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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1924.

CORRESPONDENCE.

KOWLOON HOSPITAL.

To the Editor of the China Mail.)

$500,000 FIRE.

OVER FIFTY" BUILDINGS GUTTED.

HUGE KONGMOON · BLAZE,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

PARKAI, KONGMOON, Nov. II..... Dainage to the extent of about half a million dollars was done when a raging fire broke out in a busy street at Kongmoon on Sun daye

which the Government has entered with the American Sisters that they will-if they attempt to sound it find that publie pinion in the Peninsulu is extremely resentful at the attitude taken ap by those who have been posing as the represen- of that public opinion. Sir-In view of His Excellency tatives the Governor's remarks at the Those scribes possibly-represent the Legislative Council concering opinion of their own little clique, Government support for religious and may be able to call a meeting Institutions in the Colony, it is and forward a petition protesting Interesting to observe that, thengainst the decision of the Govern Government is not only building ment and of the Conimittee of the and equipping what is in really a Kowloon Residents'... Association; Medical Mission for the American but that meeting and that polition Roman Catholic nuns of the Mary- would represent only that particulur

Starting at 2 p.m., the conflagra- knoll Mission, but, if Dame Rumour little clique and not the considered is correct, they have also set opinion of the people of Kowloon, Hon was not put out til the sun apart one room for their use as a Tf those agitators are honest, and if had almost gone down when Chapel Moreover the buns will they continue to question the desparks could still be seen from a

distance. of the Committee of the have no anxiety about maintenance, cision no worry with regard subscrip- Kowloon Residents Assion, let There were no casualties but it

is estimated that between 50 and. tions, donations etc., such as other them declare that they will be pre- 60 buildings

were completely Medical Missions have to endure,pared to abide by a vote taken at a since they will be maintained by meeting of all foreign residents of gutted. Most of the houses are

covered by insurance. the rates and taxes of the Colony. Kowloon specially called to vote on Is not this, to say the least, the question: Do you approve of most remarkable proceeding for the decision of the Government and the Government of a British Culony?

Yours etc:

BRITISHER. Hongkong, November 10, 1924. [To the Editor of the China Mail.]

I have been at one pains to get Fir. Mr. Macenachio preaching at the truth of this whole matter, last Sunday on the text: "We and 1 learn that the Hongkong must work the works of Him that Government, being aware of the Ben Me, evidently interpretad-Lactul

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OBITUARY.

SIR A GEIKIE.

A Reuter cable from London, received to-day, announces, the death of Sir Archibald Geikle.

A Distinguished Career. Sir Archibald Gelkie has been known as one of the most learned

eminent authorities on

NEW-BI VESSEL.

S.S. "TILAWA" ARRIVES IN PORT:

MEETS STRONG MNYSDOM.

At daylight yesterday morning. the new British-India steamar "Tijawa," arrived in Hongkong and now lies alongside one of the Kowloon Godown Co.'s wharves at Kowloon.

A. Captain W.

Fitt left Calcutta on October 24 and Singapore on November 5. He. reports meeting a strong monsoon on his way up.

The Tilawa's" registered tonpage is 6,153. She had on board 1,248 tons of cargo for Hongkong a 5,217 tons, for other ports.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

MEETING TO-MORROW,

At. to-morrow's meeting of the Hon. Legislative Council, the Attorney General will move the "following:

First reading of a Bill Intituled An Ordinance to amend the Fraudulent Transfers of Businesses Ordinance, 1923.

Second reading of the Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend the Crown Solicitors' Ordinance,

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Second reading of the Bill | incöconncnXTIROCIEREICHEN Har bar at me pechou met die saam bie në sezon 7 He was intituled An Ordinance to amend the Summary Offences Ordinance. 1845.

There Knight Commander of the Bath in Second reading of the Bill 1907, Officier de la Legion Intituled An Ordinance to amend d'Honneur, Fellow of the Royal the Forgery Ordinance, 1922.

