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ion that we have far too many laws | newspaper with "suppression," after ordinances and regulations. wards withdrawing the charge, we Moses, who as an administrator en thought it desirable to explain to pre- joys a reputation not inferior to that vent Canton making itself more el our own Governor, managed the ridiculous in the samo or a like way. affairs of a nation with ten. We Perhaps we should each define what have. at a rough guess, a thousand we noun 15 personal attack." If and a half. Of the new ones inpen- we are criticising a pieture that is so ding, we bave already said what we atrociously painted as to move us to had to say, especially of the one say that the artist, responsible for it is which gives the Governor-in-Council obviously, colour-blind and cannot Chamber" draw. we do not consider that an extraordinary powers. Of the old ones, we have attack upon a person, but an attack previously denounced No. 1 of 1543, upon a person's work. So with this which contains old-fashioned med critivisan of literature, as propaganda. dings which are misused to-day. If we didn't explicitly call it good
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 15. An inquest on the body of A Watson, who was found drowned in the Whangpoo on Tuesday did not solve the mystery of his death. Watson was for many years an employee of
Tuesday.
Let us take another old one at literature, we hinted as euch. We the Municipal health office in Shang- randon Opening the fattest volume attacked it as hard praganda, which bal. The facts point to foul play. it grapes naturally on No. 1 of 1906) | involved the calling of Mr. Chen a bad The quest was adjourned until next the Public Health and Billings propagandist. If we say that Andre Ordinance. Now, that laws relating to Marvell, was a writer of doggerel. is such important ruatters are necessary that a personal attack? He has been Of we cannot deny. But on reading dead a couple of centuries or so. through this one, we find, as we fully Marvell personally, apart from his expected to find. owing to previot work. we can know is little as we
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1521.
SPORT.
LAWN BOWLS.
FCC, HEAT SHANGHAI.
POSSESSION OF ARMS,
PROVED AGAINST WATCHMAN,
16 MOSTES JAIL AWARDED.
Fifteen nionths' imprisonment was
The Shanghai Interport Bowls the sentence passed at the Police team played their first match at watchman named Sultan Shah, em- Court yesterday upon an Indian Kowison yesterday afternoon as ployed by the ruilitary authorities at the guests of the K.C.C., and suffered the Garrison School, who was pro- narrownounced guilty of having beed in their first defeat by the margin of 20-19.
The teams were as follow-
Shanghai-J. Keefe (1) A.
Brown (2), D. McAlister (3) and
Shaw (skip)
US
J.
unlawful possession of arms, Two
| magistrates-Mr. G. N. Oime and Mr.
R. E. Lindsell-sat to try the case, Mr. D. Burlingham A.S.P. appearing to proseeate and Mr. Leo Logianto
for the defence.
Kowloon Hunter (1), Overv (2), Mr. Burlingham gave evidence of a Gibson (3), and McMurtrie (skip.) maid carried out in the early morning A large gathering watched a very of September & when he went to the diese and exciting game, the result Garrison School accompanied by which was in doubt up to the last!ree Indian police officers. Fire
Indians were sleeping in The visitors started well, scaring | outhouse one of them being the one point in each of the first five heads | dendant from underneath whose Kowloon took the next three heads: pillow certain keys for 3,3 and 2, respectively, and led
A shoemakers' strike is threat head.
Events at the Victoria Recrea tion Club Swimming Fete to-morrow will include the 100 yards Interport Trial.
