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to have such news of our own Governor's doing-coming to us by way of Canton. It would have been Ja pleasure to receive, in view of our line of netian in the matter, some notification directly from the Ad-| ministration. concerning its position: vis-a-vis the rumours we so forcibly and persistently thrust into the fiel of its attention.

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QUEER DREAM.

There is in Hongkong a man that

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HONGKONG BOTTLING" WEAK BOT- FIELDING SPLENDID.

China Mail SPECIAL.]

THEATRE ROYAL,

MISCHA ELMAN.

A SUPERLATIVE -PERFORMANCE.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1921.

CORRESPONDENCE.

CALLOUS FATHER.

CHILD ALLOWED TO DIE.

A FRAYER.

[To the Editor of the " Chins Mail"}

Dear Sir Will you please print

MAGISTRATE'S STERY REMARKS.

"It is useless for me to attempt a description of a performance. every old child to die without seeking

(1) A few days ago a mother phrase of which will be implanted in medical aid was charged before leapt with her child into the harbour my memory and on my heart as long Magistrate Lindsell with having failed driven to suicide by starvation. as I live." These words used by Hugh to report a case of small pox at No

Another first threw in her two Haweis, the English divine and author 23. McGregor Street Wanchai.

Sanitary Inspector Brewer said with a third. Think of the extremity children and then followed herself thimselt an expert violinist). after that he disinfected the house of anguish to which these poor

A father who allowed his year the two following items.

SHANGHAI, May 24. tween Hongkong and Shangbai com probably express the feelings of the told him

The interport cricket match behearing Chopin played by Liszt, wouldn the 17th. The defendant menced, in ideal weather. Shanghai greater portion of the big audience of fever, and

that the child died Creatures must have been reduced.

(2) A desire has been expressed that no opened brilliantly, making 309 runs which heard Mischa Elman play in the attended it. A rash appeared on the Ring should be provided for the use doctor that a Pastoral Staff and a Signet for four wickets. Captain Barrett Theatre Royal last night, when the child on the 10th, and it was removed of His Lordship The Bishop of made 133 not out. Ollerdessen split famous violinist gave a performance to the hospital in a tram car on the Victoria. The estimated cost is only Rumjahn. The Hongkong bowling the most beautiful, and the most pro- his finger and was caught at 62 by in what is possibly the most intimate 16th. It died a couple of beers later. $1650. was weak but the fielding splendid.

Oh, God-keep our hearts from found" of all forms of music. Wah Hospital said that about 1.30 bitterness, With its already keen anticipation, on the 16th he was called by $525 a piece for the poor mothers. of the unique pleasure offered by child which had just been brought the hospital attendants to examine a performance by an artist of world. He found a rash on it. reputation only enhanced by last

is studying dreams, and experimenting in them. He finds that be a mani palation of pillows hard and soft, high and low, and by varying his (evening meals, he can exercise

certain control over his dreams. not over their details, but in determining their class. He hopes to contribute something useful to the knowledge ANGLO-JAPANEER ALLIANCE, and Eterature of dreani jaychology. which is at present seant, and ad- alterated with much untrustworthy material. Here is one of his queer Į dreams.

CHINESE STUDENTS PROTEST.

THREATE

THREATENED BOYCOTT OF BRITISH GOODS.

(China Mail SPECIAL.]

He dreamed that he was writing a history of the Constitutional Reform movement in Hongkong, in the th century, Ideas, points, phrases, com- plete periods, came to him as clearly

SHANGHAL, May 25. as if awake. He was quite clear| The Chinese National Students about the date. D. 21, for he Federation has telegraphed to the found himself discussing in a preamble Premier, Mr. Lloyd George, the Foreign Minister, Parliament, The the tangle of history and tradition Times, and other rewspapers protest and myth from which it wonki being against renewal of the Anglo- necessary to left noteria for a Japanese Alliance and threatening right understanding of the Coato adopt the same attitude towards Istitutional Reforin moverent..

Britain as towards Japan, namely a boycott etc.

