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THE CHINA MATT

WEDNESDAY, JULY 80 1924.

(Names.)

By what sweet name from Rome

or Greece: Lalage, Neæra, Chloris, Sappho, Lesbia, or Doris, Arethusa or Lucrece,

The notion is almost incredible Chinese boys in Hongkong that doesn't like it any more than his robberies and armed desperadoos when it is remembered what a also calls for comment. We refer predecessors did, but it's one of who commit assassinations, but ital part water plays in the health to the ability of the average local those Conservative or preserva- human honesty révolts at the Chinese student to write excellent tive traditions that cannot be thought that the smugglers who of the entire community. Surely English without being equally ignored. Why, even Trotsky has instigate their crimes should go if the water supply is to have an fluent in the speech. This we bad to be "shadowed."

free,' autocrat that autberat should be attribute to the lack of facilities,

Mr. Charles the "Medical Oficer of Health or shall we say encouragement, for i

LATEST WILLS. Ebenezer To-day's Poem, Next take the question of the Chinese schoolboy to use the

Engilsh language as often as Place, Fowey, Cornwall, a High Treffry, of mosquitoes the direct agenta of possible.

Answers in the class- Sherif. of Cornwall and Mayor of What I should call her in my lay;

I asked my fair one happy day, malaria. Several parts of new room or even school debates con- Fowey £215.713 Kowloon,

But a we are told, have stitute actual practice.

Mr. Robert Cobay, of High- recently been the subject of great deal more could be accom- street, Hythe, auctioneer and plished if each school laid it down estate agent, a Mayor of Hythe enquiry by Sanitary Department as a rule that Chinese boys, from £105.337. officers, and the Medical Officer of certain classes upwards, must Mr. James Macnab, of Lillyburn, Health has been urging the Public speak to one another in the Eng-Milton of Campsie, Scotland, Worke Department to see that or addresses by senior boys in

lsh language. Periodical debates calico printer £74,444.

"Ah!" replied my gentle fair, Miss Mary Miriam Lyon, of "Beloved, what are names but air? drainage is proceeded with. Urg public would also be of great use. N. W. £73,945.

Harlow House, Regent's Park,

Choose thou whatever suits the ing! Surely the Medical Officer This side of English study by Mr. Frederick William Porter, Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,

Line: of Health should have been Chinese boys in

Hongkong of Faringdon, Berkshire, corn Call me Lalage or Doris, ordering-under threat of stop- deserves, we think, considerably merchant £55,389.

Only, only call me thine." ping the work unless due regard more attention than is paid to it

at present. was given to the public health. Then again cases were mentioned, such as at Pokfulam, where bad] nullahs were being trained. Here once more the Medical Officer of Health appears never to have been consulted and the possible danger RAMONOLOGOMGOMGM of spreading malaria seems hardly

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Japan And Soviet,

Sir Thomas Kennedy Dalziel, of Bath-street, Glasgow, one of the leading operating surgeons in Scotland, left, in addition to real estate, personal estate in Great Britain £50,217.

From latest news dispatches, it, Guilford-place, W.C., solicitor, a

Mr. William Manning Harris, of! appears that the Soviet and the Fellow of King's College, Cam- Imperial Japanese Government aro bridge, who directed his executors closer to an understanding than to destroy all his diaries. MSS. they have been for some months, and private papers, left about to have been considered. Frankly On the return of Mr. Yoshizawa, £25,000 to King's College, Cam- this will not do the issues renewal of negotiations is to be

the Minister to Peking, the bridge £29,436.

involved are far too Serious.

opened. There must be, as Dr. Koch urged. A cable to the "Daily Bulletin" more co-operation between the indicates that an agreement was Government Departments concern-week, with regard to conditions reached by the Tokyo Cabinet, last

con-

Mr. Louis Morgenstein ("Carl Hertz"), of Hyde Park-mansions, N.W. 1, the illusionist, £1,744.

The members of the QUEER. club were

telling yarns, when the quiet

11,

ed, this at the very least. Hong-whereby an understanding is con-man in the corner. was asked to kong is no longer the village it sidered possible. It is understood contribute. once was; it is now a teaming city that the conditions include a "Well," said he," Fonce entered which cannot afford to neglect the Russian verbal apology for the a restaurant where they weigh you Nikolaievsk massacre; long-term before eating, and then after slightest precaution, if serious (55 years) concessions of oil, coal, eating, and then charge you by epidemics are to be averted. and forests in Northern Saghalien weight. I had a good feed, and Closer co-operation between the to be exploited by a Japanese com-was charged ten shillings. The Government Departments

pany sharing its profits with the next time I went I took in my Soviet; no concessions on the pockets lead weights, aldiron, and cerned will undoubtedly go far Siberian mainland; the retention such like. I was weighed, and. towards ensuring that every pre-of the Portsmouth Treaty with an and then went upstairs and had a caution is taken, but until the extension of Japan's fishing rights banquet three times as big as the last I went down and was Sanitary Department is given the in Siberian waters; and the ques weighed again, but they couldn't

tion of debts to be postponed till make it out." supreme sway, until the Medical after recognition. Officer of Health has the final decision Hongkong's health system must be considered inade- quate, anomalous-end dangerous.

