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TO-DAY'S

1920

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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

POLAND.

HOSTILITIES WITH LITHUANIA ENDED.

WARSAW, September 6. Hostilities, between the Pales and Lithuanians have virtually ended. Peace negotiations are expected to be held immediately at Mariempol.

POLES APPEAL TO THE LEAGUE,

LONDON, September 7. The Polish Government has appealed to the League of Nations request ing mediation- in the Polish and Lithuanian dispute, pointing out that an unprovoked attack was made on Polish troops and that unless an improve ment takes place in the situation Poland will be compelled to declare war on Lithuania,

SOVIET REPUBLIC AT BOKHARA,

LONDON, September 6.

A Moscow wireless message reports that a Soviet Republic has been proclaimed at Bokhara, where Red troops occupied the principal military points. Documents have been found, adds the wireless message, revealing British intrigues with the-Afghan Government.

PROTEST AGAINST POLISH OCCUPATION.

LONDON, September 6.

A telegram from Vienza stapes that as a protest against the occupation of Eastern Galicia by the Potts, a cavalry division composed of Galicians! and Ukrainiens under General Pawienko, who has been actively fighting the Bolsheviks, has crossed into Czecho-Slovakia with the whole of its staff. horses, ammunition, and has been interad.

POLISH DELEGATES DETAINED.

WARSAW, September 7.

The Foreign Minister's protest to Soviet Russia requesting the immediate release furnishes the first intimation that the Bolsheviks have arrested a number of Polish delegates at Minsk and are still detaining them, GENERAL WRANGELS SUCCESS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, September 6. According to the latest oficial Russian news, General Wrangei's counter-offensive has been successful. The Reds are retreating rapidly towards the Dnieper.

Wusaw, September 6. Another detachment of anti-Bolshevist Russians has left Warsaw to

with General Wrangel.

** FRENCH MUNITIONS DESTROYED.

BERLIN, September 6.

A million rife cartridges were unloaded and the cases exploded. The Imperial authorities have already proceeded against the culprits.

Erfurt goods station by the railwaymen's committee.

his

NEW SOLICITOR:

ADMITTED.

ME, BON CHKE LEI.

THE CHINA MAIL.

the two

"WONDERFUL IMPROVE- MENTS IN WIRELESS

"TELEGRAPHY."

A BOOK TO SHIPPING.

"[CONTRIBUTED.}:

The time is almost at hand when

In mest couT-

COMPANY REPORT.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

REVIEW OF THE YEAR'S OPERATIONS,

"One of the

Before the acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Gompertz, in the Supreme Court this morning, the Attorney

The report of the Messageries General, Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, K.C., moved for the admission of Mr. Hon

proßt of 5,579,000 francs compared Chee Lee as a solicitor of the a wireless set will have to be in-Maritimes Co. for 1919 shows a net Supreme Court.

He said that stalled on every ship which travels

The company's Mr. Hoa Chee Lee passed his a distance of fifty miles or more be with 5,322,000 francs in 1918 and trade for 1919 has been characterised final examination in October 1919 tweer ports for the safety of the 5278,000 in 1917. with honours and was admitted in passengers and crew.

tions owing to the discontinuance of England on April 13, 1920. He had tries all ships of any consequence now by a return to more normal condi-! produced his admission certificate carry wireless, as the shipowners

However, the sail- and had given the necessary notice have found that it is very convenient the general requisition of vessels from to the Law Society and the Registrar. for themselves, as they can always January 6, 1819. The Law Society had no intention of find out where the ship is, and the ings are still less frequent than before- opposing his admission. Affidavits time she will arrive in port days pre- the war on account of the losses ex- of identity had been filed by two vious. A few nights ago, I went Perienced by the feet and also owing solicitors of the Court. Mr. Hon aboard a ship in Hongkong Harbour the difficulties of all kinds created by the smaller output of work in the had not got a certificate that and heard: San Francisco (America) repairing shop and at the ports, Be-

certificate of admission

quite plainly, when put on the wire- was still in force or certificates of character from leget less telephones. Whilst speaking sides, although the requisition has practitioners in England as when be the operator, I asked him was not rminated, the State has reserved in sels a considerable part of the passen left England be had no knowledge this exceptional, but he stated he great number of the company's ves that he must produce these. He hears him every night, and went on

me how the Amal-ger space. In order to repair their asked for his admission subject to to describe to

