserved. For after all, it is easy
to imagine that but for a very great deal of method and unnoticed work, like ours, could soon be terribly untidy.
TRADE.
soul in a vaguely sweet melancholy; and 5 am." but, artist that he is, he does bin,
If the owners of “Jinks would"]:* best to give it vent which is the sue the Government, or the Police The late Mr. Lammert, one of sole, whole duty of the true bard Department, for damages, they
would be doing public service deletion of the sweeping clause quoted above, and in any case to
a more commonsense interpretation of it:
a town like ours, with a comunity our real old-timers, used to say that Even while his heart mourns over they would thereby lead to the 1 trade in Hongkong moved up and the alleged discord within his down in short but regular periods; breast, it is resurgent and hopeful something use the seven lean and and aspiring. He may be sad, but seven fat years of scripture. Pre- he must sing. sent day adesmen consider unere is something in it, and that we are just now at the end of a lean spell. They say that things have been. worse since the war than they were during the war, but that they can
PASSPORT
AGAIN.
We object to burglars. It is perhaps not too much to assert that we very properly object to them. We desire not to be bothered by see signs, even if only signs, of thero. We bire nolice to save us the beginning of better times. from them. If the police, to save That is good hearing A perman- Themselves trouble turned on us ent looking drop in the dollar ex and said things such as here folly, change would make a big differ what would we think? Say? Do?ence to local tradesives, because Police • It is our duty to save you while the high dollar may enable rom the anuance of Burgarse to buy more cheaply, it re Very well,Windows are a temptàstricts their turn-over, the people tion to bui lars. We order you to sending more of their money Home
to secure and spending less. As their estab
In the marshes of memory, pain-
fully, sadly,
The counsel could argue that Jinks was not straying or
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER
DEFENCE CORPS
Orders for Cadet Company by“ Lent. A 0, Brawn.”
- PARADE---BATHING.
STRENGTH,
The Pacific-Mail Co's freighter. “Elkridge,” which arrived at Yoko hama on July 21, fought a fire ir No 5 hold the last eight days of its passage from Honolulu. A cigarette
two men who had absconded. Оде of the complainant's assailants, when
INTERFORT CRICKET.
Wander wan souls devoted to wandering about." It would be Launch will leave Blake Pier at stub was thrown or blown into
The China Mail is advised that the poetry,
easily proved, by many witnesses, 5.15 pm, on Wednesday, 11th inventilator, dropping on to a bale of Shanghai Cricket Club hope to send. Pallid and frowning and pitifully that Jinks" knew his way about stant and call at Kowloon ten minuter cotton immediately below. On dis an interport cricket team to the
sobbing
perfectly well, and that if he stop-later.. Officer detailed for duty-2nd covery of the outbreak the ventilators Colony in the autumn, probably Aching with pasion they cannot ped in Pedder Street for a rest, it Lieut. A. 3. M. Weyman
were plugged and live steam turned about the 8th November, articulate
minst have been because he was
into the smothering pipes. Eighty Feeling intensely what may not weary, and not because, be didn't Cadets A Clark and J. Clark joined
be spoken
know where to go. As a fully on 27th Fult and am posted fe "Groping and reaching at Astratticensed and well behaved dog the Section 5.
illusions
bad every right to take that rest (d) G. F. E. Rapson, Bt Major, Melodiously moaning though en route,
Adjutant, Hongkong Volunteer Cyncally mute,
They cannot srgue that this sec Burning and flaming though tip is a law that must be obeyed,
Defence Corps. and that the police have no discre
Hengkang August 6, 1920.
starving and frozen
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