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abandon their evil ways, and they can as it were keep their hand in at the business while they wait for more lucrative victims. Thus although big ships are now fairly safe the menace remains, Accord- ingly it beboyes the responsible authorities to strain every nerve to protect smaller craft, for as long as they are the prey of pirates, the outlaws will continue to thrive, a menace to all vessels, great and small; trading through the danger zone.

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Society,"

BATURDAY AUGUST 21824

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

August_2. — Comnet. Theatre; "Where The Pavement Ends.”

August 2-The Star Theatre "The Wanderwälls.”-

August 2,- World Theatre; Animals acting as Men."

August 2Queen's Theatre: Hellotrope,"

LAND BALR."

CHINA'S BIG MARKET.

CHANCES FOR AUSTRALIA.

TRADE MISSIONARY..

To fostertrade between Australia H Chen, who reached Sydney. and China is the mission of Mr.

on July 6, by the N.Y.K...steamer

Tango Mary"

briefly," he continues. "He more appropriately as "Kenseikal ignored the past and the present is best translated: "Constitu- and considered only the future. tional Government He conceived it possible to build the co-operative commonwealth this phase of the out of entirely new material. To recent shifting of Japan's political him the past generations could be weights is clearly of far-reaching entirely forgotten; the present generation should play the rôle import, another, though less talked anew of the old Jewish tribes, who of way prove as considerable. bad, under the leadership of Moses, Viscount Kato's appointment as dwelt forty years in the desert, Premier is to mark, perhaps, the while the new generation was be- passing of the balance of power in ing brought up and educated as the islands from the Satsuma

Mr Chen, who is a Shanghai the rich Iwasaki

solicitor, was born near Newcastle, builders and members of the so- clansmen to cialist republic..

family and their supporters. That

Fund received his schooling "in is to say, it may mean the defeat

Sydney. He said that he had pre- August 5. At P.W.D. Offices.viously been offered the ppaition The British Government of the militarized bureaucrats by QUITE has decided to make the rapidly growing commercial one lot Crown land at Shamshuipo, of Chinese Consul-General in

methylated spirits

magnates. Kato is son-in-law of 3 p.m.

Australia, but for health reasons he had been compelled to decline repugnant to the taste as to be the founder of the Iwasaki, and

family connection undrinkable. The Government has this

was September 16-Extraordinary the honour. for his accession general meeting of The Ching taken on a big job. Any person responsible

Mr. Chen, who will spend six Some may claim that at pre-who finds methylated spirits palat the Kedselkai presidency, Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the weeks in Australia, stressed the sent it is too early to pat ourselves abie must be so seasoned a vessel and that, of course, has led directly Registered Office of the Company, great importance for an improve op the back for the apparent as almost to be proof against the to the seat at the upper end of the Pedder Street, noon,

ment in the packing of Australian decrease in violent crimes in this most objectionable compound Cabinet table. The third of the

October 3-Second meeting of products exported to Chinn,where, newer paths which Japanese official the China, Sugar Refining Co..e said, there was a vast and ever- Colony. That there is a decrease known to chemists

dom now is expected to follow is Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, growing market for Australian there is no question. About a

one of genuine taxation reform, Without 提 year ago it seemed as if the

goods. average number of armed rob FREEMASONRY, parallel in the along with a programme of real and

October, 18,

Dressed in national costume, Mr. Extraordinary beries was about one a day if not,

Chen wore three large medals, history of Free drastic financial retrenchment: Not

Hongkong Crime Decreases.

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noon,

COMPANY MEETINGS,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

`qulike..."

·FORTNIG FULLY REPORT.

Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy Cotton Goods.-The market is in the doldrums and new business is conspicuous only by its absence. In the interim since our lust report According to the "Gazette" price of Amerian Cotton for both 'Spot" and "Futures" has ad- four additional filter-beds are to be constructed near Lalchikok Pass.vanced considerably, and manufac

turers are asking correspondingly Tenders are being called for,

enhanced figuros for Cloth. This position is not, however, "in any Clearances Way reflected in Chinese selling

ill continue-poor

more. To-day they are few and masonry in Great Britain was the only has the Kennelka! favoured General Meeting of Douglas 8:8. Including one he had received for far between and the correspond- recent simultaneous appointment such moves for some time, but it Co., Ltd., at the Registered Office rescue work in the Japanese earth ing proportion of convictions has of three members of the royal is today recognized, as never of the Company, 20 Des Voeux increased. We are loath to assert family to high Masonic office before, that the industrial and Road, Central, noon.

the country October 20.-Third meeting of " The appointments, were made by economic state of KONONOMİOMONOTONODOME with any degree of certainty to the Duke of Connaught, as Grand is essentially unsound, al The China Sugar Refining Co.,

which part of our administration Master of England, the appointees belt superficially satisfactory, and Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. this material improvement, should being the Prince of Wales, as that prompt steps

should be noun. be credited. We think that every Provincial Grand Master of Surrey; taken in the direction of steadylog November. Further extra- department concerned has done its the Duke of York, as Provincial this. The loan from the United ordinary meeting of Douglas 8.8.

States last spring, much bit towards coping with what once Grand Master of Middlesex, and Ltd. seemed the impossible. Probably Prince Arthur of Connaught, as criticized when it was obtained, Co., Ltd., at 20 Des Voeux Road

Master the strengthening of our laws has Provincial Grand

of now is seen to have been a vital Central, noon. "had a deterrent effect. Gradual Berkshire. This is not saying, necessity and its need still stands completion of a network of however, that such offices have not index. to. what cannot but be a searchers for carriers of arms has been filled by members of the primary part of the new Govern also brought reward and con-royal family before, because arents activities. If the business; tinued police vigilance seems to practically continuous successionen of the Nation shall co-operate have nicely rounded off the effort. of such appointments has taken in all this, a large general-good place almost since the first Grand assuredly will result, and apparent True, people may meet with a Lodge of Freemasons was founded by exactly this is to be the case. police patrol at night and be ques-at the Goose and Gridiron in St. During the just-closed campaign the tioned and searched but all have Paul's Churchyard, in. 1717. Shoko, a merchants and man HE, the Governor has given gladly put up with the slight was twenty years after this date, facturers association, supported his assent, in the name and on be. inconvenience no it has been however, before the first Prince of the main the Kenseikai half of His Majesty the King, toate in this market.

the Ordinance No. 3 of 1924. An proved that many prowlers have Wales was initiated into a lodge, candidates and always on been snared in this manner. Let

following conditions: "Use less Ordinance to amend the law relat the good work continue and every-

Mr. Henry

Hugo red tape and more business in ing to stowaways. body give credit, where credit is LATEST Worthington, J.P., of government; employ less politics

The Hongkong order declar- WILLS Grantlands, Uffcuime, in business; reduce government due.

Devon, Late of expenditures; establish budgets ing Saigon to be a port where a Wycombe, Bucks, left his wife and an audit system: prepare for infectious disease prevails, has £50,000, household and personal trade, not war; build a merchant been rescinded. effects. motor-cars, a residence, marine, not new war craft; pay

In the "Gazette" notice is business. Quotations are:-No. and an annuity of £1,500 free of more attention to foreign com- The presence-of-a-number of duty; £293;857---------

merce and less to foreign politics given that the names of the Tung 10s $220/240. No. 12s. $225/246. Russian military officers in Canton Mr. John Jervis Langley, of In brief, this highly influential Sang Co., Ltd., and Der. A No. 168 $215/250 No 20

Arrivals 900' bales-i the domestic and Wing & Co., Ltd., have been struck $245/250. has naturally causer? much Alington, Tower-road, Prenton, body sets speculation as to the actual rela Cheshire, and Cook-street, Liver economic face above the foreign off the register of companies. (The Shipments nil. Sales nil. Unsold

balesh KATE HONGONDE QUODQDtions between Dr. Sun Yat-sen and pool, ship and insurance broker and political. Will the ministry latter-named company has been stock 8,800 bales. Bargains 1,000

Kato's conduct reconstituted.. the Soviet. Last week it was and merchant, Jeff £5,000 to Liver do as much?