Second reading of the Bill Society, Fellow of the Geological Society and Hon. member of the Indiuled An Ordinance to amend He was the TelegraphicsMessages Ordin- President of the Royal Society ance, 1894. from 1908-13, Foreign Associate. of the Institute of France, member

patriotism is enough. of ascertain whether it would be pos- crite's show of it because the Royal Irish Academy.

of the Committee of the K.R.A. tongs should be up all times (except employ Catholic Sisters to staff the in typhoon weather), but regret new Kowloon Hospital? At such fully, I find that the spirit of a meeting the only business should patriotism has a failing strength he the taking of the vote, and there which pats the Colony to a high should be in sponting" to stir up measure of disgrace. I passed the Cenotaph this morning and, to my religious prejudices.

surprise, the flags were removed while the wreaths were there yet.

I know on good authority that the flags on the Cenotaph in Lon- the employment of don are always up. If we are not Jus work to be the stirring f of Catholic Sisters Inc jurved so suc- to follow what the Mother Country religious strife in this Colony. In vessful in public hospitals elso- is doing! we are certainly failing bis efforts he does not hesitate where notably the Shinghai Gen for better neglecting) the duties! adopt the camouflage lessons learnt end Hospital and the Government that are due for us to fulfil. It is and in the Great War, and he attempts Civil Hospat at Colombo--took up the people that aristocratic type of geology of his day. to rover up his sectarian bitterness the consideration of their employ, man of whom we see so much created Knight in 1891; received by references to the exclusion of nient for the Kowloon Hospital as who have the responsibilities of this the Order of Merit 1914, created our own country women" and "the early as 1990, when it approached Colony, when we blame, calling in of a foreigh sisterhood," the late Mr. E. 4. Noronha, J.P.jare many people who have a keen "Our American cousins !!!

one of the most prominent and sense of patriotism, but while the Mr. Muromelie deriures that he most widely respected residents of Colony itself encourages the re- is not stressing the religious side Kowloon and requested him to verso, and will only give a hypo of the matter:" "the aut

wonder sible to secure the services of the occasion is on, the show of love and whether the Rev, gentleman would "Franciscan Missionaries of Mary respect is not genuine. be prepared to welemen-com- the Dreley which staffs the excellent There is all the matter with the munity of Catholic Nursing Sisters Stanglas General Hospital a pub fugs, and how easy it is to have from England. Again, I wonder! le spital under the control of a them up and have them there at Oh Land, how those Christians love body of nine Governors elected an- 'all times and only lower them when one another!

ally, the by the Consuls, four, a typhoon is approaching or when This inanifest eouflage will by the tepivers of the Inter- there is any wretched weather.

To avoid any further criticism Tot deceive oven a small iuinority, national Settlement, and, two by of the broad-minded Britons of this the Council of the French Conces- the Government should have no

more hesitation about this and let of the United States, etc. Siri On Sunday last a collision bet Culori. At Home such methods siôn.

178 Ace that the flags are up by Archibald was born in Edinburgh | ween a frrry launch and a sampan would be scoffed at, and the people The Finiciscan Missionaries of of Kowloon are, if necessary, pre- Mary were, however, unable to to-morrow the opening of the In on the December 28, 1835 he was occurred in the harbour, the three terport Cricket-so that. the the eldest son of the late James occupants of the latter craft escap- pared to prove to this small noisy spare Sisters for Hongkong, and a section of bigots that there is to-day decision was delayed until it was cricketers will have a favourable Stuart Geikle, in 1817, he married dog with no worse than a ducking. The owner of the sampan (a-wo- no room in our brand Empire for ascertained, early in 1923, that the impression of Hongkong's per Miss Alue. Gabrielie, youngest the vile methods of these who American Maryknoll Sisters, who Petual fif only the flags are updaughter of the late Eugéne man) has since informed the Har- would spread the poison of re were out to establish hospitals in remembrance of the fallen war: Pignatel of Lyons. She died labour Office that at 8.40 on Sunday ligious atret." The men who the Kwangtong Province, fight riors to bring home to Shanghai 1916 Sir Archibald was edu night, she was near the Kwong Hip I might here cated at High School and Un-Lung shipyard, near Shamsulpo, He when the ferry launch "Man Tat" of Edinburgh."

the port side,

-sampan to stop rowing.

of

Belgium

of the Lincer, Rome, Academies

Berlin, Vienna, Petrograd, COLLISION IN HARBOUR.

