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· CORRESPONDENCE. THE SERVICES AND THEIR PAY.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE

DAILY PRESS."}

HONGKONG

SIR-A large number of residents of Hongkong are giving freely of their time and money to try and make the lot of the Service man in the Colony a little

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.

OPIUM.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 1917.

A fins of $1,500 was imposed upon a Chinese woman who was found in pos session of 28 Laels of prepared opium, The alternative was six months' hard Jubour

CORROSIVE FLUID,

n

RENEWING THE "AULD ALLIANCE."

A REALLY CORDIAL ENTENTE.

[BY NEIL MUNED.]

In Vanity Fair," Thackerary speaks with patriotic pride, not wholly wanting

MOCKING THE MAIMED. FASHIONS WOMEN MIGHT AVOID.

The other day in a prominent London strect quite a number of the passere-by walking along with a man in kbaki. stopped to look after a lady who was

in surprise, of the British Army's zela-uniform was ornamented with three little The cuff of one sleeve of the latter's tions with the civilians of Flanders dur gilt stripes, showing that he had been the campaign which culminated in thrice wounded. A second glane, at his only drunk at the village in but paid

companion showed that what was arousing

Waterloo. The soldier," he says, nob

The case in which a Chinese was charged happier. The Services Entertainment with throwing corrosive fluid on a little Fund, for instance, is Boing a lot to girl four years of age, with intent to his score, and Donald: the Highlander, fact that one cuff of her trim tailored" make existence less dreary, but it has burn, main or disfigure her, the alleged billeted in the Flemish farmhouse, rocked arown suit was braided in almost exactly.

struck me that there is one thing that

sailors and soldiers would appreciate more than all the others put together, and that is a reduction of the rate of the Service dollar. My position frequently brings me into contact with soldiers and sailors, in the Colony, and I have been very much impressed by the tremendous, discontent which exists among all rank and ratings owing to the high rate of the dollar and the consequent shortage of pay. fam informed that there are cases where men who have been promoted are actually drawing less money than they were when they held a lower rank

ha tile dollar was lower. This is ob Viously unfair and ridiculous. The rate for the Service dollar is based on the average rate of the previous month, and itgmust be remembered that, us far-as Jack and Tommy are concerned, a dollar at 28, 7id. buys no more than one at 15. Bd. and, in fact, nowadays its purchas-; king power is less. To me it seems gross injustice that men should be made to serve thousands of miles from home, nome of them for several years longer than the axed time for foreign service, and

then be penalised by having to forfeit a Jarge share of their pay because the price of silver fluctuates.

The way of the working man at home, when he is unjustly treated (and often when he is not), is strike at the risk of endangering the prospects of his country. This is not the method of the Army and Navy, thank God! They "grouse tremendously among themselves, but the general public hears no more, although the feeling of injustice felt by the men is naturally more intense through being suppressed.

offence having occurred in Yaumati on

the 4th instant, was concluded before Mr. A. Dyer Bail.

After further evidence was heard his Worship committed the defendant for trial at the next Criminal Sessions.

POLICE EVIDENCE.

so much interest and indignation was the

the same manner with Ene gilt braid.

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wounded" atripes put on their new.. SHIRTS & UNDERWEAR.

the baby's cradle, while Jean, and Jean halte were out getting in the bay. As A ladies' tailor declares that ever so our painters are bent on military subjects many women fect for the pencil, to illustrate the prin conts-just on the one cuff, as the braid just now, I throw this out as a good su

are having the gilt iple of an honest English war.

is worn by the men who have dearly cam- After a hundred years the British soled the right to wear it. The fashion is dier on the same old battle-grounds still hot a pretty one; it has not even the inerit honestly and promptly pays his shot at of attractiveness to recommend it, while estaminet or inn the thrifty native there is no question about its being in how Chinese was crying out his wares

When an Indian constable described vendors of meagre ale and sour in the worst possible taste. It is desecra rouge may be depended upon carefully totion of an honour which was createdl seo to tint--but Donald the Highlander, specially for wounded men, a fashion an alleged prohibited area, Mr.more chivalric, apparently, then his which every such man has a right to re- Wood, the Magistrate, remarked to great-grandfather, is not content to rock sent and one which ought to be made as Inspector Sim, in whose district the fields. He goes out in gangs in his days of the Victorin Cross riband.

a oradle while the mothers work in the impossible as the unauthorised wearing offence was alleged to have taken place, of release from the filthy job of human that he would never convict on the unbath by gratuitously tiling, harrowing. slaughter, and takes a kind of spiritual supported evidence of this particular boeing, or making huy, as the case may for the honest people upon whose village he is quartered.

in

Indian constable.

