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in the Summary Court yesterday ed in the announcement made by that there we special pecuniary ovir: local

merchants, advantages in the shape of Messrs. Graca & Co, of the con "squeeze" attached to the post, the signment of Challenge stamp. job of the Coast for Mexico in altums they have received. Hongkong cannot have beer altoge A telegram to the Daily ther a bod of roses during the last Bulletin, dated Poking July 16 year or two. The gentleman who states that the situation at Chang- held the post in 1931 found himself shale improving, and several Japanese residents are reported to in a nasty tangle when his Govern- [ be returning to their homes. ment suddenly issued an order

Invitations have been. Issued oxcluding Chinese several months

by Captain J. Riepenhausen on before the treaty permitting Chinese behalf of the owners, to inspect the

Under 5.5 "Sarpedon" immigration had expired.

Monday this onlor an exception was made August 6th, on the occasion of that in favour of Chinese previously vessel's first trip to the Far East. rosident in Mexico and on the strength of this local shipping com- Dr. W. W. Yen has returned to panies engaged in the Pacific trade Peking from Peltaiho, and the granted passages to Chinese who Cabinet is trying to persuade him were able to furnish antinctory to become Chairman of the Finan-. proof of previous residence. cial Commission. It is not likely Hundreds of the people were on that he will consent before Wang the water when a new order was Ko-min's return to Peking, accord- ised prohibiting the entry of alling to a telegrin to the Daily Chinese except consular and dip | Bulletin, kopatic representatives. Some of the shipping companies had to bring Bulletin, dated Peking July

to the Daily several hundred passengers back at

reads': It is reported that the their own expense and the Mexican Government has ordered that the Government got very unpopular preparatory bureau of the National indred. Judging from the some Mint at Shanghai be converted into what uniqne action heard before

a permanent organ, and has ap- Mr. Justice Gompertz yesterday it pointed Chu Yeni-chi superinten is still unwise for a Chinese with audent of the Mint. stake in the country to come! away from Mexico if he wants to: go back there again,

Vaccination.

A message

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LINCHENG OUTRAGE.

WEDNESDAY JULY 18, -19:3.

WHAT THE POWERSŹWILL DEMAND.

FOREIGN CAPTIVES' CLAIMS.

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PEKING, July 17.

INTO THE SEA.

VOLCANIC ISLANDS

· DISAPPEAR,

[China Mall SPECIAL.]

SINGAPORE, July 17. The P. &.O. liner "Malwa." re- The Diplomatic Corps Committee has concluded its investigation |

ports that recently emerged into the Linchong outrage. It is understood that it has decided to volcanic islands off the Indo-China demand 8,500 silver dollars for each foreign captive; besides personal coast have disappeared. losses, also the dismissal of the Tuchun of Shantung and the lesser officials, and the organisation of railway guards under foreign officers.

{About 1,000 bandits derailed the express train from Pukow to

Tientsin at Lincheng, Shantung, and carried off 300 passengers, in- cluding some foreigners.” Ons forsigner was killed and two Chinese seriously wounded. Twenty-three Chinese and six foreigners escaped. All the captives were eventually released after the bandits had been promised their terms.)

SCRAPS OF WIT.

A COMMONPLACE BOOK,

A NOT UNORIGINAL IDEA.

(Specially Contributed.)

I have been interested to find that what I have been doing for 6 years, no less a person than Dean Inge has been doing for 10 years. He

says:

"For nearly forty years I have Ir the Marine Court this more kept a commonplace book, in which ing, before Cóminander Beckwith R.N., ten Chinese fisheries were

I have writton down, in seven or fined $10 each for infringing eight languages, scraps of other Harbour Regulations. They were people's wit and wisdom, sense and charged with "carrying in-

The

Regarding the vaccination cam-candescent lights on their boats in nonsense, which have come my way paign proposed by Dr. Pearse (the such a position to confuse naviga-in the course of miscellaneous read- Medical Officer of Health) at yester-tion between the Nine Pigs and

ing, or in conversation. This day's Sanitary Board meeting, it at Tong Channel on July 17 minuscript volume is the most will not be out of place to mention Lance-Sergeant R. Keen proved amusing book in my library. It is a few facts which may not be known the offences.

