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It is generally admitted that most Whiskies have now a "Fost-War Weakness:"

WATSON'S

It is claimed that

E

WHISKY

still maintains its high standard of quality. The same blend, same good old age-mellow- ness, character and fine favour-Forty years' reputation.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,

Wm.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

ESTABLISHED 1841.

TELEPHONE 346

THE CHINA MAIL.

"No more golf in Happy Valley. No more eyes knocked out. The most public land for the most people.

Is that not a slogan you can conscientiously repeat?

HARD LINES" FOR

TENANTS,

LOCAL "IND OMERS..

Mr. Loitis Gain is garetted as an authorized architect.

Mr. Harry Greenwood is gazetted an auditor under the Companies Ordinance.

fever, both Chinese, are recorded in Two fatal cases of cerebro-spinat to-day's return of notifiable disease.

About 1.300 painters in Canton, each of whom receives but forty cents a day, have organized a guild.

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We submit for public sympathy the case of six families tenanting Mr. Chau Tung Shang's property in Mosque Street. We also offer a few observations for the eve of the goverment, which ought to be interested. Mr. Chau's lawyers: have written giving the tenants a month's notice to quit and de document empowering Mr. A. Ln Cr The King has signed the foal liver up possession... of the de A. & Castro to act as Consul for abon premises now occupied by Portegal. you on the 30th day of September 1990 and that in the event of your remaining in possession of the premises after the date above speci hed, our dient will take but an action for ejectment."

This harsh and, unexpected in timation was addressed to a tenant who for two and a half years has regularly paid his rent, $42 a month for three tiny rooms. Any notice at all in nadern conditions, would have been a blow, but one couebed in such harsh and abrupt form was like insult on injury. We can understand that, but must paint out that lawyers are not given to the humaner sentiments, and say

On account of the recent heavy rain, many rice fields in the several districts of Kwangtung have been badly fooded..

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A kerosene oil dealer in Kong- moon was fined $200 by the police for forging the trade mark of the Standard Oil Company,

instead of sampans will be used for It is reported that motor boats ferry service between Honan and Hopeh shortly in Canton.

SPECIAL CABLE,

STEANER ASKORE.

MISHAP NEAR SINGAPORE.

ANNAMITE TROOPS ABOARD.

[China Mail Special]

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 -192

CHILDREN'S CORNER.

My dear. Children.

A friend of mine said to me the other day, Do you know- Amos"? And when I asked who she was talk- ing about she replied. "A mosquito"! Don't you think that was rather funny?

Your loving

PETER PAN.

SINGAPORE, September 3, burg" is ashore at Horsburgh with ON THE WAY TO SANDY LANE..

The ex-German steamer "Alten-

a large number of Annamite troops aboard.

CHINESE HOSTILITIES.

BIG MOVEMENT OF TROOPS."

CANTOS IN KWANGSI HANDS?

is taking place towards Canton and A big movement of Kwangsi troops it is believed that the city is now in the hands of Kwangsi troops

Kwangsi troops are commandeer-

Wuchow, about eight miles from the ing launches and cargo boats at border of the Kwantung Province, for the purpose of despatching troops to Canton. No interference is offered

THE UNIVERSITY.

INTERIM REPORT BY GOVERNMENT.

**TO MAINTAIN A HIGHER

STANDARD."

The following appears in this week's Government Gazette:

No. 457.-As the 1920-1921 Ses- sion of the University of Hongkong will shortly be opened, the Govern

Dicky's father and mother had thement considers it advisable to publish loveliest garden that you can imagine a preliminary statement concerning Near the house was .big lawn with the first report dated the 30th June. beds of Bowers all round it. Beyond 1920, of the Commission which was that were rows of sweet pess and recently appointed to enquire into the hollyhocks and sweet williams and position and working of the Univer- ever so many nice smelly things. Then siy you went through a door into a walled With regard to the University's garden where peaches and apricots present financial situation, the Com- grew and goseberry bushes bordered mission found that at the close of the all the vegetable part."

financial year ending on the 31st garden was a little wood with steep ficit for the year on Working Accourt

On the other side of the vegemble August, 1920, there would be a de- " paths up and down and sandy burrows of about $145.000, and an accrued ost of which rabbits popped their heads overdraft at the bank of about very now and then if you were very $500,000 on. Working and Capital Accounts combined, and an accrued liked best of all to play and he spent dowment Sinking Fund.

This was the place where, Dicky deficit of about $70,000 on an en hours digging in the sand.

quiet."

