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THE CHINA MAIL.

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that at the price and rental de- Then is the memorial intended manded, it could not possibly be for future generations, who may made torboy. ** know not Joseph "? We would A

here is is-left on our have the remember it, differently, han

tatively unproductive in a very different light-from; —an people believing that that in which a vainglorious tem- property prices keally have touched orial would be likely to present it. - high water" mark and must "soon We want a sort of circumspice"; begin to drop. memorial or reminder for them. **The war? Do you require its monument? Look around you." They will look around, "note the taxation they are paying, the high cost of living, the fearsome way in which the nìatch of civilization and culture has been retarded. just as we are doing now. Judging by ourselves, the memorial we need is a reminder of what we call pre-war conditiona They are becoming harder and harder to recall.

CAPTAIN MORGAN,

DEATH IN HONGKONG.

LONG CAREER IN THE EAST.

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THEATRE ROYAL

WARWICK COMEDY Co.

SUČCESSFUL OPENING NIGHT.

The audience that braved last night's uncertain weather to attend the opening right of Mr. Edgar Warwick's comedy company, which

TUESDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1990.

COMMERCIAL MORALITY,

INNUENDOES REPUDIATED.

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"YANKER SMARTNESS” about Hongkong warehouses for a year. And that was the stuff that Hongkong Shipped to San Francisco as white Java refined.

Despite

potential profit of $15,000, the American importing company refused to accept the ship- ment, although at that time, when the sugar shortage was worst, the stuff could have been unloaded upon the tables of American consumers. Fortunately for the buyer, the sure

BETINS CRITICISM OF HONGKONG EXPORT METHODS

in "Uncle Ned" initiated its season Under the title "Yankee Smart-veyor had erred and bad omitted the in Hongkong at the Theatre Royal, ness the following article, having word granulated from the descrip fonod its reward in an enjoy to do with matters of interest in tion of 350 tons, and the bank failed able performance. The production Hongkong, appears in the November to note this omission, so that the was marked by a fine sense number of the Pacific Marine Rivies, American importer was justified of sympathy and a careful supervi- magazine published in San Fran- technically in repudiation. How the sion of detail; the company itself cisco.

... sugar itself also justified him has

been seen clearly enough.

was competent and admirably cast; Of late foreign publications, especi- and in general the performance was ally fit-must be admitted with regret) of a high order. It was, in short, an those of our British cousins, have

THE BANK'S RESPONSIBILITY. auspicious beginning, and gave pro had much to say regarding "Yankee bank have permitted such stuff to be Now, why should the Hongkong After an illness of about two years, mise that Hongkong's theatre-goers smartness. That phrase, in quote shipped? Did the bank behere that Captain Morgan, for years the popular; have before them an unusual oppor- tion marks, has talien on more than the sugar was up to specifications? a tinge of innuendo; it is, in fact, Was the shipment surveyed by an numbers of brave young men kid, of the Shiu On Steamship Company. Uncle Ned" is a very clever little an attempt to discredit American } veyor? Or did the corporation believe

We are not likely to forget that master of the steamer Kwong Sai"tunity for enjoyment.

In spite of its commonplace name, the favourite thrust in what appears unprejudiced and competent ser down their lives in the war in the running between Hongkong and Can comedy. It has been played most commercial houses. Few fee and the premise of scenting on, died on Friday. The funeral was successfully at St. James' Theatre, informed Americans would claim an American, despite our traditional well- that anything was good enough for better conditions, which have not held on Saturday evening.

London, and, in fact, was still on the absolute sanctity for their fellow-Yankee smartcess"? Perhaps the yet arrived. We are not likely, to Captain Morgan vas arative of bill when this company left London countrymen; as a people we are far Hongkong Telegraph can reply; per- forget that their great sacritice was 1 Belfast, and had been at sea in the The author is Douglas Murray, The from perfect; but as a people whaps the Telegraph can justify rech largely wasted, since the German Est for many years. For a time he story is laid in the country house of are arities were defeated by our fights in the service of Batterfield & Sir Robert Graham in Surrey, and perfection

little disposed to concede business morality as is manifest in ers, but the German policies and Swire, and saw service also on a line had to do with the conversion of Sir any

the British, or this and other instances: the quoting Until about 1898 he Robert from an over-bearing, stiff and at the same time shoulder ever the Hongkong exchange rate

foreign philosophies have been adopted by to Australia.

nationals, of prices c. i.f, on the basis of what- A muritorial for was Chief Officer and Captain in the necked, impossible commercial ald the oans for all the violations of this? As well say that the wearer, Scottish Oriental Steamship Company, money bags to a regular human being. commercial good faith. The United happen to be the shipping of of a mustard plaster or of tight running to Bangkok:

soft-spoken and kindly. His method States possesses as high a standard against an iron-bound letter of credit: markedly inferior merchandise thin reamber his pains. The only master for Ten or eleven years, before tion with an iron hand. He is utterly country in the world (to atterrpt to four years before the American busi- group of statuary we can conerive his illness compelled him to give up without sentiment, cruel and do- I claim more would be to place ou pesa house can force recovery in the

delay of three

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our statesmen.

