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and the general welfare of the Californian woodland, should re Chinese population. With these place the old ballads shot through words from Mr. Featherstone's light of the rent Sherwood Forest. and through with the glinting sun- letter everyone must agree. That Does style no longer count for any thọ Chinitao huo the money to thing? Shall we never more hear donate needs to emphasiz. That it of a business man who can find (To the Editor of the China Moil). relaxation in the reading of, say, in their duty to be donate it, since Boswell's Johnson, before his own very ofton it has been tande under fireside? We like to believe that in the British flug, is likewise too time we shall weary of the super patent to require stressing. Neither ficial and he led to discover books

for themselves.

(The Sea, Wind.) Below the skyline drops the shore,

The long, grim greybacks, lift

and full,

and

Mr. Featherstone nor the Wina Mail is seeking charity for the British conmmunity which is able to] Today's Poem, subscribe monoy enough for its own- special needs. Simply we are ur ing that the Chinese should give more money for the Chinese. That isali. And once the Chinese app einte this duty, they cannot find any better, any plainer need than play grounds for the youngsters. And, salt again against my face, whose childhood days will make Is fung the challenge hold and

free them good or bad citizens as the of that world tram who roams twig is bent.

"Dogged Does It."

The news that Genera: Lu Yung- hiang, who has been Tuchun of Cheking since 1919, has written to Sir Robert Ho Tung, promising to co-operate with his bandful of earth to shake the course of the stream so that other lenders in

Against, our lows they crash

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roor.

spaces.

The wind-the wind of open sent

Here is no brecze of droway lanes,

No breaths of crowded towns and

sinle, This is the wind that sweeps the

mains,

2.

Dear Editor,-I read with faterest your article “For immediate attenTM glon" in last night's paper.

The times stated in the article may or may not be correct, re the

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8. 19:8.

FURTHER DETAILS.

ARMED ROBBER GANG

SENSATION.

MURDERED DETECTIVE.

WHAT A CHINESE WOMAN

OVERHEARD.

ANOTHER WINNER.

PROGRAMME WORTH FIVE DOLLARS.

The holders of the following theatre programmes are requested to forward them to the Chinà Mail ̧ office when coupons to the value of $5 will be issued which may be Further details of the murder of changed for goods to the same the Chinese detective outside

Messrs. Ullmann's store at the value with any of the advertisers Junction of Wyndham Street and in the China Mail. -. Queen's Road Central at 7.40 a.m., Coronet Theatre Programme No. yesterday were gleaned this 983, issued Saturday to Thursday, morning.

August 4 and 7.

t

World Theatre: Programmie No. 41 issued Sunday to Tuckday, August 5 to 7.

Patron's of the three Cinema

DEAD-BEATS."

CHARITY ORGANISATION.

INTERESTING INTERVIEW.

dead box described as the ugly but necessary box, from the time of the arrival of the ugly but necessary box until the body was placed in 3 minutes aid not elapse, the article goes on to say that it (ugly but It is stated that a Chinese woman necessary box) was allowed to overheard Information being given: stand in the road for no apparent to the deceased detective to the reason. If the writer had but used effect that four men alleged to have The engines _throb, the aca-gum| his eyes a little more instead of been connected with the Wanchai trying to find out what he could (Star Street) armed robbery a few coll;

write against the police he would hours earlier, were walking along Theatres, the Coronet, Star, and have noticed that the coolles the road. The detective had been World are advised to retain their... in charge of the ugly but necessary detailed to watch at the Star Ferry box went and brought water and which he left shortly after taking programmes and study the number washed the footpath where the up his post. He was seen running to be found on the front page. body had been. The writer goes up Pedder Street alone and it is a little further re the boy with the surmised that he seized one of four bandaged hands in charge of a men who were walking westwards European Policeman. Surely a on the pavement outside Messrs. change in the departments. I al-Ullmann's. One onlooker is said ways understood that Warders to have stated that the man made a took charge of prisoners especial-pretence of putting up his hands. ly those with the "Arrow" on their The detective then, so the account That leaps along the trackless clothes: You should go on guessing goes, reached for the man's back

tmil: And with its savour on my lips

perhaps you will guess right soon. whereupon the other turned round The ancient joy comes back to me distinguished branch in Hong- alleged confederates fired almost paper, is all right, but needs keen