The Commission, ameng its various One day when he was there all by recommendations, strongly advises

The tea merchants in Cantom to ships flying the British flag, and himself he made a railway track with that the University should be carried what they have to say without con-report good business nowadays be the river trade carried by the these rushes fastened together for the lines on in all three present faculties of

(0/// Letosidering its irrelevant effects. The from foreign'importers.

WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED

A WONDERFUL RANGE OF

WITCHERT" SHOES · CHARMING STYLES and SHAPES.

ALSO

OF

A CONSIGNMENT THE WELL KNOWN BRAND OF

"KELTIC" BROGUE

+i

BLACK AND TAN

“ZRUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"

BONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPT. 4, 1990.

FOOTBALL GROUNDS.

being done about it.

It is notified that Mr. G. Ohmori,

cause they have received many orders notice could have expressed the same thing differently. It could have said: Our client has novice consul, is acting Consul General fanit to find with you as tenants,in charge of the Japanese Consulate and regrets that circumstances have during Mr. Suzuki's absence. larisen in which he is obliged to regain possession of the premises.

Fourteen young women in Can

steamers is proceeding calmly.

Kwantung troops are to the East of Canton, between Shekling and Waichow.

FOREIGN INTERESTS.

BRITISH CONSUL ACTIVE.

.

Medicine. Engineering. and

and signals made with sticks.

Arts: In one place be had dug a tunnel that it should be carried on under and he picked some berries and put conditions which make for efficiency them in a row along the track. There and success; that if it is to reach and was a bright red berry for the engine keep a position worthy of the Colony and some which were still green for and the British Empire, and if it is the carriages and trucks and he put to take its proper part in the develop-- the engine just outside one entrance meats now in progress in China, ir It is only fair to you to mention ten were reported as missing, during the British Vice Consul at Canton left began to wonder where the train would ss, or higher than, in the past, and At 6 o'clock yesterday morning to the tunnel. Then he sat down and must maintain a standard fully as high that this means he cannot help the month of August. It is believed Wuchow for Nanning in order to go to if it started of and what the must expand soon and widely: that, himself, and that if you do not quit that most of them were kidnapped. on the due date, he will be obligeli

investigate a report that, the houses people would feel like inside all the in particular, there is urgent need of to apply for an ejectment order.

and offices of foreign residents at the berry carriages.

increased hospital facilities in the Something like that would have! Several boats were overturned port were being searched,, ostensibly

Saddenly he noticed that there was! Medical department, and better work- taken of the sting out of it; in the Canton Harbour when a steam for opium, by Kwangsi soldiers, one smoke coming our of the engine and shops in the Engineering department, but as we have said, lawyers are night of August 31. Several lives from one office searched, about move!

launch collided with them on the of whom is alleged to have taken that the train really was beginning to and certain improvements recommend not usually encerned in ch

ed in the Educational and Commercial In this as it is neces

$5,000 in silver, kept there for the He rubbed his eyes to be sure that courses: that a Vice-Chancellor ought sary now to point out that an

payment of wages and of merchen-be was awake and that it was not a to be appointed as soon as possible; action for ejectment does not neees-

The Canton authorities have dise. The search is said to bave dream.

and that the institution should at once sarily mean an order for inmediate telegraphed the Commanders of the been ordered by a Kwangsi general. No. was quite right. The engine be placed on a business looting." ejectment. The tenants coult front asking them to make special

was just entering the tunnel and was With these view's His Excellency cause delays, as is well known to efforts to protect foreign lives and

giving a warning shriek, which sound-The Governor in Council and the Un- the lawyers, so that it might have property.

ed rather like a mouse's squeak! been worth while taking a little

official Members of the Legislative "Oh how I wish I were little Council are in accord, "and the Gov- trouble to placate them. If we got

enough to get into a carriage thought eramer is in communication with the a notice so couchet, our back would

Dicky, and, although he had her said Secretary of State for the Colonies be put up, and we would defend

the, words out loud, a voice said by regarding the the action. That would debar the

necessary financial his ear,

measures. landlord from possession on the

In the meantime His Excellency date so important to him.

the Governor has requested Dr. Jor- dan, the present Pro-Vice-Chancellor, to continue to conduct the affairs of the University as Acting Vice-Chan-

made.

were lost.

yesterday as against the highest The food at Wuchow was 45 mark of 86 feet touched in 1915. The highest mark this year was 62 feet in the early part of July.

Where are these people to go fessor of Zoology at

Dr. Henry E. Crampton, Pro- Columbia

DARING CITY ROBBERY,

MAN ATTACKED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.

FLUCKY STRUGGLE WITH ARMED

ASSAILANT.

He is expected to recover.

