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better to marry than to burn." and the extremely typical Britans--most-

our local lone Englishman" mightly British exservice men who com

pose the Triple Alliance. Something seems to have gone wrong with the Cabinet's psychology.

think it over,whether it were not better to get married than to allow the fires which inspired his unusual advertise ment to smoulder within him and The Government propaganda em- perhaps in the end destroy his grip on phasises that the new amy is "keep" self restraint. There is a very thin The lad who asked God to make his and weak railing between the man who rebelous fellow countrymen obedient, stands at the street corner ogling but not just ret" was certainly the girls and the temptation to sexual keen. But can we as Englishmen erine or misdemeanour, and the man be expected to feel thrill of pride who is reduced, in a promiscuous for that? We cannot decently be colony like ours. to advertising in the keen on civil war. Since that is pablic newspapers for a paramourmast what it means (apart from the costly be regarded as at least looking over bluff the Government's pro that flimsy fence. Hence this entirely paganda, even from the chaste pen friendly warning. Love. sans of Tan Hay, must be considered the sophisticated poet.. is of man's indecent.

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[China Mail SPECIAL, ]

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1,

FUNERAL.

MR. WALTER HARDWICK,

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE MOSQUITO CAMPAIGN.

The funeral of the late Mr., Walter | [To the Editor of the "_China Mal."I

Dear Sir,--From time to time your

J. Hardwick, the son of Mr. and Mrs W, Hardwick, or Quarry Bay, who SHANGHAL, Jane I died on Monday morning as the re- paper lets in sidelights upon the per Brilliant weather and superb sport salt of injuries received while bathing sonality of the inimitable Adversarius, marked the second day of the at North Point on Sunday, took and one gathers he is a be-whiskered, ".. Olympiad. broker, Japan winning the five miles place at the Roman Catholic Ceme bald, somewhat dissolate. intera two minutes behind the world record, tery, Happy Valley yesterday perate, rone too clean, but otherwise amiable old man. On the other and the Philippines winning all the evening. sport distance events. A thousand Chinese girls will participate in a misss demonstration on Wednesday.

More

records Were

life a part; 'tis woman's whole exis- Almost we fear that the company tence. When it threatens so to commander who told Ian Hay they Y. LOCAL AND GENERAL.” occupy a man's ruin as to be his whole existence he is unmanned, and, gnable to be woman, becomes

beast.

HOME POLITICS

Here in Hongkong there are no votes to influence and so no harm

The Eastern Extension Ans- tralasia and China Telegraph Com 'pany announces a £nal dividend

There was a large number of monr-hand it would appear be tas ners present, including members of somewhat come down in the world, to the staff of the Taikoo Dockyard, use a common expression, for he where the deceased was an apprentice, possesses a deep erudition, a keen and a company of Boy Scouts. of psychological insight, and a faculty which he was a former member. for close thinking generally, that, in The burial service was read at the my opinion might be better em-

ployed. graveside by Rev. Fr. Bianchi.

The chief mourners were the de

were out for a scrap and nothing ¿se " was right. Almost we are persuaded that good soldiers don't bother their heads much about who is the enemy so long as there is some body to shoot at. This explains some of the horrors in Ireland. It explains the keenness about which Ian Hay and his Coalition employersed at the entrance to the Yokohama from: are boasting. There is also another General Cemetery to the memory of

on old share of 2 per cent. free of ceased's father, mother, sisters and tax, making 10 per cent, free of tax. | cousins, " ...

Among the large collection of The memorial arch being erect-beautiful floral tributes were wreaths,

Mother and Dad. Katie and Joe,

I.made a qualificatice as to his capacity for thought, for the latter, at times, appears to be somewhat loosely employed, das, it may be, to in alcohol-a potent destroyer of the his advancing years, over indulgence.

brain, as is well known.

Take, for instance, his "paragraph

to be done by taking what most explanation presented by the Man-British, American, French and other Beatrice and Douglas. Desmond and of last Saturday headed "Skeeter.

