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upon the mob trying to rush the police station in which, in- cidentally, was supply of arms and ammunition. It
does
THURSDAY, AUGUST
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
no good for liberal Britons to
We all drink, even if our perhaps, this session to remove call the Government to task for TRADE. refreshment is mildly the grievance of married men who the wrongs perpetrated on 3.
soft or the opposite. are to-day liable by law for the China in the past or to point to Here is a trade note that in 1924 torts and debts of their wives. the inquity of landing marines Canada's shipment of beverages We imagine that there will be a to break a Chinese strike." There is also a vague item of the ion that there is no need to There is nothing the British $44,000,000, (gold) of Canadian appoint a Select Committee to authorities can now do but pro-liquor said to have been respon examine the rights and wrongs
this sible for the recent rise in the of
obvious case. Lord tect at all costs-even at the value of the Dominion's dollar." Haldane explained that the pre- cost of dispersing Chinese mobs Perhaps a Hongkong Canadian sent responsibility of the husband for the caprices and the wrong- with machine guns-the lives can explain it.
doing of his wife is an inherit- and property of British sub.... "
Opinions differ as ance from common law which re jects in China. There is no- HONGKONG'S.. to which plati-garded the husband and wife as
tudes
were rated at $11,000,000 (gold).fairly general consensus of on 4
thing any other government
and
one person. That belongs to the can do in the situation. The bromides are the most hackneyed, past. The women have abun- foreigners may have no "right" but this collection, assembled in dantly asserted a right, which the London, ought to go far as a law has recognised, to be regard- in China. They may be impos-
prize winner
ed as "separate entities." They ing on Chinese. But when the
have a separate right to property, moba let loose they must be met Sir James Barrie is whimsical. a separate vote, and a separate Men Max Beerbohm is incomparand ""equal""" personality, with bullets, without regard to
are not even allowed, Lord justice, injustice or
Darling reminded us, to restrain theory,
their wives extravagancs by beat- ing them. Why, then, should they be expected to pay their debts or the damages charged, against them, except in so far as Sussex villages are "old world." a wife may be deemed to have The sky in Italy is of a dazzling | been acting as her husband's
liberal
No comment on this statement is necessary. It states the case admirably, and is unanswerable. Further it is not British opin- lon; but American opinion.
SCHOOLS AND THE STRIKE.
able. Winston Churchill 19 erratical-
ly brilliant. June is the month of roses. Kent is an orchard. Bernard Shaw is a daring
iconoclast.
The mountains
blue.
.capped heights.
are snow
agent?
The new big road..
Wordsworth is a nature lover. ROADS AND A, the King opened Epstein is a pioneer.
STORY. the other day, in England is re- markable by reason of the fact that it is decreed that it shall not be dug up for either gas, elec- tricity, drains, or anything else, Could not the idea be copied in Hongkong? How often are our roads opened up, closed, and rek opened again. It reminds us of the story of the man who operated on. They sewed him up and found they had left a sponge inside. After re-opening and re- sewing it was discovered, that a surgical instrument was missing, The Lord Chan and again he was opened and cellor has said restitched. This went on for a that the Govern- bit longer until a weary voice meat propose to from the operating table was legislation-though not,' heard to say "Put buttons on !"
Hongkong has a few:--
Shipping is the life blood of the
Colony, Repulse Bay is the Mentone of
the East.
The barbour is the finest (or one of the anest) in the world.
The water supply is pure
(ascribed to the analyist).. Hongkong is an outpost of the
Empire.
THE FATE OF THE TSAR.
was
According to a Reuter cable- gram from Peking, some of the wardens of schools and colleges throughout China, run în connec- tion with religious bodies, have made representations in favour of temporarily closing such institu- tions, and some even advocate handing them over to the Chinese teachers for three or four years. The reasons advanced for the contemplation of such action are in the first place that the students returning will probably be sub- jected to annoyance and persecu- tion by students of non-mission | HUSBAND AND colleges, and in the second place WIFE. that Chinese teachers should be given the opportunity of conduct- Introduce ing the institutions on their own lines, untrammelled by foreign influences. The last word on the matter would naturally rest with the parent mission bodies at Home and in the event of a uniform policy being decided upon, Hong-
The circumstances attending the pening in Russia now 18. kong would have to fall into line. murder of the late Thur and his absolutely natural and inevitable However, when considering the family have never yet been fully consequence of Germany's victory. facts regarding the position of cleared up, though many attempts History is once more repeating itself" such schools in Hongkong it may have been made to collate the woe to the vanquished." "If the be said that the message is open various scraps of information that Entente ind won "the position of tą misinterpretation in that it have come to light!
