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TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"

BasGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPT. 23, 1920.

ourselves with idle yearning like Haydn Coffin's "Greek Slave."

Let me be free.

THE CHINA MAIL.

of these newspaper fellows a tax Som

'clear their minds of cant heider might peranade them that the will that we of the majority

dame, and the constitutional pro cedure on which they set och store may be the wankla porse, the *** trash-".. Any

constitutional practice which, sequaciously adhered to thwarts the will of the majority, is ipsa facto unconstitutional. Its reason for being has gone.

The most conspicuous thing that

We tell what we see. We pro and warn

It is because, we believe-Bo de roudly what The Times says, that the English people has ever abhorred tyranny that we can see the thread wearing thin, and the sword (that unconstitutional' sword) falling,

LOCAL IND

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THURSDAY,

CARGO BROACHING.

ĢEGANISED GANGS AT WORK.

HEAVY SENTENCES FOR RIGHT MENG

SERIOUS STREET ACCIDENT.

CAR COLLIDES WITH TRAM.

PASSENGERS, MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

lack lining cloth, part of the ship's cles were in motion at the time.

bold.

ants had no business on board, as The Inspector said that the defend- they were not employed by the

SIR RAYMOND DENNIS.

SATISFACTORY BUSINESS

TRIP.

Sir Raymond Dennis, R8E, and

stage in the playing fast and loos have made a difference. Privilege/foodstuffs Dealers in foodstuffs was informed by the last witness, he They are now on their way to Sydney,

vinces.

Manila message, dated

scattered. They were

The first Dennis lorry consigned to

and Sir Raymond would have had

Another clean all of health waslice, this morning charged eight. A collision occurred in Queen's

Inspector Spears, of the Water turned for the Colony yesterday. Chinese before Magistrate Orme, Road, opposite the Soldiers' Club, with the theft from the-sa-Tere yesterday, between motor car No. Mr. R. McCrystal, late of Batuilas, yestentay, of 264 yards of 294 and train car No. 96. Both vehi Locally yon have a parallel to Gaias, FMS. was killed in a motor the Labour Party has done lately this old-womanish talk about "con-accident in New Zealand. was to stop the war with Russia stitutional practice. Before the

The defendants denied the charge effect of severely damaging the motor and the force of the impact had the that was being bureaucratically China fail went on the war path Centon is advertised to leave at 2-15 the Teresias was discharging which were smashed, while the The afternoon express train to The Inspector" said that yesterday car, the front wheels and lamps of land constitutionally con-calling a spade a spade, and intra- trived. They did it unconstitu- ducing the effective criticism which, from to-day lustead of 3 p.nt.urgo at Holt's wharf. At 12:30 pm generator was telescoped into the tionally, by threats. The Times has since been jocularly dubbed

the stevedore's men knocked off body of the car. would call this tyranny: But is it Bolshevism," and the New The Blue Funsel steamer "Teire Fork and went to tiffa. At 1 pm The tram, excepting for same possible that we can tyrannise our Journalism," the local Fress adsias accomplished the voyage from when the foremen coolle returned, slight damage to its platform, suffer selves? The majority did not want hered to what may by close analogy Liverpool to Hongkong in 30 days. half an hour before work was suped little as the result of the collision war with Russia, or with anybody, be called constitutional practice."

posed to be resumed, he saw the de- and was able to continue its journey. Yet a minority would have prevail-What did it achieve? What notice

Despite all expectations to theendants in No. 6 hold. He informed It was remarkable that none of the ed, but for the tyranny, the uncon was taken of it? They smiled at contrary the price of rice in Shanghai the European lamp trimmer who in occupants of the motor can sufic stitutional tyranny, of the majority, its growls as at the growling of lumped to $15 again on September 17, we informed the Second Officer. They any serious injury. Excepting for

It was unconstitutional to behead Kittens. They knew it for what it

went down the hold together, and a few bruises and a bad shaking. King Charles, and it was unconas, a time-serving and mean the Sunday School Convention to be re hiding behind some bales of