DON'T PANIC.

*The Japanese military party is expected to be satisfied regarding the retention of the Saghalien resources. Of course, the Soviet

Envoy may refuse to negotiate

He paused.

"Couldn't make what out?" asked the club members,

"Why," answered the quiet man, "they owed me four

tuppence!"

(Death for Arins Men.),

|

Samuel T. Coleridge.

WEATHER CALENDAR..

JULY 30.

1.

AMONG PIRATES,

FERRY JUNK STRIKES "HORNETS' NEST."

PASSENGERS IN CAPTIVITY.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

PAKKAL, Kongmbon, July 29. A series of misadventures have befallen, the Canton-Kongmoo ferry-junk and her tow consort, the "Th Shing." The launch and tow were on their first trip since resumption and were attacked by a gang of pirates who used a silk cocoon junk fleet. launch they had captured from a

After the attack, the unboat "Kong Hon"-sis.ership to the notorious "Kong Tai" which was used for a piracy in which the loot amounted to several lakhs-ap- peared on the scene after, the pirates had vanished...

Resuming their journey from Kongmoon to Ma Ning, the launch and low-boat came up with a second, gang of pirates at Parrot. Strait and a third gang at Sam Kok Sha Tau (near the Kamchak Ighthouse.) Besides the booty

1794..I enjoy this immortal aum-aken away, sixty passengers were

mer, though we have lost forced into captivity for ransom. all verdure and a great many leaves.

-Walpole.

LIKE A CHILD." When all is done, human life is,

like a froward child, that must be at the greatest and the best, but

played with, humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Sir William Temple.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

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ENTERTAINMENTS.

July 30. Coronet Theatre; "Judith of Bethulia.”

July 30.-The Star Theatre; "Kindred of the Dust."

and

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July 30-Queen's Heliotrope."

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PUBLIC AUCTIONS. July 31--Lammert Bros. Sales Roma, Gents' and Ladies' Rain Coats, 11 am.

Tsan Taai, the leader who is alleged to have utilised the "Kong Tal" for piratical purposes and to have attacked Kamchuk, is rumoured to be planning an inay sion of Kongmoon. He is now at Kong Mai with 500 men and the guns, stolen from the pirated gunboat, Martial law has been declared at Kongmoon, FREE RIDES.

•

About ninety per cent of the first and second-class passengers on the Sunning Railway do not have to pay fares. All that is necessary is for one to shake one's head and mumble something about belong- ing to a certain army.

Admiral Lam Yeuk-she, com→ manding the West River Flotilla, is reported about to resign.

Premium on Hongkong bank- notes here (in exchange for Canton silver subsidiary coins) has risen to 30 per cent,

TYPHOID.

FIVE MORE CASES.“

The Health Returns for yea- terday show five fresh cases of phoid (3 British 3 Chinese) and one of paratyphoid (Imported, English). In addition, a Chinese case of meningitis is on the list.

QUICK PASSAGE,

upon these terms. It must be borne in mind, however, that he will have to deal with a far-sighted Current Comment. and determined Government. which is in a position to dictate

COMPANY MEETINGS. Since yesterday's Sanitary terms and not with a weak-kneed

The death penalty for arms Board meeting is sure to form the coterie of Chinese politicians out smugglers, of whatever nationali- general meeting of The China September 16.-Extraordinary topic of conversation during the to feather their own nests, as was

the case when the Soviet "puty, and of the confiscation of ships Sugar Refining. Co., Ltd., at the next few days it is timely to utter across their last political deal. bringing contraband in the form of Registered Office of the Company, a word of warning. There will The Japanese Government has arma to China, is advocated by the Pedder Street, noon.