The assailant is now in police

FUNERAL.

"Bow to the left,

Bow to the right..

Take some green grass And bite and bite Dicky was so surprised that he gave a big jump and said. "Good gracious cellor. me, whatever's that?" "and although he looked all round very carefully he could not see anyone at all but be) noticed that the train had by that time disappeared in the tunnel.

"It's

The

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Colonial Secretary.

3rd September, 1920.

he fell until at last he bumped on to through the air. Down, down, down the ground.

He sat up and rubbed the sand bit

At Home ejectment orders are not University, is expecting to visit. Can- The China Mail.then perhaps notice will be takea: no issued without some judicial ton in the near future, and will

A daring daylight robbery was then perhaps notice will be taken. enquiry as to the opportunities open tecture at the Canton Christian attempted in Queen's Road Central, and the stable door of the adage to the tenants for fresh quarters. College. will be locked too late. Do it now and long delays are sometimes

near the Central Market, yesterday We submit that those who per granted. Here, pending an Ordi-

afternoon, when a Chinese money changer was attacked in the street sist in playing golf in Happy nance explicitly adopting the latest was yesterday removed to the Gov

A Chinese woman aged 52 years by man armed with a dagger. Valley-the

people's

recreation Home law, it may be that people erament Civil Hospital suffering from behind, the robber attempted to park-after all that has been shown can be thrown out on the street from opitta poisoning, alleged to relieve him of some $500 which he enough." he thought," and if I am and the things that you say that I

After stabbing the money-changer A writer in yesterday's Daily and said, ought to be ashamed of but we do not think she government have been self administered. She is was carrying on his person, but in going to catch that train I must hurry can't stand and I shall be much obliged

"Anyhow it sounds simple "Press definitely supported the themselves. They exhibit a cal would be pleased to see it done.expected to recover. Chine Mail contention that golf luus disregard of public opinion and It would have to do something

spite of his injury, the wounded man | rp. should be banished from the HappyPopular aversion which is deserving Valley, firstly for the sake of public of ceasure. A fait regard for the that Mr. Severn so definitely pro matriculation and senior local ex- police, when be collapsed from lose seen his mother bow when she took break both my legs, small us they

Where are the flats at Kowloon

pluckily grappled with his assailant,

if you will fall of the train." So he stood up and bowed to the In the Hongkong University and held him until the arrival of the left and to the right tjust as he had

**Wha:," cried Dicky," fall of the safety, and secondly to afford space opinion of the puldic." if not con-mised

train'! Where that big hotel aminations of July. 1920, Candidate of blood, "

Why. I should very likely. for extra football grounds that are sideration for the public safety. How many government loans have No. 31. Kenneth Tyson (Diocesan urgently needed.

We welcome should make decent people antici- been issued to home builders, and Boys School) failed to matriculate tely removed to the hospital, where picked some grass and bit it hard whizzing along so fast that they could him for a "walk and they had met are." For by this time the train was The wounded man was immedia-people that she Khew) and then he this support, and, ask for more.pate the golf tabe which the how many of the borrowers have but has been awarded a Senior be was operated upon at once. Tite Football Association is pre-

Government must ultimately.estab actually started operations? Does Local Certificate.

And the very next minute his body

hardly hear themselves speak. nably in treaty with the govern-fish in the Valley. They are the government still think the

"Very well," said the cow in a shut up like a telescope, his head much stemer voice, "If you won't int's recreation grounds com-fe, and the other users of the house shortage has been exagger- uittee: but co one has yet seen Valley are so many. They have ated? Is it aware that the short of an office boy employed by Mr. E a Magistrate in due course.

A warrant is out for the arrest custody, and will be brought before i went crack and shrank to the size of tall off I shall be obliged to make you fit to tell us what has been or is other places to go to, and the crowd age is likely to be increasingly felt? Des Voeux, Secretary of the Hong-

an ant's egg and as for his feet they fall. became so tiny that he thought for a through the bars of the truck and And she put a houf Really, the position What are the terms and conditions kong Club. The fugitive is alleged Let us re- has none. capitulate arguments that have does not admit of any other argu-like that are sent to applicants for to have forged a cheque in the name

minute he had lost them altogether. without any further warning gave "It was rather starling and be had Dicky a push which sent bird flying already appeared in this paper.

ment The fairness and reason sites along the new roads?

of Mr. Des Voeux for $1,500, and

to sit down to get his breath. League football, apart from the ableness of it are self-evident. Per-

If our readers saw a copy of those cashed it at the Chartered Bank on keen participation in it by the sitent disregard of the public terms, they would not wonder that Thursday.

no good sitting down to think though, Services (who deserve special con- desire in this matter will be most home builders are shy.