Later

a lower level stands a ring of bloat- Chief Officer of the vessel. Jed profiteers, jering at him. Bet she was salved, and he renamed to her the local expritzig of julges of as Chief Officer, shortly being War memorial designs would not, pointed Captain.- pass that. We can picture them! looking at one another in a shock. ed sort of way, and crving, like the French at Verdun, "it shall not pass. You as a inemorial-a piece! fof real "lest we forget" useful-! ness-it nmmends itself before anything they were likely to give

us.

SUIT FOR DAMAGES.

BILL OF LADING INVOLVED.

ALLEGED WRONGFUL DETENTION.

other

to

whole-heartedly selves in the unenviable situation nowHongkong courts.

SUME HEAVY ARTILLERY. The occasion arises from an edr

Does the Telegraph know that

as appropriate, would be made up his post, was originally the Kwong mineering. and of a young man in khaki, wendet Chow," which sank at the whart in despised by the country folt. His occupied by others who, as they them and blending, looking up to the sky Kowloon during the typhoon of 1906. two pretty daughters are alterly selves confess, are quite immaculate); American importers have had such and praying, while around him on At the time Captain Morgan was cowed, and virtualy slaves; his and it is a positive relief, after the unpleasant experieners with South charming secretary is relegated to a countless repetitions of the quoted China wood oil that they virtually position of mechanical routine. fishes and arrogance comes Uncle this question, to meet our foreigning to deal with Hankow instead? Into this drab atmosphere of set cover, an "opportunity to Eght out commodity with Hongkong, perferr phrase "Yankee smartness" to dis- have abandoned any business in this Ned," the younger brother of Sirarities in a pitched battle. Robert- genial individual who

Oils have been received in San writes plays, knows men and human

Francisco from Hongkong that, de- spite analyses by Hongkong Govern- character, and is possessed of an inexhaustible fund of philosophy.torial published in the Rice Bout, the ment, chemists, showed markedly Impressed by the pathos of the lives well known house organ of W. T. variable qualities; the violation of of his nieces, he sets out to Walisch & Company, San Francisco. specifications became so frequent do what he can towards thawing the the July, 1920, issue of that that, as indicated, American in- frigid personality of his elder brother. publication, an editorial, entitled porters are exceedingly wary of the The Test, urged importers of rice Hongkong market. Nor is trouble He does it breezily and pleasantly. We, as a people, have already!

The play is full of humour, and the to stand by their obligations, despite confined to wood oil forgotten what we owe to the lads who fought for na. We have for!

In the Supreme Court this morning, ripples of laughter.

audience last night was kept in the crash of the market caused by In 1919 a San Francisco importing the officially announced allotments of company received a consignment of gotten the enthusiastic appreciation before the Prisne Judge, Mr. Justice

Through the play, two romances Rangoon rice. The editorial was 10,000 bags of rice, shipped by its with which we regarded thera in Wood, there was a hearing of the wind their way to happy conclusions countered by an article in the Hong own representative Chinese house our hour of need. We shall have suit of Lee 6. Kwong, trading as theUncle Ned" has found in the kong Telegraph, which, although pro- bat certified as to weight by white. conspicuously forgotten, if we per- Canada, China Trading Company, 118 charming secretary his long-lost fessing to admire the outspoken surveyors of Hongkong. A few bags sist in wasting a million dollar site 293 Queen's Road Central, forment which is just, as the curtain is discharge several pieces of heary dock; a shortage was disclosed such Tai Ping Shan, against Lee Fuic Nam, sweetheart, and at the proper mo- article, seizes the opportunity to were weighed at the San Francisco end tens of thasands of dollars on $957 damages for the alleged to go down on the last act she artillery at us. Says the Telegraph: as to justify weighing the entire a mensorial stone on it, that many wrongful detention of a bill of lad- accepts him. of them are without limbs. without ing. It was claimed that the bill of daughter, it is learned, has been portance to maintain the standard public weighers and by represents- Sir Robert's elder "Is it not also of considerable im- shipment, which was done both by jobs, without adequate pensions, fading was issued by the Toyo Kisen married secretly for some months, and f without proper recognition. They Kaisha on March 27 to the plaintiff is living in a state of Constant fear Many of