Woollens-Market remains ex- charities and hospitals, will be mighty well worth the of international relations, however, announced that a secret treaty Had pool.

His Majesty the King has 'ceedingly dull.

Clearances poor, £129,734 already been entered into between

Raw Cottons. There is · no...... Southwold, Tapton Crescent-road, he has called the strong attitude, Unofficial Member of the Executive change to report.

Mr. Arnold Thomas Watson, of watching. For nearly a decade he approved the appointment of the and no fresh enquiry.

has personified consistently what Hon. Mr. P H Holyoak to be an Sheffield, stock and share broker, and this especially as regards Council during the absence on

Métala. Market continues to be for some years Asay Master of China and Perica. Let it be leave of the Hon. Sir Paul Chater, very dull. No business reported. Sheffield, £72.437.

remembered, too, that he, Kt., C.M.G.

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FIRATE ATTACKS:

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Miss Gabrielle Eliza Festing, of diplomat of thirty-five years' train-

Dr. Sun and the Moscow Govern ment, whereby the latter was said to have recognized the Canton Government as representative of an independent nation. The state- ment, even if true, will cause many 56, Queens Gate-terrace, South ing, has been at the head of the The Hongkong Automobile to smile in view of the compara- Kensington, well known as the land's Foreign Office not less than Association has isued an up-to-date tively, small area of South China writer of quasi-historical Indian four times: 1900-01, 1906, 1913, Handbook, replete with informa which now acknowledges Dr. Sun books, author of "When Kings and 1914-15. It has not been fordon useful to local motorists and as overlord. In our view, however, Rode to Delhi" and "Honour gotten that it was under his lead, tourists. It should prove a most the very presence of Bolshevik Among Thieves" £14,125.

in the last named period of control, useful addition to the guidebooks agents in Canton spells danger. Mr. Frederick William Pomeroy, that the objectionably Twenty in putting visitors onto the ropes Their achievements in North A., of 13. Kensington square, One Demands" were forced on and reminding the local motorists China have caused nothing but, and of Madeira-road, Margate, China. The man's downfall, in what they owe to the pedestrian. Tone of the leading modern deed, was not a little due to the unrest since they gained a footing

for sculptors responsible there some four years ago. Soon statues of Gladstone in the Houses

difficulties begotten of that unfor after their arrival in Peking, the of Parliament, £12,696.

tunate action. Whether he has Chinese authorities refused to

carned his lesson, the future alone Mr. Richard Higham, 49, Prin- can tell: ellow them to reside Oncess-street, Manchester, solicitors !

"%d w3 Chinese soil. They appealed to the left his furniture and domestic Corps Diplomatique and were effects and £za week for life to granted permission to reside in his housekeeper, Mary Threadgold, To-day's Poem. the Legation Quarter. From their who is to have the right of burial new quarters they launched a pro-in his grave, £9,032 paganda campaign in English and Chinese. The former was com- paratively innocuous, but not wo

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the

(The Choice.) "I'm awfullyThe little lark trilled out in glee DIPLOMACY. Sorry, dad," said And ecstasy, and ecstasy.

Willie, "to think 'Oh look, the skies are blue,' he said "Why don't

the latter. While no actual formal how much trouble I give mother." complaint was ever made by the

"She. hasn't complained, has Chinese Government, feelers were she?"

But

put out with a view to the Lega-¡ "No, she's very patient. tion authorities putting a curb she often sends me to the shops on the activity of Moscow's agents. for things, and they are a good The danger, however, was never way off, and I know she gets cross fully realized in diplomatic circles waiting when she's in a hurry." although the American, British, French and Japanese newspapers Hongkong vessels pirated has the result might well be.

