WATSON'S
Dry Ginger Ale
A WILL ESTABLISHED FAVOURITE OF
PROVED HIGH QUALITY. Prepared from our owl special formula, flavoured with real fruit essence and the Auest Eastern spices.
Unequalled by any similar product throughout the world.
FORMAZONE
い
The non-alcoholic Champagne. An excellent substitute for sparkling wine, possessing the same wonderfully stimulating and refreshing qualities.
i
Demand and insist on having
WASTON'S Aerated Waters
AS. "WATSON & CO. LTD
記
AERATED WATER. MANUFACTURERS. Established 1842.
WAI KEE Let t
JADE JEWELLERY
CHINESE CURIOS:
GOLD AND SILVER SMITH
SECOND HAND JEWELLERY.
HONG KONG HOTEL BUILDING
Queen's Road, Central,
HONG KONG Telephone C. 3337.
I
|香港中銀大酒店行
行
THE ALEXANDRA CAFE
GOOD FOOD 1
QUICK SERVICE
EXPERT COOKING
SPECIAL TIFFIN $1
"Your
KENSITAS
Sir!
A Cigarette for all dis- criminating gentlemen and,
if may say so, one that possesses all the refine- ments of quality demanded by fastidious smokers like. yourself Sir"
Kensitas Cigarettes
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE
Sole Sub-Agent:
12, Queen's "Rond €2
Tel. C. 2801.
A. KWAI & CO.
SUCCESSORS
WING YUEN HONG »
។
15 Connaught Road Ceniral,-HONG KONG.
"NAVAL CONTRACTORS" Ship-Chandlers, Provision Merchants, Sall-Makers
ป
AND
#.
THE CHINA MAIL.
100%
VALUE FOR MONEY
MOUTRIE
PIANOS.
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
Victor Distributors.
The China Mail
(Every evening except Sunday. Annual subscription excluding postage abrord, H.K. $36, payable in advance. Local delivery fres.)
Overland China Mail.
The weekly edition of the "Chine Mail" Annual subscription, H.K..| $13 including postage $15, payable in advance.)
Published by
generous race.
MARYKNOLL MISSION.
Monsignor J. E. Walsh's Career.
SOUTH CHINA MISSION WORK.
THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1927.
SEAMEN AND CHINA.“
Trades Union Congress Rebuked.
OUR $50 PRIZE.
Result of the Eighth Puzzle.
TWO TIE FOR FIRST PLACE,
་
'DEMAND FOR A 'BALLOT.
Bishop-elect Mgr.. James
At a largely-attended meeting of The "China Mail" has pleasure in Edward Walsh who has just been announcing the result of its eighth Liverpooh seafarers a resolution Puzzle Competition was adopted protesting against the elevated by His Holiness the Pope Cross-Word
to a Bishopric as Vicar Apostolic which has been won by two com-action of the "members of the of Kongmoon is 35 years of age, petitors with fully correct solü. General Council of the Trades. These two competitors Union/Congress in supporting the and after his consecration towards tions.
"Hands-off-China" policy. The re the end of May will be the young-
solution declared, in part:—". eat Bishop of any Christian de- nomination in China.
are:-
Ms Florence Chan,
Born in Cumberland, Maryland,. the son of devout Catholic par-Mr. ents, Mgr. Walsh's father was a prominent lawyer of that City, and young Walsh was intended for
39, Bowrington New Street.
W. C. Lai.
Lugard Hall,.
The University,
42
We would remind the General Council that" it. Is the duty of his Majesty's Government, regardless of all political views and policies. to be at all times prepared to afford four fellow-countrymen woman, and children adequate protection from
and
aggression whilst engaged in our
The
a legal career. At an early age, The 350 prize will be, divided aggression both at home however, he showed unmistakable among the two winners, and in abroad; and that wo, our profes leanings towards a religious voca- accordance with the rules cheques dion as seamen being an Interna tion, and in this he was whole-will be sent to them four days tional calling, consider it to be.eg- heartedly supported by his par-hence, under registered cover; to-sential that we are guaranteed im- erits. He was still in his teens gether with the congratulations of munity from interference by foreign when he started his studies for the "China. Mall"
The correct solutions are as legitimate occupation of carrying on the priesthood, being one of the
the trade, and commerce of the first students to enter the Semin- follows:--
Across.
