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Twenty-aine Chinese deportees arrived from Singapore by the Gre gory Apčar" yesterday. They were referred to the SCA, who will TOBACCO AND LIQUOR DUTIES arrange for their repatriations.
which sets the pire and the standard, and English written as no man speaks it cannot be good English. The university proper authorities are be asked to make our young men' study Peacock's Selected English Essays Now, in any history of English literature the figure of Thomas Love Peacsek is not onesto Morello Carlo, 19, Italian, and be ignored; but as a model! He Frank Aquino, 31. Eurasian, have died about the time that most of been reported to the police as, having our professors would be puling infants. failed to return to the House of and is probably chosen because he Detention yesterday, after their ticket fers a compromise between the of leave had expired. Patrols are modernist nur Chamber of Commerce out for their arrest. must fancy, and the antiquity, to which university pundits always seem
set book devoted. Another Wimbolt Essays, Now who, in thunder was Wimbolt? We some times faucy that we know a little about writers and writings, and Wimbolt is for us a Wimbole from the blue immensity of literature unheard of He disappears in the ||second year we notice, though Peacock abides. In the third ami firth the #talent is supposed to know English,
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The master of a cargo boat re- turned to his vessel about 8 8.m.. yesterday to find that his cabia had been entered during his absence, and a wooden box containing jewellery worth $28, and clothing to the value i of $30 stolen.
Suffering from injuries toher lace received through. falling from tram car No. 28. from which she attempted
to alight while still in motion in Des Voeux Road West, a Chinese woman, an amat employed on the first floor afternoon removed to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment,
INCREASED.
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
SINGAPORE, Aug. 9: The Straits Government has in- creased the duty on liquor and tota:co about 50 per cent. in order to raise more revenue in the country's present difficulties,
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CONVICTED ATTORNEY.
APPEAL TO AMERICA
PROBABLE>
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1921.
LATEST FROM NANNING. HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE,
GARDEN CITY SCHEME.
OCCUPIED ON AUG. 4.
FIRST FOREIGNERS 'ARRIVE.
SAY NO AEROPLANE BOMBING WHATEVER.
HUNDRED APPLICATIONS ALREATÍV”",
There is gonews for the man of modorate moans who, bunkering after a hope of his own with a bit of garden attached, can't afford to 'huy one:
tright.
:.
The ss. "Ko Chow" arrived yester day with a number of foreign
Since last Octolter a Committee passengers, the first out of Nanning
upon which some of Hongkong's since the was started. They were,
Mr. and Mrs. Phillips and threesoundest financiers are representeel children. Miss Field, Mr. Swedner. s been pushing along towards All but Mrs. Williams (who is the maturity a project for transforming wife of the Standard Oil manager at 2 acres of waste land at Kowloom Nanning) are misalonaries. They re- Tong into a garden city where cum- port that 20,000 Kwangtung troops [fortable bonus may be acquire! entered Nanning on Thursday, August under a system of provident purchase..
and Mrs. Williams.
4, and that perfect order prevailed. Negotiations with the Government There was no damage to individuals are not quite complete but it is hopel or their property. The troops ap that the scheme will be under, weigh
next with. peared well disciplined.
In the majority of instances unt more than four houses will be built
and is studying subjects abou: which of No. 31, Lower Row, was yesterday ordered by the British Supreme aeroplane and never heard a bomb. upon each arre so that there will be.
we feel less competent to offer sugges have been selected tions. They with regard to the special character of the predominant part of the com- werçe of Hongkong and of the Treaty Ports." We observe that the full degree course is open only to matri; rulated students in residence in the University, but individual courses Ltd. may be taken by external student on payment of the appropriate fees, If that means that a student resident in Hongkong, beneath his parents roof, may not take the full use and a degree, we suggest that it should be altered, and an exception made in such cases.
DER A. WING & CO.
60, Des Voeux Read, CENTRAL.
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One fatal case of plague, Chin- ese, was reported yesterday...
A 5-seater 20 h.p. Maxwell motor car, particulars of which appear in our advertisement columns, will be put up for auction by Messrs. Lammert Bros. at noon to-morrow,
Those who have hesitated to wade through the many pages of the constitutional reform petition in its original form will welcome the precis
in published our advertisement colurns by the Constitutional Reform Association.
