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if you believe those works to mean be a new public pier along the Praya. By, this time next' wear there will anyrning Among ourselves we laugh It will be a reinforced concrete che, about it. We know that the intention running ont apposite the Queen's no: really to emphasize the dignity Statue, and the P. W. D. people mea

SINGAPORE, Nor. L A Straits loan bill aising £10,000,- of manual labour, but to slur over and to make it something that will be0c0 at Home for the Federated States camouflage the indignity of it, a thing in keeping with the spacious dignity has been passed. The Trade Com-ged with having obstructed the police which may be expedient, especially of Statue Square itself.

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CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE,

CORRESPONDENCE.

SOME OBJECTIONS,

To the Editor of the "China Mall."}

bership card and a request to join the Dear Sir, I have received a mem- League of Fellowship and Service: It would appear to me that

That the police may search a vessel without warrant if ther har reasonable suspicion, was a decision affirmed in the police court yesterday afternoon.

a) The constitution of the League

prelates and plutocrata in the presence A boatman and his wife were charsible. How can I curse politicians, renders democratic expression impos

of His Excellency, the Patron? These

Designs for the superstructure have striction of rubber provided Ceylon

mission recommends compulsory rein the execution of their duty. not bien finished yet but the pre-and the Netherlands join. also financial last, it was alleged by the prosecution three classes are responsible for the

When the case was opened Friday Paratory work in connection with the

that on the night of October 94, Fesent state of the world. most important part-the foundations

Sergh Carey of the Water Police, in order at a meeting in denouncing (b) As regards object (2), shall I be begun yesterday, Details it be remarked, we are asked to scurteously

patrolling the harbour in a police the financiers of this Colony, and furnished by the emphasize demonstrations of the P.W.D. executive enginee: (Mr.

Launch, was passing the Causeway those who are obviously prejudiced in dignity of labour to poor Chinese, John Duncan, A.M.I.C.E.) to BRITISH ASSOCIATION MEETS para lying there without lights. Using These latter, I may point out, will Bay shelter when he saw some favour of the present class system? who ast eam their living" China Ma reporter who made inquir To think that impertinence overies on the subject this morning show

-AT SHANGHAL

adinghy, the Sergt.boarded the female constitute a large part of the member in all its bearings is to realize that that the length of the new pier will

defendant's boat and there found a [China Mail SPECIAL. ] these words were incorporated in the

beary bor. Defendant handed, the ship of the League itself and are the be85ft. Sire. 25ft. of which report idly and without thought, inform an approach for motor carr

key to another woman who unlocked wealth and opportunity which is the obstacles to that distribution Kř - SHANGHAL Nov. 2. terpolated by someone who simply let

the box for hita. No sooner had the basis of any reform in the Colony or The Association of British Chambers lid been lifted, than the female defen- pen run away with him. The pedestrians. It will be 41ft: fins

wide. There will be a root of the word dignity means worth, facade spreading to a width of 112 this morning at the British Saprete The Sergeant attempted to seize handsome of Commerce conference opened daat made a grab at something inside.

disewhere. but no quibble in defence can tell sleet and both that and the pier itsel Court. Mr. F. W. Mackay presided the object, something hard and hear that horrid phrase merely ineant that will be roofed over. Balustrading Sir Beilby Alston, British Minister at The second woman joined in the labours was to be specially pointed trance and the pier will have fouregates from the treaty ports were pre-ous parcel.

of their will be erected on each side of the ca Peking was unavoidably absent. Del struggle for possession of the mysteri- out to these children. In any case that could not impress, because thirts of landing stapa -each 10 feet sent. Sessions will be held daily until the Sergeant was attacked fron

Saturday. Sir William Brunyate, behind by the male defendant who submits a resolution concerning educa- came from a neighbouring ssupos. tion on Friday.

his

the worth or usefulness

do it as a means to the important erd

it to bellies we do nothing to fill,

offered them dinner.

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ARMED ROBBERY.

HONGKONG CRIMINALS GROW BOLDER.

The next moment

Both men fell through the awuing into the other boat. The police coxswaiz| then came to the Sergeant's assistance and the boat people submitted. The parcel however had vanished into the water.

The Sergeant agreed with Mr. A. EF Hall (for the defence) that. it was instinct which made birn board the particular sampan.

essential in any peaceful reforms, and this will be doubly jeopardised by the

Freedom of expression is

patronage of His Excellency and the recent deportation ordinance.

Yours, REFORMER. Hongkong. November 2, 1921.

PRINCE OF WALES.

