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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

CORRESPONDENCE, JOLAIM AGAINST SHANGHAI | HONGKONG'S WATER SUPPLY

THE IRATE UNDERGRAD.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE

DAILY FRESK"]

HONGKONG

S-It is amusing to road the Pro- ast." appearing in your correspondence column supra the pseudonym "Under- grad."

**Undergrad's "argument as to why University students should not be called schoolboys at one goes to show that login is not one of the subjects which cause him to burn his midnight oil. We will pass over his absolutely puerile talk about sports. He seems to think that all schoolboya nré mountebanks.

fathers and independent property

INSURANCE COMPANY.

SEQUEL TO FIRE AT KONGMOON. At the Hongkong Summary Court yesterday, the Young Fong firm claimed from the Shanghai Fire and Marine Insurance Co., Lu, the sum of $500, being the logs sustained by plaintiffs under a policy of fire insurance upon a house belonging to the plaintiffs, and insured with the defendants under date March 8th, 1916. ‹

Mr. C. G. Alabaster (instructed by Mr. Leo d'Alunda) was for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. Preston) represented the Insurance Co.

Me, Alabaster, in opening the case, anid the defence was that it was provided by Clause (c) of the Policy of Insurance

THURSDAY, AUGUST 9r¤, 1917.

WHAT AMERICANS THINK OF US.

The report of the Water Authority for the month ended August 1st shows that He was sitting next to me at dinner, on that date the City and Hill district a tall, upright man in khaki. The different reservoirs contained 1,279.00 million out of his daiform and the little gold gallons, as compared with 76876 million sign on his shoulder straps proclaimed gallons on the same date inst year. The him to be one of the advance guard of consumption during July in this district America's coming Army. He had arrived was 183.75 million gallons by an estimated with General Pershing." What do you population of 268,810, or an average con-

think of England to-day "I asked him, sumption per head per day of 22 gallons..

"Lamazed and overwhelmed," the In the same month last year an estimated American replied. The hospitality and Population of 235,915 consumed 199.35 kindness that meet us everywhere cannot million gallons of water, or an average past few weeks hitve eliminated the inter

he put in words. Just us events of the consumption per head per day of 24.2 national boundary between Canada and gallons.

the United States. so the old formality and stiffness with which John Bull use The total storage in the Kowloon grato hedge himself seem to have vanished. | vitation reservoir on August 1st w 352.50 million gallons, which is the same as the total storage on the same date last

SAMO

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I am very busy while I am here. Every where I meet the same reeption. As soon as busincas is fixed up the English mon burns to me. New, apart from this here. Have a cup of ten? Is there any you anywhere? Let me be of some use to

As regards some of the students being that the said policy should not under any year. An estimated population of 100,250 business, what am I do to serve you, men, we also have them at Queen's circumstances cover loss or damage by consumed 38.15 million gallons of water,thing you would like to do? Can I take College and other local schools; do they fire occasioned by, or in consequence of, giving an average consumption per head thereby cease to bo schoolboys? Inrebellion, insurrection, riot, civil com per day of 12.3 gallons. In the

motion, hostilities or any military or month hast year an estimated population International Dictionary, latest edition, Student" is defined as

usurped power whatsoever. The defen- of 18,460 consumed 40.74 million gallons, **a scholar; especially one who attends a

dants admit that on the 20th of April, for 13.3 gallons per head- per day, 1910, the plaintiff's house was destroyed school, etc. Surely one who attends a

The Government Analyst's report, states school, and is a boy, must be termed by fire, but say that the fire was occa

that the water is of excellent quality, * schoolboy," unless "Undergrad "sioned by or in consequence of rebellion,

Webster's

wishes us to call the students schoolmen.

Undergrad's "

only

grammar is superb. It can emanate from the brain of an "Under- grad" who attempts to write to à paper. What shall we say about his use of the word "elupped "i It is uproarious.-- Yours, etc..

LAUGHTER.

Hongkong, Augast 8th, 1917.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS."]

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insurrection, riot civil commotion, about hostilities or peroration

2 military or usurped power, Counsel went ou to say that the facts were as follows:-On April 1st, 1016, an attack was made by the troeps in Kongmoon. Lung Chai-kwong's fortes were in Kongmoon and the Republican army was attacking then. The attackers, in the first instance, gained the upper hund, but the defenders were later roin- forced, and they drove them away again. The whole of the disturbances, whatever they were, had subsided by the forenoon of April 20th. No fire took place during any of those disturbances, certainly not the fire with which they were concerned. As one might have expected, at this period the shops in the streets were closed and barred, and people remained as muchable balance of 39,300.55, which it is as possible indoors. On the evening of resolved to appropriate as follows:-- April 20th, there being no electric light,

To place to reserve fund To pay a dividend of $1 per an assistant in a barber's ship lit a lamp

share and that lamp fell down, blazed up and | To carry forward to credit of set fire to the floor of the shop and to

next year's account the surrounding furniture, and eventu ally the surrounding premises became involved. The barber was at the back of the shop, which was closed, and the fuki

of

$10,000.00

7,808,00

21,558.55

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.

frittering away you great heritage.