Empire.. Only by means of such ary of the newly founded Catholic
protection for the Mercantile 1, CANKER; 7 BUSTLE: 13 Marine has it been possible in the Mission Society of Foreign América at Ossining, Maryknoll ARE, 14, RUHR; 15, NOWEL: 16 oust to build up the prosperity of New York. This was in 1911. NEWTON: 18. OYES: 10, ONO: 20 England, and recent events in Far Four years later in 1915, Mgr. NEAT; 21. PA: 22, EN; 24, TP; 25 Eastern waters have given rise to Walsh was ordained priest at the ALV 36. CRATED: 30 SEC much apprehension in the minds of young age of 23. On account of 1,CHATTERED: 33, RA the seafaring classes as to our TOE: 86, ELDER; 26, ENDEARS; future security, both as regards the The role they his exceptional ability, Father 59. ISA: 41, NOT; 43, PAL 44, freedom of the high seas and im- adopt is usually dictated by the Walsh (as he then was) was apOWN; 46, DUO: 47. KNOT: 60.
pointed Director of "The Venard." EGGS: 62, NAB: 54, WHEN: 56,munity from acts of violence whilst treatment they receive. "If that the Maryknoll Society's Prepara-OR: 67, EN; 59, GOT: 61, AN; 62, General Council are fully aware
ships are in Eastern ports. treatment is intolerant they are tory College at Clark's Summit, ZONED: 64, ENLARDS; 65, TEPS that such fears and apprehensions. The 66; DS: 67. OBE; 68, IN; 69 are fully justified by the acts of apt to grit their jaws, and no Scranton, Pennsylvania. amount of bullying will make Venard," it is of interest to note STRAYNE: 70, FRUSH
piracy and barratry which have here, is named after the Blessed
Down.
been carried out recently against them weaken. If the treatment is Jean Theophane Venard, a young 1. CAN: 2, ARENA: 3. NEWELS: British ships in Chinese waters. reasonable and manifests a spirit French priest who was martyred 4, EROTIC: 5. RUN: 6, BROA-
Duty of General Council of give and take" there is no race in Tonking, Indo-China, on Feb-CHER; S, UNSETTLING: 9, 50;
ruary 2, 1861.
10, TWO 11, LENT; 12, ELOPED in the world quicker to make con-
In 1919 Father Walsh arrived in 17 TAVERN: 23. NEEDS: 25, duty of the General Council to pro- cessions" or to arrange a com- Hong Kong as one of a little band STRINKLE: 27 RA; 28, ATE; 29,tect the Interests of the workers of promise. That is the lesson of of four young priests who came DREADS: S. COAL 2, BR; 34, his country, and that our wide Hankow. What violence could out to China as pioneers in the TEAR: 36, ETON; 31 DP: 38, 50: Aung trade and commerce in China. foreign mission field of their So-40, HOARDING: 42, ON: 45, WEN; built up by the merchant seamen of never have achieved. negotiation ciety. Father Walsh's compan GROPES: 63, BOA: 56, EN; 56. to hundreds and thousands of our 48, TAGLIA; 40, CHASE: 51, all ratings, represents employment When next the ions were Fathers Price, Ward OF: 68. NEST! 60. TRON 62, fellow-workers in the ship-yarda, mob shows signs of breaking loose and Ford. Father Price was the ZEBU: 63, NE; 66, TOR; 66, OS.
docks, factories, and mines of this country. At the same time stress- ing. the fact that the territory oc- Jeupied by us in China haa been granted to us by agreement in the form of a treaty entered into be- tween p previous Chinese Govern- ment and this country, not be arm ed persuasion.