HEAVY PROGRAMME

AT MALTA

A London cable published elsewhere- in this issue states that the Prince of

The male defendant said that Wales has arrived at Maita. Accord the Sergeanting to the programme of the official

Ltd. of earning their living. In any case The work which is being gone ahead we could only emphasize the worth with now is the constracting of the of it to us, not to then. No. The Approach and the building of the pier one meaning of the word dignity in itself to deck level. The surface is to sach a conting phrase is to impart the be asphalt and 80 ples which are suggestion of botoar and respect.

being made at the Government quarry Are we seriously urged to tell there at Tsat Tze Mui will be used for the toiling anfortunates with emphasis supports. They will vary in length from 60 to 68 feet and will be driven that we honour them and respect them because they do manual labour? into the hand to a maximum depth of That would be impudence to full feet. Owing to the depth of mud

Pottinger Street in bread day is bellies: but if we are to address overlying the

of the a busy place, thronged with people. harbour bed the foundations will Not far away is the police headquar-when be Sa will be the most gratuitous in This will give a minimum depth of pany is st No. 13, a conspicuous point was going for a picnic. When the resterday, was received with the be strengthened by depositing rubble. ters. The Nankang Saltease Con-in the dinghy he thought the latter festivities, the Prince, who arrived sulting thing we can possibly do. Do not let us emphasize dignity where about 17 feet at low wates, ordinary in this conspicuous thoroughfare. Yet Sergeant examined the bor, he held a customary honours, and then pro none is. Do not let us even offer spring tides.

of all this car desperadoes reck little.light for him to see. In the struggle ceeded to the Palace. Subsequently them dignity, until we have first Mr. Duncan emphasised that it was

Soon after 11 o'clock this forenoon for the parcel, the Sergeant fell back he inaugurated Parliament, after to be a public landing pier, projecting two men gained admittance to the wards and pinned him down. which the leading officials were pre Now, perhaps, we can get our mind! ont from the Praya Wall, as distinct first floor, above the suitcase shop.

Mr. Hall said it was not disputed sented to him. He then paid a visit to dwell on

wharf, which would on pretence of delivering a letter. that there was a struggle with the to St. John's Cathedral, and after- A more practical issues, from These thoughts were insistent, and paralle! A pier, he pointed Producing knives, they terrorized the women, but he submitted that rewards had lunch at the Maltese out, gives more accommodation, three women present, gagge! them sistance was justifed because the Casino, the leading Maltese ciab on congesting our intellect. They are discharged. Pouf? They are shot because of its two sides, is more and bound them, and took their women thought the Sergeant the island. In the afternoon à gar- put, and we hope we are rid of them, easily approached, and can be built jewellery Putting their prisoner in was going to walk away" with den party in honour of the Prince Why ill people who ought to know the same cost. The face of the the kitchen, they ransacked the their jewellery and money kept in was given at the San Antonio Palace better say such provocative things? pier will be protected by hardwood How can the garretted

lendering and it will, Mr. Duncan 2 with his poem, if his says, be cheaper in regard to upkeep landlady persists with interruptions than a wooden structure because for about the rent? How can we bring one thing, there will be no painting our intelligence entirely to bear on insult it with auch mischievous hura-done service for some time as a land- bug? Now that the interruptions ng stage is, of course, no longer are disposed of, let us try to concen available and is now in process of trate on the problem of what can being dismantled. Mr.. Dantan ex- and should be done for these youngs- pects that the piles will all have been tera. Here our readers should help driven in the course of three months Dare we invite them to discess it--and after that the work of depositing when some are almost sure to drop rubble around them will be began. similarly distracting remarks? The The pier itself should, he thinks, be MR. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, outlook is a doubly anxious one.

completed within the contract time of {tem months and the whole under- taking should be through in twelve

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months.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen and party have arrived at Kweil from Ninning

A Chinese pinber of the s.5.

premises, and left in about ten minutes with all they found.

In the street they ran, and excited the suspicion of the people who saw them. Police whistles were blowe, but when the Police came, the men had got as far as the Prara, where they disappeared.

Mr. Pardue, A.S.P., with detectives, was on the scene when our reporter

came away.

OBITUARY.

by Lord and Lady Pinner. In the evening a gala performance wERS arranged at the Theatre Royal.

the parcel. They thenght they were right in defending their property, The parcel was dropped into the harbour by the Sargeant in his fall.

To-day the Prince visited places of Mr. G. N. Orme, the magistrate interest in Malts. He had lunch trying the case, disagreed, intimating with Admiral de Robeck at Admiralty that he was not satisfied with the House In the afternoon there was man's evidence,

to be a polo match at the gymkhana The defendants' daughter (the at Marsa, in which the Prince was to second roman) corroborated the take

part. Boy coute, sebool man's evidence, but the Magistrate children, and the general public were said she too, had failed to impress invited to attend. In the evening there was to be a dinner at the Palace, followed by a ball.

him.