The police must be getting quite a and grappled with him. One of his

"The scheme at present, as on Of those who dared, in Viking ships, kong-2 Police Dactor never heard instantaneously into the detective's co-operation on the part of the

The wind-the wind of open sen of one, not in Hongkong at back. least. I

secretaries and members of other 10 quite sure the The detective's brother was on blows from out the vaely skies, writer's knowledge of Police and the Sput within about fifteen organisations in informing each ACTORA the tumbling deep's Prison work is very limited. I minutes of his death as the detec-other and the General Secretary of

expanse stinge to deeds of high emprise,

believe on your suggestion a motor tive was well known in town. The any undesirables they may have ugly but necessary box should be brother is stated to have procured said the Rev. Mr G. T. Waldegrave, come across, before helping them,” It sings of glamour and romance: got, but then the departments may a sack and placed it over the mur Honorary Secretary of the General Chill, clean it is-y pulses leap-not be awake; in the latter case an dered man as the Chinese have a Charities Organisation of Hong

Again to tread the decks and he areoplane should be got to trans-great abhorrence to leaving their kong, in an interview granted to One with the rover of the deep, port prisoners from Lai Chi Kok to dead in the open."

the China Mail this morning. The wind-the wind of open sea! Old Bailey thus lessening the Unfortunately, the dead-box sent chance of escape. The writer has by the Sanitary Department went --BERTON BRALEY.

made one great mistake, the to No.7 Station at West Point by (Cassell's Weekly.) police were awake-wonderful ch, mistake, hence the delay in taking

Ilike the way the writer fishes up the body away. it but bears out what I have already stated his knowledge is limited and when it is so it would be better for all should he have kept | his thoughts to himself,

I am Sir,

WITNESS. Hongkong, August 7.

China will drift towards a round Ltd table conference, must be as grati- fying to the originator of the plan as it is welcome to the real friends It of China. Sir Robert has already been promised the support of Presi den Li Yan-hung. Dr. Sun Yat-It sen and General Wu Pei-fu, so that the prospects of bia efforts proving successful are decidedly good. Sur- priso is naturally expressed in cer- tain quarters at no replies being to hand yet from Two Kùn und Chang Two-lin, but their apparent reluct- ance to seize the chance of a round- table conference as quickly as other leaders may be due to a variety-of causes. The latest news from Pek-i ing tends to show that Tsao Kuni has his hands full in trying to be} staunch both his immediate entourage and the Tientsin Clique. A member of the Peking Parlia- ment, in an interview with Mr. Rodney Gilbert, the Peking corres- pondent of the North China Daily | **-. News, stated that the Tientsin Clique, apparently under the leader. "The Iron Trail." ship or at the instigation of Teao Jui (Tsao Kun's brother), planned

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail,

ENTERTAINMENTS.

August 8-Coronet Theatre;

August 8-World Theatre The New Leather Pushers; Round

"Tillie."

to involve Wu Pei-fu in another 10, and Mary Miles Minter in fight with Chang Tso-lia and force Chi Hsieh-yuan to attack Lu Yung- hsiang. The disclosure of these plans, it is alleged, has supplied Wu

August 8-Star Theatre; Mildred Harris in "Habit."

THE MYSTIC CITY,

The China Mail. chines child playground for Robert Ho Tung proposal forth. Industrielle de Chine, at the City And feet to stem the tide,

children, and only one for with, trouble might arise in the Hall, 3 p.m.

MEETING.

Her bosom it has nurtured From birth to hardy childhood

she

of

· MURDERED MAN'S WOUNDS.

"One or two charges preferred- and one or two sensible judgmenta when men are found guilty by the Court either of deliberate theft or of obtaining money under false Examination at the Mortuary pretences, would help towards the yesterday, revealed that he receiv-solution of the colony's question of ed two fatal shots, One entered be what to do with the "dead-beats," tween the shoulder blades, the Mr. Waldegrave continued.