October 3.-Second meeting of Shanghai French paper "L'Echo

The Canadian Pacific liner inevitably be a tendency with some announced its readiness to

"Empress of Asia" which left evacuate Saghallen in October, if de Chine," which bitterly attacks the China Sugar Refining Ca.. people towards panic. Nothing the conditions now offered are

those responsible for the recent Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, Yokohama at noon on Saturday July 12 arrived in Victoria at 4 will be too fanciful for them to acceptable to Japan.

flood of weapon and ammunition noon believe," nothing too fanciful for

which has swept into Shanghai.. October 18. Extraordinary.m. on Sunday, July 20. The Strength is added to the argument General Meeting of Douglas 9.8 hours and the average speed was running time, was 8 days and 21 them to utter." Naturally free

by the discovery of a large store Co., Ltd., at the Registered Office 19.72 knots per hour. play will be made with the Dairy

of contraband pistols and ammuni- of the Company, 20 Des Voeux Farm's name, and it is in this

The old ideas re-tion aboard the French Mail liner Road, Central, noon. SIND WOMEN garding women Angkor. respect that we wish to any a word i

This is the fifth October 20-Third meeting of and childbirth are French Mall ship from, which the The China Sugar Refining Co., of restraint. Local medical men notoriously hard to displace. in will bear testimony to the fact that Sind, but a start is being made and Customs have captured arms in. Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street,

no doubt the new teachings will the past few weeks. Ships of noun. now spread slowly but surely, other nationality have also fallen Seth Sitaldas Tirathdas has refrequently under the hands of the ordinary meeting of Douglas S.S. cently given Rs. 50,000 for a Customs and quantities of arms Co., Ltd., at 20 Des Voeux Road maternity home, an equal amount have been seized. But, as the Central, noon.

Melbourne. for a girls' secondary school, and Acting Commissioner of Police. promised a yearly contribution stated in his report,, the punish July 80-Lecture

on "The · Mrs. H. L. Clift will conduct so well that it has now indeed of Rs. 6,000 for the first five years ments have failed lamentably as Search for Happiness" 26 the the Bible Study Circle at the

until the new institutions are on examples in become an institution, appreciated their feet. This splendid benefac instances. In one Consulate here 16 Queen's Road Central, 5.45 p.m. Fridays during August at 10.30 of these HK. Lodge Theosophical Society, Helena May Institute on the and respected by every section of tion should give an impulse to a the maximum penalty is 29 days'

LAXYIKA Ja.m. All are welcome-Adut. the community. This fact alone movement which is very badly imprisonment and is seldom im-

the Dairy Farm is run on lines which make it as good as the beat

in the Homeland, if not even better. For many years now the Dairy Farm has served the Colony

nine

each

November 5. Further extra-

OTHER MEETING.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Jackman sailed to-day by the ss. "St Albans" for Sydney. Capt. L. W. Smith, R.G.A. was a passenger

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to

was

should prevent people from get- donors to

needed and encourage other

At 8.35 this morning, it was come forward. The posed. In others it is either less

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL notified that a typhoon was form- ting into a panic and adopting an Institutions, which are now in or very little more impressive.

ing near Lat. 18 N., Long, 115 E. attitude which might easily cause working order at Shikarpur, are The article in the French paper

Dr. Schurman, the American Themdlus of the storm the Dairy Farm heavy losses in Pherwani, formerly of the Bombay man knows that all opium smug-August 16, for the United States dus south of Hongkong and about under the control of Mr. S. N. reads as follows:-"Every sensible Minister, will leave Shanghai on unknown. This position is almost money and prestige. After all University School of Sociology.

glers deserve the utmost penalty on leave. Probably he will not 300 miles away. even if the epidemic had sprung

which law has power to enforce, return to Peking before the end of Three yards of rain 16 but speaking frankly, their crimes the year.

The fatal accident to the Sanitary Board meeting-start-from the Dairy Farm's milk-and

RAIN. said to have fallen at pale into insignifieance besides

"Tairei Maru" particulars of the public must take into account MICHARDSON. — On July 24, ing because they reveal a sitna- Mr. Manuk's letter, appearing in since the beginning of the year. Opium only injures

Innisfail, in Queensland, those of the arm smugglers.

Mr. L. A. Tobias, returned to which appeared in yesterday's 1924, at Vancouver, B.C., to tion which is anomalous in the this issue when judging this point this is too much why it's a victims. It is different with arms. M

willing the Colony by the President" cables, was caused by a collision Other passengers in with the s.s. Shimpo Maru" of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Orchard-extreme. We are not referring to there could be absolutely no risk And where's Hongkong's vaunted The men who buy this class of concluded Mr.. J. E. Ellis, Mr. E E. the Kishimoto ss. Co. There was Mon, 3005 Point Grey Road, the typhoid epidemic. That, of infection if the very simple rule wetness now? Vancouver, B.C. (Mrs.

traband have no intention of com- Ellis Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Davey, a dense fog at the time, and the Orchardson nee Dora W. M. alarming though it seems, is after of boiling the milk were generally

mitting suicide, but would make Naison, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Rome,

Mr. Geo: Haaldus, Mr. PIL Taire!" sank in 20 minutes. Hummel); a daughter. all only a phase. The Medical adopted. Accordingly, looking at ST. PAUL'S making a clearance and assassination. Unfortunately

The question of use of the weapons for brigandage Mr. G. T. Smith.