Stockholm, Turia, Munich Christiania,

SAMPAN WOMAN CLAIMS Naples, Gottingen, Keio, Leopold

DAMAGES. Carolina, Philadelphia, New York. National Academy of Sciences-

would introdure the principles of, find it possible to undertake the and the Straits.

mention that as Воед B.B the iversity must know that heir work inb- Before entering into an agres cricketers landed a wreath was de obtained the degrees of Doctor came from

at Oxford, the coxswain shouting out to

tho Ku Klux Klan into Hongkong work solutely opposed to the spirit of ment with thee Sisters the Gov. posited at the Cenotaph in the of Civil Law Christ. It was a Protestant, Henry ernment very wisely invited the name of the Shanghai Cricket Club. Ward Beecher, who once declared opinion of the Kowloon Residents' It shows that the living should that those who foster religions in- Association. The matter was fully respect the dead no matter how far tolerance need another Christ to die, considered by the Committee of the apart they are.

Will the Government have the for them!

K.R.A., which informed the Gov.

flags put up forever?

Yours etc.,

LOYALTY." Hongkong, November 12, 1924.

I am not sure whether Mr. Maennachie is a totsman, but I would remind him of Robert Louis Stevenson's tribute to Catholic Nursing Sisters

To see the infinite pity of this

place The mangled lib, the dens

tated face.

The innocent sufferer suniling at,

thie rod-

A fool were tempted to deny his

God,

"He sees, he shrinks; but if

gaze again,

To! beauty springing from

bed of pain.

the

enment that it approved the scheme on certain conditions-i.e. that full control of the Hospital de retained in the hands of the Gov- ernment, and that the Sisters! should function solely as Nursing influences Sisters, all religious being strictly exchided,

These are understand, the con- ditions of the agreement into which the Government has since entered with the Sisters. The hospital will

t

He

Doctor of Science at Cambridge the and Dublin, Doctor of Law at the The sampan did not stop and Universities of Edinburgh, Glas simultaneously, the owner alleged, cow Aberdeen, St Andrew's, the "Man Tat" strack her boat Durham, Birmingham, Sheffield amidships, the impact throwing and Liverpool. He also held the three occupants into the water. degrees of Doctor of Philosophy at She claims that her boat was dam. Upsale, Leipzig, Prague and aged to the extent of $40. Strasbourg.

entered the Geological Survey in 1854, be came director of the Geological Survey of Scotland in 1867. He was first Murchison Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, at! the University of Edinburgh Sir, it is difficult to retain 1871-82. He was Foreign Secre patience with the writer of the tary of the Royal Society from obituary of the Italian Grand 1890-94 and became Secretary

MADAME BUTTERFLY.

To the Editor of the "China Mail."

be a Goverment hospital, and will Opera Co's. performance of from 1903-8. He was President of

THEFTS ON SHIP.

PRESIDENT" LINER IS

VICTIMIZED.

Mrs. Gortilab, a passenger on President Madison." has

be in charge of a Government Madame Butterfly," especially the Geological Society during the 8.8.

He was reported to the police the loss of a Medical Officer, who will be as to those who know Japan." An 1891-92, and 1906-8. hesisted, if necessary, by other Gov-amah (an arah.in Japan ()" with elected President of the British gold wrist watch valued at $60. He was It was stolen from her cabin early ernment Medical Officers. The wristlet watch and sparkling Association in 1892. Sisters will in all matters be on the rings, may be a blunder. So is Director-General of the Geological yesterday morning.

The chief steward of the same same footing as the secular Sisters the spectacle-which your writer Survey of the United Kingdom, employed in the Government Civil seems not to have noticed-of and Director of the Museum of vessel. has made a report that a Hospital, and the services of any an American Consul entering a Practical Geology from 1882-1901. gold watch and chata valued at Sister violating any of the condi- Japanese. residence, shod.. An He has also held distinguished $100 was stolen from his room tions of her appointment (e.g. that American Consul would know bet positions in many Schools and Un- yesterday. relating to the strict exclusion of ter. These were minor matters iverslties. He was the author of

He marks the Sisters on the

mouraful-shares--

And even a fool is silent

adores,"

and

I aia, etc.,

BROADMINDBD.