Inspector Sim said there did not seem any use for the policeman at all. The defendant was discharged.

ALLEGED KIDNAPPING. Before Mr. A. Dyer Ball, a Chinese was charged with kidnapping two little girls, ous 10 and the other 13 years of age, from No. 80, Ship Street, Wanchai.

Inspector Brazil said that it

was alleged that at about 3 p.m. on Friday, the two children met the defendant ut Causeway Bay. They accompanied him by tram to Queen's Road, Central, and thence by ferry to Yaumati. There the two children were detained until about 8 p.m., when they were brought back to Hongkong. The defendant, accompanied by the two children, was arrested whilst boarding the 8.8. Kinshan,

His Worship formally remanded the defendant in Police custody,

SHAM SOLDIERS.

SUBURBAN SEASONS" AND

SPURS tak d

KINOHIP OP FRENCH AND SCOTS,

Ex

Unfortunately there is ʼn tendency just fashions which savour very much of

now, among some. women

adopt making mock of the men who have become maimed and broken in the service of their country, and the custom is a reprehensible Que which public opinion ought to stamp quickly out of existence,

It looked for all

Thackeray's painter, in the past two years, could have got millions of domestic, pastoral, and sentimental picture subject A week or so ago the twenty-year-old in France, and they should, even more in-daughter of a gentleman who has turned pressively than the Highlander and his country house into a convalescent cradle, have illustrated the principle of home for wounded soldiers went down to an honest English war". In a fortnight the latter place for a few days. Shortly tional on the Western front, I have spent room and very jubilantly showed me the of comparative suspense in deeds sensa before she went she took me to her bed my days among three wholly Scottish contents of a box which had we are the divisions, and found their active interest from her dressmaker. in cultivating other people's fields and the world like one of the most ugly grey gardens, mucking native middens, doing flannel uniforms which our soldiers in he of work for poor folk grateful hospital have to wear; but Madge laughed of their aid since their own young men at the idea. were gone, so aniversal and so reinarkable that it might have made me think there was something after all in the Boche's crazy theory that we are here for good, if I did not know how joyously we shall hump our kits and all go back to Blighty whenever the pipes play "Happy we've been a thegither.

It is my now frock," she exclaimed, I'm going to wear it to take the boy's boating when I go down to X, and I've got the emoningest little military cap to go with it. All the girls chino a stunning idea, and Mme. Z 19 book jug orders like rain for similar Frocks!"

HON KONG FINANCE, The financial statement for Hongkong

Balance for the month of April is as follow:

of Asseta and Liabilities on 31st March, Revenue from 1st to 30th

1917

April, 1917

The curious thing is that not yet can It is with diffidence I venture to say the girl see that her ill-chosen dress had it, but I think the French populace any connection with the fact that the peculiarly like the Seots. There may be boys were most strange in their manner little in the popular theory that the days to her when she went down to Xand of the "auld alliance" are still affection refused point-blank her offers to take them ately superbered, but the cordiality out on the river. And what is worse is between the French people and the Beat the fast that other dressmakers beside tish troops. here is marked enough to be Mme. attributable to any kind of romantic making similar grey fannel gowns.

