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We connot say to their views regarding a military MOSTLY FOOLS? off hand what the population establishment at Gun Club Hill It seems to us that the Govern of Britain is. It may still be 40,000,000, mostly fools," as ment has a tremendous task upon Carlyle phrased it; but it is its hands in selling, as it presum-interesting to learn that the sales ably will endeavour to do, the land for the week ending January 12 of National Savings Certificates which will come into its posses- last, were 589.322, making a grand sion. It seems likely the ordinary total of 674,100,424. Taking the 'mostly fools" as a basis, this land speculator-let us call him

gives as over sixteen certificates investor--will not jump so readily per fool. Not so bad. There's jas some expect. It may mean the thrift in the old deg yet!

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classes are becoming educated and as their education broadens. their reading extends. Most of us are familiar with the statement "I've no time (to spare) for reading." It seems to us a sort of deprecatory cry, that the maker of it wishes to indicate that he is not to be considered high-brow or what is known as well read. We all read; of that there is no question. But we do not all worry about what we read and that is the trouble. We

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised In The Mall.

ENTERTAINMEN” 5.

March 15:-Coronet Theatre; Baby Peggy in "The Darling of New York.

March 15-Star Theatre; Conrad Nagel in "The Fighting Chance."

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March 15.--World Theatre; Ethel Clayton in "Can A Woman Love Terica?"

Royal

SATURDAY, ^ VALCH 15, 1924.

INDIAN PIRACY GUARDS

Are They Any Good?

OFFICERS

GUILD

ALLEGATIONS.

Statement By C.S.P.

"In the course of the statement made by Mr. T. T. Laurenson, March 16-Star Theatre, "Doug"

assistant accretary of the China Coast Officers' Guild when interviewed Fairbanks in "Mollycoddle."

after last Sunday's mass meeting, and also" in the correspondence March 29Theatro

between the Guilds and the Government published during the week Grand Concert, 9.15.p.m.

serious allegations were made against the Indian guarde which the SOCIAL Lord Burnham

piracy regulations compel British ships to carry. It was also suggested March 15-Fourth annual dinner SECRETARIES, assures us that

of Queen's College Old Boys' that the guards, besides being inefficient and generally useless, were the world is

not properly 'disciplined by the police authorities who control them. Asscn., 8 p.m. run by its secretarles-commercial,

These charges were replied to in the course of an interview social, and political.

March 17-Hongkong Football "Secretaries Club dinner in the Hongkong Hotel, courteously given to a "China Mail" reporter by the Captain Super- are the men in whom we put our 7.80 p.m.

intendent of Police, Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe who characterised them as trust and from whom, no secrets

March 17.-Grand Carnival (din-Į“a gross libel." are hid." It is very true and It is true outside the paid avenues of per dansant), in Hongkong Hotel the three worlds mentioned. Grill Rooms, 8 p.m. to midnight. Many a struggling organisation has been saved and kept on its legs by its energetic secretary, and many a starctity is the eyes and ears, of the Company and Directors he serves. Into the words of wisdom and knowledge mouths of the wise man he puts Sir George Lewis the great solicitor is supposed to hold more concerns of

of the secrets

different classes of people than anyone else, but we would back the average Secretary as a close seconder as a keeper of secrets.

DARK.

were re-

April 2-St. Andrew's, Fete in the Church Hall and grounds, Kowloon, 2.50 p.m.

SPORT. March 20.-H.K. Jockey Club extra race meeting.

LAND SALE.

one lot of Crown Land at Tsing

March 17-At P.W.D. Offices

COMPANY MEETINGS,

QUESTION OF CONTROL.

Ships Officers, Apathetic.

