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Four cases of small-pox and one of cerebro-spinal fever were notified yesterday.

All the patients were Chinese.

THE CHINA MAIL.

ELSEWHERE.

(TOM WRIGHT STUFF.).

FOR

WEDNESDAY, APRIL -25 1023

HOUSING PROBLEM.

SUGGESTIONS BY CHINESE CHAMBERS.

CORRESPONDENCE.

IRISH LOYALISTS' NEEDS. •

[To the Editor of the "China Mall."]

OPIUM SEIZURE.

"CHINESE MEDICINE"

SHANGHAI:

Sixteen hundred pounds of raw

Sir, I desire to enlist the sym- opium contained in nine large Shanghai, were seized by Detec- The sub-committee appointed by pathy of your readere for the ve Sergeant O'Connor and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Loyalists of Southern Ireland, who number of police on board the to investigate the housing problem have endure many grievous wrongs

When I was a boy. I could pot understand why Eugene Sue made Lt. H. J. Mortimer of the Hong comed ́tà me a fine life, and rather cases, intended for export to

his wandering Jew unhappy. It kong and Singapore Bn. RG.A.

an advantage than otherwise that has been granted leave from 26th be negl not fear death in some for October on private affairs.

eign hospital. He got lots of sports. Now that age is putting its chop on tho, I begin to savvy

GOVERNMENT AID URGED.

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Command orders state that theenery, and wasn't ballsored with China Merchants' Steam · Naviga- has now sübrititted its report to the and are now in die distress and.

official rate of the dollar for all payments fixed in sterling, which have to be made in Hongkong and on the China Station during the month of May, will be 2s. 334d.

tisement colanins.

'ed the hous0.

tion Company's steamer "Tai Shun" lying alongside the com- pany's wharf at West Point, yes terday morning.

and

Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, Chairman afliction owing to the recent political of the Housing Commission. It ovonts in that country. These poo was a sub-committee of eight and plo, who have ever benn law-abiding included the Chairman and Vice- and inoffensive citizens, have suffer Chairman of the Building Coned intolerable things during the leat tractors' Association.

four years.

They have seen par-

The points submitted to the ents, children and friends wurder- Housing Commission were:- ed, their wounionfolk foully misused, 1. (1) The standardization (with the their property looted and their object of reducing the cost homes destroyed. Some, still cling- of buildings) of

ing to the wrecks of what they onco possessed, are living a life of strain and persecution in Ireland; thou Hands have been compelled to leave the land they loved, and are penni- les refugees in Great Britain.

1.

3.

(a) designs for houses. (b) fixtures and fittings for

houses.

(2) The reduction of the cost of

building materials. (3) The use of cheaper or more suitable kinds of building materials.

This Association has done umi is doing all in its power to help them, (4) The greater employment of irrespective of creed, by grants of labour-saving machines or money to enable them to carry on until they can find occupation; by (5) Improved methods for the helping them to find employment, transportation of building and by assisting them to secure, | homes. Clothing has been provided

devices.

materials.

(6) Procuring an increased sup- for several hundreds, sinong them, ply of skilled labourers. parsons who have never before lock-

(8) Other methods for reducing the cost of house construc- tion,

. (7) Reducing the number of led the means to clothe themselves,

middlemen.

But all that the Association has been able to do is small compared with the mass of misery that pre- sents itself for relief.

People once afhent are reduced to poverty: those less prosperous ne destitute. Young men and winnen have had to leave schools

Measures which should be taken by the Government for promoting any of the above objects. Measures which should be taken by the Goverment, (1) To increase the quantity of housing accommodation; and in particular (2) To facilitate the building

of more houses for oc cupation by

(i) Persons of moderate

means.

(ii) The working class

ses.

RECOMMENDATIONS MADE."

and universities when on

the

threshold of a promising future-all

are confronted with the task of starting afresh in life at time of commercial and industrial depres Bion and of financial stress.

In these circumstances the As sociation has to look for afield for support, and they feel they cant appeal to no more sympathetic peo ple than their fellow Domition compatriots. It may be that some

king back I seem to discover

The cases were placed in the that I have rarely got the full savour of any place I have beon in, hold of the ship bearing marks because I have always in every "Chinese medicine." The descrip- The Cheung Chan Government place had a part of my mind scout-tion of the contents according to school is to hold its first annualing abead to that 'ungeographic the manifest was also Chinese sports meating on the Football locality that bears the name of Else medicine and a Chinese firm in Ground at Cheung Chau next where. I am always going there, Hillier Street was supposed to be Saturday at 12.30 p.m. Mrs. and never arriving. Did I stop to the exporters. Inquiries revealed | Alabaster will present the prizes taste the famous sle in the Black that the address and shipper's name at:4.30.