Of the founder of it very little abat is authentic, he wrote. is kapwa. He discussed the various "Lives,” and pointed out the tliscrepancies in the authorities regarding the name. some having it Holvaster, and others Alaboak, while one ancient jandi ena- temporary) scribe. Adversarins, whose works we now possess in mntilated and incomplete forin, has a much disputed, and doubtful passage in which Car- tabaster is the name attributed to the founder.

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SHANGHAI, May 25. The British Consul, Sir Evered Fraser, KCMG, unveiled the Cricket Clab roll of honour in memory of fallen members. Declaring that they played the game to the end, he almost broke down with emotion.

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It appears to be quite clear. the dreamer dreamed he wrote that the principles of Constitutional Reform as we now have them are quite talike those originally enunciated. They were probably for some generations transmitted orally. There are, indeed, references in the fragmentary records of oldest date to orations in a building! called the City Hall, which no longer exists. though the site of it is said to be still traceable on Terrace A7 of) Peak II, the present location of-our new Hall of Euthacas. There are

SINGAPORE, May 24. obvious interpolations in the revised

The Government has taken steps records, prepared in A. D. 2491 by to import meat from Australia in prejudiced scribes appointed by the which has forced up prices is recent order to break the local meat ring Committee of Safety, and printed by | Fears the Hongkong University Press. It is quite clear. moreover, that at least four clearly defined varieties of Coa- stitutional Reform proposals sprang from the primitive form, and that these, circum 1930-2000, split înto}) The road from Laicheekok to seventeen sub-divisions, all claiming Castle Peak, on the mainland, has to be pure Constitutional Reform been closed to traffic as the result and denying the validity of the others. The records show that one particular set of Constitutional Reformers were politically squelched by the others in

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr. G. H. Thomas of the Tung

Yours sincerely.

JEAST GEDDES.

The Magistrate: What was it Saturday's unavoidable disappoint-suffering from? Dient. Hongkong was not slow to show

OUR UNSUITABLE TRAMS.

Dr. Thomas: In my opinion.

the depth of its appreciation. Rarely small pox.

seen

The Magistrate: Why "did you Inot call in a doctor.

Dear Sir, I have, long been an admirer of the methods whereby our local Tramway Company caters for the comfort of those whose privilege

has there been larger audience in the The Magistrate: Could there be To the Editor of the" China Mail,”} - Theatre Royal, certainly never any two measures about it? Would more enthusiastic one. The voci-any other doctor have called it by ferous applause that followed each any other name?

Dr. Thomas: Speaking for myself, of the exquisite numbers rendered

it is small pox. Another doctor and the great ovation accorded the might call it by another name. it is to be allowed to travel in their artist at the conclusion of a memorable Could an ordinary Chinese recars; but the time has come, I think, performance gave conclusive proof that cognise it? In that particular stage. when some appreciative mention Hougkong ein, and does. appreciate yes. It should be recognisable three should be made publicly as from a good music, even though it might not days previous. The child died two grateful member of the community. always fully understand the piece as hours after admission to hospital. evidenced last night by several prenu-

Although raining hard this morn- The defendant said that he did not fog, I did not fail to make my usual turr bursts of enthusiasm. The pro- know that the child was suffering trip in orifer to inhale the health gramme, which afforded the artist from small pox until he took it to giving breezes from below Ship

He had never the hospital. splendid scope for his superb art. ws

Street,and, mounting on a two- as follows, but to the unbounded small pox before...

decker, was delighted to find the six seats below, so generously pro- delight of the audience Kreisler's

vided, occupied, and the gangway erchanting Lieberfried was given as

Defendant: I am a newcomer taken up br half a dozen an encore in response to the fervent did not know where to get one. young gentlemen. I say I was applause that followed_ Sarasate's The Magistrate imposed a fine of delighted, for I

to prefer fascinating Gipsy Songs

$25.

travel on top, and as two ladies in The defendant made an appeal to front of me bad to insinuate them- "DE" "Tat" "on","hot" the Magkuratë said, selves between the unyielding forms "Your child was desperately sick, of these aforesaid young gentlemen but you called no doctor, and allowed to gain the steps, my pleasurable it to die, I cannot help you.”

sensations were further enhanced. Inspector Brewer also charged Judge, therefore, of my ecstasy the principal tenant of the when arriving aloft I found Fantasia Faust

second floor of a house in McGregor all the Wieniawsky,

seating accommoda- Ave Marja .....Schubert.