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Punishments,

As regards the punishments in- ficted on the guards the Guilds" let- tar described then as "ridiculonaly

Mr. Wolfe referred first to the inadequate-Mr. Wolfe said that Guikle allegation that "the con- the Guits had evidently been mis- tol, ive established by the Regula- informed.. For drunkeness on duty Itluence of the Police is paramount, secard offence. $5: third offence. tiens, is a divided one in which the guards wore, he said, fined on the following scale-First offence, $3;

instant dismissal. As the ship's guards only receive $28 per mensem this. he pointed out, represents a fine of one-eighth and one-fifth of their total pay for the month. This

March 20.-Hongkong & Wham poa Dock Co., Ltit., ordinary yearly

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The guards, he went on to point out, are trained by the Police to Owing to the very large demand- engine & uniform training and be for guards received from various cause the Police have facilities for sources in Hongkong and also in this work which ships' officers have outports, it is impossible, Mr. Wolfe aug ⚫ committed Home but it 18 always na BOOK 14 possible

assimilate the things that come and Mr. Tanner's reference in meeting st 2, Queen's Building. not got. In a large number of indented, ta transfer a man when

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jail to such an extent that the nu- 3 p.m.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

thrity of the Master is largely do March 17.-Lament Bros, accented and is frequently resented." their Sales Rooms, 21 balos paper. tting Regulation 32, be said that 11.m.

whilst ships are under weigh the March 17-Lammert Bros. atster has absolute control of the No. 12 East Point Terrace, house-urds and he declared that it was could hardly, he submitted, be calle Bret Harte has forhold furniture etc., 2.30 p.m.)

untrue to say that Police controled a light punishment. March 18-Lammert Bros., at was paramount.

"Guards Much In Demand. all time related the

Duddell Sreet, episode of at least Sales Rooms, one celestial who excelled in ways electric furnace, etc., etc., Noon.

dark. We that are minded of it by reading the March number of "The Yellow Dragon His annual report, to those who easy to us, that require no great attend the College for but a short Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels and no effort made to assist in truindone

March 22-Yearly Meeting of, Mr. Wolfe alleged, little or he

no interest was taken in the guards offence. mental effort to understand, and while and then apply for leaving Ltd, 11.30 am. the result is that we miss quite certificates

March 27-Fifty-fifth meeting of in them by giving them revolve in cases of inslence to a ship's offi- practice otc., when at sea. Arms cer or any serious breach of - a lot. It is probably true that prove they are Old Boys of the shareholders of the H.K. Fire In- and ammunition wens supposed to cipline or serious neglect of duty; the most popular sections of any College. Some years ago it was

surance Co., Ltd. at Mesas.

"This large demand for guards," ceatain

he inspected and tested weekly but newspaper are those devoted to discovered that

Jardins Matheson's offices, p000.

in a large number of cases this top commented the C.S.P., 'seurs in, aport, social functions, and the principled holders of certificates

March 29. Further extraordin-

wae neglected...I am glad to say, toelf to rather disprove the charge accounts of the misdoings of our were turning them to account by fellow mortals, while perhaps the letting them out on hire to apary general meeting of the Hong- however, the C.S.P; added, that af inefficiency. If they are so un- leaders and the special articles plicants for positions in the Kong Land Reclamation Co., Ltd., there are some notable exceptions, reliable and generally useless as the Chinese postal department and Messrs. Jardine Matheson's and on those ships the guards give Guilds say they are, how is that so are either only half-digested or

httle or no, trouble and can be re-many people are wanting to get hold March 29-Ordinary Meeting of lied upon to give a good account

of them ?** skipped. But in odd places and other places and so enabling them Offices, II a.m.

Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd., at at odd moments we come across to pose as old Queen's boys.

of theirselves."'

An Unfair Example. those who unexpectedly tell us of

Holland's Second Company's offices 20, Des Voeux

"A Gross Libel."