"What do I find now? Well 1 find a

Your nation has come together. There sanity, a clearness of vision, and a greutnces that are difficult to describe, is little agitation, little outward fer- ment, Nothing is so surprising us the calm. But naderneath that calm is a splendour of acrifice that would be hard to beat.

THE BRITISH CALM.

"I know a father who has lost his only. two sons in the war. They were very much loved sons. But the father said to me, with steady voies: I am glad of the war, despite all that it has cost us. For it has taught is all real value and swept away much of the dross."

I was at dinner at a party where there was a so who had low his arm. He was going! back to the front, busy on work that a one-armed man could do there. No one was treating him as object for pity. ; He had lost his arm, true. That was sin incident of WAY But the really import- ant fact, in the mind of the man himself and of all the rest, was that he conki still be of good service to his country.

and the labourer standing to attention in the same company. This kind of. England.

mixing is going to transform social

Sin, venture to hope that your correspondent "Undergrad" will not allow his protest to remain where it is. Nothing but a vast public meeting can possibly wipe out the "anpardonable offence." "Undergrad " course, occupy the chair at such meeting, and, if he is not equal to it, I shall be glad to supply him with a rousing speech. The meeting is sure to be crowded out, and overflow meetings will have to be hold. Professor Middleton Smith, I am

That is the spirit I find everywhere, confident, would render valuable assist

Another thing is that your old class dis ance at such overflow, by giving his

tinctions are being more wiped out You lecture: "Submarines, or what who had lit the lamp called out to the

WOMEN IN COURT,

find the private soldier and the colonel sitting at the same dinner table. Your think of Wei Hei-Wei." Professor barber. The latter ran into that part of

Before Mr. Dyer Ball at the Hongkong universal servies is proving a great Warren would also.. oblige with his the shop where the lamp was und found Magistracy, yesterday. Mrs. Everest, ofling in the ranks, the clerk, the banker, democratic leveller. All classes are ring- lecture" Colour, or like in a Bungalow that it was blazing. He tried to extin

Bonham Road, summoned three Chinese in the rainy season." To help matters guish the flames, but was not successful.

women for assault. There was also a in the big meeting while the audience Therefore, he opened the shop and ran

croes-guminous against Mrs. Everest for is assembling, I am prepared to loan my

into the street and raised an alarm. The assaulting one of the Chinese women. gramophone (20 double-sided records).

"But it is the calm of your nation Then the progeny of the undergraduates houses, including the plaintiffs'.

fire spread and burned down a number of li was stated that complainant formerly that impressos me most of all. Phlegm, who are fathers (sic) might parade the that it seemed to him (Counsel) that there ground floor, the first floor being occupied ence quietly, in matter-of-fact fashion. lived at 33, Pokfulam Road, on the they called it in Napoleon's day. Yin

are going through this stupendous experi- town, and, if their little throats (or hung) will stand it, might sing "Univer-caused, and the question of insurrection was no question as to how the fire was

by the Chinese When she moved to You revolutionise your lives, send your Bonham Road, she removed the locks from of great possessions, and smile through sons wholesale to death, strip yourselves sity of our Fathers" at the meeting.

or civil commotion did not arise. As. We This would make the protest more might expect, an enquiry was held by the work said that the Chinese would not let

the doors, but the carpenter doing the it all. emphatic. (Watson's, I feel sure, would Chamber of Commerce, and at least one

"I've secu a little of your Army. provide throat jujubes and chest, pro- Company had paid claims.

him take away the patent lock from the summed up in one word, Efficiency. You What impressed me most there can be sectors free.) Of course a list of the

The defenfront door. The following day complain- know we think we know something of unfulfilled engagements

dant Company had refused to pay any of the tennis,

ant went to the house and the carpenter | ellicirney: I learned the other day that thing. and (especially) football clubs of the

your economy experts aco that the grease tried to take the lock off. There in the army cookhouse wash-bowls is was a crowd of Chinese in the passage gathered up and turned to a profit. The and on the stairs shouting and swearing frogments of dry food that are left are ground up into thicken ment. This kind at him. The lock had been given to com- of thing is going on in every section.. People here seem to talk mest „bout your plainant by a previous occupier.

mistakes. We can see what you have ac- pushed along the passage and out of the Complainant alleged that she was;

complished."