The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. Printers & Publishers; No. GWYNDHAM ST.,HONGKONG Telephones Central 22 & 4611. Cable Address:
brought about. Mall, Hongkong.
All communications should bo addressed to the Newspaper Enter- prise, Ltd, to whom aff remittances should be made payable,
Londor: Ofees:-The Far Eastern
Advertising Agency (London), Ltd., 88-38 Southampton Street, Strandi W.C.2.
Mr. & Mrs. H. H. H. PRIESTLEY,
P. P. C
12
Mr. CHUA KEH HAI,
The Ho Hong Bank, Ltd. P.P.C. M. S. "CREMER."
THE LESSON OF HANKOW.
"
the Nationalists would do well to superior of the little group, Full of zeal and enthusiasm, the young: remember this, for if the success missionaries were impatient to go
DIVIDEND FOR LAST HALF YEAR.
26
of their campaign depends in large out into the field; but they had to measure or winning back the con- spend a couple of months in the CHARTERED BANK.
Colony. first as guests of the Very! cessions as a means of impressing Rev. Fr. Spade at the Rectory of the populace with the patriotic nature of their aims, a mistake in this direction may easily mean the breaking of their cause.
Inconsistent.
BONUS & APPROPRIATION
We would point oft that it is the
the Rosary Church. Kowloon, and
Further, we claim that the game later in their own little Mission
of embarrassing the Government at House or Chatham Road, before
such a critical juncture may be per- their desire was gratified. At last!
The loent office of the Chartered fectly legitimate for a political other members of the Society "ar-
trade union rived to take charge of the little Bank of India. Australia & China party, but that our procuration and the four van-has received the following telegram movement, which is purely and
from the head office:
simply an industriel organisation, guards went cheerfully out b "At the approaching, meeting of should not allow themselves to be Kongmoon as assistants to Bishop shareholders, directors will recom- come involved in such political Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has Fourquet's seasoned missioners, mend a dividend for the past half issues, more especially as in the again been explaining Labour's of whose Vicariate Apostolic of year at the rate of 14 per cent, per event of our legitimate interests in by attitude in regard to China. La-Canton the district of Kongmoon annam free of income tax and a China being stolen from K. bour supports diplomatic negotia-then formed part. Twelve short bones of 6s. 3. per share..
force, the tremendous trading and tions, but is opposed to sending months afterwards 'sadness over- "225,000 added to Officers' Pen-commercial concerns, which have. troops to Shanghai. In the same took the little band when their sion Fund.
"40,000 written off Premises. breath Mr. MacDonald has had to superior, Father Price, was called point out that "it had aiready away by the grim reaper. Father "4100,000 set aside on account of been necessary for a protecting Walsh succeeded him as superior contingencies. force to be on the spot in Shang- in the Mission.. hal."
"2215.354.6.8d. carried forward,"
ORGAN RECITAL.
TO-MORROW'S CATHEDRAL
Fund.
a 4
t/
Hymn 163 (and collection). 6. Tenor Solo, (a). Recit: Sing Praise," (b) Aria: "Ile Counteth Your Sorrows, Mendelssohn. 7.--Humoreske, Dvorak. 5.-Marche Solennelle, Mailly.
been built up in that country through British initiative and Bri- tish capital will be lost to us, and as a consequence thousands of our fellow-workers will be thrown out fof employment. It is the primary duty of the General Council of the T.U.C. to do their best to allevinte unemployment, not to intensify the trouble.
That is "glorious incon- The language difficulty was by Hong Kong, Thursday, March 17, 1927. sistency" with a vengeance, It far the biggest obstacle the young is to be hoped that the Govern-[prieste had to surruount, but they ment candidate will make the faced it with a will and very soon most of this in the by-election at they were quite at home; and once
"Red" Movement. Leith where the Labour candidate placed on common ground they
PROGRAMME.. in a manfesto declares that "the had no difficulty in gaining the
Touching our own Interests as COLLECTION FOR FUND.. seamen and members. of the The transfer of the British British troops are at present in confidence of the homely people
National Union of Seamen, a body Concession at Hankow to the new China to enable the capitalists to the had come to minister, to.