Germany would have been far will probably lead those at Home In the Archiv für Politik qul worse than that of Russia. 'T'he' to believe that things are more Geschichte, Herr J.. Lewin has fate of the Russian Tsur les solely which appoints a Consul to Hong- serious in Hongkong than they nude a further attempt based upon in the hands of the Russian people,
It would appear that M. Bokoloff's book, The Murder If there were any questions of in- ' The China Mail" kong must be taken to be of some really are.
the headmasters of mission of the Tsir and his Family, to, finence it would be only, in favour importance, whilst the compli- ment to Hongkong is not to be schools and colleges in Hongkong which he has added some minute of any former tierman princesses
were not represented at any of researches of his own. From this who happened to be in Has." ignored. Had there been a set the conferences referred to and it would appear that attempts were Tings, us Herr Lewin shows, the ceremonial in force, a number of that no such measures as those made by various Russian mon- Germans abandoned the Taar und the community would by now indicated in the telegram have rusts at the time of the Tsar's his family to their fate. That fut have become directly acquainted ever been contemplated by them. Test to scare the intervention of he races with minute care from the Count Mirbuch, then German print of the departure of the Taur with the Consul-General who has which was held in Hongkong and himself afterwards murdered by with revolvers in
At the missionary conference plomatic representative in Russia; from Tsurskoe Belo to the shooting just arrived to represent the Unit- about a month ago, the future of the Bolshevists. Count Mirbuch's katerinburg and the murder of the house at ed States of America. It would general missionary work only was attitude, however, was very cool other members of this Romanoff have been a very fitting thing to considered, and as regards schools and typenly German A letter family by hurling them alive down and colleges, there would appear was addressed to him by Count have done, not merely in the light to be every reason for the belief Benckendorff, the chief marshal of
disteed mine-shaft 60 feet deep. of America's standing in the family of nationa: not merely by reason of her contributions to the arts and sciences--but to the still greater place it is agreed, she will come. America's services to the great cause of the world war are
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held that a very large number of the Russian Court, with the re Some of the men who took part the students on vacation at both quest that it should be forwarded in the murder have been tanced and Government and mission schools to the Kaiser. This latter was de- their information has been placed are willing and anxious to return. livered in Moscow on May 7 or on ord. Two had written their Arrangements are being made May 9, 1918, when the Thur was hintes on the wall of the prison, whereby others who remained still in Ekaterinburg. There is one a Hungarian and the other an until the colleges were closed hut apparently no evidence that it was Austrian Tyrolese, while in the whose parents do not wish them ever Heat on. Moreover, M. Writing of a third there was the not forgotten, whilst her contri-to return yet may take externally Krivoschein, the former Minister scriptin in German, "Bulsbuzzaz as private students the matricula of Agriculture, ulso attempted in was killed the same might by his bution to world peace is likely to tion and other examinations which induce Count Mirbach to inter servants g-ho, Cheka gente be of the greatest. Here we think are held durlag the coming term vens. But the German diplomatic who did the murder were not all. not so much of world peace, as we As regards future policy in respect representative replied, at a time Hsian. Herr Lewin suggests do of peace in China; and more so of returning students who were when many Germans though. Ger that German official sources might strikers, the signs are that the mans thought Germany Ind Wrendy throw considerable light upon the WITCHELL-At the Govern- when it is remembered that headingsters of mission schools won the war All that is bag murder if they were made available.
ment Civil Hospital this things likely to lend to great whether aided by the Government morning, Job. Witchell, aged things in China, were first dis or not are ready to fall in with the 68. Manager of the King cussed and agreed upon at the policy which the Government is Edward Hotel. Funeral great and historic Washington expected to announce very shortly. talk airily of the uselessness and of the Ural Soviet, and that it did passes the Monument this Conference. American particips ground for the rumours which meat money on them or even of ward In a book entitled The
There would appear to be little wastefulness of spending Governoknow of the fact till after evening 6.80., Home papers. please copy
tion In Far Eastern affairs will be have got abroad as to the Univer the undesirability of their exist Workmatu & Revolution in 'tije for the good of all concerned, sity and other schools not opening, ence After all, if the Govern. Unis. now very rate because It is satisfactory to notice how as they are due to open, in Septem- ment or Britisk institutions giro, suppressed by the Bolsheviste, the |ber. - Nothing, of course, can be up their educational work here, former Soviet bromident of histerin~-
DEATH.
It has always been made plain by the centrul Soviet Government. thit the murder of the Tsar and tis Junity was the irresponsible work
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being cabled to the great newe- certainty, particularly as regards which would be glad of the oppor- the last days of the Tears, sok in papers of the great
Republic. In the University students, but as it tunity to step in and take their this he says that the Com the papers that have come to our was during the vacation that the place agencies which, it must be Jakobjeff telegraphed to
trouble began, the dispersed said in all fairness to the teachers, that, he proposed to take the notice, the news cabled has been students are less likely to have are entirely responsible for the ind his Larily from Tobolak Inaccurate and without bias, whilst fallen under the influence of any pressat Unrest. Like everyone sale place in the Gorernplatat.
the comments thereon have been hotheads there may be among else, eachera should be open to Ufo, M. Bokoloff, howe
in accordance therewith and in them. They have also had the learn, however, and the lesson to that the
opportunity of observing events some cases very outspoken. The from a distance and no the following from The New York Indications of the adopti Evening Post" an Influential authorities of paper if there is
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