The registered trade marks relat ing to flour known as the Silver Shield and Gold Shield Brands, under certificate issued to the Kwong Fu Yuen Firm will be sold at auction by Messrs. Hughes & Hough to-morrow, by order of the Receiver appointed by the Supreme Court.
Mr. Peeves, proprietor of Messrs Peeves and Company, moler en- gineering works of Woosung Street, reports that some time between 7.30 p.m., on July 28, and 9 a.m., yester day, during his absence from the. ofice on business, his private room
was broken into and a "Corona" typewriter worth $110 stolen,
Mr. B. Rasmussen of No. 2,
SHANGHAI, Aug. 10. The Shanghai Auctioneers Ltd. Court have wound up the assets, Tis. 1,550, of W.S. Fleming, the American attorney serving six months jall for contempt of court. He was released on bail of G.$2,000. A motion to reduce the sentence was overruled. Fleming will probably appeal to the appeals court of San Francisco.
ARSON ALLEGED.
TRIAL:
Amir Villas, Kimberley Road, Kow. YOUNG MAN COMMITTED FOR loon left his free wheel bicycle worth $35, on the stand at the ferry wharf
When be re yesterday morning. turned from business at 1 pm, the machine was gone. This makes the third bicycle stolen from the wharf during the past fortnight.
They add that the reports of aeroplanes dropping bombs on Nan Ining were lies. They never saw an
The greatest inconvenience they noted plenty of elbow room and ample was the sudden increase in the cost space for the activities of the suburban gardener. Standard designs for the of living.
The first motor boat to arrive in dwellings are being prepared but ir Wuchow from Nanning since June 25 will not be impossible, under vertais" brought them down, reaching Wuoritings, to unlify these, to fit chow at noon on Aug. 8.
CORRESPONDENCE.
in with the individual taste of the. applicant. It is expected that the houses will enst between 88,000 and |$12,000) and a scale of payments has been worked out which will make it [To the Editor of the "China Mad.”1 | possible for the applicant to beconte the awner of his home within a reason- |able period of years.
Sir, I am sorry that my "Moods"
The site is handy, to the railway were too Moody to fall in with your Moods, but never mind, I will try at, Kowloon Tong and there will
be communication with Köwloua it- . The son of a goldsmith, a Chinese again when the Mood takes me?
You say in your Answers to sell by both train and road. There charged with having committed arson Correspondents that you like my is a good deal of surveying and level. - at No. 184 Stanley Street, on the "Mooning and Zooming serenely, as ling up to be done before the imilding night of June 9, was yesterday comit were, at Right angles to time," operations, are begin and probably it, mitted by Magistrate Lindsell to stand and ask where I got it from?' will be twelve months before the first.
such asking
stupid house stands erected. In the mean- his trial at the next criminal sessions.
Fancy The strike of teahouse boys According to the evidence, accused which has been brewing for several occupied a cubicle on the top floor but question! Where do the citizens time a cany is to be lonted to weeks, was at last declared yesterday neither the premises nor the furniture of Hongkong get all good things provide the capital necessary to put morning, says to-day's Canton Times, were insured. After the fire had from? From the and all the teahouses in the city been extinguished by the neighbours, columns of the China Mail, of the scheme in execution and the excepting those that have granted an the police found that the place and course. Zooming and mooning or public will be invited to subscribe. increase in wages to their employees, been freely sprinkled with kerosene, mooning and zooming-I'm not sure the fact that the heads of the long- were closed. With their "boys" on A concubine called as a witness which appeared in your paper some kong and Shanghai Bank. Messrs. strike and their fadure to secure for the prosecution, told a story of a time ago under the head temporary employees to take the strikers' places, the tea houses cannot open for business for the present.
Burglars entered the first floor of No. 1, Tramway Path during the
well" balanced
first verse:-
Last night, in a land of triangles, I lay in a cubicle where
think that's right.) Was not the
Zalinka." Jardine Matheson & Co., and the are members of the building committee warrants the financial soundless of Union Insurance Society of Canton
the proposition and the cirrunstaner' that hot a hundred applications for honses have been received already
A girl in pyjamas and bangles Slept with her hands in my hair." It was real good-worth repeating.