In conclusion Mr. Wolfe referred this, or that book that has SUMMER TIME. Chamber has Road, 11 &.m.

carried a resolu- March 81-Forty-sixth anna] "This is a gross libel on the to the following paragraph in one of engaged, or is engaging, their attention, and we realise that deep tion asking the Government "in meeting of shareholders of the guards," said Mr. Wolfe, referring the Guilds letters

"That a striking instance is down there is a desire for the the general interest," to repeal China Sugar Refining Co.. at to the statement in the Guilds let best in literature, or that class the Summer Time Law. It is auch Mesa. Jardine Matheson's Offices, fent that "the guards, who are net-afforded in the case when corrective ther milors mor policemen, are not measures (report to 0.0.G.) were messages as this that the great 11a.m. which enlarges our outlook and Reuter deigns to send us that we

adficiently intelligent to act in an taken against one of the guards by makes life more interesting; fail to understand "In the March 24-Annual meeting of emergency en previously formulat-the Chief Officer of a river steamer What is needed is an organisa- general interest.". Probably It Members of the HK. Genemed instruction without the steadying which subsequently led to his death tion which will suggest courses of needs Dutch courage to get up an Chamber of Commerce in the Old influence of a European Officer. In at the hands of the man he had re- reading, and band into small study hour earlier in the summer in Chamber of Commerce Room, City no case has the initiative been ported: the said officer being fatally

Hall, 4 p.. circles those who,, from time to Holland.

taken by them, they have shot in the back whilst on the bridge time will meet in friendly conclave

ways declined combat al accepted at his post of duty, the murderer the leat painful of the alternatives being allowed to escape. to discuss certain aspects or ques-

of being disirmed or shot.

This evidently reformed he said to tions raised in the books read.

Inatancing the case of the "Sui the case of the late Mr. Spafford, Such a body as this exists at

An and Su Tai pincies, Mr. formerly Chief Officer of the "Fat- Home in the shape of the National

Wolfe pointed out that the majority shan: "In the Eust," pointed out Home-Reading Union-an admir

of the guards were ex-soldiers and Mr. Wolfe," there are always cares able union which has persisted in

that the "Sui An" Pinicy Corn of people running amok but it is its work for years, It is likely

mission reported on the conduct of unfair to quote this solitary instance that a branch of this organisation

the ship's guards in the following in 9 venna as typical of the conduct will be formed in Hongkong very

tome:The behaviour of the of the guards generally. The state- shortly. If so we wish those who

ship's guards appears to have been ment "the murderer being allowed. are likely to be behind it every

excellent."The C.S.P. also drew to oscane" is also a terminological attention to the fact that in every inexactitude na the guard in ques- mise of miracy the gurds had suffer-on jumped everboard immediately ed as many, and generally more after the ebooting and has not been naualties than the ship's officers | found aïnee. It is therefore dasim-

ed that he was drowned."

Buccess.

The Last Moment.

the matter.

this,

THE CHIEF JUSTICE,

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Are we becoming Ceylonised? HE.

came from

OTHER MEETINGS.

March 25.-Thirty-eighth yearly meeting of Members of the Bong kong Club, in the Club House, 5.30 pm, to be followed by an extra- ordinary General Meeting imranedia- hely after.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The Government. Gazette notifies | (lid: that unless cause is shown to the contrary within three months, the Hongkong Wa! Man Savings and Investment Association Ltd., will be struck off the register and the company, dissolved.

money,

BABY PEGGY.

FINE PICTURE AT THE CORONET.

HONGKONG ROPE CO.

NEW SHARE RESOLU-. TIONS CARRIED.

the

meeting

Colombo. So did Mr. Creasy, and now our new Chief Justice is to come from the

DOG AND CAT SHOW. land of spicy breezes. Are theso March 15-In the Parade appointments the result of local Ground, HK. Dog and Cat Show. influence or suggestion? Perhaps 2p.m. H.E. believes in working with the devil you know rather than the devil you don't. We profess not to understand these appointments -how they are made and how

The next Criminal Sessions they are arrived at. Is the time will be held on March 19, coming when we shall all be cry- ing A Hongkong Man for a Hongkong job," Are we so DEATHS.

has come to regard with con-

The world seems to be over-mited in legal intellects that we fidence and respect, is, as ever, crowded with people who are con- have to go outside? Gentlemen of PERSEN.-On March. 8, 1924, at