Another group of delegates to

there found the defendants, who they had a miraculous escape. -- stitutional to bring in William. thing, an ignorable quantity, held in Tokyo arrived in the Colony age. A search revealed that a case It was unconstitutional of the spoke of it with contempt. Tot it yesterday by the ss. Korea Mard. Containing the cloth had been barons to bully King John at Run-was, by analogy, most decorously

treached and that half the contents ning Mesd, yet some of us are constitutional In the colloquial rather pleased they did. Tunes itsell, especially during the place," and kept it. It was about the FMS will in future have to tous out of the way corners in the The sense of the phrase, it knew its clusive privileges for an invention in afterwards found hidden ja Persons seeking a grant of ex-s missing. The missing property

war, when it was making and un- as important to the public life of make, a declaration as to their making Premiers, was setting up Hongkong as a deaf and dumb relations with our ex-enemies during an unconstitutional government, chaperon at a Ball. We introduced the year 1918, government by the Prees, the new what may be called, by analógy, est form of tyranny. Who are the Direct Action," We became a

Mr. and Mrs. C. Montague Edé stredore. Even had they been the Mr. W. E. Hobbs, O. B. E. returned Ltd. Pressmen that they should dictate. Force, a Power. The China Mail Mr. and Mrs. George Grimble and they had song sad the Inspector, to Hongkong from Kobe by the 38.

and pontificate, and bully

counts. Lay your hand over your Miss Doris Grimble and Professor

right to be in the bold The dear old Festminster heart and affim, if you can, that and Mrs. E. Dasenberg returned to

at that time.

Kanowna," after a business tour in Gazette joined in these parrot cries there has been no change here as the Colony, yesterday, from Japati by seeing the defendants, in the hold. Tientsin en route to Peking, but were The foreman coolie deposed to Hongkong in June last they visited China and Japan. After leaving of unconstitutionality, but it was been designed to serve, the spirit

the result of our efforts, which have the "Katori Maru.". shrewd enough to note that it is

They were not his men, who knocked unable to proceed for some days necessary to recognise that the rather than the letter of constita-

The Police are taking measures back until 1.30..

if work at 12.30, and did got come owing to military operations. From step taken by Labour is only one) tionalism. We have not turned to forbid rice profiteering. in Peking

The trimmer said that when he to Japan where six weeks were spent. Peking they went to Sol and then Hongkong upside down, but we 30 23 to keep down the price of with constitutional practice 211 which the Executier itself isis less flagrant than it was, graft be found raising the price of rice and

pt the hatch on the defendants, N. S. W. Sir Raymond considers be liable to punishment, should they and proceeded with his work. playel a leading part."

less cynical, arrogance less non- Shing surer. We fought chalant. Certain principles now a height and taking advantage of the Continuing, the witness said that mediate deliveries of Tennis lorries to

other foodstuffs to an abnormal them in the hold ?—Yes.

The Magistrate: You imprisoned from a business point of view, and he that his trip has been very successful and won the Great War on unconformerly kept, as it were, in officePresent famine in the Northern pro when he had finished his work, he the seats he has appointed in

as binners on towers that were

has made arrangements for in- stitutional lines. "military neces sity making constitutional Safes. Public spirit grows. In a

seat for the second officer and they Shanghai, Tientsin and Tokyo. In practice join the State Church small way (only in a small, hole A on the back seat provided for it. and corner war) this serves September 4, states-The council of Saw the defendants in the hold deliveries will be confined to the new wat down the hold together. Wit Japan, owing to road conditions, Now just as an academic posturepresent what Labour has been state has decided to deport 3,000 witness and the second officer, tried late-may we not say that the needing at Home, because there was Chinese who are alleged to travel to escape. Witness had to drag one the Hongkong agents, Messrs. Alex

Two of them, as soon as they saw 2 ton model. of commonsense is at least as raid no other Party that dared to do it.Megally entered the province of of them down from half way up the Ross & 'Co., ' arrived this week an excuse as military necessity But at Home (this is prophecy) Mindanao from Borneo, and to be lader

The present Gang (Home Gor. you will see it yet do far more, very engaged in smuggling. The labour Replying to the Magistrate, the the gratification of seeing a Dennis crament poses es constitutional much more than we can ever dream (organizations will protest against the witness said that as soon as they get charabanc in the streets of Peking

of achieving in a Crown Colony. of im- It is quite constitutional to retain The most constitutional thing migrants. Churchill as War Minister after all about the British Constitution, the

originally but for the fact that the congested his lies and intrigues, and quite will of the majority of the people Seven hundred cases have already were doing.

very core and heart of it, is the Influenza has again struck Japan, Witress could not see what they from being transported from Tientsin, crowded around a case of cargo state of the railway prevented it constitutional to gite Herbert Samuel a kushi job in Palestine.howcrer and in whatsoever man- been reported in Hirosaki.