May I make a suggestion?: "Our
verse's
any on
indicates that the venture will be
Everyone," be continued" will have
quarrel with the defendant on the night of the first. He said, in a temper, that he would go to Canton, and left the house. She slept there alone and was awakened by the sound of whistles and cries of fire. night of the 8th and 9th inst., and She ran out in her night clothes and, got away with two finger rings when the fire was put out, she decided
tired lately. What about a little especially designed to assist. (worth $750) and $140 in money. not to go back but to look for the local Poets" seem to have got very warmly welcomed by thoses it, is Subject the iness about it” a China Mail reporter The cccupants of the flat, a Chinese defendant. She found hire near the competition for the best originalThere will be no hole and corner bur student and his aunt, did not dis- Central Market.
The Magistrate: Extraordinarily judges to be your worthy self was assured yesterday by one of the cover the theft until the morning. The thief is believed to have gained fortunate. He had gone to Canton and your be-whiskered colleague gentlemen connected with the scheme. admittance by climbing a wasic but at 2 o'clock in the morning you Adversarius? Your decisions to be
pipe and entering by a go out and find him in Central absolutely final, right or wrong. water
taken to prevent sprealation, Our varandah window which had been Market!
Do you know-I get some wonderful equal chance and steps will be The woman: Oh! I knew his ideas in my noodle. Only wish I left open owing to the beat.
threat to go to Canton was an idle could put 'em on paper. Last night i dier will be one man, one house! The China Mail hogies to publish While patrolling the harbour in one, I had heard it before. I was on (in my dreams, of course) I saw Old the police launch yesterday afternoon, my way to the boarding house he Lance Sergeant Kirby of the Water uses when I met him. I told him Nick sitting on the coals reading in fuller details of the project, shuatly, Police found the badly decomposed about the fire at Stanley Street. We the China Mail an account of the body of a Chinese female child, aged both went back there but did not go about two years, lying on a buoy out-in because there was a constable
there, side the Yaumati breakwater. About
The Magistrate: Why should that a 100 yards further on, the dead body-
alarm you? Clothing worth $42, and $77 in of a male child, aged about one year, The woman: It was not bat. money was stolen from the first floor was found on the breakwater wall, of No. 17, Tung Street, the residence also in an advanced stage of decomThe place was too dirty alter the fire of a Chinese shopkeeper during last position. Both bodies were removed to sleep there.
The Magistrate: And you have until 7 a.m... when on investigation, bore any marks of violence. They no idea how the fire started?
The woman: No, I know nothing about it. a verandah window was found to are believed to have been dumped by
"Inspector Macdonald: According have been forced open by wrenching boat people.. away the bolt.
to the woman, she slept until the last moment before the fire broke out on a mattress which the fire Brigade found to be soaked in kerosene.
Mr. F. X. d'Almada conducted the defence.
The report that the Royal Insur ance Co., Ltd., was interested to the extent of $8,000 in the fire, at No. 210, Queen's Road West, is incorrect. The Company was not interested at all, state the local agents, Messrs. W R. Loxley & Co. The original mis take appeared in the police report.
China Mail.hout Now journalism cannot be on investigate to the Kowloon mortuary. Neither
Fer.
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CE, PUBLIO BERVICE*
SKERSITY IDEAS,
learned outside a newspaper office: and very often inside it is not learned as witness sundry examples of in- Fingsday, Aug-10, 1981. ability to learn that we need not specify. It was doubtless "sugges tions from outside, from the type of man who always says "tench en something practical," that led the visit yllabus for a ex-writer of the foreword to this syllabus COME the Thongkong (to say “any course offered by
degree university ought to be of an one CONS
Beading
in 20 page booklet. tional rather than of a purely technical eek. The nurse is for character." By that is meant that and is the developement the university should sharpen the
s, and the
an good Etitors in
hour day
sorts of
e enough
At the suggestion of the Ministry In order that accidents may be of Navy, the Peking Government has, the Canton Times, prevented the public are enjoined by according to an advertisement inserted in this cabled to Wellington Koo asking him the coming Facific issue by the Captain Superintendentif foreign powers are sending naval of Police to pay strict attention, to diplomats to the signals given by a man who will Conference, as the Peking Govern being run across naval men to the Conference to be stationed at the place where ment is also anxious to send certain trolleys are Canton Road, Kowloor, between the negotiate for the return of the leased Company's premises and. their powers. Naval ports in China that Hongkong and Kowloon Godown naval ports in China to foreign all four year degre course lady wits, set him in the ways and timber yard opposite. During the have been leased to foreign powers such as Port Arthur and Weihaiwei are important to China and the Peking Ministry of Navy is anxious to have them revert to the control of the Chinese so as to maintain the pro- perty rights of China.
