A THEATRICAL DISPUTE. FARTNERS AT LOGGERHEADS
At the Summary Court, yesterday, before His Honour, Mr. Justice. Con- perts. Wong Kam Ying, a coal merchant; brought an action against Ng Ting Cheung for $40148; being amount of
THE HONGKONG DAILY, PRESS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE QUESTION ÓF A VICTORY. BONUS.
(TO THE EDITOR OF "THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
RICE TRADE OF THE WORLD,
INDIA'S SHARE,
CHINA'S NEGLECTED
MONUMENTS.
principal and interest due for money lent in Europe in 1014 the commercial sphere India," where the crop (including an of the beautiful an article by Mr. Roy
to him.
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While the architectural troasures of It is calculated that the output of cleaned rice in 1916-17 in all countries Europe are suffering from the ravages of war, neglhes and vandalism are producing) except China amounted to about 50,000,000 tons. Of this the British Empire prono less lamentable results arieng venerable SIR. When the terrible war broke out duced about 36,000,000 tons, mostly in masterpieces of afchitecture and sculp
ture in China. To cosmopolitan lovers. of Hongkong was comparatively dull. allowance of a million tons for Native Mr. Lewis (of Messrs. Johnson. Stokes Many of the European Staf have left States) was no less than 35,000,000 tons.
Chapman Andrews in the American Museum & Master) appeared for the plaintiff since to serve at the front for their of the foreign production of 24,000,000 China's Ancient Monuments, will pro- Journal (New York), OD Motherland, and, as a consequence, much tons, aver 20,000,000 tons was grown in vide shocks as painful as those gathered extra work has been thrown on to the five countries-Japan. the Netherlands | Portuguese and Chinese staff, who kept East Indies (chielly Java), French Indo- from the record of bombardments in on steadily and orderly, as usual. Mean-China, Siam and Korea. Estimates" of Flanders, Champagne, and Italy. while. the cost of food stuffs in Hong production in China are largely guess- kong has gone up 30 per cent and the work, but the Imperial Institute, adopt- rent of the houses 25 per cent. Mosting the view that the output in China is of the workers, however, have not received
not likely to be much inferior to
while the defendant was represented by Mr. G. R. Enywood.
The plaintiff and defendant were part hers in a theatrical enterprise, called the Yuk Hing Company. One of the resolu. tions passed at a meeting of the Company was that the Treasurer Wha the only person empowered to borrow money.
The plaintiff in his evidence admitted this and said that at the time be lent the money there was no suggestion that it was lent for the Company. The Treasurer told him that the money wae for his own private use: The plaintiff produced the document in support of his case.
Mr. Haywood: Isuggest that no money was lent on this document and that it was motely made for the purpose of this caset -Witness: No, this is a proper doctimeat.
A clerk of the plaintiff said that on September 7th the defendant came to his master's shop and asked for $100 for his own private use. The plaintiff then made
out a cheque for $500, had it cashed and
gave defendant $400. Defendant signed a borrowing note, written out by himself: On the 6th another loan was made for $400 to Yung Fung Ki. It was also paid
in cash.
the
Indian crop and may exceed it, concludes
be a fair allowance for India's proportion that 40 per cent, or a little less, would
of the world's annual production of rice.
India occupies in the world's rics trade No less important is the position which
any increas of salary. Now that the war is ending the writer begs to sugge that the principals of the various lend- ing firms should take into consideration their workers exertions and recognise that their services are worthy of an
na a source of supply for other countries. augmentation of remuneration. Ara
That is not a necessary consequence of its they not deserving of a Victory bonus 1-importance as a tice producer. Some of yours,etc.,
"
W.S.L.
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.
STEALING A JACKET.
A Chinese youth was charged with stealing a jacket from No. 1, West
Terrace.
cerned
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A memorial was addressed to Presi- dent Yuan Shih-kai of the Chinese Republic in 1914 by fifty-two American institutions of Dusty learning. and humanity. The immediate result was
the promulgation of an edict making legal recognition of China's monuments and antiquities and urging national co-operation in their preservation. Moreover, the Governments of the United States. Great Britain, and France, through their Ministers at Pak- ing, instructed their Consuls through out China to use all possible endeavours: to further the auppression of vandalism on the part of their citizens.
remote
the countries, of largest production- China, Japan, Netherlands East Indies— do not grow enough to supply their own Unfortunately political conditions in Deeds, though in the case of Japan the China soon nelliked this excellent step, large increase in the rice crops in the last and in the subsequent chaos the despoil- ing of China's monuments and antiquities balance into an export balance, so far as years three years has changed, a heavy import bas
progressed the trade with foreign countries (ie collectors have visited provide
unchecked. In the last says
Andrews, foreign
corners of the eighteen provinces on a excluding Korea and Formosa) is con-systematic search for objects of art or of archeological value, and the menace to practically under the control of three Chinese themselves have taken part in this the records of China's ancient civilization The world's export trade in rice is has agumed alarming proportions. The countries India, French Indo-China and work of spoliation. Last but not least, Sian. It has been calculated that the to the damage done by man has beer add- quantity of rice which entered into inter-ed that due to the unchecked operations national trade, as shown by the export of nature; the decay of the ancient and returns of different countries, amoudted neglected buildings has proceeded space. in 1913 to about 6,400,000 tons. This includes exports from European countries
In Peking the Temple of Heaven, of rice which has been milled in those
with its golden dome glowing like a Mr. Wolfe sentenced defendant to six countries, which, camo originally from
great ball of fire above the purple tiles 'weeks'' bard labour.