A sale of Chinese porcelains, curios, lacquered ware, etc, will be conducted by Messrs. Hughes and Hough to-morrow afternoon.
hai
An
were
the visitors by three points Shang. taken. While opening the door of a took the 9th bead for 1.1 small storeroor near the outhouse Kowloon the 10th for 3, and then the witness heart the noise of someone visitors asserted themselves and running away and saw a police ser scored 7 points in the rext four heads, geant chasing the defendant who gót, Kowloon replied with 7 in the 15th. away. The other four Indians were 16th and 17th heads and led by 5. taken into custody. Two of the keys. Shanghai scored 4 in the next two found under the defendant's pillow heads and the score was Kowloon fitted a camphor wood box which 18: Shanghai 17. Kowloon added was later found to contain two auto- another point in the 20th bead. Thematic pistols, a revolver. 188 rounde visitors were all out in the last, play of ammonition and ether articles General Leonard Wood, Mr. W.ing with great accuracy, but they Cameron Forbes, and other members managed to score only 2 points, and bearing the defendant's name in- of the American Mission sailed by thus lost the match by the narrow cluding some Post Office documenta relating to money orders anal parcels the C.P.OS. s.s. "Empress of Asia
despatched. The defendant gave this morning.
himself up to the police later on in the morning.
margin of 1 point.
would
After corroborative evidence had been tendered Mr. Longinotto indie-
that the defence others had that the box and that the re-
access
Mr. C. Bond performed the duties of umpire, while Messrs J. P. Robin The annual general meeting of son and H. F. Landers officiated as the Hongkong St. Andrew's Society scorers for Kowloon and Shanghai, will be held in the Chamber of Com-respectively. merce Room, City Hall, er. Friday, At the conclusion of play, heated September 23, at 5.45 p.m.
gathering adjourned to the Clubhouse, be where Mr. Brawn, in a brief speech. to welcomed the visiting team and as volvers were placed there during the sured them of the hospitality of the defendant's absence. In the course of K.C.C. They were welcome to make his evidence the defendant explained the Club their home during their stay.that the day before the search he was
Mr. Shaw replied for the visiting team. He raid he felt sure they away at Macao all day and at 7 pm. would receive a hearty welcome in he opened the box in order to lock up a sum of money amounting to Rs. Hongkong and, already, he could see that they were not going to be dis 90. He saw a revolver in the box then but did not report it because he appointed.
The K.C have invited the Shang- assumed that it belonged to a country- hai players to their concert on Satur man who had a duplicate ker of the Instead of having troops dispersed day night; on Monday a gala right box. He ran away when the police over the province and stationed in will be held at the World Theatre. were searching because he residential districts of cities, General when a programme consisting entirely frightened and lost his head. The Chen Chiung-ming. Commander-in-of variety will be presented. Mr. Aams were not his and he knew chief of the Cantonese Army, bas B. Allen has undertaken to organise nothing about them. planned to buid barracks in the more this. The entertainment committee Mr. Lindsell askel the defendant important centres of outside city of the Lawn Bowls Association is limits.
| studies of Hongkong legislation. that know of 3, Chen, who. for all weened in Canton,
into quite necessary legislation enr know of his personality, may not be legislators bad put (shall we sugi1 born for a couple of centuries yet to One imported case of paratyphoid superfous enthusiasm. The are come. We have beard (since our fever, Chinese, was reported yester three clauses dealing with something article appeared) that it is pro-day.
bahle
have met him we have not got here, namely "*etan-
ati Cricket Club in mon lodging houses. Our ronrithe Kowloon | butor - Adversarins," to whom we the old days, If so, we can assure appeal wherever we require an him. impolitely but earnestly, that authority on low life, informs us that we reads have forgotten it, and that a common leiging house is a dossit is impossible we could make any house. He defines
wething likopersonal attack" upon Man's Hovi, and he confirms our bin. Now that we hear, in addition, in possion that there are no sub that he is the editor of the Canion things in hongkong. So we turn to Thur- a gallant little paper for which the detritions in this Ordinance, we have a certain admiration at times, ascertain what our legislators of, we should very much like to meet righteen YEARS
hed ago
inhim Perhaps, after we have apologis their minds. Tary meunt
bed for wounding his amour propre, a commva lodging house any house we might lay our heads together, and or part there.