near Corradial diploma habits of learning things, rather than day a red flag will be displayed, at
at was insituted in 1917. teach him those things. That is night a red lamp. tásstuta of Vigne serenainended so, though it shouldn't require four The special features of big was surek "eather outside years.
A
SNATCHER CAUGHT
Wyndham Street Bill Posters Feud," от "Who can Print the Doctor's name the largest? Brilliant, isn't it! Well: cheerio, ole tean,
Yours undecidedly.
"Moods." Hongkong, Aug. 10, 1921,
THOSE-REPORTERS AGAIN.
:
MINT FOR WUCHOW.
THE KWONGS WAR
STILL PERTHER FIGHTING PORECASTED.
The hurriet departure of the Kwangsi officials and troops from Wuchow at the advance of the Cantonese Army in the beginning of the campaign was responsible, says [To the Editor of the "China Mail, the Canton Times, for the suspension of work in the construction of a miu in Wielow. Now that the Dear Sir, Will you kindly inform me if there city resumes its normal condition 3 branch of the Society for under the new regime, Lau Yel-kwri the Commissioner of Panice in Psychical Research in the Colony?
My reason for asking is this: On Warhow has decided to-resutne work Saturday and Sunday last I imagined in the construction of the mint so I was well away from the noise and as to increase the supply of silver smoke of town, in congenial society coins in that province. The n- living as close to nature as possible chinery ordered for the mint by the To my surprise in your Monday's former Kwangsi offwide" is. From issue I discovered that 1 had been America. Chinese was this morning playing on the Saturday in League charged before Magistrate Lindsell Bowls, a kind of game I loathe. with having snatched a pair of ear. Bewildered I turned to your evening rings set with diamonds, worth $700 contemporary, and there it was again. from a Chinese woman in Lower Even as I write I feel the skin peel- Australia produces musicians,
Albert Road, yesterday afternoon. ing off my shoulders, and I wish to up from behind and snatched or to the bowls beer which I do not If their tt) and the business correspondence," we read. singers, instrumentalists, and com-
The man was alleged to have come find out if it is due to the sun's heat, the jewels from the woman's remember having. Camera generans properly belong to a later Leclinical posers, who go out into the world
with such violence that. With thanks to you, anticipating Now he has been defeated by the ears
ears were badly injured. your reply, belpri) supports it. So it, course; English should be learned as and make big reputations. Here is a
I am, "Dear Sir,
Although the Cantonese troops troops, General Luthe are verylabus is a vehicle for expressing thought. funny paradox, that a good woman
Faithfully yours,
have entered Xaning, the expital of jausis because With that also we heartily agree, can lose her reputation by getting Kwangtung
P.T.L.
Kwangsi amilst greofrejoiting among are di dot open for Indeed, so far as we have been able married! We all know Mrs. Harry Yung ting will comfortably spend the Giving the alarm, the woman chased
the Kwangsi people (says today's from the Hongkong and to study it, the special features of Woods, as a talented pianist; but not remaining days of his life at Hai the thief, and kept him in sight until
(auton Times) and are, now settling ders of nerve before business correspondence are features many know that she is the famous phong in Annam, says a vernacular he was caught by a Chinese con- composer of many beautiful walzes news agency. At Haiphong he has stable. The earrings were found The police asked for a remand,
down for a little rest after more than workoutioned be the proper which the business men of the future Miss Fitz Stubbs, who was an artistigmasse fortune of over thirty concealed in the accused's mouth.