Horse at Steyning in Sussex, or were fictitious. walk over Lavant near Goodwood

STUDENT ARRESTED. First-class caterers are required from Chichester to the Hone and for service on the local trains of Gram in Singleton, was my mind

After the seizure was effected a the Kowloon-Canton Railway un Midburst to which I should in a (British Section) and for the re-few hours come? No, it was in aumber of Revenue Officers waited freshment rooms at Kowloon Africa,, thinking that though the at the China Merchant offices as Details will be found in the adverds fuight be worse in Rhodesia, freight had not been paid on the inc cuscs. A Chinese student the hooting would be better. In turned up and he was arrested, the Spread Eagle at Midhurst, angiving his name as Mak Chi-wing Much regret is felt by lawyers old Carolean in you ought to visit with an address at the Yan Wo practising in the Mixed Court, some day, an inn which I, now in boarding-house, Connaught Road Shanghai, at the retirement from id Pacific, am thinking of as Else Central. At the Imports & Exports the bench on the 18th inst. of Mr.where and in be aimed for again or office he said that he had been A. D. Blackburn, Senior British

ever many moons have waned, I asked by a friend who he met in Assessor, who is shortly going on would fall to thinking of Australia, the street to pay the freight. He furlough prior to promotion to a Ltd Consular post in the interior. As and how pleasant it must be to be was accordingly charged with ex British Assessor, the retiring As-1 slower. When anon I was porting or abetting to export and sessor has been nude the recipient sandowner, humping my swag in and alternatively, with unlawful 2. of a number of tokens of regardy "bluey" like the best of them, possession of 1,606 pounds of raw I spent long moments thinking opium valued at $60,000. Bail was by the Court staff and others.

about the isles of the Pacific, and granted in the sum of $5,000 which For stealing an overcoat be- the taste of Polynesia got mixed, I was quickly forthcoming and the longing to Mr. Joseph and a felt-remember, with the flavours of student was released.

This morning Mr. II. A. Taylor, hat the property of Mr. M. Ellis, Hongkong, not because Hongkong

superintendent who reside at a new house in Caine was Hongkong (as I thought at the assistant Road, a Chinese was sentenced to time) but because it was Elsewhere, monoply analyst of the Imports and three months' hard labour by Mr. So here I lately began to think of Exports Department appeared be J. R. Wood at the Magistracy this Paris. but the recent political fore Mr. J. R. Weed to prosecute but the student had "jumped bail." morning. According to Sub-ercentricities of the French having The Magistrate asked what Mr. Inspector R. Lanigan of No. 7put both Paris and Tabiti out of the Taylor wished to be done and Mr. Station, defendant is believed to Elsewhere likelihoods, I am think-Taylor said that the amount of bait have climbed up a bamboo pole to ing of Canada. Imel a Canadian had been fixed after consultation the verandah from which he enter on a seat in a local park and talked with Mr. Lloyd, the superintendent. with him long about his country. He, therefore, asked for the bail to As is the way of Canadians, he be estreated. of praised it. I told him about the Regarding the matter

His Worship made the order as additional accommodation at the ins at Home, and particularly that requested. Children's Playground,at Kowloon, tale of the rustic who naked the; to which reference was made in the landlord of a Sussex inn what the SOUTH CHINA ATHELETES. relating to designs and not to be summary of recent activities of the "stop press" bare space in the Kowloon Residents' Association paper from Lunnon was for Tir

of building materials. If the published yesterday, Mr. T. A. for in case some 'portant nows come

materials used are of a strong and Martin, the hun, secretary, states late, I be told" said mine host of

lasting nature they should be pass- that the Government has now the inn, looking benignantly upon intimated its intention to erect a his lock of faithfuls. Nay,

In spite of the numerous institu-ed. It will be necessary for the temporary matshed in order to said Jarge, "I dont believe that's tions which have sprung up in Building Authorities to suggest a afford the children additional shade the reason." "Well then, Jorge," recent years in this Colony, the model design of some sort and in- during the summer months.