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Mr. Hall protested against the se- |cept are of the Sergeant's evidence in preference to the evidence produced by him. The Magistrate then adjourn TWO STABBING AFFAIRS. Mr. Alexander Mackenzie, re-ed the case until Saturday for Mr. sident of Hongkong for 20 years died Hall to call all available evidence, at his home in Barker Road, After some more evidence had been Soffering from a cut on the fore- According to the estimates the cost the Peak, yesterday. He was 58 taken on Saturday, Mr. Hall contend-head, alleged to have been inflicted' is expected to be about $97,000. The years of age and leaves a widow, one ed that "the police had no power of with a knife in the course of a fight One case of diphtheria, Chizese, Cay. who have several other big jobs sons.

contractors are Messrs Sang Tee and daughter (Mrs. E. R. Dovey) and two search without a warrant, because a with a man who is at present in was reported yesterday.

sampan was aa mach a "castle" as custody, a foki of Sah atall No. 138 at en band just now, including the Praya Mr. Mackenzie had been in indif- the "Englishman's home," because the Central Market was yesterday Captain P. G. Blayney has gone elsewhere;

Fast Reclamation scheme referred to ferent health for about two years. the family lived on board.

admitted to the Government Civil at least a primary education. The master of the ss. "John Sanderson

He went Home on leave last year and After considerable argument on the Hospital for treatment. His condition dignity of manual labour should be in place of Captain T. Pritchard..

when he came back to the Colony bis point, the case was again adjourned. is not serious and he should be fit for emphasized, and the bearing of

wide circle of friends were gratified When the hearing was resumed, the discharge from hospital in the coarse- intellect on manual work explained." The total rainfall recorded at the

to note that he seemed to have Magistrate decided that "a policeman of the next couple of days. We do not favour doctrinaite views Botanic Gardens during October was

been considerably benefited by may search without a warrant if he Stabbed in the neck with a dagger on education. In the case of childrea 15 inches, all of which fell on

the change. A few months ago, has reasonable suspicion (under Table in the course of a street fight in who must ear their living by 12th.

however, the death of a daughter U of the Shipping Ordinance and Chatham Road, Kowloon, with a man manual labour," we naturally want

affected him very deeply and he had Section 28 Ordinance 1 of 1815, who has absconded, a street coolies: to have it explained just what

"Wahsun" reports that between mid-pot, it is said, been the same man also the Merchants' Shipping Act). now in the Kwong Wah Hospital in primary education means. It is

night on the 1st and 3. .,; to-day; ; since then.

Mr. Hall said the wording of the serions condition. The patient also unlikely that the compulsory learning

while he was on daty, someone enter been the Hongkong representative search" The sampan in this case was shoulder blade. The palice who have For some years Mr. Mackenzie had | Ordinance was "may stop and (bes a sight wound in the right of English is intended in these cases.

ed his cabin and stole from a locker of Messrs. Arthur and Co. Ltd., a stationary. Then what is a primary Chinese

the name and description af the education, for children so circum-

The Legislative Council meets

well known Glasgow firm. He The Magistrate asked if Mr. Hallalleged assailant. are confident of tanced? Not, surely, the learning again tomorrow afternoon. The A member of the Canton Pro

was a prominent member of the considered a vessel on the mud or on arresting him. of the written character? A primary business includes the second reading vincial Assembly recently proposed Union Church, a Justice of the Peace, the teach in a special class. means of exchanging ideas, of receiv of the sew Bills introduced last that a steel bridge should be built a member of the Licensing Board and

Mr. Hall said that obviously the ing and communicating thoughts, Thursday.

a member of the committee of the section contemplated Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospit- under way only. Otherwise why did each childzezi must already possess,

MORE ROBBERIES. in their mother tongue.

Messrs. Wm. Morris of London the city proper and Hocam. The als. A well-known golfer Mackenzie it say "atop and search: " training they get while actually are engaged in making the bronze proposal has now been submitted to cricketing circles and he was also a eatpan was a "house" which was Street was entered during last night had, in yeam past, been prominent in The Magistrate said that a junk cr The fint floor of Na 97, Winglek carning, which is an arrangement tablet for St. John's Cathedral porch, the governor for approval. Monokong, Wedgesday, Nov. 2, 1991, that must suit their circumstances containing the names of those com-

member the Volanteer Defence math better than shutting them memorated by the War Memorial into schools. The first and primary Cross in the compound, and this Sidesmen

The List of St. John's Cathedral Corps.

for November is The funeral will take place to-day need of such children have their bellies filled with nourish year.

to should be in place by the cad of the idlows:-Messrs. E. C. Dingman, and will pass the Monument at 5 p.m.