Street, Wancha", with a similar tion thoughtfully moistened in offence. The Inspector informed order to secure a grateful coolth to Country Dance ...Beethoven-Elman Magistrate Lindsell that when be the punishable partof one's anatomy. Nocturne Eflat...Chopin

visited the house on May 17, to dis, and the canvas awning, so carefully, Gipsy Songs.. ..Sarasate.

Infect the premises he was tofotmed made flat, bulging with refreshing that the deceased had suffered from liquid. that, percolating through, With an admirable accompanist at the piano in the person of Mr. Arthur fever. He also learned that ou made one long for the society of your doctor had been called in. Further talented contributor, Adversarius, Loesser, Mischa Elman, who appeared examination elicited the information who, above all men, appears alone. to have fully recovered from the that a rash appeared on the 12th. competent to descant faithfully on effects of his recent unfortunate attack The defendant denied subbornly the charms of a saturated epidérmis. of fever, thrilled his audience by the that he told the inspector he had It is true one or two careless masterly skill with which he treated discovered any rash on the deceased people had umbrellas up, and others each of the entrancing compositions on the 18th. The deceased took to stapidly seemed rather disgruntled fect Stradivarius of which he is so died on the 16th. His death was but, I am sure you will agree with comprising the programme. The per- his bed with fever on the 7th and judging by their facial expressions.

Concerto

PART 1

Vivaldi.

Allegro, Adagio. Allegro. Symphony Espagnol...... Lajo. Allegro non Troppo, Andante, Allegro.

PART II.

justly proud became a living thing reported in the usual way.

me, the matters I have mentioned Dr. Scolt, superintendent of the are of the things we have to be under his magic touch, the farious Government Civil Hospital, said that thankful for in this Colony as stout "Elman tone that makes his art he examined a body at the mortuary hearted even if suitably humble unique among violinists,, manifesting on the 16th and found a small pox Britons. itself in all its fallness of volume and rash on the face, eight or nine days sensuous richness of quality. Truly old. From his experience, any amazing was the extraordinary nicety ordinary person should be able to of his technique, a wonderful feature recognise the rash as small pox. of his playing that combines with the The defendant said that as the innate beauty of his art, to give an deceased was always covered up, he It is understood that Mr. Fred interpretation bringing out all the could not see it be had a rash or Ellis's Estate Agency has acquired a beauty of the shape and detail, the not site of 264,500 square feet of building depth of loveliness, the richness of

The Magistrate remarked that so Austin Roads,

that the body examined by Dr. Scott

landslides.

of

and prohibited by land lying between Nathan and harmony, or the vivacity of rhythm far he had not heard any evidence

combination. Ordinance until all the Ordinances were abolished (in A. D. 1997) in

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house.

intended by the genius of the ni was the one removed from the favour of our present series' of Com- The walls of many dilapidated dividual composer. mucity Requests. It may be pointed houses and other small buildings of out that C. R. 47,301, clause D, para not very substantial construction in

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To Dr. Scott: Were, there many small pox cases on that day?

Dr. Scott: It was the first and only adult case to my knowledge,

The Magistrate said that it was

I am, Sir,

Yours faithfully,

WET, BUT HAPPY. Hongkong, May 25, 1921.

WHY

DOES "&"MEAN "AND"?

As every schoolboy knows, the Latin equivalent of “and” is "et””, and it is from the script form of the letters "e" and "" that we derive the symbol "&", now generally ac

essential to prove removal, and on cepted as an abbreviation of the the application of Inspector Brewer, | conjunction, remanded the case for a few days.