THE LATE MR. "A. F. ARGULLL that train."

he said aloud, or i shall never catch We hope sideration) is now the concern of discreditable. The majority's moral to print 'em by and by.

So up he jumped and ran as fast of his eyes and was surprised to find inany thousands of residents. rights exist, if its suffrage does not.

If it is the case that this Mosque consisting of the cruisers Asama" el Arculli, whose sudden death ocur last truck but one was just coming

A Japanese training squadron, The funeral of the late Mr. A. F. as he could towards the tunnel. 'Therefore the government cannot neglect its claims. It is the govern- such to the government as the refugees from Canton, and that Admiral Funagoshi, is expected to the fohammedan Cemetery, Happy jumped on to the stepboard and was

And morality should mean at iesst Street property has been sold to and" " Iwate," commanded by Vice-red yesterday morning. took place at out of it as he got there so Dick Size and that the berry train was stil that he had returned to his ordinary ment's duty to do its best for such technicalities of law.

immediate possession is required visit the Colony on Friday next, the Valley, last evening. There was a going to squeeze his way in when a.. what a pity that I didn't get es far

just about to enter the tunnel. large numbers of constituents. It

Some notice has been taken of by the new owners, it may be 10th inst, and a squadron consisting large attendance, representative of cow put her head over the top and as Sady Lane. Anyway, next time "Dear me," he said to himself. has been very kind to the favoured our previous references. Interested argued that the government can do of the Nisshin" and "Tone," com all local communities.

inority: It should now go out parties have been over the ground, nothing. Should that argument go manded by Vice Admiral Yoshida is

said "There's no room in here for that I go in that train I'll take care of its way to show that it does not and suggested that the Chino Mail unchallenged?

Amonget those present at the earthworms. You must change t deserve the accusations of class might be willing to permit golf to Chinese residents. as they well former squadron is coming, from Fletcher, Colonial Secretary, Mr. P.

For our regular expected on the 18th inst. The cemetery were-Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Sandy Lane." favouritism so freely and widely go on there if two holes were know, the China Mail stands as Japan and is proceeding to South P. J. Wodehouse, Captain Superin Dicky, getting very red in the face at

to get in a proper carriage and cot voiced in this Colony. What it omitted, thus minimising the dao much as it stanis for any other America via Colombo and the Cape tendent of Police, Lt. McConnell (the the idea of such a thing."I'm a boy

"I'm not an earthworm," cried have anything to do with the cows in

the trucks. might be slow to do as its plain ger. We don't want the danger section of the community.

PETER PAN. duty to the greatest, number, it minimized: we want it wholly re-are respecters of persons or of squadron is returning to Japan from Excellency). Messrs. A G. Suffied, and anyway I don't want 10 ride with We of Good Hope. Vice Admiral Yoshida's Governor's A. D. C. representing His really, though I have gone a bit small, should be swift to do to redeem its moved. Besides, as already ex races. But we must confess that a training cruise in the South Seas. character. It must provide more plained, we need the land. Sailors we are not very sympathetic to-

Abdoolrahim, H. M. Nemazee, W. B. COUS." football grounds, so that the con- and soldiers (to whom we owe some wards outsiders pouring in from

Muskett. E. L. Agassiz, A. E. Hall, testants and their thousands of thing for the last six years or have Canton and the province, shoving terday, on behalf of the Hongkong Joseph, H. Ram, G. M. Mehal, S. said the cow, taking out a grear pair Pong was fluffy and Pong was fat.

At the Engineers, Institute yes. C. H Lyson, 3. E Joseph, F. A. *** On come come don't get hully," we forgotten that already?) cannot up our rents and the price of house Football Club, Mr. R. G. Wilton, Mooss, S. E. Tarnail, J. A. Jamatjes of glasses and putting them on to have long way a lile black pussy cat, so easily afford to go afield for their property. We could wink at their Chairman of the Committee, made a and U. Rumjahn. The chief mourners a look at him,

I'm much more im. With a Cheshire grin and cheery look recreative sport as golfers can undoubted legal rights being rather presentation to Mr. J. Stewart, the were the deceased's sons (Messes, portant than you are anyway because And lived on the page of a picture sons. The demand is greater this Even if they could, why should crippled by timely legislation.well-known centre half of the Foot A.K. Arculli, A. el Arculli, O. Arculi,I have four feet and you only have season. than ever before.