Baid Boniface, winking at the constant calls in respect of them vite the public to offer its opinion

on same. others, "what do you suppose it be made on the purses of the com- tain to her huge dobt and forcing The Sanitary Board met for?" "Oi dle think it be left bare munity, the support accorded to the (4): The Goverment should South China Athletic Association allot'to building contractors at the her, in turn, to press other nations yesterday afternoon when letters for they pore souls as haven't been is unceasing. In fact, it has be lowest possible price one or two AUCOTT-A1 Victoria BC, on labouring under the war's terrible were received from the Colonial larned for to read," said Jarge.

the 17th April, Ernest james burdens. Similiar examples are

Secretary, notifying the appoint- When I overhear little things like come more enthusiastic as is seen pieces of land wheroit to erect

Lieut.-Col. E John, aged 11 years, the elder:

G. that, the burden of Elsewhere is not from the results of the annual large workshops for keeping labour son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. legion. They are found in every Fitzgerald, D.S.O., R.A.M.C., to a, so heavy upon me. My Canadian membership campaign just ended, saving machines.

According to Mr. C. F. Yuen,

(5): The Government should be

Aucott.

country. The voter, seeing usually place on the Board and the re- told me, sitting on this seat in o

acting honorary secretary to the approached to erect one or two

SAILINGS CANCELLED. only his own selfish interest, away's election of Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Honolulu parky a story of pro-association, they show a total num- piers at convenient centres or build KC, CB.E. On the proposition of fessor of thought-reading who couber of 1236 members and an several large lighters solely for the REMEDIOS.-On April 24 at No, the politician and the politician. Mr. G. R. Sayer, the President, Dr. lucted a class in that science," amount of $11,602,50 which are purpose of allowing builders to

This will It is announced at the offices of 6, Humphreys Avenue, Kow-fearing for his sent, follows dictates Koch and Mr. S. W. Tso were One of his tnost promising pupils slightly over and above last year's transport materials,

the China Mail Steamship Com- expenses, loon, SARA AUGUSTA, the which have untold consequences. selected to consider and report was a young lady in whom, as was figures. The above sum includes reluce transportation "beloved daughter of Mr and with every nation being ruled upon the Sanitary Department's not unnatural, a young gentleman a second donation of $2,000 from because there is no spare ground pany that all sailings of the com

Mrs Vasco L. dos Remedios,

proposals regarding the Estimates.

took a certain interest. She per- Mr. H. M.. H. Nemazee and/$100 where building materials could be pany's steamers aged 25 years. (Shanghai, largely this same way you have

sided the young tuan to join the from The Asiatic Petroleum Coplaced, and in case materials trans- temporarily cancelled.

The s.5. "China" is i port and Manila, Macao and Japan (modern diplomacy-slow, unwield-

class, and sat beside him at the (S.C.) Ltd. This is doubt due ported from the interior of China papers please copy.)

ty. futile. But the voter, with his

BORNCES. One afternoon, without a to the efforts made by the majority arrived here and were unable to was to have gone into dry-dock quite hurman impulses, is not wholly

I word spoken, she turned on the of its members and the awakening unload in time, they must be kept to have her engines overhauled. to blame. Politicians intrigue

young man and violently based his of the Chinese general public to in the junks and incur very heavy The "Nilo" left here on the 18th, Professor Charles A. Board, an ears.

the importance of physical educa-expenses. among themselves and play with a American authority on civic pro-

tion towards which the South NO SHORTAGE OF SKILLED nation'a fate, a world's destiny, for blems, was an interested, spectator that Canadian, but found another done a great deal.

Naturally, I went again to mect China Athletic Association has

(6): There is no scarcity of their own selfish ends. Study at the Shanghai Mixed Court last an occupying the seat. He was a Before the departure of its skilled labourers, and procuration Cabinet history during the past week.

little plump man with blue eyes and athletes consisting of footballers, of more such is not dificult, but should therefore encourage the twenty years and you will speedily

o happy expression. I asked him if baseballers, etc., for japan to take the labourers in the interior of formation of another cement com- he minded sharing the seat, und bis part in the approaching Far Eastern China would always hesitate company.

GOVERNMENT AID URGED. reply showed me that he was Olympic Games, there will be a ing to Hongkong considering the We talked, and I farewell match between the tearns high rent and the high cost of living

The report concludes: "Taking learned that he originated in East of this association and of the here, and therefore unless an in the average. Chinese tenement Bom.