I hope my American friend will pardon front door. She had every right to go me for repeating his frank and friendly back to the house because she had not echoed by others of our American visitors. words. For what he told me has beenE given up the keys. She had to sow Dr.They have come among us with kindly vision and friendly voice willing and Harston after the assault.

anxious to see the best side of us-AM

After

University would be suppressed, as only of over $20,000 was involved in connection Mr. Potter here remarked that a syn

schoolboy excuses operated in their cancelment. As a member of the Police with the fire referred to, and fourteen Reserve I would gladly arrange for a

insurance

companies were concerned.

number of my colleagues to be present to The defendant Company were contesting the case merely to seek information. They had not even asked for security for costs, which they could have done. It must not be thought that the Company desired to. evade its liabilities, but it was obviously of great importance to the Company and the other insurance Companies involved to know exactly how they stood.

picet any Editor (local or otherwise) who might be tempted to attend the meet. ing and air his views on English apolling and grammar, Yours, etc.,

Hongkong, August 5th, 1917.

BONHAM.

Ho

The defendants denied the assault, and the first defendnut, who is the mis.

WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION thought it was oious that in the present tress of the house, alleged that she was

{TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

Bees

The case was adjourned until Friday.

disturbed state of China no insurance Company, with business manager, assaulted. would dream of insuring on an ordinary premiumi. Therefore, it was a maiter of great importance to the Companies, and that was the reason why the defen dant Company was fighting The paltry 8500 was nothing, but the principle suvolved was a very important one

MGR. GERLACH GUILTY,

END-OF-ITALIAN TREASON TRIAL

فیلم

GERMANY TRADING ON WAR WEARINESS.

MR. G. N.BARNES ON PEACE

INTRIGUES..

Mr. G. N. Barnes, responding to the

ast Victory to the Allies," proposed The result of the espionage and high by Sir G. Riddell at the 90th anniversary treason trial was not unexpected (says dinner of the Printers' Pension Corpora

SI-We notice that an attractive advertisement appears every other day in your paper appealing for subserip that a number of British Companies were The Paisne Judge reminded Mr. Potter tions to the War Savings Association involved in the San Francisco earth Whilst we have no objection to make, we

quake, and they had to

Mr. Potter said hay all the claims.The Timer correspondent at Rome). The tion, eaid that this was the first occasion abould like to make it generally known San Francisco earthquake could be com

not think the only really interesting feature in the case upon which he had spoken in public since was the part played by Mgr. Gerlach, he became a member of the War Council, that we do not take any credit for the pared with the condition of China at the who betrayed a Church, in order to and he felt be must speak with circum same, nor are the appeals drawn up by any insurance Company would cover the to spies Archita, Valente, and Fomarici the progress of the war when the peoples time of the rebellion. He did not think serve his country as a spy and paymaster spection. We had arrived at a period in uror put in your paper with our know-risks of China with an ordinary premium,

and without any exceptions.

were Gerlach's chief assistants and in- of the world were weary of the delugs ledge or at our instructions, as

struments, and Pomarici seems to have of bloodshed. It was common to all coun- The Chinese manager of the Kongmocou been the greater villain. Valento escapes tries, but more acute in the Central popularly to be supposed.

Electric Company said that the fire was the death penalty on the ground of ex Powers, whose losses were greater. They caused by the overturning of a lamp. Ittenuating circumstances, and Ambro were driven back upon their own dwind as all the troops had left Kongmoon in for money payments; the oth could not have been caused by the rebels, getta seems to have been simply a channelling resources, and that was the cause of

the others were the conferences at Stockholm and else the morning, whereas the fire took place journalistic prostitutes the treason trial, German spies, of the efforts to sow dis where, of the of Russia with in the evening.

Two of the

in The barber, at whose shop it is alleged Valente and Archite, were sentenced to cord between the Allies, and of the talk the fire broke out, also stated that it was penal servitude for life, and two others, of tame Socialists acting as agents for the caused by his foki dropping a kerosene Nicolosi and Raspagles, to five years or German Government, but to whose stat up, as the electric current had been rut oil, lan the citricou rent and tod sud soldier, being in addition ordered to me way committed. The German Govern Cross-examined by Mr. Potter this wit be degraded Ambrogetti and Garcea mens were playing upon the war weari neas said he was unable to find the fol now. He had run away into the country so soon as he dropped the lamp. The hearing was adjourned.

We shall feel obliged if you will kindly publish this letter in your next issue Yours faithfully,

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, Lad.

(Hon. Secretaries and Treasurera),

Bries and Treas

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Mgr. Gerlach was sentenced to penal compromise; there must be no truce. were ordered three years' imprisonment. ness of the nations. There could be no servitude for life and Pomarici was There must be victory for the Allien if ordered to be shot. Both the latter are the world was to be worth living in for fugitives from justice.

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