Hongkong British-wholly Middle Class-must regard as a perverse

Allied soldiers, residents of Japan.

is practically finished and is expected to be ready for dedication on Arm- istice Day, November 11.

chester paper as follows:

Let us keep clear of cant in such who lost their lives in the World War Leonard. Uncle John and. Attie Sanitation," in which he states it and wrong-headed line on Home matters. Of course any number of

lica, Uncle Jack Auntie Mary, is a waste of time and energy on the Alice and Harry, May. Bertie, Arthur, part of the authorities to attempt to Politics. Let us be perverse about men are eager to get food and quarters,

Gladys and Ivor: Mr. Colin Scott.keep down the mesquito nuisance, the Menace of Labout. for example, light work, and pretty good pay, at

Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, Mr.as some of these insects would be about which Mr. George tras recently the height of the worst period of The Asuki says that the Kobe and Mrs. G. Elkins, Mr. and Mrs. sure to remain! By analogous reason. so eloquent. In seeking answers to anemployment on record. SmaD Customs authorities have discovered James Reid, Mr. K. E. Greig. The ing one should not swat flies, or kill this perversity, or own middle-class blame to them. But we had alt better the smuggling of cinema films, in Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering rats or other vermin. I have yet to faith may be strengthened I have the honesty to own that including American films, on a large Co., Ltd. The Staf of the Taoo learn the Allies hesitated to engage not antier what happens the enrolling them the Government is scale. As a result of inquiries, it Dockyard, the apprentices of the the Germans on the grounds. it was Advocatus Diaboli, presumably charging us with a new unemployment was ascertained that there are several Taikoo Dockyard. Ir. H. C. Resker, possible to destroy them all.

Yes Sir, Adversarius is wrong this

the anlone of exposition, liable to be relief charge of £1,000.000 a week, accomplices in Yokohama, and co- the Taikoo Sugar Refinery Ltd., the time, as he will find if he goes into infected with the pernicions principles and that it is nonsense to suggest equently some officials of the Kobe he expounds, As a writer in the that the number of ready recipients Customs have been despatched to Staff of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery,he question at any length. Us it.

this post. It is stated that the the 2nd Bn. Wiltshire Regiment, another example of his frupisn New Statesman wittily says, people is an expression of national admiration smuggled films have been sold to Mr. C. H. Blason, Mr. and Mrs. G. A humour, though) My stay in the Ltd like us are like the Kaiser before the of the Government's Zabern methods." rations cinema companies in Yoko Bam. Mr. and Mrs. T. Bateman, Mr. Colony has not been long enough to war. "L'état, c'est moi" is our One gathers that in the eres of bama, Tokyo, and other cities, and and Mrs. Martin Blake, Mrs. R-gather experience for myself, but sincere slogan. and we are quite some naval chaplains the Deity is a that their value exceeds Y.60.000. Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. Drummond, Į my fellow missionaries asstive honestly convinced that anyone who British tribal god. Will not someone

Mr. and Miss Farrell, Mr. and Mrs.me that malaria * is much less differs from us is guilty ofèse pray that He may deliver us, there Music lovers will have the op- John Furgason, fr. and Mrs prevalent than formerly, thanks to majeste. We suspert Bolshevistic fore, from politicians who set us by portunity of hearing 2 Concerts to Grimshaw. Johrs Grimshaw, Mr. and the activities of the Public Health activities, and smell sedition in the the ears, and who seen willing to be given in the City Hall in the Mr. J. W. Gloya. Mr. and Mrs. W. Department. Has your contributor Advocatus Diaboli. Let us rise encourage and hasten civil war afternoons of the 14th and 17th J. Hill, A. C. Lagett, Mr. and Mrs. T. superior to this ignorant fear when amongst us? For his Chosen People inst. when Vladimir Stroido, Violin Matthews, Mrs. B. Matthews, Mr. and

Virtuoso, and Harry Org, Pianist the Advocatus is the China Mail. most assuredly should not out each Composer will appear in solos and Mrs. Morrison. Mr. and Mrs. D. T. It is probably only trying to make us other's throats.

ensemble playing These two Morrison, Mr. and Mrs, G. McGleod, think, and doesn't really care a bit

young Russian artists have been W. McGleod, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. plasing with great success in Shang- Maclaghan, Mr. and Mrs. J. Mitchell, hai, Japan, etc. and are at present Mr. and Mrs. J. Muirhead, Dr. M. sereens and larvaecides.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Let us show these people we can do without them." exclaimed a middleclass lady at Home, aproposed from the Straits and F.MS during Thirty-zine persons were banish- the miners' strike and the Georgian the month of April,