Zare being kept busy in sentiment. Probably, however, it arises Some idea of the extent of the craze for less from a knowledge of history books such questionable styles may be gained than from the freemasonry, so to speak, from the fact that yesterday a schoolgirl My suggestion is this. The men in

which must ever exist between all essen-of fourteen told me poutingly that she tially country folks We are not to had set her heart upon having a hospital Hongkong cannot help themselves or draw

BY JOHN CHALFONT:]

towny as our gallant comrades-in-blue linen frock for school tennis during attention to their undoubted grievance

Arms from over the Border; our incon- the coming summer made with a loose testable 44 without courting serious trouble, but this

There is no more comical or pathetic other forms than those of the English have,

guid conceito oursel's takes coat and red tie like the wounded soldiers figure that the pseudo-soldier, fit for citizen: the Scottish army is one which fact that her mother was so dreadfully

know! Colony contains a large number of in-

Her trouble lay in the service in the field, who consents to recountry born or country bred in the main. fluential and wealthy people who, by!

main at women's work in all the glory and with no metropolitan standard of the mere suggestion of such a thing, old-fashioned that she had strictly retood of uniform--The Times. joint action, could possibly induce the Whan the War Offico calls up the huegance comes among the humble, hard seemed to be having similar dresses.

self-satisfaction-I shall not say arro- although nearly all the girls at the school Imperial Government to grant an allow hands and fathers between 1 and 30 working peopl. of this rural France so ance, or a fixed service dollar at 1, 9d.soldiers, many of them for younger men, with a sympathetic understanding and what is it going to do with the sawdust utterly unlike the France of the tourist--

H.M.K.N. or is. 106., or, at least, do something to who have strutted the site, is in uniform consideration that disarm distrust and lossen the obvious unfairness of the these two or more years and whose fiercest quickly kindle real friendship,

action Uas been a big push for a table present system. I might mention that at a popular restaurant or a seat in otherwise of any body of troops quar

A good Indication of the popularity or suburban traini Officers and Warrant Odicers, already receive a Colonial allowance, but, the diers." I know one at least, I admire of claims for damages, &c., submitted by London in full of these pseudo-sol-to be found in the character and amount tered for a week or two in any district is men who need it must get nothing. Per-hini often as a fellow passenger who for the locality to the British claims officers,

two years has journeyed home to a Surrey Officers who have long served in this haps a mass meeting of all Hongkong suburban station in fall fighting kit, city, and themselves are English, tell me cape- people interested in the welfare of the varied sometimes by trench boots, so that the claims Service men in the Colony, followed by at Victoria Station weturning the salutes small and reasonable where Scottish times by spurs. I have often seen him grasping areas, are almost invariably even in notoriously a cablegraju urging the injustice, etc., of stained and tattered Tommies incoming troops are concerned, and suretines are from the front, a fine, athletic figure, his not submitted at all. The fact, I admit, might do all that is necesSUTY. The

age a maximum of 35. matter has already, I believe, been repre-

I know a few of the pseudo-soldiers.lish humour; but no matter!

is open to the cynical comment of Eng wented by the Naval and Military autho-military age that no reproach can be Some of thein are, indeed, so much above

THE KILT AND THE BONKET, rities, but, apparently, in such a manner levelled against them for not fghting. English is obviously much more marked The distinction between Scots and as to meet with no success. Meanwhile, I know, fat men, and extremely sedentary the middle of the eighteenth century, and When the war broke out several old men among the French than it has been since the sailor and soldier suffer.I am, sir,mon, suddenly blossomed out into officers it is not wholly a distinction due to a Yours faithfully,

uniform. Special Sam Browne belts were difference of made for them of extra circumference lingua franca, in which the British Costume. In that purinus their tailors, patriotically without profit, soldier and the native people carry on medit out size" khaki tunics for them long and animated conversations regard at standard prices; their wives button ing the curseduess at war, the size of them up each morning, assisted by a their respective families, the price of maid-servant and a pulley. But they, too, merchandise, or the points of a horse or Butter Beans take incessant saintes from the fighting refert er Apricot Jam walk down the Strand in panoply and heiler the French and that the Scot' Best Fresh Butter, 1/4 men home on leave,

makes the interchange of idens more easy

(3lb. jura) 1/8 1/10) 2/7 From one dear old boy of 69 I often bonnet, it is true, are valuable tokens Shoulder Mutton

than with the English The kilt or the Marmalade.