If
To-morrow Soon Bishop Fourquet was able
evening. exploit "Chinese resources."
'at 6.45, which is affiliated to the T.U.C., and Municipal Council has been com- Mr. MacDonald would like to exer-to entrust the whole of the vest Mr. Frederick Mason, A.R.C.O., which contributes its proportional pleted. The events which precise his duties as head of the La-district to the care of the young LTCL (the Cathedral Chaplain) quota of the fands of the Congress, ceded this transfer having been bour Party he himself ought to Americans take his own mission is to give an organ recital in St. we emphatically protest against the for the furtherance of such a move- GRACO EGYPTIAN, TOBACCO STORE LTD. clouded with distrust, owing to tell the Leith electors that his can- aries to other parts where minis-John's Cathedral, assisted by Mr. use of any portion of the said funds
didate has told what the Unionist ters were sorely needed. Then C. Dr Lake (tenor).
The next recital will be on Fri-ment as the bogus "Hand-off-China' the violence stirred up by agita candidats well describes as "a de- the Pope showed his appreciation day, March 25 at 6,45, p.m. campaign, a dangerous political
Collections will be for the Organ movement which has no real sup tor, it is as well to emphasize liberate and calculated lid." It is by creating a Prefecture Apostolic
port from the vast majority of that Britain's action in making also to be hoped that both the fo rthe Americans at Kongmoon, China Association and the China and Father Walsh was made the
To-morrow's programme is:- workers of this country, and which the transfer is in no sense the out-Committee are taking a hand in Prefect Apostolic with the cour
1.-Intermezzo, Hollins,
has been initiated by the "Reds" Now,
2-Andantino in D. Flat, Lemare. from Moscow and their allies in this come of coercion, but is dictated the electoral campaign in Leith teny title of Monsignor.
3.-Lamentation. Guilmant, country. Our protest is rendered solely by an earnest desire to seeing that the Chinese situation after eight years of unselfish la- is the principal issue at stake,bour, they have received further
4. Tenor Solo. "But, Thou "didst more emphatic by the knowledge
that these same "Reds" are the. meet the Chinese The fact that when men of the type of Mr. recognition, and the Maryknoll not Leave," Handel
F-Allegretto in B Minor, people who engineered the dian's- the British were at one time com-R. F. Wilbon, who has already Society, now represented in East-
trous mining and general sprikes, pelled largely to evacuate the tested defeat at a Leith election, ern Asia by a little army of more Gullmant.
thus bringing much poverty and Concession owing to the menacing go out of thein way to malign their than 100 Priests, Brothers" and
misery into the homes of thousands own countrymen and make capital Sisters stretched over Kwang- attitude of the mobs, while it of the necessity for defending Bri-turing, Kwangst and Manchuria Ye
of our fellow-countrymen..
We therefore, under the foregoing meant leaving the Concession in tish residents in China, no coun-Provinces, and in Korea. have a all
circumstances, beg, beseech, and finally demand that the General Chinese hands temporarily, did ter-propaganda çan be too strong Vicariate of their own with a for them. They are a disgrace young but seasoned missionary as
Council' of the T.U.C shall take no not have any real bearing on the even to the Labour Party which, their Bishop.