ten men be made to travel to let They could still pay fancy prices ball Club, of a handsome silver E, el Arcuili), and Messrs. V. Curreemo and they are so small that I have A very small girl, whose name was It would be absurd to expect one favoured one remain? That for property here, but we don't epergne, on the occasion of his mar-end C. V. Curreem. The burial rites to put on my glasses to see them." impossibilities. The government is about the right proportion. We think they would, if the govern-riage to Miss Mary McCubbin, were performed by a Mohammedan "What nonsense," Dicky replied. Found him one day when all alone cannot make flat lands to order, in calculate that one golfer in Happy ment would rush through an emer-daughter of Mr. 1. McCubbin, Man-priest and prayers were offered by it's brains that count with us not And she said I never will have 3 suitable localities. This would be Valley spoils sport for ten foot-gency ordinance providing that no ager of the Gas Works, on Tuesday all the Mohammedans presect, after feet or anything like that. But a sound argument in certain con-ballers, not counting the spectatore tenant in good standing shall he pert. At the Taikoo Dockyard this which the body was interred whatever is the maner? For the Unless he is just the image of that." ditions, but it is notorious, now that and followers. Even with the ejected, unless reasonably suitable morning, Mr. Stewart, who is a

cow had gone very pale and was hold-- the China Mail has pointed it out, game restricted to a seven-hole premises are found for him to move that the Government can meet the course, the danger is not really into.

ing on to the side of the truck trem-She talked to Fong, he smiled at her bling all over.

Until one day she heard him purr, need with a stroke of a pen, and much abated. A sliced ball will go How's that? It is our sugge

Brains-roast-roast-brains The right off the page he sprang with at the same time remove a public anywhere and hit anybody. Two tion. We think the government danger, for the continuance of golfers doing a round require more has the power.

a boued..... The telegram quoted below was milk-boiled," she repeated feebly which, after what has happened, ground than 3,022 persons enjoy-

received by the American Consulate over and over again, till Dicky, who And pf he went purring and frolicking Meanwhile, six families are ran

General from the Manila Observa was really quite a kind-hearted little there is positively no excuse. For-ing a football match, and they are ning round on the almost hopeless!

tory

boy gave her a pat and said, "I'm bid golf in the crowded Happy ever so much more dangerous. We search for homes to be available

YOUR WIFE AND YOU.12.20 p.m. yesterday.

very sorry, if I've said anything you Valley Golf is not an urban game want those bunkers removed, and on the 30th of this month You As a remedy for one-of woman's worst

Cyclone or Typhoon near or ayer don't like but please don't look like at all, and Happy Valley has be the land laid out as football pitches, know what chance they have for the fair sex as for men. They dispel

troubles, Pinkettes are just as efficient Formosa moving W.N.W.

ther and I'll try not to say it again.? come intra-urban Yarious people We ask this in the name of the How d'you like the prospect of that constipation in night, bringing the

The cow pulled herself together have been hit by golf balls. There great majority of sportsmen bere. action for ejectment, so suddenly, desired relied next morning. They care fe been quarrels, and once some Headers can give force to our re-so: unexpectedly, and so rudely aches, our breath, pimples and blotched

with a great effort and after taking He hever jumped out of the book disordered thing like a fight. And everybody quest by writing short letters in sprung upon them 2 Isn't it "hard skin by removing the cause. Obtaining Chamberlain's Tablets Een wipe with a leaf handkerchief nearly

liver. Liliónanem, dick head- ··A GOOD SUGGESTION/ off her glasses and giving them

again knows, since the China Mail re support of it, so as to show lines? Well, get busy. Write from dealers everywhere, also post free re tain to be much posed with them trembling voice."I don't like you. What is put on the table, cut but

bilious or constipated, "You are hemmed with spider's web said in fa vealed what was hushed up, that government that we are not merely letters to the papers. Let the 81ents the sial from The Williams They are pay to take and plonsays in I'm very sorry. I like most people

golf ball in Happy Valley destroy-guessing at the public opinion, but government know how you feel dicine Co., 96 Szochten Road, Shang-effect. For ade by all Chemists and but there's something about your face A pack of cards.

sailor's eye. One of these that we know it. The slogan is about it.

supporters may carry out the com- petitions without the absurd dupli- cations and orzissions of past sea-

nember of the staff of the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co., of Hongkong, Ltd, received a silver tea on behalf of his colleagues. service presented by Mr. 1. Waldron,

hai:

TYPHOON WARNING.

Storekeepers

"

book.

Joan

cat-

round.

PONG.

**

Oh Pong, cried Joan-no soomer

said Than back into the book he fled, Joan brought him milk, but she, coaxed.

in vain,

never catear

PETER PAN