jeremiád. But we cannot, of course,

o without the working classes, the

never heard of the classic case of the Panama Canal? De Lessep's gangs of labourers were decimated by the fever bearing mosquito; but the Americans, aided by the teaching of modern science, carried their opera- tions successfully through, using

on an extensive concert tour. The Obrenibski, Mr. J. Rodget and family. Let each individual assist by keep- arrangements for the concerts here Mr. P. K. Ramsay, Mr. and Mrs. Jing the precincts of his own dwelling are in the bands of Prof Danenberg-Russell, John Russell, Mr. and Mrs. free from this disease disseminating 4. Nicol, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Summers, pes, and it will not be such a Mrs. Among the passengers who left H. and Mrs. C. H. Summers, John Partington task after all. by the "Fushimi Maru” to-day was

Mr. E. C. Tregillus, who was retired, Sloan, Mr. and Mrs. H. Stainfield. coolies who do all the dirty jobs for The mutual understanding ar- under the new Superannuation and Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Thornhill, R. us. We can, when annoyed with the rived at between the Netherlands Retirement Scheme, from the Cus- Wallace, J. B. Spiers, Mr. and Mrs. cooking throw our dinner at the East Indies and Federated Malay toms Service at Canton in the early W. Wotherspoon. Mr. T. 0. Wilken. waiter, but we cannot do without States Government regarding their part of last month, after forty-one W. H. Wells, and many others. food, and we know it. We cannot do respective stacks of refined tin, as years service. Mr. Tregillas will announced to the press in March visit Canada, where he has several without the miners.

period.

where he has a sister. His last visit"

Can we afford to kill them? That last, has been extended for a further brothers and sisters, and England YAUMATI LOVE TRAGEDY. appears to be the presentGovernment's solution of the Labour Problem. In a bit of artful propaganda, for which

"

to the Old Country was in 1891-2. He will return to the Colony at the F

A novel collision between al end of this year and settle down at steam roller and a steam lorry took Ho-mun-tin in one of his own houses, place at the corner of High Street

and Sultan Street, Kuala Lumpur. The inquest into the fatal ac Strange to say the steam roller was cident to the aeronaut Lieut.

ALLEGED MURDERER

CHARGED.

JEALOUSY THE ' MOTIVE ?

I am, Dear Sir,·

Yours faithfully,

J. Mc L

Hongkong. Juné 1, 1921.

WHY

IS THE SHIMMY "

SO CALLED?

Just as the bunny-hug" and the

t

it employed the raive pen of that vivid writer Ian Hay, the Govern ment apologises for the big arm it has called up to meet the grave most damaged. The cast iron bar McIntosh has been conluded. The

turkey-trot" had their origin in menace of Labour extremists. In supporting the big roller was broken jury found that no blame was the course of this quite readable by the impact. The lorry escaped attached to anyone. James Loughlin, afternoon, the hearing was begun of and other sections which would hard- Before Magistrate Orme yesterday the dance balls of the Barbary Coast article about The New Hundred with slight damage..

one of the passengers, denied a state the Yaumati lore tragedy case inly be regarded as respectable, the Thousand." Isn Hay tells as that the

ment that he got up in the aeroplane

shimmy was born in the negro new. Defence Force (organized to Having absconded from Singa- or that be in any way interfered with which a Chinese named Chan Chik- fight British Labour) is to fight for pore in the early part of March this the plot. A committee has been ling is alleged to have murdered his lives of the South, its undulating wiggle being peculiarly suited to the the rights of the community as surely year with jewellery worth $13,000 a formed at Perth to arrange a sweetheart on the night of May 11. as the Old Hundred Thousand died Chinese named Yap Boor Cana was memorial to Lieut. Mcintosh. It. The acctised was alleged to have syncopated music so dear to the hearts to preserve its Life." A company recently arrested in Hongkong, and was resolved to raise £5,000, of that stabbed the girl, and when she fled, of the race which launched "both commander told him that many of produced in the Second Court, Singa sum £2,000 to be expended on a chased her into an engineering shop" jazz" and "rag-time.”