The Mr. Angus Shaw, the Second Off- fire engines in use by the brigades of There are already 11 Dennis Turbine Chugai Shogro" quotes the Tokyo ca, gave corroborative evidence. Shanghai (International and City), awaiting its chance at general/Fossibility(for which our hope, is) police authorities as saying every He said that no cargo coolie had the Tientsin, Hankow and, the Peking- But the will of the majority," it be expressed. There is a election which is postponed to the guided along peaceful and what taken in order to minimize the home of 12.30 and 1.30 pm. The to the Shanghai City brigade are the that the expression may yet be preventive measure is now being right to be in the hold between the Pukow railway, The three belonging last possible moment by the Gang The Times means by "constitu- disease, that the use of masks will ear of cloth which witness found first motor fire engines to be import in possession, and the same get-tional" lines; but that it will be be encouraged and that, if necessary, hall empty, was intact at 12.30 whened into China proper and they are Tis all and more than life to sueing impatient enough to cry with

that expressed, emphatically and effectheatres and motion picture houses the stevedore's men knocked off | operated exclusively by Chinese fire- I sigh, as sigh the blind to sec,

Cromwell, "Take away. Let me be free.

bauble," remains in either case tively expressed,, we are sure and will be closed.

wak. Witness knew because he was men. That may do in the case of a

the most truly constitutional arbi-that ear people have changed. has joined the Pilot service in Sing-prid open, and the tin lining torn certain, because we do not believe Capt. Gardner of the "Katong" particular case. The cover had been in the hold at the time, and saw that ought to be a size bigger than sich itself, surely the will of the They still love their betrayed con- apare. Captains, formerly on the with a cargo hook, Greek slave, but an Englishman Whichever way it manifests

It is of no earthly nse to me, queathed by bleeding sire to sun, unconstitutionally? Desperate, oc/Prophets, and because we would represented in the Singapore pilotage, defendants said that they went on

sighs. Freedom's battle, be majority" fun never be expressed stitution. In the manner of the Bangkok run have always been well but it is mine, and because it is as Byron song, implies a son who casions require desperate measures./rather have the coming reforms says the Bangkok Times. The late board as odd job coolies. They were] mine, I will fight and die sooner/does not faint at the sight of blood in the ordinary constitutional was the Gang, "Repent ye. Repentold hands here, both of them in turn i who told them to await him at the come peaceably we would cry to Captains Gray and T. Robinson were engaged by another foreman coolie, than lose it." Such an attitude it certainly cannot conscript the of society, one does not accost a might be debatable as regards its shirkers who are too intellectually lady without an introduction. A den, doing to, as we have commanding the "Singapore" before stem of the ship. They could not commonsense, but it is understand-lazy to perceive the shackle-makers imminent peril, does not go round gested that the last verse of the later on was in charge of the same

true Englishman, seeing 3 lady in done, it has been humorously sug: becoming pliots. Captain Shepherd and the man now. fable. The man fights, not for the work, or to take the trouble, to about to seek an introduction betwenty-seventh chapter of Ezekiel vessel and then joined the Eilot service.

lue of the thing at stake, but take their tools away from them. fore jumping to her aid.

The Magistrate decided to convict. for a principle the principle of Hope, for a season, bids the land journalist who presumed to tell you merchants among the people shall the master of the "Katong”

was meant for us. It say theNext came Captain Rushton, and now of the defendants had any previous lately. The latest hands were made The Inspector said that while none vessels seem to be dally occurrences Seizures of opium on oceâregoing ownership.

farewell, Does this excuse the attitude of

And Freedom shricks, when

that the man saved her life with hiss at thee; thou shalt be a ter

convictions recorded against them he on board the steamers "Saonainbei.” Yellow Journals yell. part of the Press at Home towards Careless freemen may be the worst and was for that blameworthy misunderstanding and misrepre- its own telegrams, says that the news been operating in the harbour, steal-boarded the Sannamhoi” on her.

out first waiting to be introduced,

Well, we have to endure Kokusai, in forwarding one of large gang of rogues who had lately

beled they were members of a and "Kaijo Maru", the recent manifestations of the of slaves-morally much lower not?

On Tuesday, Revenue Officers can. would try your patienes, would hesentation as best we power of Labour, in politics?