Shanghai, Carl Johan Persen exceedingly candid, and advises tinually doing things at the last the jury, what is your verdict?

is a very prominent (third engineer of the Nor the closing of the deal in spite of moment, to their own great dis-

comfort and very often the dis- NO ROAD sign just now in wegian 8.8. Trafalgar "), the largeness of the figure comfort, annoyance and worry of

"Hongkong. We aged 37 years,

involved, and the excess cost others. It is a matter of

Mr. W. Cox, chief engineer of sde it every where, and particularly DAS CALDAS. On March 8 which it is considered the Colony psycology perhaps to determine over what we may call trenches, the ss. "Nairung" was mentioned

Children, whose opinion is always 1924, at Shanghai, Augusto

the reason for

An extrudinary general meeting Francisco, at the age of 41.

but At night a little lamp is placed in Mr. J. R Wood's court this is being called upon to pay in the

psycologists, who generally know near it to There morning as being spontaneous and therefore entirely transaction.

turing Company was called at the There the matter leas of their own foibles, than is a wao wara pedestriani kerise unemployed the victim of two on from prejudice, the thy of the Hongkong Rope Manufac some postage cinema's most acute critics offices of Messrs. Shewan Tomes ends with a general expression of they do of others, are very silent light inside the lamp, seemingly $95 In concurrence with the Hon. Mr. on

The Last waiting for a little frisky night stamps, and a pocket-book (not ordine any mcture that plouses & Co this morning to adopt resolu The China Mail. Pollock's, protest, and our own the sold

a picture is The Darling of New who attended regret that the general public has get up at the last possible which it often does. How many ship yesterday. The thieves got to please the grown-ups also. Such allotment of new shares. Those York," now showing at the Coronet were Mr. R. G. Shewan (chair moment; and arrive at their have fallen into these trenches we six months' hard labour each. HONOKUNG SATURDAY, MAB. 15, 1974. not been consulted in the least in destination in a similar manner. almost fallen into them must be know not. The number who have

That she has steam up and Theatre Everything that delighte the, matter, or asked what it They buy the things they need in.

(Consulting-Committee) Mr. FJ.- police have bure comedy, mystery, pathon, Tavares (Secretary), and Messrs. thought about it all. It is neces- breathless haste or their tickets terrific. What is wanted is not so presumably, a Hittle coal left, is the heart is to be found in this pic-man), the Hon. Mr. P. H. 'Holyoak

much a dim religious light, but the report the sary to go back to the Council, for a concert or theatre after the one that will shed its warning received concerning the Shamsui- romance. thrill. But perhaps its W. Adamson, A. A. Cordeiro, H. meeting of February 7th last, and having made up their minds pre- some P.W.D. official would accid- which

doors have opened, seemingly not glow without hesitation. If only po ferry launch "Kwong: Shun" tercipta prod by B. Tayler, B. C. Randall, J. H. Was forcibly taken the principal part is played Baby Munton, Toppin, G. P. Lam- It remains to be seen if this to read Mr. Fletcher's exceedingly viously as to their exact inten- entally fall into a stench-we mean away thirteen days ago It is not Peggy who makes her debut as a mert, D. Lopes, A. M. da Silva, A. venture of the sale or transfer of lucid speech on Sir John Oakley's tions on the day in question. trench, we might expect some expected that she will be refloated feature stir. Through all her ad- A. Alves, Tong Hoketing and Military Lands is to be numbered award, and the conditions which Thus in another connection the improvement. Perhaps an Over from the shallow water at Sha-Mee-verdere as te orphan child left Fung Tat-hang