The name of this dance, while bear- the lads who had joined up were pore, by Chief Detective Inspector memorial, £2,000 to be given to where she collapsed and expired. When

Costello on a charge of criminal McIntosh's relatives, and £1,000 to the police arrived, the dagger was ing little apparent relation to the true fire-eaters out for a scrap" breach of trust as a servant in respect be devoted to a scholarship for found on the woman's body, but no pronunciation of the word, is derived quotation no doubt calculated of the property belonging to Lim children of returned soldiers. trace of the alleged murderer could from the French chemise."applied. intimidate the strikers with whom

be discovered. A couple of hours to a rather intimate article of feminine they are to scrap. But, says lau Hay, the discipline is superb. There was only one defaulter one week, a man charged with interposing an land

Cheng Sah, the proprietor of a jewel tery shop in 688 North Bridge Road. It is of interest to note that the later, while the body was being re-wear. The negro tongue. being un- foreign population of China, ismered to the mortuary, a detective able to master the true Gallic sound. The Acting Premier of Queens reckoned by the Chinese Customs noticed a suspicious movement under translated the, word fato its own

Acties, Pres. Quit 21 Administration to be $26,069. Of

sent spired by the title of a kizema interjection during church parade when referring to the prospect of these the Japanese number 153.912 bed in the engineering shop, and dialect as shimmy,,, and the ex-

picture lately showing of those removing the the may be the production of one of those the Bolshies good again-but not that the understood that lace come next with 11,182, then Ameri- accused crouching underneath. The shake yo' shimmy!" has been com- Englishmen who. happily for our just yet." It is interesting to reflect of refrigerating space had been an

cans 7.269. Next come the Dutch accused was known to the shop mon throughout the South for many good panie, are usually “lone." that that this spirit is beamingly approved obstacle to a trade in butter in but with 2,753 (including 591 proteges), people as he had occasionally rendered years. The recent popularity of jazz GILDART.-On May 22, 1921, at hears of them occasionally in the police -

is to say, rare and exceptional. One in sa article which is circulated free forms Inquiries made in shipping and then the Portuguese with 2,282 them clerical service: He is alleged music, coupled with the muffled and Kuling, to Mr. and Mrs. J. H.

courts at Home, like the 40 year old to the newspapers by the Govern- circles, says the Brisbane Courier. It should be noted that Germana are to have openly admitted the murder almost harbaric tones of the blues Geldar, a son.

clerk at Westminster, charged with ment-at the taxpayers expense. elicited that the steamers of the " E. Riven in the list as gutabering 1.012. at the Police Station, and again when has given added impetus to the negro That is a mere bagatelle, of course, and A." line for years past have been The list shows 4,278 Japanese firms brought before the Magistrate about dances. Little by little these more HAVTORN-On May 25, 1921, at insulting behaviour to «. Dulwich

ments have made their way-first. Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. girl. "One Sunday afternoon he fol compared with the cost of maintaining carrying both frozen meat and butter in China, 1,569 Erisian 679 British a fortnight ago. Although the a Havtorn, of a son. LOBZOWSKY.—On May 23, 1921, at 2.30 until 5, and seemed to think that! against British workers for the never at any time has their space that nine German Erma were in the motive was thought to be jea- then to the stage, and finally, in a lowed her about Dulwich Park from an extra army of 300,000 men to fight from Queensland to the East, and and-409-American. The list shows/cosed gave no reason for the crime, into the dance imtis of the white

rights of the community. The

Į been overtaxed. The three steamers and

existence in China last year. China's population is estimated by- thể

* Kanowna," "St. Albans,"

lousy.

4

Shanghai, to Dr. and Mrs. E. G. because he did not do anything olien: Manchester Guardian thinks it might "Eastern" are all fitted with refri. Castoms as 440,934,000.

After these facts had been outlined Lobzowsky, a daughter. sively, either touching her or speaking have been cheaper to continue the gerating machinery, and the agents

by the police, the accused was further CROSS-On May 25, 1921, at to her, he was within his rights. He coal subsidy, for which we did get state that on every voyage there has April 20, Viscountess Astor asked the when evidence will be taken with In the House of Commons, on remanded until blonday afternoon Southsea, England, to Staff said in court that he thought if he had something more solid than glory. been vacant space for frozen cargo. Surgeon G. C. Cross, RN, and Mrs Cross, see Queenie Gray, been a little more courageous be The coalition, it points out, has an