Some of bullet just touching the heart, mak-

the organisations ing its exit on the left side of the reciprocate, but others do not; this

leads to chest. The other bullet entered

encouragement being the small of his back and passed given when it is not deserved. Mr. right through his intestines, com always worth while finding out Waldegrave pointed out that it is ing out on the opposite side. A

third bullet pierced his note book particulars of a man's previous which he was carrying in the history, if possible, before helping bottom right hand pocket of his him. "To help a man on his bare coat. It was a ricochet bullet and statement is folly in the extreme, Why, all the stars of Heaven, after piercing the book curved off especially if he states he is an ex- A bona fide ex- Are nestled on the waters,

and there is a mark in the wall service man. Beneath the sprinkled canopy of just outside Messrs. Ullmann's shop service man will never appeal for that score," said Mr. PUBLIC AUCTION.

night!

where the bullet flattened itself help on children's playgrounds. Interview-and Chi with the opportunity to

Waldegrave. August 10-Lammert Bros., at But as our ship draws nearer, against the wall.'

The police are of the opinion that DANGER OF OVERLAPPING. ed by the China Mail last week, Mr. [unite and openly denounce the their Sales Rooms, a valuable col- And vision becomes clearer,

the man who was fired at by the Personally Mr. Waldegrave con- DAVIES-On August 2, 1923, at

A. E. Dome, B.P.E., Director of Tientsin Clique and its allies. This lection of postage stamps, 5.15 p.m.Tis but a mystic city that we see.

August 13.At P.W.D. Offices,

Indian constable and chased by siders a centralization of funds state of affairs would naturally cause Shanghai, 20 Mr. and Mrs. H. Physical Education to the Honghoth Tsao Kin and Chang Teo-lin one lot of Crown land at Shauki As mistress of old Neptune,

him with Mr. Ullmann was not the would be a mistake from a financial C. Davies, a daughter. kong Chinese Young Men's Christo hesitate in consenting to a round-wall, 3 P.12

She peeps up from the ocean,

one who fired the rounds at the point of view.. To prevent tian Association, pointed out that table conference until all danger of secured Creditors of the Hong-

December 12-Meeting of Un-| Is Goddess of near all that detective as the automatic which overlapping, however, it is essen

surveys ! the Colony does not possess one trouble in their respective territories kong Branch of the Banque With head up in the Heavens,

he is supposed to have discarded iial that there should be a central was fully loaded, five rounds being authority for reference. Under in the magazine and one in the the present scheme, Mr. She watches o'er the destiny firing chamber. The muzzle of Waldegrave has enquired into

Man,

the pistol was stuffed with a piece fifty cases this year and. of green leaf, apparently with the referred each case to the right idea of keeping the weapon free organisation. Out of the fifty from dirt. It had obviously not cases, very few have shown been used.

appreciation for the help given or stuck to jobs when given one. At the present, things are quiet owing to the season and the fact that some of the old-timers have been shipped. The murdered officer's funeral out of the colony. There still took place at 2.30 this afternoon exists, however, a ring of bums and was attended by a large num- who travel between Japan ports, ber of police officials and officers. China, Hongkong, Singapore and Public sympathy will be felt for Manila, living on the good nature the widow, daughter and son of of others. These men have lost deceased officer.

their manhood and self-respect, and charity in their case only leads to idleness and drunkenness. In cases of this sort the public can help the organisation by refusing any give the applicant money; instead they should hand. the applicant a note to dressed to the Seamen's Institute, the Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, ad- who will take the necessary steps to see that no deserving case is neglected.

SPIRITUAL VALUES,

foreign children. And now the Rev. North, whereas time may possibly August 20-General meeting of W. T. Featherstone, in yesterday's eliminate the little mer how can the Hongkong Philharmonic So- BONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, Avo 8, 1927. China Mail, has urged that sites ing trouble. Should this eventuate, ciety at St. John's Cathedral, 5-30

should be reserved in all parts of the Tsao Kun would be forced to come p.m.

out into the open. Opinion among Colony for primary and secondary prominent reformers, in the North is schools with adequate room for growing that a conference of leaders schools, recreation adjoining the future is desirable, but patience is urged Until the schools are until Tsao Kun has "wiped out the

Five cases of enteric and one needed, he suggested, the whole of needed, the Tsao Kun coterie can the 24 hours ending July 6. "All the Tienfain Clique. If patience is of small-pox were reported during the sites could be used for recreation. rely upon Sir Robert showing it, patients are Chinese. This is a notable suggestion, but it He can also be relied upon to show

What place would Hongkong take among the cities were some elining angel to demand evidence

of one finer-instine! to save it frou

the stigma of sordid materialism?