million dollars, with which he can
a month of hard lighting, it is expecter!. ontorites liecalling should be warned explicitly to avoid, "lioness" in Sydney some years ago
that a very great battle will have to marksfester of mir ist Business letters have a convention! She is leaving Hongkong on the 22nd lead a lie of case and pleasure with because they have a strong suspicion dalis as the style of their own. probably originat-to revisit the scenes of former out taking further part in political that the accused was responsible for squabbles. General Lu has now several other similar offences during
Magistrate Lindsell heard four.be fought at Langehow, the last Bay Bag for Englishing as a lead ta brevity and clarity, triumphs.
arrived at Haiphong. His first act the week. A remand was granted
yesterday. that the proper at which, repented parrot-like by nordstrassed succeeding generations, has become The flag of the Hongkong and has been to send a telegram to the until Saturday for the necessary en-charges of violating traffic regulations grant city in Kwangsi near the bonder y suggestions. The a tedious and often obscure jargm! Shanghai Bank was flown at half Peking Government announcing his quiries to be made. they speaks of herd met We protest in advance, that the most yesterday out of respect to the determination to retire from public 'General Shen Hongyin has just Probabis stu prople designers of this syllabus have but memory of Mr. Alan Balean, news of life. The telegram in part says: make suggestions will feel got at all the right idea of English whose death at Home was contained
sent dilficient as a vehicle for expressing thought, in a cable received yesterday by his announced his decision to introduce brother Dr. H Balean. The deceas a system of self-government into anafus of rushing for they definitely set up a distinctioned, who was 39 years of age,, had Kwangsi, which I being a staunch perks tread gingerly, in between written and colloquial Eng-been in the service of the Bank for advocate of the principleaf democracy. university. Professors fish which does not or should ant seventeen years and since the nut heartily endorse. I have accordingly Bro, dwelling in a exist. Group tutorials will be a break of war had been stationed in telegraphed to General Shen, a king Andranged for cussion in English la Hongkong where he held latterly the him to take the full responsibility
The following are included they occasionally talk ensure that candidate's knowledge osition of subaccountant Mr for the maintenance of peace and was in indifferent health order in Kwangsi. The present is
12th Hole ("Gem") Drain to right, twelve the time for we militarists to give w onlinary is not restricted to the written lang Falcan
"The language." If a man tulks good when he went home on farticular type of English, the more he writes as he months' leave laat September and the up the command of our troops and 18th Hole. Drain crossing in front
The democracy. Hereafter I shall retire front of Green. rest is in a business talks the better will hin writings be tubercular disease from which he make way for the avocates of of Tee. Drain to left of Bunker in
are better learned has no excuse for talking English deceased was a popular figure in to private life and shall no longer! assing away will be received with civil or the military affairs of the
province." instance, that we hear wust be colloquial. It is colloquiality, resuine ziet in many circles.
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TRAFFIC CASĖS.
separating the province and Ann
Dr. Pearse, M.O.H., was fined $10 which is now strongly fortified by the exceeding the speed limit of fiffeen remnants of the defented Kwangsi miles with a cycle car, on the informa. Warlord, Lu Yung-tig.
tion of Sergt. Smith, The witness
stated that Dr. Pearse usually travell-
ed at a safe speed.
Driver, of car No. 460 (name missing) was fined $15 for not sound. ing an alarm when rounding Bonham road bend. Sergt. James, in a There ricsha, was nearly run over. have been many narrow shaves at this corner.
191 without a licence. Inspector W. C. van der Steen, residing at
The followig handicap have been Garrod spoke of warnings to his the Hongkong Hotel, drove car. No.
Lau Mun Kee, car No.. 3:0, was Mackenzie 5, Capt. M Glover 8. R. K. Valentine 8; and H. C. Shrubsole 18. fin five for a like offence.
There are causes in jour less good. In any case a lung age/Hongkong and the reas of his have anything to do with either the fixed EJ R. Mitchell 2; A. K.driver. Ten chips...
TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegram quoted below was
Observatory.
9 00 á.m. to-day. received by the local American Con sulate General from the Manila
Cyclone or typhoon E. of Luzon, more than 300 miles distant moving W. or WNW.
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