a hotch-potch of all subjects, grave to the public, particularly the Euro- pean section. "No doubt, the camvertisement columns the: Harbour philosophy, through politics, satire, As will be seen from our ad- und gay, ranging from religion and faign will mostly be among the Authorities give notice that from and shrewd observations upon life, Chinese lower classes, who have all the 23rd inst., two junks will be to comie, nisprints and schoolboy entirely wrong conception

of employed in taking soundings and blunders." vaccination, its benefits and its borings in the Harbour on a fine

It has occurred to the Dean that necessity. This hostility is due from Statue Pier to Holt's wharf, some morsels from this feast of directly to the lack of education and Indications are given whereby the reason and unreason may interest indirectly to the enthusiasin of some junks can be distinguished either his renders, and it is for this reason of the volunteers who carried out a by night or day, and vessels are that I ventun to submit a few eampaign some years ago. Small warned to give these junks a safe selections from owa commonplace pox was rife that year and volun- berth and to proceed at slow speed book in the hope not merely that teers were called to help in when passing,

they may prove interesting, but that the work of vaccinating as many

probably they may excite others people as possible. Most of the The local Tat Kwong Po says either to keep such a book, or to give lower classes were, and still are, that a number of leading Chinese extracts from their own gleanings. unwilling to be vaccinated as they residents have called on Hon. Mr. It may not be an original pastime, consider it harmful and unneces- A. G. M. Fletcher, the Colonialt after all. What is originality? sury. In the course of rounds, Secretary, who is said to have an- Undetected plagiarism." people in the streets were dragged ounced that in deference to the Dean's selection, in spite of the to the stations posted, at

wishes of the Chinese community, Various especially when the supply was places. Some of the volunteers the proposal to instal water meters seven languages is not formidable. The China Mail. intermittent, for then people were over went to the extent of calling withdrawn. Mr. Fletcher is also would expect. I give two before even in the rider-main districts will be in ita quality. It is just what one apt to keep reserves which could rounding out workers who had quoted as saying that he agreed passing on to my own little patch.

with the statements in the letter . ""Thore bas only been one become infected with the typhoid not been vaccinated. As some

Christian, and he died written by the Chinese General Hokakong, Wxxxsday, July 16, 1923, bacteria. Furthermore, the Chiuose, of the volunteers were

Chamber of Commerce on

cross" (Nietzche) and companied by district natab subject. he said, even obtained water frominen. an impression was created:

... Here lies nullaks and other sources of doubt that the authorities had made: PUBLIC HEALTH.

ful purity to agument their scanty vaccination imperativo. People

believed that they had to be vie supplies from the public inscinated whether they wished to or With our public health law Accordingly-Dr. Pearse laid it downpot and considerable ill-feeling Was openly declared obsolete, we always that it has not been the quality of engediend. some going to the bassador to Japan, who has been Sir Charles Eliot, H. B. M. Am- swait Banitary Board meetings with

the water which has bear the prob.jextent of keeping indoors till the some misgiving, never quite sure that we shall not hear something able cause of the typhoid epidemie campaign was over. From the fore-in England on leave, sailed for the

going, it would seen desirable that East on July 9. but the want of sufficient water to educative propaganda should first be Yesterday we very unpleasant,

Mr. Yoshizawa, the newly were not dimppointed, though intain a constant supply. Now launched before the actual campaign

commençes. It should also be appointed Japanese Minister to must be said at the outset that the that is very grave. And the ques-

explained whether the people can China, was expected to arrive in fault this time lies not with the naturally arises what shall be exercise their own choice in a Peking on Tuesday evening, Public Health and Building Ordin-done? The way the Chairman Baw matter or not.. That vaccination is according to a dispatch to the

Daily Bulletin. anca, but with our water supply, this question was: "Why can't we effective and doee, no harni, to use Ever vigilant, Dr. Koch had sought get more water?" But the answer Dr. Koch's words,

From the Hague Reuter an- nounces the death from blood- | facts about typhoid-how many is not the one be gave-"We can brought home to every household.