LØGEL AND GENERAL.

has one flaw. Those sites will the resolute purposs necessary to Various reports, states the Without its famous natural.beauty later possibly become very valuable, give China's leaders an opportunity | Commissioner for Customs at Wu-

to prove their patriotism.

miserably low, one fears, for here

Merrison

The Eastern and the Western

Race's song.

She's wed their art and science, Cementing an alliance,

For future ages glory to Hongkong.

JOHN KYOTO,

1923.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

chow, in his review of the trade con- ditions during 1922,point to the fact LA. F. White, 2nd Bn, The King's that a large traffic in native opium is Regt, has been appointed a member being carried on on the West River of the Soldiers' Club Committee. by means quite out of the Customs

conferred by the Czecho-Slovak Republic on Major E. A. H. James,

The Croix-de-Guerre has been

FUNERAL.

PENANG'S PROGRESS.

SHIPBUILDING AND -ELECTRIC SUPPLY.

·

to

the claims of the purely astheticised that danger, for he urged that Mr. Featherstone evidently recog. must almost invariably give away the future dollar value of the sites Reading About Books. before grosser needs.

should not be considered where The habit of superficiality 13 control, and the amount seized Hills must be flung into harbours health and recreation are concerned. growing alarmingly among mapid during the year-3182 teals-is to make reclamations; bathing We have called this point a flaw, fire adventurers into twentieth cen- only a negligible portion of it beaches must be sacrificed without) not because it really should prove feel that a smattering of knowledge tary existence, who have come to

Royal Engineers. compunction to provide sites for one, but because the Hongkong is all that is possible to them in is praised by

The Stout Memorial Hospital ugly wharves. Certainly these attitude will almost surely make it such overcrowded days

the Wuchow works need not mar the Colony's fatal.

Hence Commissioner of Customs in his Captain S. C. Cook, MC, of the Perhaps we exaggerate. tlioy read about books and refer to annual report for the creditable Corps of Military Accountants, has beauty. Reclamations can be laid The Colony has its philanthropists them glibly in their stall talk. Yet work" it has done, in spite of the resigned his commission and re- Her tonnage is 75. The "Kudat" is out with imagination and wharves and their good deeds have given ing about books can take the place of the changing political situation,

everyone must admit that no read- difficulties it had to face on account tains his rank. can be designed with artistry. But lasting benefits to the community.of intimacy with the books them in serving the general public as they never are.· Maminen is the The Government itself is not with. golves. Not long ago a publisher well

A Reuter cable from Chicago, as military people and great commercial gud these days out finer instincts. Has it not kept brought out in four compact 'little soldiers. The completion of the dated August 6, states that the year's working of $34,876. and his exacting sway usually leaves King's Park sacred, if still uninvit- | famous novels. Various well-known Commissioner records, enabled itsident Harding's body, has arrived /verted into raillesß electric cars by charge, from the House of Deten- volumes the synopses of one hundred third of its new building, the special funeral train bearing Pre- little room for anything that doesing? Did it not when the bathing literary. men were invited to write to furnish more rooms for patients there. Crowds estimated to number substituting a motor for the engine, tion, one morning, a bum with his not pay dividends. This is tragicbeaches went, tell the Colony: the abbreviated versions, keeping as well as rooms for chemical and 100,000, thronged the railroad taking the current from overhead face swathed in bandages accosted:

Man needs every little sign, every Little Flower Street that can

saved, to preserve his faith in humanity's sense of the beautiful.

The twenty-first ship to be built at the Straits Steamship Co.'s dockyard, at Sungei Nyok, Penang is nearly ready. She is a steel screw steamer, oil burning, and will be named the "Rawang."

A KING OF BUMS, Mr. Waldegrave has many amus-- being altered to burn oil fuel.

ing stories of the subterfuges em- The tramways department of the ployed by the genus bum in his Municipality shows a deficit on the chase after the nimble dollar. Two.

of his best are of men now no Petrol motor buses are to be con- longer in the Coldny: After dis-

..