Tau till Monday or Tuesday when to the buffetings of fate, the re- The five resolutions which were she will be brought back via Macao, mains the same winsome and carried were all proposed by the with the Government's Rice Purled up to it, and the Military organisers of our proposed Cat seer will oblige? chase Scheme of a few years ago, Lands Circular despatches of 1890 and Dog Show extend the date of entry for exhibits. Some have or that other scheme which and 1894, and later the agreement plit off entering their nets until during the seamen's strike, arrived at between the Govern the last moment others interest chartered a boat and sent a cadet ment and the local Military ed heve, alas! forgotten. Our Last Momenters come into to the to Hoihow or some other place to Authority, to obtain a clear grasp Theatre and cause others to wish buy cabbages or some other form of the whole situation. Certain that their last moment will soon of perishable food for a possibly passages of this speech state come. In Shanghai, where they starving Colony. H.E. Major what is well known that these have a sense of public pride, these areas block the normal LM's are going to be scotched. 'General Fowler's words are com

A lady in that sublime city Is forting on paper. He is the development of the Colony

'producing a play and she has optimist par excellence, and we This is unanswerable and prob decreed that late comers will not can only hope his predictions will ably explains the decision to close be allowed to enter to take their prove true, though it does not at once. It might be argued that seats until the act in progress is suggest a rosy future for instead of taking the boom prices finished. A Pioneer! A noblo householders and others as the as a basis, which prevailed when multitudinous Watermand! Her 1663. increased price of will Sir John Oakley was here, that example needs emulation in all which prevailed when the cities of the Far East. The will come when Hongkong

FIVE MILLIONS.

mean high rents, and the

rmánancy of the Kents Ordia negotiations for the transfer was ance. ILE. the Governor whose made, might have been taken futterances and outlook the Colony This is probably too idealistic

pioneer, worthy the praise of

dept 1, when it will decrea o the death on those who they have left things to

To-day's Poem.

(Nature.)

Nature's first green is gold,. Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf's a flower But only so an hour.. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."

Robert Frost.

WEATHER CALENDAR.

MARCH 15.

This day the weather, which of Inte has been very hot and fair turns very wet and cold, and all the church

"BDOLAL", "AND" PERSONÁL

Chairman and seconded by Messrs. Lammert, Fung Tat-hang, Tayler, Randall and Cordeiro

ponding little artiste, alternately. exciting anxiety or causing namuise- ment as she pros temble risks or applica the comic touch. How the becomes a waif of the streets; how Mrs. Phelips is to leave on the the attempts to reform a gang of "Naldera" next week, after a re- crooks: how she is entrapped in u

Shanghai has lost several of its sidence of 20 years in the Colony: burning building: how alio narrowly Mr. Phelips, the Colony's Audi-encapes death only through a peri- oldest residents who have departed {tor, follows next year.

one deacute; and how she eventually for Home. These include Mr. finds happiness. are all incidents in H. F. Bell and Mr. and Mr. The name of Dr. Kim Changa canited story which may be seen Cochrane. Mr. Bell came out in voon, who holds a licence in in all its scenic richness to be a 1894 to the arm of Ilbert and Co., Medicine and Surgery from, the precinted fully. Certainly "The later becoming an Exchange King Edward VII College of Darling of New York is n grent Broker. He has been a con- Medicine, Singapore, has been picture for children-a great picture sistent member of the Cathe

70] draft, Choi,, and an ardent added to the Register of Medical, for children of all ages.

Volunteer, and sportsman, aud Practitioners,AKTE

will be missed in there, circles.

According to a Reuter Cable from San Francisco, Mr. Curtis Wa Wilbur, Chief Justice of the Call tornis Supreme Court, announced time this afternoon,

that he has accepted the Secretary thundered mightily ship of the Navy in succession to

M-Denby.

For Coughs and Colds Major Cochrane came to Shanghal When congeable weather or exporare in 1010 for the Blue Funnel Line. to enld, and wet results in bewehitis, and is an ardent engineer an Congh, Romedy Peen In b for over very effective acting service to the aronsekter Chamberlain's golfer. Mrs. Cochrane has rendered hity wave, and strongly recommended Shanghal A.D.C. and will be very

porn, weakening coughs. For mach missedal

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