where male co-operate in some way to baster the persons of the labouring artizan or¦ establishment of Right and the dis- mechanical kisses not being comfiture of Wrong in this corner of In all honesty Barkis her of the same family, to the the world. number of ten persons of upwards meaning the China Mail) is willing
In these circumstances we very Why it is at are house." evident that they meant a Conlie much regret that we cannot accept Mr. C. T. Surridge who has been Mess. That is Was that is. Our his view of Sir Edward Gray's speech local agent for the China Mail SS coolits catant afond the rest of to Parliament in 1911. Naturally, we Co. has now been appointed General individual quarters, they viub wish we could, for we share the dis- Agent for the Orient. His headquar-
Igrace when our countrymen are deters will remain in Ilongkong, tezether and form "mess ren or more de it. they are subject, torted in humbug. We fear there is
Among the passengers who to the unnecessary and unfair Laras no reasonable doubt now that that! ments of this Ordinance, which speech-denying certain treaty obliga-sailed by the CP.OS. liner "Empress quires that one of their number shall tions to France--was as false in spirit of Asia," to-day were Mr. and Mrs. keep a register of the rest. Obriously, as it was true in word. We regard it, Danenberg, Mrs Carroll and two the law is a "dead letter" if the historically, as a bypocritical quibble, children, and Mr. Dr. M. Goodall. coolies limit their "messes" to the and are as much ashamed of the un- number of nine. What happens questioning way in which the Com- then? Naturally the very thing of mons allowed it as of the diplomatic which we are complaining. Our ingenuity which made it. We were legislators made another law (we as a fact as definitely and distinctly forget its number and date, and it pledged to military support of and in isn't worth wasting time in search of France as if there had been a written you may take cur word for it) under text embodying that explicit contract. which means of nine or less are Pledges had been made, without the interfered with and supervised t knowledge of Parliament, which Par
Having recently obtained an ad- We shall probably be accused of liament was in honour bound to vance in pay of from 240 to 300 cash, being absurd. unreasonable and endorse, Frenchmen knew what Shanghai incense makers have just impractical (Pot and Kee) but Englishmen did not. The pre-arranged demanded a further increase of 30 we put it to our legislators as a serious obligation was thus actually stronger cash. The masters have agreed, sub- proposition that 300 Ordinances than any serap of paper" could ject to no further increase in pay should be enough for Hongkong, and have been.. A most brief and yet fair being demanded for a period of five! that they should never make a new epitome of the Grey speech would be: years, and this offer has been accept. one except as a substitution in plasYou are not bound; you are unfet-ed. of one dropped. If they had such a tered and free to choose; but if you
According to the Eastern Times limit, they would take more time and do not do what has been promised in
dishonoured" Tis. 1,200,000 worth of watches were pains and care than they do now: your name, you are
imported into China last year. Of and the public would have a chance That is the effect that Parliament got. this amount Great Britain claimed to learn its own laws. Ignorance. That is the effect it had on the ears rs. 500.000, and France Tls 130,000, says a maxim of jurisprudence, is no of one who was present that fateful while America and Japan showed a excuse; but if ever a community had night. If Mr. Chen digests his history decline-Where there are so very in the same boat with the journalist an excusable ignorance of its own" at the foot of the letter" like this, few policemen about, ir is just as who sits down very often. cot to laws, that community is Hongkong does it not confirm our opinion that well to have plenty of watches. NEWMAN-On September 7. 1921. write what he thinks but to think It needs a lawyer to keep track of be is not a suitable historian of Chinese at Shanghai, to Mc. and Mrs. Kwhat he shall write. The result is them; and, as we see, they still keep affairs, which require so very much E. Newman, a son and daughter-superfluous legislation, the tinkering on coming, dropping from the and such careful "reading between
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OF THE MAKING (3 LAWS.
It is plain that for some special and
are discomforts of society, unlikely
to happen frequently, it is not advis-
| able to make a law, so that even on
"CANTON PROPAGANDA."