Some man had heartlessly Hongkong Football Club (not crease of wages is obtained, there house as a basis, the present cost

WHITE VOILE

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SATURDAY'S FAREWELL

MATCH.

The following is the report of the among your readers amy reflect that distress and its relief know nothing Chamber's committee.

of distance and are bounded only by (1), (2) and (3): We suggest that the tiroits of humanity.--I am, etc., the Government be asked to

J. M. RAYMOND, modify the existing regulations:

Hon. Director.

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too strict and stringent on the use Southern Irish Loyaliste Relief

LABOUR.

Association,

12, Palmer Street,

Westminster,

London, 8. W.1.

March 20, 19283,

[This Association is strictly non- political and non-sectarian, and bas for its sole ubject the relief of the distressed.]

CHINA MAIL S.S. CO.

hive been

bound for San Francisco, and presumably will be laid up on arrival there,

HONGKONG, WEDNE-DAY, APRIL 26, 1923. learn that. The specific case which telegram, Prince Aimone til Savoin has prompted these remarks is men is seriously suffering from double tioned among today's later cables, pneumonia in the Shanghai Gener- WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS. President Harding is found defendal Hospital,

ing America's decision to parti-|

Mr. Sidney Barton, C.M.G., H. M. advised him that this was a good Kowloon as wrongly given on the would be no inducement for them of building one would bo.some- Trivial things like 'voico, nuan- cipate in the Court of International Consul-General, is to perform the Place to come to look for work. He admission tickets) on Saturday.to come. We would ask the Gov-thing between $4,000 to $5,000. merism and dress have been known Justice. Any detached observer opening ceremony of the new operates lifts, acts as janitor, and the 28th instant at 5 p.m., on the ernment to grant builders permis. Plus the cost of land the figure to decide the fate of men being tried would think this action, eminently building of the Chartered Bank so on. He had not found a job, Club Ground. It will be remember- sion to erect temporary matsheds would amount to somewhere be and was reconciled to going back to ed that the South China Team have on or near the spot where houses tween $8,000 to $9,000. Even Vancouver. He airred" ine when been holding the Far Easter are being built and allow a great assuming that all the suggestions for their lives. Jury men have even sensible, required little defence. next Saturday in Shanghai. been known to discount evidence But then he would forget politics. Mr. Somerset Maugham, the well speaking. There are three ways of Olympic Championship for four majority of the workmen to dwell for minimising expenses as men because the witness had been seen Anxious to discredit Mr. Harding's known playwright, who has been saying "sir." There is Dr. John- shetty it res, and it is hoped there, thus avoiding having to pay tioned above were practicable, we son's way, which is rhetorical that they will retain it in the next rent and it would also save their can at the best obtain a reduction reading a certain sporting journal in prospects in the coming clection, staying in Peking for some time, merely, and fur emphasis. There is meet. A good game is expected fare and time to and fro. It will of $700 or $800 only, which cannot then become easier to obtain cheap possibly reduce the rental by more court, and they would not they political opponents have been quick recently left for Japan travelling the southern Anerican way, which on Saturday.

through Korea on his way to Eng-

is a cliché, and currics no respect;

and skilled labour.

than 10 per cent. and this is no "have later avowed) "believe a man to insinuate that the decision means on his oath who read a paper like entry into the League, the unloved

and there is the English way, which

(7): The service of a middleman great help. This Chamber is stronge does, that "'! But remarkable though Tengue whioli, as a political issue,

My happy little man who warm feet. It was more to keep is almost indispensable. In the ly of the opinion that the Governe Mr. Neville Chamberlain His ad failed to Bud a job had been on them from chafing.

case of direct employment, the ment should be urged to build two been appointed Minister of Health these examples of psychology are has already cost, one able Preside in succession to Sir Arthur Bosca- atheist since 17, and quoted BridHe was that rare thing, a gen. workmen always insist upon being or three hundred-houses in each of they and equally amazing parallele his scat. But the League apart, wen, and Sir William Joynson- emoticable fluency. He promptly. Now I think of it, you amount of work done, and what way Bay, Kennedy Town, Yaumati "He said paid by the day irrespective of the the following districts, viz. Cause- laugh, Ingersoll, Shelley, and others erous controversialist. in the factors which often decide responsible American journals stato Hicks succeeds Mr. Chamberlain

called my attention to the beautiful are probably right there, sir. As a can ordinarily be accomplished in and Mongkokisui, etc. and also ex- the fate of antions, of civilisations that the Senate leaders opposing as Postmaster-General.

colours of the foliage about us, and matter of fact, there is some skin one day will take them two or tend the tram lines so as to make France has just provided a America'e entry into the World notable instance in the Ruhr inva Conth are all nursing presidential the season in mail week at St. for it)

The King held the first Levee of the wonderful light effects. One of off some of my toes now. three days to do. On the contrary them easily accessible. The Gov bia remarks was (and I loved him Not to be out-done in generosity, if the work is done through a ernment could build these houses at sion. With the country's hugo ambitions of their own.