Owing to last Saturday's concert We are pleased to learn Governor 2, refers to the suppression of the Canton have been greatly weakened having been cancelled, Mischa Elman Stuble bas officially denied that his Shaukiwas Primitive Constitutional by the recent heavy rains which has visit to Peking was in any way con Reformers, in its request for Tolerance continued for days, as a result has decided to give a farewell per- nected with the affairs of Kwangtung of Opinion-an old Request at which many such houses and buildings formance on Saturday evening in

addition to the concert on Friday. HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1921. Though this statement comes rather we now smile, the waxiners of the bave tumbled down.

late, it will be welcomed by the Chinese period having rendered it superero-

The original script combination of who have entertained, serious-appre-gatory. In his annual report, the that an interport swimming contest It has been tentatively, decided

the two letters was a sort of large.. hension regarding this mysterions President of the Aliated Orders of will be held in Hongkong this sum-

"E", bold and flowing, with a short Communal Requestosophers notesmer, probably in September. Shang-

cross bar at the end of the final Suffering from a cut in the head stroke, this bar resembling the top of Why in the world was it necessary that the S.P.CR were definitely hai and Kobe have agreed to compete. Through the Consul at Canton, our to surround his visit with such ab restored all rights and freedoms Efforts to this end have been made

received from a piece of wood which the " and making the whole Governor is reported to have assured solute secrecy? A plain statement before the Empire was merged in the without effect for several years, and

fall on him from the third floor veran symbol resemble a sort of mono- the Cantonese that his trip north, in in the beginning would have been Eastern Hemispheric Republic, and it is hoped the VR.C.'s enterprise

dah of a house while he was walking in graphic combination of the two. Queen's Road Central, a Chinese was But the early printers, who had to a warship, had nothing whatever to sufficient to have put the matter that their leaders took full advantage will this time bear fruit.

yesterday removed to the Govern-engrave their own type on wood, do with Kwangtung affairs. We pub- straight."

of the new tolerance, publishing a

ment Civil Hospital for treatment. were unable to reproduce the delicate lished the clipping yesterday, from the

Our Canton contemporary then propagandist magazine called "The

Messrs. Wang Ching-wai and Wa His injury is not serious. Japan papers record the death Chi-fei, two prominent educationalists,

flourishes of the expert penmen, and Canton Times, to that. effect. Here indulges in the pardonable boast that Stone, and averring at every opport- of Mr. John Burnet Maxwell, a re and ex-Governor Hu Han-mín, an able

changed the flowing symbol into is part of the editorial comment from by hammering away" it gained unity that they, and they only, had sident in Japan for upwards of 40 Chinese scholar, have been entrusted marriage of the daughter of Liang which it was easy to engrave

Elaborate ceremony marked the "&", a slight distortion, but one the same paper-

this" victory for publicity." It is the key to correct Constitutional years. Mr. Maxwell came to Japan While expressing regret that the not true that alone it did it," but Réform." This was especially stable in 1878 for Messrs. Cornes and Co. with the important task of founding a Shi-si, whose fabulous wealth has Greenough and Kittredge, in their proclamations were couched in terms that does not matter now at all in addresses by their Head Panjand. At first he was stationed in Yoko- university to be called the University earned him the title of "The God Of Words and Their Ways in English which he would not have sanctioned So far as the China Mail is concerned, rum to the children, on every 24th and has resided there ever since. In of the Cniversity is under the direction daughter of Llang who presented her saying:

hama but in 1894 he came to Kobe of Kwangtung. The establishment Wealth. She is the favourite Speech." allude to the symbol by and does not approve, His Excellency if the people of Canton are at last of May, a public holiday said to be 1897 he resigned his position with of the Provincial Educational Associa- with many valuable gifts, including Lath down to a pretty recent date: Accounts were kept in nads, however, that these observations persuaded that the Hongkong Gov- the anniversary of the first public Messrs. Cornes and started as ation. The temporary site of the 100 shares in each of the two goy- Most striking of all is the sign "&," zelate only to the wording of the noti-vernment and the British Government utterance of the words Constitutional broker. fications and not to the principles in-are not intriguing in a macchiavelian Reforma.

proposed university will be situated crement barks, the Bank of China which, though merely a short way of writing et, is always called and." volved. In other words Governor way against their interests, we are

at the Yak Chi Kong near the East and the Bank of Communications.

and was formerly prefixed to, the Stubbs déplores the language used but satisfied. We want all the world to

It is announced officially that the Gate until a suitable piece of ground approves of the substance of the pro- know that the British are now,SWOZN

Hon. Mr. F. S. James, C.M.G., re has been selected for the permanent

English alphabet under their designa- If anybody is looking for an danzations.