The Asiatic Petroleum Co Officer of Health (Dr. W. W. the matter from every standpoint,

(South China) Ltd., have issued a DEATHS.

round St. Paul's Is the secret sale of arms continues. Among the passengers who neat little brochure to commemor- Pearse) described it as "short and the public should remember that not now raised for the first dime at Shanghai. Ships coming from arrived on the "Empress of Russia" ate the completion of the A. P. C. AKMSTRONG-At 6.80 p.m. On sharp," and the Chairman of the ordinary decency, and common old St. Paul's offended the taste or tine bring into our port large well-known in Philippine news Central. It is well illustrated and The crowdings of buildings round foreign countries from time to from Manila was Mr. Arsenio Luz, Building 24-32 Queen's Road 20th July, 1924, at the Peak Board (Mr. N. L. Smith) added sense alike demand that it should the sentiment of Archbishop Laud quantities of these engines of paper circles. Mr. Luz was contains a number of interesting Hospital, John Henry William later that it was considerably strongly resiat every impulse to It was at his instigation that the destruction. It is true that quan- formerly editor of " El Ideal" and facts of the company's history. Armstrong. Aged 48 years. smaller than last year's outbreak wards panic and should continue church of St. Gregory by Paul's tities of contraband are discovered later of the Philippines Herald." The funeral will pass the What we are referring to is the to support a very admirable ed by order of King Charles, to now and again by the Maritime le tue Carnival Association

with other bulidings, was demollah-

At Peak Church during Monument at 6 p.m. today. amazing way in which vital ques-institution as it has supported it make a clear space round the Customs, but the amount seized in and was the moving genius which Service on Sundays at 6.30, TYSON-Ò¤ July 21, 1924, at

the Philippine Carnival Association August there will be evening Cardiff, England, John Staf- tions affecting the public health for so many years past.

Cathedral The church was the this way is not one-tenth of the made the annual celebration this the preachers will be as ford Tyson, of the Shanghai are apparently left to the decision

burial place of Sir John North amount of arms that find their year such a great success. Mr. Luz follows: Aug 3rd Rev. GE Municipal Electricity Depart of officials outside the Health

(1555-1597) and fu ft his widow way into the hands of the is on his way to Japan for a wall Arrowsmith, 10th Rev GR ment, aged 41 years. By

had erected a magnificent mond criminals. To put an end to this earned rest

* Lindsay, 17th Rev. Dr. J. P ment. The destruction of St diagraceful traffic it will be neces

Mackie 44th Rev. R. J. Northcott follow their own sweet will with- Reference has been made in this in the minds of Sir John's children; gler who is discovered, regardless Oriental Line's

Gregory's roused bittet resentment sary to put to death every smug- Passengers on the "Admiral | C. F.; 31st, Rev. H. Copley Moyle. out ever consulting the Medical month's Queen's College school his oldest son, Dudley third Lord of his nationality, and to seize Jackson, which Officer of Health. Take the ques magazine, the "Yellow Dragon North, gives expression to this every ship on board of which arms tion of water supply. Here at to Chinese schoolboys, as a whole, feeling in his book Ferest of above, a certain amount are dis- least one would think the Medical Concentrating on subjects likely to Varieties, with his customary covered, whether these ships Officer of Health would be crop up at the examinations quaintness of diction.

instead of striving after knoW-

The Chinn Mail,

amonu, Wauksdaw, Joly 30, 1924

TAKING RISKS

Startling is the only word that

ribes some of the statamont

at yesterday : Enernoon

Department, who it seems, can Local Education.

Supreme. But, no The question ledge

eneral An attempt to bly the purity of the cour this was made by Mr. of RIA Forrest, who offered a

water and, the conta catchins

of the Sanite Water

Bartment

special prize to a private school,

to encourage learning for learn

There'iisfanother

wear belong to Chinese or eigners

The present Prime Recently subject of a certain

Koreign nation-s

two-days*

Dres ing

s.s.* President There is Holy Communion every arrived yesterday, Sunday at 8.15 2.m. -Adytu

Kahn,

GC Moss, Station Officer: of the Fire Brigade, who had bla fset Injured in the fire some times her ago at the Euction of Wilmer, * the Street and Queen's Road West in UST AWARI, SIRIS then Velay lend their lives

and a Chinese Hranianɔwan" killed, left the Government Clyll Halpical Yesterday. He is now able to ret about on Crutokes but it wil be some time before he returns, lo