Ramated Wireless Australasia, Limit-losses the company has made great! efforts. For large cargo steamers the production of these documents

His Lordsbip: Mr. Hon Cheeed, 97. Clarence Street, Sydney, have Lee, I bave great pleasure in admitt- just lately produced a receiving serepresenting 36.000 tons gross have ing and enrolling you to be a solicitor that has received messages direct during the year been allotted over and and proctor of this honourable from England and are now getting all above the tonnage placed at the dis- ment. The company is considering There will be useful, profitable and Can you imagine how much safer it Court and I trust that your career ships they install with the same type. Posal of France by the British Gover honourable. I have great pleasure would be going to sea on the China the use of oil fuel in order to make in admitting you. The two affidavits coasts, when the Captam would al-good the shortage of coal. and the certificate must be filed ways be able to know exactly where vessels has been already transformed

I admit you.

tion it was travelling, so that, the ship coal or oil. On December 31 the within six months: Subject to that a typhoon was sinuated and the direc- so that it can be fuelled either with Mr. Hon Chee Lee: Thank you would always be able to keep our of one of the company's fleet was is path. The shipowners in Hong still less by 49,000 tons gross than kang appear to have fallen into a rut the pre-war figure. All dorts are my Lord.

with regards to installing wireless on directed towards making up this de- their ships, but I am sure this would fit by the acquisition of vessels al- nos have been so had they known the dy constructed and ready for im A QUESTION OF Abusk.

advantages and Conveniences of this mediate use, and they are hopeful of increasing their tonnage by 106,000 Accidents very small expenditure. Three cases came before the

are happening very often on this coast, fons. The question of the indemni- Acting Chief Justice in the Bark-on account of to wireless being in ties due to them by the State has not ruptcy Court this morning.

In the case of Ma Cheux the stalled. "The shipowners, can see this yet been settled. Official Receiver asked for a receiving for themselves by the last typhoon In my humble near Henghong. order which was made.

In the matter of Wai Tung opinion ink it is as necessary to Kee, alias Wing Wei, have ships installed with wireless on. Hop the Official Receiver said he was this coast as anywhere in the world. in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. informed that the sum of $500 was I remain. He wrote to the bank but was told there was no money. He wrote a second time but got the same reply. This morning he was told by Mr. that bis client, one Mason of the petitioning creditors, had was told that they had $500. Mr. been round to the compradore-and Mason had written to the bank. He asked for an adjournment till next Bankruptcy day.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.

The receiving order made in con- nection with the Mi Yuen Lacg ärm was rescinded on the application of the Official Receiver.

ONE WHO IS GREATLY INTERESTEŬ IN WIRELESS PROGRESS ON THE CHINA COAST.

·

CHINA MAIL CO.

BIG EARNINGS

NET INCOME OVER. $700,000.

The audited statement of earnings

UNIVERSITY FOR SINGAPORE.

STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT.

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT'S

* SHARE.

In the House of Commons on July' 22. MA. Gershom Stewart asked the ' Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether the Government is assisting in the establishment of a University at Singapore."

Mr. Amery replied:-A scheme has

of the China Mail Shipping Corpora- been formulated for the establishment

tion was given our through Blyth, in Singapore of a College for higher From the report of a meeting of wirer & Co., who in 1918 offered education to be known as Raffles Col- creditors it appeared that the peti

was an abuse of the Court and re- scinded the order.

join General Wrangel. ip to the present 18,000. have left to take up arms ❘tioning creditor was not present and $175,000 China Mail Steamship Cor- lege, which would be a memorial of t no partnership books were produced.poration first mortgage is. The re-the centenary of Singapore and the por covers the period from April 1, nucleus of a future university. The The partners had disappeared.

1917. to December 31, 1919, and Colonial Government has provided a Recission of the order was asked shows the total net income available site, and has undertaken on certaint for an the ground that the petition

amounted $1,525,785.18, of which College at a cost not exceeding one A supply train for French troops in Upper Silesia was held up at was not based on a genuine debt but for interest charges for this period conditions to erect the buildings of the 1

on a desire to help the debtors.

His Lordship said he thought it$920,000 was used for the retire-million dollars, and to contribute fifty

upkeep. ment of the company's bonded debt, thousand dollars annually towards the The total assets of the corporation, as shown on the balance-sheer of Dec. 31, 1919, aggregated $5.054.336.81. and the balance-sheet of that cate ** current in- shows practically no debtedness save "axes payable,' for which proper reserves were made. The China Mail is now operating three steamships. They are the and China." Nanking." Nile three ships which tank among the

BOLSHEVIKS IN EAST PRUSSIA.