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2/3 catch a reflected, vicurious glow of der of identity. To the French they distin

(6lb. to Tib.). ring-do and heroism when we walk down guish a traditional corps d'élite of the Cooking Apples

9d. 1/3 1/105 This match, played on Saturday at Piccadilly. He is the War Office's "Of British Army, who come from terrifically the University Ground, resulted in acial Director of Typewriter Ribbon Sup-high mountams and are nurtured to

3d. and 4d. win for the University by 55 games to plies "or something of that sort but gallantry by perpetual storm, like did, to Ta. d. to lid. 11d, to 1/1

4d, and 5d. all last winter he wore a heavy fleece-lined darling chasseura d'alpin. The jupe "British warm." Over and over again the kilt is droll, and the pipes, mon

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Hongkong, July 21st, 1917.

SPORT.

JUSTICE..

LAWN TENNIS,

TENNIS LEAGUE,

UNIVERSITY ». VANGUARD,

44 Beores:-

Bumjahn and Gittins :-

beat Lo and Lo

beat Grose and Lock beat Manley and Lee

Redmond and Brayshay- lost to Lo and Lo.......

best Grose and Lock beat Manley and Lee

Trafford and Wright:--

*

Expenditure from Ist to 30th

April, 1917

Balance

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INCREASED COST OF LIVING IN ENGLAND.

1sts of some large London stores thows A comparison of prices taken from the the different cost of goods now and in pre-war days:

Valencia Raisins. Dried Apricots

I have sten soft eyes look upon him and Dieu Aro of a wonderful and fantastic Spring Greens 4 beard soft voice murmur," Ob. the brav

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Hardware gooda have gone up from

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But the fit young men in uniform, who put it; Black Watch and Argylls, H.LI

3 travel daily by suburban season-ticket Seaforth or Cameron it can distinguish 35 per cent. to 65 per cent., said an to an office, who do clerical work that them quicker than many folk at home, ironmongery buyer, and further sup

5 surely does not need tunics and Sur and the dashingest pretty girls who sell pics of galvanised and enamelled goods.

Browne belts (and often trench boots and coffee, vin blanc, post-cards, and absurdly are almost unobtainable. spors), who travel home at night by expensive nick-nacks in towns contiguous

beat Lo and Lo beat Grose and Lock.

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MASONIC BENEVOLENCE.

At the annual meeting of the Royal

suburban "season-ticket" to an admiring to the battlefields are apt to be attired in

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domestic circle, are the pseudo-soldiers skirts of regimental tartans. The biggest through some beneficent change of soul whore the then of 40 to 50 want to see table-cloth I have ever seen, which through the compelling influence of either sent out to fight or put into their adorned the mess of a divisional head decent comradeship. The French, it must proper mufti before they go themselves

If uniforms are necessary for the dis quarters, was made of the Cameron be admitted, are seeing Scotland at its

discolours cipline of offices; if trench boots are the French call it), and was the chateau

the bully-beef tartan," as the best new AM WO only boots for wading through files; if owner's compliment to the nationality of Arcadian calm in the life of the Scots in Do I give the impression of unbroken the latest joined flapper up to her

France! It is the last thing I should

Masonic Benevolent Institution, held at spurs are the only weapons for keep But, after all, the most obvious reason wish to do, and surely everyone who

Freemasons wall, thirty-six mile and seventy-four widow accepted candidates

elected (without ballot) as annuit ants from June 1st, in commemoration of the bi-centenary of Grand Lodge, Au additional rule was passed giving power 20 increase the amount of annuity to male Annuitants when their wife is still living

work; then it is time that some prominent for the unquestionable popularity of the reads will understand. I give but a badge should be affixed upon his Majesty'a Beots is that they are quiet, sober, well-gimpse of them in their untormented tinguish them from his Majesty's warrior any hooligan elem at of our race came back from recurring scenes of horror and warriors who are fighting men to dis behaved, honest and cheerful fellows. If hours, marvelling how they can bring who are season ticket men

here it has been cleansed by discipline from experience to soar the soul, hearts and the fires of battle, or has come that can still show tenderness, the quiet

(Continued at foot of nest column.) old homely virtues, cheerful moods,

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