I said I had read that in the Fermiddleman, what generally takes a cost of $4,000 or $5,000 each and And they James's Paice. As is usual on the budget deficit growing ever graster, realise that should he achieve suc occasion of the first levee of the Grandy? I am not related to her, nocks were not issued, and not big docking companies in the $20 to $30 a month. Thus the

Why should I respect Mrs. eign Legion of the French army ished in one day. Nowadays the return, each house could be let at.

two days to complete may be fin-reckoning on a five or sit per cent.

Iser politiciis found themselves in cess with this issue, Mr. Harding year, the attendance was almost

truly awkward dilemma. Either would materially enhance his pre entirely diplomatic, naval and is not move faptation porn, oren on long marchon, so that Colony mostly adopt this method middle class and the working class family. I believe in perhaps it was possible to learn to of getting work done through mid- inhabitants in the Colony will be they must secure the reparations pects for renomination and re-eleo.

Same as Darwin talks about. Great do without them. Pomonally, if it dlemen, which proves the advis rescued from the hardship of pay money or they must increase taxation. Thus, apo mote, are the

At the request of Queen on Darwin. In a climate like were only Mrs. Grundy who was ability and benefit so to do, ing high and excessive rent and (8): Brick, tile.and lime are, the simultaneously the rent in the tion. The first course meant untold great cause of humanity made the Alexandra, the Marchioness Curzon this I don't eat three meat meals a concerned, I would not wear them,

of Kedleston has undertaken to day, for instance. Don't need 'em. on now that I had no female to darn principal materials for building whole Colony will be restored to perils but the second promised cer

ain defent when the next election Playthings of achamog politicians organise a ball at Lansdowne Mrs. Grundy makes men cat what for me they were my chief problem and the Government should think of its normal condition. My Com House in aid of Queen Victoria's isn't good for them in places like I wore them until they were die same means of encouraging these mittee cannot too strongly emphan- Jubilea Institute for Nurses. The this. I theteat her. Take socks, for graceful wrecks and then bought industries, such as a free gift of ise the fact that this would be the example. What do we wear socks new ones. That thu to to with land to carry on the work. More only solution of the problem and ball takes place on April 26.

for 2. To keep our feet warm. But out, but my feet got sore over, cement is also a greatrecasite beg that their views be represented the French peasant, concerned only. Pinkettos are the ideal bowel and liver Home papers announce the in this climate we cannot but haveIt was a band of sympathy. We for building, the use of which has to the Government.get 1 with his own pocket, Balenatore, they so gently, yetkilo death; in his: 66th year, of the Earl warm feet at talking all that afternoon, and grown much more popular now than Attached to the report are, sket

praliper sonstipation bilions of Plymouth, who will be more Brave little muut I know that i we tayar arranged to made to the overbefon Ax there is only the ches of two types of buildinge 005- fate of a whole world. Likewise, thankin of pimples xad hetoirs, railore

nem, sick headaches, livelebnom, close particularly remembered by Lou this adaptation was somewhat en- Fali together to-morrow afternoon, Green Island Cement Company in of them suitable for persons of bow the Colony the demand is often moderate means and the other for the American Middle West former, Files and purify the breathe. Of dealer doners for his successful efforts to couraged by dearth of cash. I have I shall wear socka Bo

king class the construction ever bere, or unt; Lee, 60 cents the save the Crystal Palace and its been there myself I said that he shall be moving in the direction of greater than the supply caus dominating Congress, retarda als from Der William fedicine Con grounds from the hands of the regarded the wearing of 800 I did Elsewhere, so that I elfall be happy, the natural result of a rapi

suburban bilder.

not think the object was to have even if he talk do hot make me so. modnomic recovery by holding Bri- 60 Bingo Road, BhangHalk

even

came round. Therefore they in-

vaded Germany. And the history FOR FATHERS AND MOTHERS,

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