For it contains is of no import whatever, the constitution" something that the most glorious tradition of a folk, Isthan slaves, for they are traitors to

Zion's sake will we not hold our says the Japan Chronicle. The news 18 m every ship which came into arrival from the coast ports, and a must be defended to the last gasp, free born, that it is their first and British citizens Enow as little of as a lamp that burneth, until lazy Province of Siberia. The explana Seca

peace, anti! righteousness goeth was to the effect that thirty Japanese that the ship was salling soon, he caveay of about 200 taels of opiums port Had it not been for the fact systematic search resulted in the dis- The Times complains that "most forth as brightness, and salvation warships had either for its value, or for prin- most sacred duty to transmit that the Constitution as of the composi brains consent to think and weigh tion is that they are merely on

appeared in St. would have asked the Magistrate to in the storeroom. Vladimir Bay, on the Maritine iple?

comat the defendants to the Criminal Let us try to examine this with freedom to their children. It is a tion of the air they breathe, and words and analyse, until the foolish

The second seizure, a compara The Magistrate remarked that that tively large one, of 7,000 taels of

be so, but the offence was a serious yesterday. posed nevertheless that the sending

prepared non-Government opfam, was made by Revenue Officer Ward The Inspector said that that might and a party of Chinese searchers. waters of a neigbouring country was one. Besides, cargo broaching had of the very deepest. import. One wonders what would happen if a drastic measures would have to be caled underneath twenty tons of.

become so common lately that the contraband was discovered.com

After a long and tedious search as The Times makes, about our from an unconstitutional Sovereign.with unfailing punctuality, ac

foreign fleet arrived to manœuvre taken if thefts were to be stopped coal in the bunker of the Keijo cial abhorrence of tyranny in any We see what it is getting at, and quiesced in ministerial extravagance,

in Osaka Bay, shape. We actually believe Inat we are obliged to ask ourselves, abdicated independence of judg

Re would ask for a heavy penalty. Je do hate it, though our opposi seriously, if recent Labour doingement, and fell to a depth of impot-the two letters about the Kowloon and well-known China Coast skippers the defendants had been working

Maru." In both cases the person. Addressing the defendants, the on has been of late neither con- bare amounted to tyranny. If we ence rarely reached by any British squabble, not with any thought of leares for Home on retirement, by sepantaly, but the fact that they We publish reluctantly to-day Hooker, one of the most popular would not have been so serious if

To the person of Captain George Magistrate, said that the offencesponsible was not discovered. The

Opium was taken ashore... stent nor persistent enough to answer yes, we must fight it. legislative assembly." Precisely, mit some of us who mear what weThe, constitutionally expressed To that we respond, most heartily, cause they are so abominably kate. Hooker bas been on the China Coast had conspired jointly to rob the ship,

journalistic etiquette but be the Blue Fannel str. "Mentor." Capt. We must be free

will of the majority should pre-A Daniel. come to judgment." Iron must be struck while it is lunt, for 25 years and during the whole of vail," says The Times. For "will Then what on earth would The and it is only because we are as that lengthy period has been with to a heavy penalty if they Me Or die

Who speak the tongue

of the majority is something that Times be at?

positi, and made them liable experience has taught us to accept Failing Parliament, who

Quis custodiet? sured there is still considerable (Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.) It re committed for trial at the That Shakspere spoke.

China Navigation Company We tremble as we mouth those pression of our castitution; but staff or the People? Labour has]

as the true and only possible ex-guard the constitution, The Times these in.

shall warnth at Kowloon that we let was in 1895 that he came out from Sesakas. He sentenced the defend.j oble words. We thrill. We feel perhaps there is a little room for flouted a contemptible parliament, is oh, so very English. We think debate about the "constitutional "but we cannot see that it has done referring to discussions raised byted, to the command of the str.

As regards the complaint that it ope as chief officer on the str.ants to six months hard labour Pakhoi," and in 1901 he was pro- the kings we have humbled, the expression of it. As a practical any hurt to that unwritten prin- another paper, it may be as well to command of the str." Liangchow" by Inyector Spears with the theft of

to publish matter

ANOTHER CONVICTION,

A correspondent writes front oud we have brought low, be proposition, might we not claimciple of Englishry we call the state once for all that the China Hongkong-Bangkok-run); which four places of underwear from the between teams representing HMS.

Hupeh In 1916 he was given

Andher Chinese who was charged A football match was played at

Shameen: ase, they infringed upon this our that any effective demonstration of Constitution.

principle. So precious is free it should be and would be constitu- provides a parliament, not the In fact, our chief glory is our un-retire on pension.