"Not often, I fancy."

hurry. She gets everything ready "Oh, she's nearly always in a

moment she has no yeast, or sonia- fright, and I can't run a long distance, you know, and-I feel awfully sorry for poor mother."

"Humph! Well, what can wa do about it?"

I was thinking, dad, that per haps you might get me a bicycle.”

Current Comment.

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you come up too,' he said, 'And play with me?"

The little mole who burrows

deep

Began to creep, began to creep "The earth is warm and dark,

said he,

"Why emulate the lark?' said he, 'Come down and sleep.'

Alas, dear lark, I cannot fly. You soar too high, you soar too

high.

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My place is underground, I said, And earth shall wrap me round,

I said, There where I lie."

China Mail. in cold blood. The number of gave continual warning of what for the baking and finds at the last *<> Loco, “5 2VORDAY, ALCEST 1, 1994, however been but a fraction of the happened in the North may well thing, and then she's in an awful

be repeated in the South, unless number of Chinese craft looted by Dr. Sun and his advisers are parti pirates in the Delta. This is cularly careful before affixing possibly the most serious aspect their seals to documents with the of the pirate menace. Thanks to Soviet. M. Karakhan le already The report of the Captain the efficient precautions which are counting his chickens from the

North China eggs!.... Superintendent of Police for last now taken the larger vessels trad- per contains many extremely ing through the danger zone are Entesting items-one might fairly safe from attack-from

What is the ont pt write a poem about the successful attack, anyway. Conse-

(New Policies In Japan.): LENINE AND standing fact`in þ cur who had to be deported not quently while the present vigilance SOVIET RUSSIA the Soviet Rus- The Cabinet change at Tokyo, thai nineteen times-but is maintained they may reasonably "TO-DAY. sis, of to-day tasks where Kiego Kiydura has yielded H. S. Victorson to Takaaki Kato, is as important as the most important hope to escape further trouble.

In the "Stratford Monthly." And Interesting, notes is the one dealing with With the smaller craft, on the he answers his question in part paper. It denotes more than just an. American attacks. Between March 29 other hand the piracy evil is still thus: It is, in my opinion, that a shift in party power, with a December 30 some twelve rampant, is indeed worse than it Lenine has failed in his main consequent substitution of one kang vessels were pirated, has ever been. This is bad enough objective the establishment of a party chieftain for another; In Monetary loss being over in itself, entailing as it does heavy socialist republic in Russia. That three several ways it indicates 1800.

name is completely meaningless new policies in that government The “Tal Shun," logs in life and trade, but it is when applied to the present which is of largest Influence in on May 12, contributed perhaps even more unfortunate Russlag Government and social the Orient. Baron Kiyoura was new economic policy, under which atate, but his briof official

--E. 'S. Burlow.

WEATHER CALENDAR

UGUST

Papered William's rooms. About eight o'clock it gathered for rain, and I had

-Dorothy Wordsworth.

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In the "Gazette " tenders are called for the construction of a 'fire-fighting, salvage and towing” vessel, dimensions of which are length 95 feet B.P., breadth 21 fest O.P.and depth 9 feet moulded. Tenders are also invited for a covered service reservoir and con- tingent works in connection with the Shing Mun Valley scheme of waterworks.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Senor Zanni, the Argentinian fler, has arrived at Bunder Abbas,

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Sub-Inspector Alfred Reynolds has been appointed an examiner of weights and measures.

ed a member, of the Board of

Mr. L. Forster has been appoint

Education for two years with effect from July 26,

The name of Dr. Chu Ho-quon, M.B. (Tohuku) has been added to the register of Hongkong medical practitioners.