respectability all round?tives of the San Francisco Chamber ask us for bread: are we to offer for 10 barrels of neutral spirits from that her surfy father will discover it. importers of rice and sugar have surveys disclosed an average short- the San Francisco of Commerce; the result of these them a simple and dignified the "Shinyo Marc," and stored in It takes stone? Not unless our hearts are the Hongkong Kowloon godowns. matter right. He does it deftly, and have dishonoured their bills drawn 51,000 pounds for the entire ship- Uncle Ned" to set this not met their commitments. They are of 5.4, pounds to the bag, or as hard as our local granite, and it was alleged that defendant refused of the several "big moments" in the under confirmed banker's credit.

ment. At that time rice was worth play, the biggest is the one when The local (Hongkong) banks have 9 or 10 cents. daughter and fatherthe changed bought these rice bills from the ex Sir Robert are united. This scene, have repudiated all responsibility, only source of trouble. A recent

"HANDS ACROSS THE SKA"? Hongkong exporters are not the especially, was most happily enacted, being strong, yet agreeably simple and disclaim any interest in those shipment of. what purported to be and restrained.

rice stocks-A In the meantime No. 1 Saigon fong-grain rice was ' Of the players, Mr. N. Thorpe the rice that had been shipped to San anything else; anyone with eye to Mayne in the part of Sir Robert was Francisco has to be sold before it see could understand that the rice the central figure. The part lost becomes bad and unfit for human virtually was unmercbastable, at nothing in his skilful

consumption." handling-

our beads much softer. This club Now proposed as a substitute does offer them something they can en joy. something they will appreciate. The China Mail, therefore, is in favour of dropping the finest site scheme altogether, and of using the new club as the quite appropriate memorial. Carve across

to hand it over to the plaintiff. Mr. T. Rowan, appeared for the plaintiff Mr. Leo D'Almada for the defendant.

LOCAL AND "GÉNÉRAL...

A meeting of the Sanitary Board its facade, Erected as Hong-was fixed for 4.15 this afternoon kong's memorial of the Great War. when the proposed cemetery at Ho and of the lads who won it," if you Mun Tin was to be considered. like. Then there will be no for- getting that it is a memorial; and

that should tell against it.

porters. Bare.

The exporters

IF THAT WERE TRUE.

least fu an American market. A San Francisco importer said that he will- ingly would lay down a cheque for $100,000 if he never had bought Japanese peaunts in the shell; and

at

He made Sir Roberta taipan of un- endurable ferocity, then gently, If that account were true, the subtly, and consistently transformed situation would be bad indeed. As the fact that it is also something Press was just closing the "Topicist's gentleman. It was die perhaps erred grievously. No single instance other instances might be recited to

The Editor of the Singapore. Free him at the end into a lovable old a matter of fact the Telegraph has really useful to the lads is nothing weekly Column when Toppy rushed more to the excellent work of Mr. af rejection or repudiation on rice almost any length.

ia with most important news. development of the idea that the has come to light. There have been have done, and are doing, and (until Thorpe-Mayne than to the author's contracts by San Francisco factors

Dishonest American business men "Here" he said, "put this in. Here's change in Sir Robert was accom- many rejections of OLD POST OFFICE SITE. a man in Hongkong says since the plished so successfully. It was a modities, such as vegetable oils, Java continue to do, much that shames other com the millenium comes) doubtless will sport again." A that they fear,

war snobbery in Singapore has difficult thing to do. A trifle too sugar, camphor, peanuts. And why? their nation. Such persons merit the these braves, is boredoms, and, that long and unexplained delay, the

No bid. What a fizzle! After practically died a natural death!"* much of one thing or too little of Was it because of "Yankee smart-condemnation of their fellow-country- BASKETT.-On November 23, 1920, they run frout, shrieking. The Old Post Office site has been put

another would have made, the transness? Can the Telegraph reply ? at Yangchow, to Mr. and Mrs. ideal of a new Europe and a better up to roup, and not a single bidder October 29, stated that a man was deep sentiment of the incident into unmerchantable quality of the goods are not inclined to remain silent A Los Angeles'message' dated formation forced, and turned the These rejections were due to the But American business men generally ren no less than that of foreigners. A. S. Baskett, a.son.