The Constitution Mail has no respect for the usual position, he has just given up to 8. Fenavon," pleaded guilty

the Shameen-Recreation ground * to us, as an ideal, that we have tional? The soul of the constitu- parliament a constitution. It will usualness. Anything that interests ant much blood and treasure on tin itself, which is an elastic and provide another, when the opportu-any considerable section of the pab-

The Inspector said that the defend Recreation Club on Tuesday last "Tarantula and the Customs Howing it on others.

unwritten one, is the will of the nity arrives. When things are as lie intérests us, and we care not Punjabis committed suicide in Bom- suspicks were aroused by a bulge and 4 goals in the second half.

ant was arrested in Canton Road yes The Tarantula team won by 13 Our devotion has not staled. majority. If it isn't, what business rotten in the stete as The Times where we find it. For the stupid bay la extraordinary circumstances in the defendant's coat. When After avenging its two previous Lieut F. Wardle of the 22nd terday by 's Chinese detective whose to pil, scoring 6 goal in the first half breed has not died out. We has it to exist? It sometnes looks admits they are, and as we see them trick of pretending that no other He was due to go home for charge at the station, the defendant defeats by the Boys Own pot wholly unworthy beirs of asif a minority would like to thwart to be, we consider we are still con- newspaper existe-except once in demobilisation, and was staying in told taess that he took the cloth Cab (1-0, and 4-1) by winning ous sires. How is it that we the majority by binding it down to stitutionally correct (and following a while as a contemporary we Bothay awaiting a berth. It appears ing how the Benaron. He the 3rd game 3-0, It was things like Dora, so long some undefined constitutionality, precedent) when we recommend have no time to waste. There has that he had been depressed at the was then on board the ship, where certainly not expected that the its excuse bas departed? as The Times, now does. do we submit to bureaucratic stole Bhakspere's purse stole trash. by Labour alone, but Direct Action hollow sham and too little red Late at night he engaged a taxi and the ship's cargo, a case of which had beaten. The high score against the Who Direct Action. Not Direct Action been far too much etiquette thought of returning to England the clothing was identified as part of Customs ftam would be so severely modelled on the Prussian? He said so himself. This looks as by all the people, by all patriots, meat about local journalism drove round the city. In the centre been broken open, and a large Custome team was howevet hardly a not because, though our hearts if the Elizabethan drama did not by all honest Englishmen who do Dignified vapidity is still yapidity of the town the taxi driver beard quantity stolen. still sound, our heads are not pay well. It means for a certainty know what the spirit of constitu- however dignified it may be; but report and found the officer moonscl Sentence of two months hard against, the boys of the Customs are more easily diddled by that his purse held so little that he tionalism really is. How can we lord when the very cockroaches pus, shot through the throat, Death labour is passed.

fair criterion of the game. Lack was onflage than our forebears were. did not mind very much the losing put it more plainly?" Note that we set out to be dignified, the thing must have been instantaneous. The mal vigilance 18 the price of of it. But his good-name-ah do not have to recommend it. That becomes a farce. Let us be simply officer who shared the deceased's

and we have relaxed par that was different. Who robbed would be like telling Niagara to go men honest men if possible, but com/at the hotel said that the Beginning August 15, WALLA up, the writer has no doubt that

Little by little ours him of that was not enriched, but on flowing We can see it com- manly

deceased kad taken more drink than the Servile State, and we lell him poor, indeed He would ing. And we are not happy about notice, it. Or we content fight for it. If we could get some it.

We prefer the quiet life, we have not taken ndes, for as wel

As regards the Kowloon quarrel - was advisable but could not be descri-

bed as drunk

AT A VALUATION.

The

For."

Replying to the Magistrate, the

out prejudice as far as is humanly/trust.. If we fail in it, we are like we have a double reason for point-parrots are silenced, and the Con: Hazanavre but we should have sup would have been rather drastic.

the vile creature who lets the ing out that The Times must be stitutional rights that are as dear possible. Let us use the brains enemy into a beleaguered fortress. God made for use, and eschew

included in that "most." It adto us as to anyone are made safe to merely partisan cries. We who are should no more tolerate tyranny especially since 1918, to be an

The Tines reminds us that we mits that Parliament has ceased, us and to our children: English are easily influenced, and.. strongly moved by such remarks a Labour "Committee of effective custodian of popular right. National Security" than we should "It registered ministerial decrees

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JOURNALISTIC

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of a fleet to manoeuvre in the bone

the

put them

each.

very serious

OPIUM SEIZURES.

HAUL OF 5,000 TAELS

TWENTY TONS OF COAL MOVED.

SHAMEEN SPORT.

FOOTBALL MATCH.

BEATS THE CUSTOMS,

Service. They missed several aplen did opportunities to score. Judging by the rattling good game they pur WALLR BOATS will call on when next the two teams meet, the all Ships flying the call Bag Customs team will give a much

ter account of theme dres