Cotton Yarn. Since cur last re- port, there has been a curtain amount of enquiry, but owing to the heavy decline io Rupee ex- change importers have not been able to meet the demand. Prices, however, have appreciated $2/3 per bale without feading, to any

Flour Market Report.-Stock": about 1,300,000. Market: quiet, Quotations: American Patent, $3.75 per suck; American Straight, $3.10 per sack: American Cut Off, $3.10 per sack; Shanghai Flour, $3.05 per sack: Australian No. 1, $8.15 per sack; Canadian" Cut-off, $2.00 per sack.

Sundries-Market quiet. Saltpatre-Stock (11,000) bags.

Y.M.C.A.

"BOYS' SUMMER SCHOOL.

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The steadily expanding work and influence of the Hongkong Chinese Y.M.C.A. in its various. departments is well exemplified in its educational phase. In addi- tion to its regularly conducted day and evening schools, which during the past term enrolled more than 400 students, a special summer school for boys is now being pro- moted to meet the needs of stu- dents who are behind in their regular courses or who wish to review certain subjects. Seventy- eight students are enrolled in this and will continue one month. school which began last Saturday

The popular education move- · ment,which among other Saims: includes the teaching in a four months' course of at least one.. thousand characters to the illiterate, is being promoted by the Association. Already three teach-... Mr. W. J. L. Smith has beening centres-Wanchai, Causeway appointed an official Justice of the Bay and Kennedy Town-have Peace for Hongkong; Messri.been started, with more than a P. Lauder and N. S. Brown are hundred enrolled, most by adults appointed unofficial J.P.'s, accord- who never before had the oppor-. ing to the "Gazette.""

tunity to learn to read or write. This movement gives promise of Rev. H. G. and Mrs. Stearn are steady growth." returning to the Colony on the In addition, the Y.M.C.A. pro- P. & O. 8.5. "Kaiser-I-Hind,"

which sailed from London on July

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notes weekly educational lectures

18. Other passengers for Hong and clubs, dealing with a great kong on the samo ship are. Lieut- variety of informative subjects. Comdr. and Mrs. Newbould, “MË. and Mrs. F. C. Clemo and Mr. and Mrs. L: S. Stevenson.

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The death took place at Bangkor. July 30, from heart failure, following phoumonia, of Captain

1900 to this Bura. While it la because it thwarts any hope of system. · A. social, spatern with a scarcely a success as head of the scatterings of a' shower. Nils F. Hjorth. The deceased, who:

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DARE

wing to think the loss was not finally stamping out the piracy new capitalism flourishes, and life and dramatic downfall are her, as it might easily have evil. That is to say although concessions are made to foreign truly eloquent of a Japan, deeply had the "Tai Shun's fate larger vessels have been put capital, and the old evils of altered in the political sense, than itmy ・and Davy and perse to any other. Hereafter with the *the common lot, it is dis- beyond their machinations pirates cution prevail-such social present enforced change of Kondela M

ng to remember that during still have the smaller vessels to system is not coopera tal for Solving precedent Who that knows all that goes

tive commonwealth which was long to andare; the national minia VAFAITS UWO men

men were killed prey upon. In other words they the dream of Lenine, or anything try will have to represent the to the making of a sin shall ever eight were wounded, while an still have their trade left. They like it. And Lenine's viewpoint major group in the popularly dare to blame a sinner.

chunica crew was murdered have not been compelled to can be set down clearly and chosen House, and this falls the

-Rafael Sabatini

MURDER CHARGE.

A FURTHER REMAND.

Chan Din, an Indian chauffeur, was a native of Norway, had only formerly, in the employ of Mr. been ill a fortnight: He was wall John Arnold; appeared on remand known on the. China Coast. Ha

came out East In 1905 as Chief before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Officer, and later had command of Magistracy, yesterday afternoon. theas, Childar" and the s.s. The man is charged with the disposition and kindly nature. Ha After further evidence for the "Drufar He was of a generous murder of his wife on May 27. death will occasion widespread re-prosecution had been heard, the gret throughout the shipping com- case was adjourned until Tuesday. munity of the Far East.

afternoon