This hurts us more than it hurts one author at least refused indign. equipment.

a ship's captain and begged the within a specified number of words. microscopical laboratory and X-ray pelled to abandon the movements. The electric supply department loan of one dollas to enable him to

yards, and the company was com trolly wires.

you? Verily intleed.

of suburban trains:

contributed $20,000 to the Muni-have this pesky tooth drawn." But facts antly the doubtful honour; it is to

cipal funds and carried forward He got the dollar, but had the mis- remain. The Colony has not one be hoped that there were others us The sale of China, Mail,"

SIS,LIZ

fortune to run across the donor recreation ground for Chinese courageous. But it may be argued, steamer by aliction, at a price which Letters just received by the Penang now has the distinction later in the day. When tackled But why bemout our lot? Apart

this attempt to furnish readers with suggests that the conditions are not Robert Dollar Co. from America, of supplying the cheapest electri- about his tooth, he confessed: "It from the noble few, those who sup children. Still, as Mr. Featherstone cinl success.

youngsters and only one for foreign digests of great novels was a finan. very different now from what they bring news of the death of Mr. city for power purposes in Malaya was a gamble between having a The set was bought were when Pinkerton bought the William Whitehill, their port and expects soon to enjoy the same tooth drawn, a square meal or a port our music, our dramatic, our points out, matter! must not be eagerly as college students and by Flying Scud" at San Francisco, is engineer in New York Mr. for lighting purposes which is now drink, and the drink won painting, and our·litery' societies,

„The "King of Bums," however, apart from these, finer spirits, most

left to the Government wholly, for, persons soeking to refresh their also a confirmation of what the Pro Whitehill, who was about 60 years 35 cents per unit of lighting..

went even further: After "talk- memories with the details of long-hibition authorities have threatened of age at the time of his death, was people here and who can blame as he further says, it is a local habit forgotten plots. For the latter, to do with all sorts of ships, says the a native of Glasgow, Scotland. He How Farreliance is to be placed ing A taipan into parting with a them if they exercise their choico? to expect the Government to do too perhaps, the danger was slight Japan Chronicle. Saliors on board was for between 20 and 25 years on the evidence of the average dollar for tramfare to Talkoo, he most people here resolutely refuse mich for people who are often only But consider the devastating effect the Nile smuggled opium, as they chief engineer on various Dollar witness has always been a matter sald" Be a sport and make it two.

do on every ship that crosses the Line vessels, running between the of doubt.... A test was made of a to recognise the grent fact that migratory. This does not by any upon the young, few of whom will Pacific, and the ship has been sold Pacific Coast of America and witness at the Liverpool Assizes spiritual values pannot be assessed means relieve the Government of its entirety. Things of vital worth in A British, schooter, with a negro made a large circle of friends, confidence that a horse attached to

ever read the books in their In order to recover the fine inflicted. China On the Chipa coast he had recently. He had stated with some A dispatch to the Dally in dollars and cents. They simply share. Though people may be this world are gained only by captain, has now a prospect of be especially in the shipping and i waggon had occupied three Bulletin, dated Feking" August 7, slceline to see that art has any value migratory the community is constringent effort. The familiar ing similarly disposed of in New engineering communities, who will minutes in crossing some railway states that Chinese circlex fire dis-

truism looms like a mountain peak York, and with the precedents regret to fears of his decease. Mrilner, and the hidge lavited him to Cussing a scandal in the Min latry. for its own sake. This in bud atant. The rest ouns, towever, lies above the mist, It is unthinkable duly prepared the Prohibition Whitehill went Home two or three test that length of time while stand of Agriculture, in which about 100 enough when it applies solely to art with the wealthy Chinese Hong that any condensation, however authorites may at any time want to years ago and has ince been ing in the Witness box. Reference labourers are alleged to have in its higher forms, but it is kong wants more really big Chinese able, should take on the style and sell the "Olympiolat auction if a acting as port engineer for the to the timekeepers watches show received passports enabling them infinitely worse when is applies to benefactors who will give large favour of the original text as un- fireman is found with a bottle of Dollar Linein New York, He was ed that only 58 seconds had elapsed to enter America and Brazil as

thinkable, ne that Robin Hood, as rum in his pocket or a. passenger Ill for about four months and died in a period which the witness

Government delegates to study Like sums of money for the education noted by Mr, Douglas Fairbanks in with a fisk of whisky."

during the latter part of June. my extimated as three minutes),

industrial conditions.

mione common-