Secretary of State for the Colonies regard to the relations between the eldest daughter of James Gray, might have done better," and was unlucky trick of copying the habits

whether be recommended last year acctised and the deceased girl. A Townsville message says: One the formation in Hongkong of a local (By probably greatly surprised by the MM. Shangbai, a son

forty shilling fine imposed. There is This new army, bigger than our by the Eastern, on April 28 had in the conditions under which children of the old government of Germany of the through passengers from China committee of Chinese, to supervise cable). GOOLDEN-On May 20, 1921, at a certain amount of pathos visible to Regular army, is a typical bit of his possession four of the counterfeit and girls win were bought were LOCAL PICTURES AT THE

Banggalare, India, Madeleine the most superficial observer in a Mailed Fist demonstration. And hail sovereigns recently seized-ztémplayed; whether such a committee (nee Macfarlane), wife of Captain situation like that. Here was a man then this argument:

Hongkong. This is the third occasion has been formed; and whether he Guy" Goolden, LARO, of a who ought to have been married and daughter.

a father, at once amorous and timid, When the foreign patentees of that counterfeit half sovereigns have will see that there are at least two following like a dumb and devoted dog this method tried it upon us and other been seized there, and in this seizure British members on the committee?

on 8 Chinese jeweller who also had Colonies (Mr. Edward Wood: The

CORONET.

somewhat deleted form, to the ball~". room. But, in the final analysis

shaking the shimmy" means that clad above the waist in a single piece the dancer is emulating a negro wench

of underwear and-moving ecstatically to the strains of a melody which vividly recalls the tom-tems and war-- drama of her native African jungle.

A Chinese charged before Magis The undoubted excellence of the enlawful possession of a dagger said:

trate Lindsell this morning with the

a female attraction. The tragedy of nations we all explained with great there were 988. They were captured | The Under-Secretary of State for the zoological photographs in the "Lost that he was a peaceful citizen. He.. The China Mail. it is perceptible to the closer student clearness and fores what-fools they in his possession £2,000 worth of formation, of such a Committee was City film has detracted attention had been a hawker for 13 years. of society, who realizes how store is were to think that this was a likely jewellery. The Chinese was arrested recommended by Lord Bilner, and from the local pictures at the Coronet. He was on his way to Wanchai when *UTA, JUSTICE, TUZLIO SERVICE thwarted by our over complicated eiv way to cow Britons. Why we'de and was admitted to ball on his there is now such a committee They deserve special mention. The arrested. He carried the dagger for lization and how frequently in the case clared, it was just the way to put ap depositing the jewellery be carried actively at work, composed of serious countenance and attitude of seif protection against highway rob"" Bowmano, WEDNESDAY, Jusk 1, 1921. of bolder or more adventurous types their backs and make them withdraw with hitn, and the absconded. The Chinese of bigh standing whose President Logan at the V. R. C. bers.. Inspector McDonald, who pro such frustration leads to crimes of any concessions that they might have counterfeits were made in Canton, services, are of the greatest value in sporta are faithfully reproduced; but secuted, said that it was true the passion. In the case of the advertise been meaning to make. We rather but the counterfeiters have not been advising the Secretary for Chinese not more vividly life-like Lian, the defendant was a hawker, He bad ment in the Morning Post, assuming it fancy the Premier himself joined us found yet. The half sovereigns were Affairs. The latest Information is little drama played by Mr. Thomas been taken to see the CSP who genuine, the male victim has done in saying it. And yet here in his being sent to Singapore and lava, that a committee of Chinese ladies week and Mr. Mitchell Mr. Heck did not wish to press the charge.

The blagistrate (to, defendant).%[fo A "Lone Yagishman 7 advertises be warned lest his desperation lead eloquence of rolled-up sleeves-ana teached West Australia. The coun- mentioned committee. I doubt if the discovers: Mr. Pathe at work, and tout stick This sort of, wespan isda

violence to convention, and should Government conveying, with all the and no doubt would eventually have | has been formed to assist the above wearing the usual cheroot, suddenly, you are afraid, of robbers, carry"25-

terfeits, which were all dated 1887, usefulness of this committee would pulls M. Mitchell out of the picture pers him into trouble. The apostle Panthrandsbed bludgeons that massed for a young and attache European who knew a good deal for a mere force is the only only thing to be ever covered. The intrinile value British-members, but I will commalt the guns of the Matation winners

in search bachelor, has laul it down that it is trusted, at bottom, to keep in order + 703). smember of the fair sex-

A “LÓNÉ ENGLISHMAN'‍8”

LAPSE

some of Hongkongʻa

the Governor.

daeroatomill caufscast the daggerand dachage you with caution. Don't buy another one.