PARIS, September 6. Foreign Office information leads to a calculation that 129,000 Bolshevik troops have taken refuge in East Prussia. The Polish Government is dis satisfied with the internment conditions as Bolshevik bands are roaming at large in East Prussia and even recrossing the frontier and attacking Polish villages and then again taking refuge in Germany. This manoeuvre was adopted in an attack on the fortress of Osowiec, and Suwałki (Poland) has requested the Allies to require Germany properly to intera and disarm refugees.

A QUESTION.

A CHEAP COOK

The China Mail was invited to put the following question: "Is it right for a Station Officer to employ a Chinese fireman as his cook?"

At first we wondered, why on earth not? A cook. is a sort of fireman, and why shouldn't a fireman be a cook?

question wasn't fully expressed. Enquiry showed, however, that the What they wanted to get a really, was this:

BRITISH LABOUR'S DETERMINATION.

LONDON, September 7. Labour's determination not to handle munitions for Poland led to a ship being held up at Bootle owing to the dockers refusing to load fumigationg machines aboard a vessel bound for Danzig, apparently under the impres sion that the machines were some deadly implement of war. The Council of Action intervened and explained that the machines were intended to destroy vermin and prevent typhus and other diseases. In urged the dockers to to utilize, without payment, the release the embargo.

THREATENED STRIKE.

GOVERNMENT PREPARING FOR THE WORST.

TO RELIEVE DISTRESS.

LONDON, September 7

Should a station officer be allowed

services of a government-paid fire man as his eook, when such throws his proper share of firemen's duty on

other firemen ?

best on the Pacific Ocean.

MR. CLAUD SEVERN.

ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

CRICKET NETS will be up for

September, weather permitting. Mem- practice on MONDAY, 13th bers are requested to consult notices in the Pavilion as to arrangements for cricket and tennis.

LS. GREENHILL

Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, Sept. 8, 1920.

The engagement is announced of P. & O. 8. N. COMPANY.

Mr. Claud Severn. C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Son of the TEE Steamship.

9, Earl's Coursquare, London, S...

**JEYPORE

$200 Tone.

Put that way, the answer is to Margaret Annie, daughter of the obvious. Indeed, we have no doubt ate Professor T. Lowndes Bullock that the mere publication of the and of Mrs. Bullock, Wood Lawn. will be descatched f STRITS question will put a sudden stop to the thing

The Officer concerned must, fork out his twelve or fourteen dollars a month and hire a cook from outside

The Government is evidently preparing for the worst in case the miners' leaders prove obdurate and has begun organising the distribution his staff. That's certain.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THIS MUST BẢ SEEN TO.

of food in the event of a strike. The Government has in view the partial stoppage of the railways, and arrangements for the carriage of necessaries by road and transport are being made. This work has been entrusted to three subordinate members of the Ministry and two civil servants each have been allotted one of the five districts which the country has been "divided into for the purpose. These commissioners are now engaged in To the Editor of the " China-Moll.”) ascertaining what the position would be in their district in the event of a strike and will report upon means of relieving the distress that would follow.

PLUNGE TO DEATH

AVIATORS KILLED IN SIGHT OF THOUSANDS,

FOREST HILL, September 7. During the play in the American Championship tennis finals a Naval seaplane encircled the courts, when the engines, without warning stopped "The marine plunged earthwards and crashed in the sight of a thousand awe-tricken spectators. The two aviators were killed.

LORD-HARDINGE AMBASSADOR TO PARIS.

LONDON, September 7:

The newspapers announce that Lord Hardinge, ex-Viceroy of India, has been appointed to succeed Lord Derby as Ambassador to Park.

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Oxford.

RHEUMATISM.

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Judging by the amount of material, Sand, Granite, etc which is being carted up something must be doing. And the Coolier, what a time they have, running those Coal Trimmers Barrows down the hill. A husky coolie, a piece of rope and there you are

Eren barrows get adrift at times, one did to-day, sheered across the path and capsized. The notice at the bottom says "Funerals must not pass up the road, éte but hose Tramway. barrows pass down, and there are children living higher than No. 4.

What about a rimh to dry those seats in rainy weather?

Your etc.

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