poisoning, of the novelist, Louis Otherwise cases had there been this year and not control the rain.**

Couperus, author of "Old People and the Things that Pass"; "The Later Life"; and "Small Souls.”

was it possible to trace the source there had been no water supply and

of infection? The Medical Officer no city at all. Are there not water To-day's Poem.

of Health (Dr. W. W. Pearse) went supply scheines?

should be

SOCIAL AND 'PRRSONAL:

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the

According to a Reuter message from Patna, it is understood there that Sayid Hassam Imam, former Judge of the Calcutta High Court,

Are there not well for him who lives st caso into details, which, boiled down in men who can gauge the Colony's With garnered gold in wide domain, his own worde, indicated that "we needs five, ten, twenty years hence? Nar heeds the plasbing of the rain, should havo much less typhoid than Surely there tie. Then it is simply The crashing down of forest trees. wo have got." After some adroit this. The Government has failed too well for him who ne'er hath has been invited to represent India questioning, the Chairman (Mr. keep pace with the times; it has

⚫ known

G. R. Sayer), naturally anxious for allowed the Colony's needs to out-The travail of the hungry years,

strip the supply until to-day the A father grey with grief and tears, the Government's good дате,

A mother weeping all alone. that the city's very health is not secure. established the fact

epidemic was not due to any con-Indeed what did Dr. Pearse say? But well for him whose feet hath tamination of the water used in the "A somewhat analogous outbreak of

trod

OSCAR WILDE.

SHADOWS BEFORE,

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

Colony, otherwise our medical mona watar-borne disease occurred in The weary road of toil and strife, would have expected the outbreak the year 1903 when the Colony was Yet from the sorrow of his life

short of water and the Chinese wers Builds ladders to be nearer God. to have occurred with explosiva restricted to a small daily inter- force, to have involved, many

mittent supply. Water was then hundrade of persons and to have also collected and stored by the shown 8 very high incidenco Chinese under insanitary conditions! com-and an epidemio of cholera, to the amongst the non-Chineso munity, whereas the incidence on extent of nearly 600 cases, occar- red." Yet despite this warning, the non-Chincoe has, however, not the supply is still inadequate. And been greater than can be accounted what is even worse, the disparity) for by the reaction of Chinese Cases between the supply and the demand Under the on non-Chines. Unless Mr. Sayer is steadily growing.

Shing Mun Valley scheme, how- was endeavouring to exonerate the aver, tapping Tai No Shan's vast Government completely, wo think gathering grounds, the supply will he would better have left well alone.be placed on a permanent basis and Dr. Pearse had already stated very the risk of abertage will entirely di

appear for some very considerable clearly that the infection. was not time. That happy day is not here caused by any contamination in the yet, and with several tight years Illusionist. water, and labouring this point, Mr.still beforo ns (unless the mains for-

Bike recent tacties) it is timely to Club at 9.30 p.m. Bayer only made the case against point out that the Colony would the Government the blacker. After never have found itself in the pre- Nicola 5p.m. Matince for children: remarking that the water here has sent anxious poes bad there been "a high degree of initial purity," that co-operation between the Water Authority and the Sanitary Dr. Pearse showed how it might Department which Dr. Koch urged become contaminated after delivery, yesterday. The moral is plain.

July 18-Coronet Theatre; Irvin V. Willat in "Partners of the Tide." July 18-World Fheatre; Thomas Carrigan in "Checkers"

July 18-Star, Theatre; Nicola, the World's Greatest Magician and July 18-Band Night at the Peak July 21 Star Theatre; The Great July 21-Band Concert, Volun teer parade ground, 9.15 p.m.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS. July 20-Lammert Bros., 107, the Peak, furniture, II a.m.

at the forthcoming meeting of the League of Nations.

At All Saints' Church, Hertford to-day, the marriage takes place of

Mr. John Kidston Swire and Miss

Juliet Barclay, In honour of the occasion, all the steamers and launches in barbour of Messrs But- terfield and Swire, dressed ship -to-day. Mr. Swirei who is a partner io the firm was well-known here In the days before the war, In December 1914 he left here and Joined the Essex Yeomanry with which he saw sérvice throughout the war.