The headquarters of the So-
Rome, March 16.-Lou, Cheng-further part in this pernicious future of the Concession, since on the whole, is not so extremist
M fervent Catholic and anti-national campaign until they the British, under proper nuval as to remain silent when such "de- ciety's Priests and Brothers in chiang, and military safeguards, could libérate and calculated lies are China ja the Maryknoll Mission former Chinese Foreign Minister have adopted the constitutional broadcast. Still, as Mr. Mac Procure. No. 160, Austin Road, who headed the Chinese delegation course of taking a ballet vote of have resumed occupation at will Donald himself is quite at sea it Kowloon, the Procurator of which to the Paris peace conterence, is all trades unions, societies, and now retiring into private life from bodies affliated to Congress, seeing sooner or later. The Concession: would be too much to expect him la Rev. Fr. Wiliam J. Downs, The the post of Minister at Borne. He that this is the only safe and pro- has now been transferred solely to contradlet. Mr. Wilson and thus Sisters of the Mission in China has sent all decorations to the Pope por course to pursue,
jeopardise any chances the La-ao have their, centre house in as a sign of homage, asking permis- as the result of negotiation, a bour Party has of winning a seat Kowloon at No. 103, Austin Road.sion to leave to the pontiff a momen- The perils of missionary life into of the culminating phases of his point clearly established by the in a triangular contest.
the interior of China are illustrat-career-Reuter,. formal handing back of the Con cession to the British before its transfer to the new authority;
of the piracy of the Customs of "The Field Afar," the official he has been swindled to the extent The object of making this fact
launch near Macao not so long monthly magazine of the Society of $600. clear is not to save face," but
Ago. They owe their lives to the published at Maryknoll, New Ha went to a salt shop at 10 a.m. simply to emphasize the moral of
fortunate circumstances that the York
yesterday and contracted « to buy crime was committed while the Mgr. Walsh and Fr. O'Mella $600 worth of salt. The salt was the transfer. Whatever opinion may be held regarding the wis Grant of probate has been made launch was on the trip to instead came back from Macao. The to have been delivered to him at Customs boat which was to noon, but he was required to pay at the Supreme Court to Mabel of from Maceo, as it had been dom of the new arrangement, at Elliott Gourdin, of Hong Kong, in their Intention to travel on the haye arrived from Pakkal fail spot cash, which he did. When the this stage of the civil war, there respect of the 37,000 ertate of her launch back to Pakkal after a ed to put in an appearence. salt was not delivered at the ap Since then, we have learned that pointed time he made enquiries and can be no question that it offers late brother, Frank Portland Long, short rest from their labours in
formerly manager of the B.A.T. at Hosg Kong.nl
it was pirated and the Euro-discovered that the manager of the a valuable lesson, a lesson which Yunnanfu and a citizen of the However, the missionaries way pean officer probably killed, shop had absconded with his money. the Nationalists would do well to United States of Americs of putting self in the back-ground The boat itself was after some take to heart, The British, as been granted to Mr. Lowle by the following short paragraph Letters of administration have led to the episode being dismissed their history proves, can be a solicitor, of Hong Kong: in, respect stubborn race, and, as their of the $2200 late of Mr. Glass culled from a diary from Hong Kong headed The Pebble" and do much who died intestate in Hong Kong
printed. In the February number history also proves, they can be a In July of last year
GENERAL STOREKEEPERS.
Telephone No. C. "5338.
Cable Add:"Winner"
GLOBE & RUTGERS
FIRE INSURANCE CO.
OF NEW YORK.
FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE
At Lowest Current Rates.
AMERICAN ASIATIC UNDERWRITERS
Phone Cent
4908
(BOUTS CHINA)
FED INC, USA.
2. Connaught Road, Centrat
LOCAL PROBATES.
BAT. MÅNÄGEN'S $7,000 - ESTATE.
ed by the lucky escape which Mg,
Walsh and Father O'Melia had
from being amongst the victims
CONTRACTOR SWINDLED.
A building contractor lying at |No. 14, Mau Lan Street, Youmati, has made a report to the police that
daya recovered, aground. The Suffering froin an injured eye party made a second attempt to caused by a fail, a Atter employed get to Pakkei and succeeded, at No. 3, Pumping Station, Pakfa after a further delay of some lum Road, was yesterday taken to days in Marso."
hospital for Treatment, ka
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.