State (which promised during the appeared. With Hongkong pro sentenced to a term of 100 years in sheer banality. As it was, one could although certificates had been obtain when accused of all the crimes on earlier stages of the war to find perty supposed to be booming, this San Quentin prison, following his not pick a flaw in his performance. MARRIAGE.

lodgings) is now a victim of the most central site fails to elicit a conviction on two statutory charges.

ed by exporters (Hongkong exporters, the commercial calendar; they cer- Housing Shortage. No local door offer. There must be a reason. The maximam team for each offence character interpretation to accom-were standard; despite these certi to all the sins of the business world. The others had less in the way of among others) stating that the goods tamly are not disposed to plead guilty SPENCER-WEGENER-At Shang is open to it. It is confronted by Many will now be casting about is fixed by law at fifty years, and plish, but did what they had to do ficates, the goods on arrival in San The British are benefitting neither

hai, Mr. W. H. Spencer to Miss closed minds. The people here live for explanations of this F. E. Wegener.

smack in Judge in a narrow little circle of small; the face

Willis, who pronounced eficiently and pleasingly. Mr Edgar Francisco, were manifestly unmarket themselves nor us. when they steer ideas and interests, and feel home- Department.

for the Public Works sentence, directed that the sentences Warwick was "Uncle Ned," with the able.

It is so described, run consecutively. sick and lost when tempted outside because many feel that there has

Yankee smartness." Hongkong advantage of having the affection of

-AN EXAMPLE FROM HONGKONG. in common with San Francisco, is it. They are very like the people been too much "take

the audience from the start. He of Israel, who preferred a visible it" arrogance behind the condi- or leavé

was an entire success. Miss Mayne, In order that this statement may under obligation to clean its 1920, zt Los Gatos, Cal., Golden Calf from Aaron to the in- tions so glibly imposed. If you 23 years, living at No. 107. Praya Sir Robert, was a most winning lady. instance be cited. A leading San pore or London, are under obligation A Chinese married woman, aged as Miss Manning, the secretary to go home to Hongkong, let a specific house; the British, whether in Singa U.S.A., Arnold Lambert, age 39, visible God of the mountain whose want to sell, as the Government Easts who was yesterday removed to Miss Dorothy Radford, as the elder favourably throughout the United manifest their sportsmanship by Francisco business house, known to play fair with America, to message Moses was to bring them. presumably did, you cannot push the Government Civil Hospital suf- daughter, and Miss Marjory Clark, Mr. Dalziel (and there are others) the buyers too far. We have at fering from opium poisoning is as the younger daughter, were States, ordered 500 tons of white frankly pleading guilty to their own is not like them. He does realize ready pointed out that the fault of alleged by the other inmates of the most pleasing in their parts. tion, at a price of approximately 23 Otherwise, if either nation tail, hands Java refined sugar, 97/98 polariza- faults. America must do no less. that there is more in the full life the P.W.D. in this instance was

house to have attempted suicide by Frank Wheatley made a typical than three meals a day and the the traditional fault of the Dutch, swallowing the drug after a quarrel and amusing butler. Mr. Dudley cents a pound, against which was across the sea" must remain a recreative games thereof. "Unfortunately, in choosing an much."

conceding too little and asking too improving, and she should be fit for Tom Fenwick was Mears, a private United States gold. The sugar was

with her husband. Her condition is Howarth was the son-in-law, and Mr. given a letter of credit of $250,000 dream. ideal he has chosen one for which years only, and the price fifty dol of the next couple of days.

The lease was for 75 discharge from bospital in the course enquiry agent.

shipped; it was received in San we. are tempted to offer the same lars per square foot, with an annual

The Company will present to-night Francisco; and the American firm excuse as that given by the servantground "rent besides of $4,376 3

"The Law Divine with Miss Joan rejected it girl for her baby. It is only a year." That might have been all

Two cases of diphtheria, and one Mayne in the leading role, and Mr. that 11 per cent of the aggregate a letter from one of the prisoners Why? For several reasons! More American postmaster. has received Mr. E Everett, the Shanghai Bitle one. As we see it, it is, right, but the purchaser was not fatal case of plague, all Chinese. N. Torpe Mayne as the principal was sweepings, such stuff as an in Bilibid sent from Shanghal in the hardly an ideal at all. He wants allowed to build above a certain were reported yesterday. Last week male character. us to remember something we are height. He, must build to the six Chinese died from influenza (not

American family would not put upon course of which he says" When unlikely to forget, and he is will satisfaction of the D.P.Winotifiable) and one from cholera

a dining table. No less than four you. see the Hon. Judge Lobinzier distinct grades of sugar were co tell him that I am getting on fine prised the shipment; the sweep and that Bilibid is all that can be ings; a lighter brown, resembling the desired for a prison, and that I have usual Hawaiian raws, but perhaps of a good assignment here and do not.