off imperial grabbing, and that any

turned from leave of absence on buildings of the University. En-island it may interest him to know on. The came of the character,.

however, is Anpersand, a corrup May 13, and resumed the duties of trance examination for admission that there is one in the market! It tion of the phrase and per sand We don't know whether this will real foundation for such rumours satisfy the government at Carton se we protested against is really im-aeronautics and railways is remark Straits Settlements, on the following held on July I at the former Lang siy planted with rubber and Practically all dictionaries give "&"

The interest taken by Siam in his appointment as Colonial Secretary, to the Preparatory Course will be is about 500 acres in area, is situated literally by itself and

about 30 miles from Singapore' and It does not satify ca. The strict possible.

able and highly creditable to her day when the Hon. Sir William prohibition of celebrations by the According to the same contempor- Government, and she has now a Marison, Kr. Bach., resumed the

age School

coconets. It is understood that the this, rather cumbersome name is under the name "Anpersand' though Chinese in Hongkong of an event that ary, the Canton vernacular papers larger number of the newest duties of his appointment as Attorney quarters are at present located at the reasonable price below the amount

General Li Fook-lum whose "head-owners are willing to accept quite a rapidly falling into disuse". was celebrated in Singapore and other are highly pleased now, and beland machines, competent pilots and better General, Straits Settlements. places needs some explaining. Further our Governor as an able British serodromes than any other Asiatic

Language School, heartily approves actually spent on cultivation. The more, does Governor Stubbe approve diplomat." They also recall that Power, says Aeronautics.

the founding of this University and island is held on a 75-year lease. A correspondent, writes to the has volunteered to move his head- "Bangkok times: From time to time quarters elsewhere so that the ex the other proclamation which has returning to Kwangtung in their The Malay Mail bears that there people are unfortunate enough to be amination of students can be conduct been most injustions to the government recent spectacular campaign against are in the F.MS some two or stung by jellyfish, whilst bathing, and in Canton? We refer to the words the Kwangsi militatists, H.E. placed three hundred women from the perhaps it would not be out of the ed on July 1. Canton Times. that state the govemment of San no obstacles in the way of the agents famine area in China who are willing way to suggest an on the spot” Wen is on the verge of bankruptcy of the Cantonese Army who were to undertake domestic service for the remedy. The best remedy is to treat end is about to fall. If a nun called residing in Hongkong at that time mere cost of their lood, and observes the sting similarly 10 ́ a burn, and another a bankrupt and published directing the campaign of the Canton-agency to bring these women into oil to the affected part. Falling this Queen's Road West, has reported to finenza, one from enteric fever and siege and capture of Delhi and at that what is now wanted is an apply carron off or some such similar *A Chinese" living at. No. 89 pox, five from plague, two from in- and served with distinction (at the ese Amy".

tʊuch with employers?? Many who sub the place firmly with a piece of the police that between 3 and 8 ́a.m." | another from partyhoid fever. Lucknow. He s'terwards took part: Perhaps we may not be considered, are paying amabe anything up to 645 burning rug These simple remedies yesterday, 8 sale in he house was Ten non-fatal cases of diphiberis, in the Afghan war and was with very unreasonable if we mention that month, would avail themselves of will save considerable and intense filled and 1,765 Hongkong silver Portuguese, and two of plague, Lord Roberts on his famous march. 15 is not particularly gratifying to their services at a reasonable wage, pain and danger.

-- dellors were stolen, “

Chinese, were nían tenorted.

* from Kabul to Kandaka

of the muhatance of that paragraph in "when the Cantotiese Army was

the fact broadcast, won'd it be

cient apology to say "get the language med but neye

"man what I ss3.

Here the dreamer awoke.

1.

There passed away at Kenil– » and two from plague, all Chinese, the few remaining veterans of the Three deaths from small-pox warth, Mashobra, on May 7, one of

were reported yesterday, also a non-Indian Mutiny. Colonel Sir Alfred fatal case of diphtheria, British, and Mackenzie, K.C.B. Bengal Cavalry. another of plague, Chinese. Last Colonel Mackenzie received his first. week ten Chinese died from small commission on September 30, 1854,