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
In order to sweep the defeated Kwaresi militarists entirely out of
the Kwangsi province, says the Canton Times, Lungchow the last city at present nccupied by the remnants of the Kwangsi militarists, is now under the fire of the Can- tonese troops. About 10,000 soldiers have been ordered by General Chen, to storm the city, under the personal direction of General Liu,
About 800 pounds of Indian opium have been seized by the Shanghai Customs Examiners at the Whangpoo Wharf. Indian or foreign
Owing to the scarcity of food opium, as it is popularly known, supplies from the villages, the prices costs from $70 to $100 a pound, un of
rice in Nanning has recently like Chinese oplum which costs from reached apprecented figures. One $20 to $30 per pound, so that the dollar can buy only eight or nine haul must be worth between $60,000 catties of rice of very pour quality, a to $80,000. The drug was landed from price never heard of in Nauning. On a. French mail steamer recently
everything there is also going up. One fatty of pork is now being sold for 60 cents, reports the Canton
In spite of the fact that lotteries
Time.
Was
arranging a dincer and cutings of whether he would allow a friend to all kinds for the visitors. Mr. N. H. have a duplicate key of a box where Mody has greatly helped in this by he kept Rs. 690. He replied that the placing his car at the disposal of the man was a friend of eight years" stand- committee, without limitation of any ing and came from the same village
in India. kind.
THE SCORES. The full scores were as under:-
K.C.C.
Shanghai Score. Total. Score. Total.
Head
No.
11
12
13
14
16
17
18 19
18
20
20
2
1
2
3
Two witnesses were called to say that the other man was there con- tinually and oiten put things in the box and 31. Orme. after Mr. Longinotto had addressed the Court, announced that the charge against the deferidant was held to have been proved.
3r. Burlingham pressed for the maximum penalty of imprisonment without the option of a fine, mention ing his suspicion that arms were in this manner being passed through to Indis.
Mr. Orme said that putting the best construction they could on the posses- sion of the revolvers it was a very sarious offence for a watchman to
emmit. The sentence was imprison-
12
13
13
13
ment for fifteen months.
17
17
19
THE GARDEN CITY.
LAST NIGHT'S GALA.
20 21
Prior to the game the Shanghai team was photographed.
WATER FOLO.
LUSITANO BEAT R.G.A.
the Gunners by 4 goals to mil,
BAND CONCERT, BY WILTS.
PROGRAMME.
To celebrate the institution of a new railway halt at Hamuntin by the Kowloon Canton Railway the residents Postponed from Monday; the above of the Garden City and their friends Hongkong Water Polo League was Band of the Wiltshire Regiment gave played off at the V. R. C. yesterday a fine concert programme which was evening when the Lusitano defeated much enjoyed by all present.
The following was the programme:- 1. March....Our Battalion...... Rushwarth. 2. Overture....Poet and Peasant
3. Selection.... Irene.... Tierney. 4. Hungarian Dances....5 and 6.
Brahms, 6. Selection.. Il Trovatore.. Vezdi. 6. Song......Good bye......Tosti. 7. Selection... The Whirligig.... Chappelle.
sonal attack." We suppose that we and Amoy. The Chinese press, com
menting on this, states that alter the a coat containing $65 in money and ed for this evening→→→
TODAY'S MATCHES, The following matches are schedul-
5.15 pm-Lusitano v. "Cairo " 545 pm.---United v. V.R.C. The following will represent the
Sappe.
the principle of making laws to cover
Yesterday we published a letter social contingences, there should be from 3ir. Eagere Chen in which that some restriction of legislation. For writer gave a brief but effective Tit arrived from India and Hongkong account of the bigh price of rice league match in contection with the had a gala night last night, when the.. example, we do not specially legislate for our longer Tat. His letter was an end now lying at the mouth of the Contquplation of the large number against infringements of privacy answer to one of our leading articles river, of new Ordinances to which the trespass) committed during panics of Monday last, entitled "Canton Pro
The game was by no means a5 one- Governor hus recenti asserted" caused by cornets hitting the earth. paganda." In a covering letter Mr.