A dinner in honour of the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall and Hon. Mr. Chau Siu-ki was given at the Ching Tin Restaurant on Monday night. The hosts were the directors of the Tung Wah and Kwong Wah Hospitals. Mr. Wong Ping sun, Chairman of Tung Wah Hospital, resided, being supported by Mr. Yuen Pak-leung, Chairman of the Kwong Wah Hospital. After the usual loyal toasts had been honoured, the Chairman paid glowing tributes to the qualities of the guests of the evening who, he said, had been deservedly honour ed by their appointment as re presentatives of the Chinese Community on the Legislative Gounell. Mr. Kotowall and Mr. Chau Siu-ki-replied, thanking the Chairman for his good wishes.

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Sir John Guiso; Nobody laughs, Nobody cries. Where he has gone And how he fares. Nobody knows. Nobody cares."

on the

Here are a few of my own "leaves of grass" unclassified and put down haphazard,

"It requires understanding to love one's friends.-(DE BALZAC.)

"Most people live for love and admiration. But, it is by love and admiration that, we' should live. If any love is shown us we should recognise that we are quite un- worthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that Eternal love is to be given to, what is eternally un worthy. Or, if that phrase seeme to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that every one is worthy of love, except he who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine, non sum dignus should. bo on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it."- (OSCAR WILDE.)

"Tho thiovish Love-a cruel bee oace stung him, as he was rifling honey from the hives, and pricked bis finger-tips all; then he was in pain, and blew upon his hand, and leaped, and stamped the ground. "And then he showed his hart to Aphrodite, and made much complaint, how that the bee is a tiny creature, and yet what wounds it deals! And his mother laughed out, and said, 'Art thou not evon such a'creature as the bees, for tiny art thou, but what wounds thou dealest " (7 THEOCRITUS.)

PEKING'S CABINET.

ONLY TWO MINISTERS ATTEND,

PEKING, July 17. Only two Ministern attended the Cabinet office to-day, and conse quently there was no meeting. "If you wish to have little apare Mr Kao Ling-wel is reported to time, do nothing." ---- (ANTON | be ill::--Courtesy Daily Bulletin, TCHERNOV.)

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The first day a man is a guest. MANILA CABINET.

The second a burden.. The third apest.(LaBOULAYE.)

RESIGN.

*To think of a smart but unkind! · FILIPINO ~MEMBERS ALL thing and not to say it for fear of hurting the feelings of the person addressed is, according to Lavater,

MANILA, July, 18. a sign of the possession of the;

The entire Fitipino Cabinet and higliest self-control and is the members of the Council of State most self sacrificing thing to do.” resigned last night at 11.30 o'clock, (RK. SHERAND.)"

following differences, over the

"T recognise no sign of super-authority of the Governor General iority in mankind other than in matters relating to the intersal goodness. Where the character is government.

not great there is no great man: The resignations have there is not a great artist hor o accepted-Renter.

great man of action thero are

MOTOR TRIALS.

been

only idols unearthed for the cheap and short-lived applause of-the multitude. Time will elfuce them PUBLIĆ MEETING APPOINTS altogether."-(BEETHOVEN,}

"If you have not known poverty, heart-hunger and mis- understanding, God has over looked you, and you are to be pitied.HARD.)

· COMMITTEE.

At a mecting, arranged by the Hongkong Telegraph and held in the Hongkong Hotel last evening, it

was decided to hold motor car and "To make an end of selfishness cycle trials on a date to be arranged is happiness. This is the greatest later. happiness, to subdue the selfish Mr. A. Hicks presided and sup- thought of "I.”—(TEACHING OF|porting him were Messrs. B. Wylie, BUDDRA.)

C. D. Lambert and P. M. Hodgson, "A wayfarer passing along the the last two gentlemen represent highway came upon three stone-ing the Hongkong Automobile masons cutting stone in a great Association.

quarry.

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What are you doing, friend?' he asked one of the masons.

""Trimming the stone, can't you see?' was the answer.

"Turning to the second mason. the wayfarer said, "What are you doing, my friend?"