LAMBERT. On November 30.

late manager of The Chang K

-Pang Wharves.

The China Mail.

"TRUTH, JUSTIOR, PUBLIC SERVICE

Hongkong, Turday, Dec 7, 1990.

THE WAR MEMORIAL.

..

TYPHOON WARNING.

own

The vivacious and telling lettering to spend a great deal of money harmony with surrounding archi (Imported). Of two cases of poer- which we published yesterday from to help us to recall what is ex-tectural styles. He could not have peral fever, both Chinese, one was the pan of əj

well-known loca tremely unlikely ever to leave our possession right away. And there British, one case of enteric fever The telegram quoted below was finer grain; another still lighter, intend to let this one crime wreck

fatal. One case of paratyphoid fever, resident did full justice to one minds. A man who has had his was a penalty clause point of view of the War Memorial leg cut off does not need to tie a pull down the old buildings and Chinese, and two cases of diphtheria, received by the American Consulate approximately the sugar that passes my life, but will try and make use of question.It mbbed well in the string to his finger to remind him start the new within a certain time Eurasian and the other Chinese General from the Manila Observatory for refined throughout the Orient, the time I spend here."

he did not

The Typhoon is crossing the

but which is as different from Visayas Islands in the form of a from night; and, finally, a white, Mr. T. R. Percy, General Agent refined, granulated as day is shallow depression.

fine, dust-like stuff. Moreover, for the passenger department of the the polarization, instead of being Canadian Pacific Ocean Services. 97 to 98, ranged from 92 to 974 The Ltd, in Yokohama, who has been

WHOOPING COUGH.

cough be careful to keep the

decessary reminder that here we of it. A man who has had an eye favour bread and circuses more knocked out does not tie a knot in could have been sold on favourable

We are told that this property imported), were also reported during at 3 p.m. yesterday

the greek. then ideals The average Hong his handkerchief, "leat he forget terms if the P.W.D. could have Our man is bored by ideala, as bis loss. A mother who has lost been waked up to twentieth cen-

have disconcerting reason to her child inay because it is a castury ideas. There was a Canadian he port of Maoka on the western "Anouncement of the opening of Money-making, dancing, tom and a sort of funereal ritual, builder here after it, desiring to coast of Saghallen for foreign trade out door games are our chief frame mourning card" and put erect a high block of business officer is expected on or after April 1. As WH your child has whooping sample submitted by the Hongkong transferred in Hongkong, will soon cupations and it seems up a little stone in the cemetery on the American plan, with several this is the only port on the island cough loose and expectoration eary by exporting company was a dry, free leave for China Mr. Percy will visit gly difficult to interest local but she does not do these things lifte, and a restaurant on the roof open the year around, it is believed giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy sunning white sugar; the goods acta route principal cities and ports in ole in anything else. Occasion-in fear otherwise of forgetting. There was plenty of money behind hat the total annual trade will reach may be required. This remad fill alenally received were anything else. Japan, Korea and China and taking somit Cruzzosity but this sem-written letter not to knock the month or two on it, the Canadiar portioned foodsfatta, timber, rice, successfuly in many epidemics d as it different. Hongkong shipping marks: Percy was succeeded by Mr. G. E. they may be made to wear an We are asked in this excellently that scheme, but after wasting 15,000,000 when opened. The ex liquify the togh mines and make it on the Imer burlaps of the bags the Colombia from Shanghai, be will oldier to uzponiocato It has been waad were discovered no less than ten come to Hongkong via Manila, Mr. interest lacks staying, War Memorial but really, the informed us that our Government charcoal and other commodities to contains no parcntic, or other injnrices the bags were sweated badly; the Castello who has already arrived la

watch the thunder-, juxtaposition of the words yar eal pass, then plunge in and memorial" is itself absurd, dead ones.****

was “too slow, to deal with any but ussian Saghallen and Siberia is substances it is perfectly onto. For mis

steadily increasing.

by all Chemists and Storokoopers. sugar evidently had beed kicked Japan