sided as the scores would seem to and of others which are approaching Even Hongkong legislators have not Chen remarks that the China Mail has have been prohibited by the Chinese A Chinese was this morning indicate. The Gunners worried the their third reading, together with the done that. Perhaps they overlooked been on the whole not unfair to the authorities, it is reported by the charged before Magistrate Orme with Portuguese a lot, and it was only due row of fat volumes of fo laws facing it. We observe that one or more of Canton government, and because of Chinese press that a new lottery is theft on board the ss "Sincheng." to the latter's sound defence that us us we write, suggets to us the our local contemporaries have recent that he is disposed to "overlook about to be started in Shanghai, the The stamer was lying alongside the they did not score.
himsical idea that our legislators by reproved our legislators for not much," and does not say all that he proceeds of which will be for the China Merchant. Company's wher have their dog days"-when it is meeting more frequently. Infrequent is entitled to say regarding our "per. establishment of docks at Foochow yesterday afternoon when the defend- ant walked on board and coolly stole dogged as does it "-and that they meetings, with their accumulation of like our tail-wagging, friends, should businces, make the job of the auspa are expected to be grateful for this banishment of the lottery stops from a founainen, which had been left
ccasionally be subject to a Muzzling per reporter and editor more difficult forbearance. We will do our best French own, they removed into Chin-
on a chair by a Chinese merchant, Order. There is a sort of law-making From their point of view, considering At the same time we want to ask him ese territory where supposedly they who was busy at the moment attend.
abies that infects them, when they ran only their own convenience, rather how he dares to call it a "personal were ordered by the authorities to being to friend'a fuggage. The de- Unired in their match against the round in circles, gurwling and barking, than the commonweal, the complaint attack," when we expressly mentioned suppressed. So far, however, noth-fendant, who had no business on Victorians-A. E. Simmons; I There is no Pasteurising known for was well founded. If our legislators in the course of it that we knew ing has been dune in the matter. hoard, was arrested on the gharf. | Rodger and J. Leonard; D Laing, W. this, and the result is such an éruption scrupalously avoided all but really nothing of him, good or bad, and were
Sentence of six months' hard labour Gerrard. E: Rail.on and I. Finch of ordinances as we have just remark necessary law-making, the grievance therefore writing without personal Mr. B. Ross, Hon. Secretary was passed.
of these newspaper plaintifs would prejudice. Did he disbelieve that of the Royal Hongkong Git Club The virus is known. It is no be less noticeable. In any case Did he regard it as a bit of gratuitous announces in an advertisment in mystery. Legislators are something (although as a newspaper our con- hypocrisy? If so, he ought to have another part of this usue that in
A summons against a man for Eike a standing atmy. When you've venience marches with theirs) we are said so, and censured us for it, no accordance with a government noti got one, and it has stood for some not with them in this protest. In matter what other claims we might fication, the Happy Valley Course is failing to send bir son regularly to time, it seems a pity not to use it. stead of asking our legislators to meet have to indulgence. If not, be should available for daily play up to 1 pm, school necessitated the attendance at Thus am come In the case of more frequently (so as in provide us not persist in calling it a personal except on Tuesdays and Sundays Epping Falice Court of five magis Begislators, the natural human ten with "copy" in convement doses) attack." It was an honest criticism when it is available-aff day-bodies rates, four coming from distances of VRC dency of thinking pity to waste it."we are going to be atomistic and of his writings, and an explanation of may play any day in accordance with five to eight miles, their clerk and his United
above. Only two-ball matches are assistant, a police inspector, a ser | Lusitano may be observed. What we can public spinted, and suggest to them our reasons for not publishing them wed on Tuesday and Sunday Reant, four conarables, the school RG.A imagine them mentally asking them the advisability of meeting less fre-We are not obliged to give reasons, afternoons wher, indies are requested attendance officer, and two Premmen. Wilts
dves, is the use of being a legislatos quently, and of doing less when they bit as the Canton Information Bureau to play in mixed foursomes, or mixed Although the defendant did not "Taisar", if you do not legislate ? Ra they ar do zocet. It is our considered opin had recently publicly charged another singles only,"
appes the summons was dismissed." Foxglove"
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Joyce.
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