8. E. Garrod, A. B. Thompson, A.. irg food. No mhealthy conditions of labour are so unhealthy as starva- The master of a Chinese firm at Dancau. H. C. Resker, A. H. K

Dyer Ball, H. B. L. Dowbiggin A. E. Puding the arrival of those tion or semi starvation. Are you pre- No. 32, Bonbaza Strand has reported Cobb, K. K. Staple, T. Jackson, P. ympathetic and helpful thoughts for pared to feed the children, as well to the police yesterday that on October L Knight, and W. L. Fattenden. which we have been hoping, in the as teach them? If not, the prospect 18, a foc collected $1,000 from the matter of the report of the Commit-resumbles one of considerably worsen Bank of Canton on behalf of the firm,

der Mackenza, aged 58. Deeply

regrested. Funeral will pass the Monument 5 p.... to-day (Wednesday).

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capable of moving.. That was why by the staircase door which was in- stop and search" was added. It would advertently left open, and a ratran' place the police in a very delicate basket containing clothing, jewellery position if by merely stopping, a atid money to the value of $269 stolen santpan was exempted from search: from one of the cubicles. The robbery After further argument the Magiswas not discovered until the morning trate decided to convict the defen-when a report was made to the police, dants

who are investigating. Torpector Spear had nothing against

Another robbery was reported to them.

have been committed in a similar. on appointed to study the conditions ing their lot. But these were the and absconded with the money. The vicinity of the Central Police Station

Remarking that it was rarely that manner on the first floor of No. A, One of the latest and most success he had a case in which the defendants Lankwaifong the axme night, when a f juvenile labour in this Colony, which words that really focused our atten-complainant did not report the matter and Magistracy, where he had ful stants worked by Thomas H. Ince impressed him so unfavourably, the basket containing some clothing and houghts we regret to say are not yet, tion, and possessed us and irritated us earlier because he had hopes of the occasionally found casual jobs, a paramountattraction is the sensational Magistrate passed sentence of two $145 in notes stolen. Forthcoming, thus ebowing that where and are likely to give us no peace of stray one returning.... there's a will there is not always and mind until we shall have got rid of

coolie, named Lam Tsin passed away film entitled A Family Skeleton" months hard labour each. He be mecessarily a way, we are reduced to the topic by discussing it.

Armistice Day will be observed was found dead in the kitchen at the features in the principal role. This the defendants did coment the very ARE YOU A MARKED MAN?

last night at the age of 75 years. He wherein the playright Charles Ray Heved the Sergeant's evidence that. the ignominions necessity of dis-words: "The dignity of mannal at St. John's Cathedral by a celebra- back of the Magistracy this morning. magnificent picture in B parts went serious offence of obstructing kira and charging some thoughts forced, upon labour should be emphasized." Should tion of the Holy Communion at 7:45 s by mere words in the report. In it? Then show w where it is, and with special remembrance, of

over with a bang," as reported in the that they had something concealed articular we bale beer unable to what it is. To us it sounds like the those who made the supreme sacrifice, ofthe Canton Educational Association, at the Hongkong Theatre from them to serious penalties.

Mr. Wang Ching-wai, President American papers. It will be screened, which, if found, would have exposed

men who habitually arrive iste for work Fixie from our mind, although we hypocrisy of Master-talk. "You do in the Great War. There will also be Dr. C. C. Wa, Vice-Minister for Foreign today till Friday next, both at the

in the momings, as nenally anderers from constipation or liver', fun÷hich ave tried to do so, a phrase in our labour for us, and you get the special service beginning shortly Affaim, Gen Tang Heng, Commsader 6.10 matinee and at 9.15 p.m..

ailments Piskettes are the yupadas assage at the foot of the ninth page. dignity. You save us from having after 10.30a.m., at which the Naval of the First Division, and Mr Ju

"Although civil war, brigandage, Finketter gently stimulate the liver In view of the fact that may to do it, and so give as leisure to and Military Chaplains will take part. Chung-kai, Vice-Minister of Financ,Shanghaied"

Charles Chaplin will appear in and famine have devastated whole aid digestion, ensure daily regularity. hildren must earn their living by bent up other forms of dignity for The service will include the

a very amazing provinces of China," says the annual the pink. Try dose to-night; and wee Used when needed they keep you in manual labour," mys the nport, "it ouralves." There noty never was, I infinites silence at 11 o'clock, and it is to interview President Bun Yat-sen Burton Holmes travels. At the 7.15 Bible Society. "we sold last year in the morning. Of chemists every two left Canton on Monday for Wacher comedy in two parts, followed by report of the British and Foreign how much brighter and fliter you feel suggested that steps be taken to and never can be say digits in hoped an address by the Bishop of the on certain importent affair, repons pu priormance the Screaming over 3,000,000 books, tosinly Gospels, or post free cesita the vial tvide an education for them waited manual labour. Is perspication Diocese.

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