The Chairman explained to the meeting how he had been ap proached to sound the public on the subject through the columns of the Telegraph and expressed, gratifica- tion at the manner in which the suggestion of holding trials had been supported.

Mr. Hodgson said that as Secre- tary of the Automobile Association

"Working for my wages," re- plied the mason.

he would like to say that the And you?' the wayfarer usk-Association would give the move- ed the third mason, "What are ment their whole-hearted support. you doing?"

The following were elected to "I am helping to build a form the Committee: Messrs. CD. cathedral,' came the reply," Lambert, J. Smith, P. M. Hodgson, (FROM THE WORLD TO-MORROW.) E. Hewlitt, F. Baker, J. Parsons, A. "The Worldly Hope men set their Hicks, Saunders, the Rev. Mr.

Hearts upon

Upsdell and Commander G. W. Turns Ashes-or it

Beckwith. prospere;

anon,

and

Like Snow upon the Desert's

dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two-is gono."(OMAR KHAYYAM,)

"A gentleman is such, simply because he has not the doctrine of getting on and the habit of it For this reason a poor pensant and a true artist are gentlemen,'' --(J. B. YEATS.)

"Some women are like salada. The impression they make de pends entirely on the dressing."→ (PHILANDER JOHNSON.)

"The upper and lower jawe mutually assist each other; if the lips shruel, then must the teeth eatch cold."--(T80 CHƯAN.)

"It is not the length of exist-

The Rev. Sydney Smith threatens his little granddaughter with awful penalties for omitting to stamp his letter properly.

It was decided that any licensed motor car or cycle owner be entitl- ed to take part. Competitors need not necessarily drive their own cars. Suggestions for the holding of hill-climbing contests, reliabili- ty trials and speed contests were made by Mr. Lambert, who pointed out that Chin Wan Hill In the New Territory was a suitable place for holding the hill-climbing contests. These suggestions are to be taken up by the Committee.

TENNIS.

SHIELDS PRESENTATION AND MEDALS.

The Shields in the "A" and "F" once that counts, but what is Divisions in connection with- the achieved during that existence." Hongkong Lawn Tennis Associa (LABOT, GLADSTONE ΤΟ His tion will be presented to the win- MOTHER:)

ners by Mrs. Grace wife, of Com modore Grace at the Indian Recrea tion ground on Saturday July 28th. Oa the same day the LR.C. will hold their annual “At Home” and Mrs.

Grace will also present "Oh, you little wotch! your Jetter cost me fourpence. I will the Prizes won in their Annual

Tournament. pull all the plums out of your

There will be matches, Winners puddings; I will undress your versus the Rest in both Divisions dolls and steal their under petti and the teams to represent the Rest coate; you shall have no currant will be published as soon as the jelly to your rice; I will kiss you result of the triangular play off in fill you cannot see out of your the second Division is completed. eyes; when nobody else whips C.R.C. have still to play Kowloon you, I will do so; I will fill you "B" but should have no difficulty so full of sugar plums that they in winning. The first match of the shall run out of your nose and play off LR.C. versus the Univer sara; lastly, your frocka shall besity is to be played on the CRC. so short that they shall not come ground on Thursday evening. bolow your knees. Your loving grandfather."--(SYDNEY SMITH.)

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The glory of the world would be lost in oblivion' if God had not provided mortals with a remedy Holders of Star Theatre pro-C.CC. "B".....10. in books Towers are razed gramms No. 194 and World KCC. "B" to the earth, cities are over lieatre programme No. 11, the CS.C.C... thrown, triumphal arches mould- former issued on Saturday, the 14th N.T.C ored to dust.... as long as the inst, and the latter during the CCE, "A book exists the author cannot period Sunday, the 16th to Tuesday, ̈perish."--(RtOHABB DE BURY, the 17th inst., are asked to send their programmes to the China Mail In the true man there is office when coupons for $6 each child hidden; it wantath to will be forwarded entitling helders playNesresons.)

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"A gentleman is a man who of the advertisers in the China, Mail, tako such risks A dose or two will sure always tries to put in a little more Patrons of the three principal than he takee out.--(BERNARD theatres are advised to retain their BHAW.)

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