Hongkong, November 10, 1924

religious influences) may be ime in a production that was perfect many publications, among them The Story of # mediately dispensed with.

and singing that passed beyond being

SHARE QUOTATIONS,

Finally, I would have the few the range of mere opinion or Boulder or Gleanings from the noisy opponents of the Govern criticism. What your writer means notebook of a Field Geologist!

Memoir of Edward [To the Editor.of the China Mail.]ment's action understand that the by saying should not cut her 1858;

vast majority of the residents of throat a stab in the breasts Forbes (with G. Wilson) 1861; Dear Sir, The Rev. Kirk Kowloon believe that what is good correct," is beyond understanding. Geological map of Scotland (withLaugkats Muconachie appen to revel in a enough for the public of Shanghai He evidently does not understand Murchison) 1802; The Scenery of or Scotland viewed in connection Eght, and never loses an opportuni- and Colombo is good enough for the meaning of hara-kiri,

ty of taking up the cudgels when them, and are in full agreement failed to notice Goro's movements with it 1865, Memoir of James semp opens. It is, however. with the decision of both the Gov- of his hands in description of this David Forbes, 1869, Life of Sir much to be regretted that a clergy-ernment and the Committee of the act of destruction, in the early Roderick Murchison, (2 vols man of & Hongkong church should, K.R.A. If they doubt it, let them part of the play. The sing 1875) Geological Sketches at Home not have considered it beneath his be prepared, as I have suggested, ing of Signor Emanuele Giletta and Aboard 1882. Text book of dignity to be drawn into the dis- to abide by a vote the whole for was something to ponder over. Geology and the Class Book of

If It dwells in the memary Geology 1915. graceful exhibition of narrow-eign community of Kowloon. minded bigotry which has been dis they are not ready to do this, let which is the best tribute one can figuring the pages of the local them for over hold their peace. It way to it so sweetly sonorous and Press for some time concerning, is the privilege and the duty-of

I remain, yours truly.

KOWLOONITE:

Kowloon, November 12.

too, a matter which is entirely one a minority to be silent. between the Government and the Tesidents of Kowloon, neither of which parties is likely to allow it self to be dictated to by a small mmmber of people on the Hongkong side of the harbour, who, under the -cloak of patriotism, are striving to arouse in this peaceful cosmopolitan community those old narrow Ligions prejudices which the people of England buried in a dishonoured grave a generation ago. F

-To

Yous eter

ANTI-BIGOT.

FLAGS ON CENOTAPH, To the Editor of the China Mail,

of

so perfect in its phrasing, fact noted by the Signor's colleagues who were taking a "busman's”. holiday. Of the settings, and the conducting

Maestro Cav. Castagnino, mere words fail. Very few I imagine considered "red headed (? red-haired) -Japan- ese men and women?" "and the aforesaid amah" "huge joke. On

the contrary De

Yours etc.

MUSIC LOVER,

Hongkong, November 11. A

Bir,-Yesterday's ceremony at the Cenotaph was most impressive indeed and I was pleased to see with my critic's eyes that this Note. There was no "obituary" year's calebration was graced by the notes in the China Mail:""":"The full dress worn by all the Govern-writer of the notice in question: November 11, 1924.ment officials as well as the leading merely wished to draw attentioä citizens, who have come to realize to the fact that the production: was Editor of the China Mast that to respect the dead-those spoilt to its presentails through fallen heroes of the country-is no inattention to detail, As, the Dear Sir --During the past two common thing.

Tage house coalied chaits it werks. I have frequently discussed The Hon. Mr. Bird, at one of 18 fair to presuite that the room in with Koskou friends (mostly non; the recent Council menings, em which the American Consule was Catholies) the letters which have phasized the fact that the Cenotaph received was carpeted so that there been appearing in the Press with without fags is no cenotaph at all." was no weed for visitors to remove, reference to the stalling of the

I quito serve, with his remark and their shoes is Taksay, that the pro Kowloon Hospital, and I can assure the Colonial Secretary, in his reply, dues in was perfect is incorrect those gonflemen who are waxing appeared to be in agreement with Ed. C. MI so with over the agreement into Net Bird's suggeshot that, the g

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