India, Siam or Indo-China, and which
of its sloping roof, the white marble unduly swells the total by
altar open to the sky, made sacred by via ver. Even so, the original experts
the worship of China's most illustrious of rice from India amounted to 40 per
emperors, the beautiful p'ai lon, and cent of the total, while those from Indo-
the marble walks belong to China's China were 20 per cent and those from
posterity as recorde of her ancient) Siam 18 per cent.; in other words, these
glories. But such rafe treasures need three countries provided nearly four)
care to protect them from the ravages of time and weather. fifths of the total.
was on a visit to a friend she saw the Miss Danenberg stated that while she defendant removing the jacket from a bamboo-pole on which it had been hung.
Defendant said the wind blew the jacket down and when he picked it up with the intention of festering it to the owner he was arrested.
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF OPIUM DROSS.
and
***AU Were
Shoi Lai Choi, & proprietor of Yut Hing theatrical company, said he had a share in the management of the theatre, nad superintended the collecting of tickets. At a meeting of the proprietor on July 17th be proposed that all mone tary matters should be looked after by the Treasurer of the Company. He did not know whether defendant had power to borrow money. Witness received from
A Chinese man defendant $380 for the purpose of paying the actors' passages from 'Shanghai.
charged with being in anlawful poeses- Mr. Haywood said the defence was thation of eight jacks of non-Government $400 was borrowed from the plaintiff for opium dress. the purpose of paying actors' passage and Defendants stated that they obtained that the other $400 alleged to have been the opium dross from a steamer in the lent on September 6th was never leat Barbour. The woman added that the He could satisfy His Honour that the man had nothing to do with the smug- receipt produced was not genuine. If he gling of opium. could bring the Treasurer, who was now in Canton ill, and put him in the box and question him whether he had received $100 he was bound to, say “no.”
Hi Honour adjourned the case
CANTON NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NGÔ1 .SAX, PO."]
CANTON, November 27th.
- THE COMMISSIONER-GENERAL
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"The Commissioner-General of Customs enlled on the high officials in Canton to- 'day.
KING-CHOW AFTALES.
Mr. Wood discharged the man Lad ued the woman 875 with the alternative of a month's hard labour...
THEFT OF SOVEREIGNS.-
A Chinese was charged with stealing 990 sovereigns from another Chinesc.
Mr. Leo d'Alinada, who appeared for the defendant, pleaded guilty to stealing 20 sovereigns. He stated that complain- ant left his iafe open in the shop, and defendant had succumbed to the tempta tion. He asked the Magistrate to deal leniently with the defendant, as it was
his first offence.
Inspector Gerrard stated that when the It is officially, announced that order money was missed suspicion fell on de
has been restored in King-show. About fendant, who was arrested. He then 2,500 Northern soldier, wint by the Peling confessed to stealing 26 sovereigns and Government to reinforce Lung's troops, took the Polim to the place where he had bava surrendered. These men will be sent hidden the money. Witness thought it back to Bhanghai, It is said that Lung rather strange that defendant had not Yo-kwong, General Lung's brother, went taken away. 000 in notes, which were to Hongkong, after he was defeated, and also in the sale. Witness further stated that Lang's activity in the South, is now that he thought complainant intended at an end:
using the money for an opium deal.
·APPOINTMENTS' 'TO TUZIEN.
Defendant aid be found the safe open We are informed that the Military and stole the sovereigns, which he 'subso- Government has decided to appoint gently returned to the Police Admiral Lam Po-yik, of the 1st Squadron, Mr. Wolfe sentenced defendant to six and Commander Chan Kwing-ming, as weeks' hard labour. Tuchun and Civil Governor of Fukien Fam respectively.
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ASSAULTING A SCHOOL-GIRL
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When I visited the Temple of Heaven less than two years ago, I found its spacious courtyards choked with uncut grass and its beautiful walks and tile- capped walls almost obscured by grow.
Ladia's export trade in rice is really dependent on Burma. Not only doe Burma provide about three-fourths of the ports of rice from India as a whole (1,533,000 tons out of 2,420,000 tons in 1813-14), but Burma usually sends to othering weeds. The tiny roots were slowly
provinces of India more rice than thos other provinces export. Without Burma, India would not be self-supporting in rico As it is, India's exports of rice in groes requirements of the rest of the the year before the war were equal to the Empire, though actually only 49.6 per cent of the experts went to British coun- tries, and 37.4 per cent to foreign coun tries.
The exports direct to the United King. dom were only between 6 and 7 per cent. of the total United Kingdom imported considerable On the other hand, the quantities of rice from. Holland and Ger
India to those countries, and after being which had been first exported from milled and polished there had been re- exported to the United Kingdom.
Rice-milling, at one time a flourishing industry in the United Kingdom, had declined before the war owing to severe compétition from the Dutch and German mills with the result that not only was the British home market partly supplied by foreign-milled rice, but what was at one time the considerable British export. trade in fully-milled rice had been re- both the home and export trade in milled duced in many directions. Since the war rice have been largely recovered by the British rice-millers, sad it is hoped that this industry and trade may be re- tained after the war. The possibilities. of of rice in India before export are also s the development of the complete milling matter for consideration Bulletin of the Imperial Institute.
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GERMAN SHIPPING SUB- SIDTES.
PROJECTED EXTENSION OF EASTERN SERVICES.
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but surely accomplishing their deadly work The marble slabe were cracked, the tiles broken, and walls crambling
great round temple itself was filled with dust and decay, In a very few decades this almost sacred spot wift pre- sent, only a heap of ruins overgrown, with grass and weeds, and one more page will have been torn from the book, of China's history.
The Yellow Temple," not far from Peking, is one of the most sacred spots near the Capital. Here are buried the garments of a boly Tashi lama ho came as an Ambasador from Tibet to Peking It was the lam Panchan Bogdo from tasdi Lumpe, who died of small-pox in 1780. The sales of his cremated corpse were sent to. Tibet, but over his clothes the artist emperor. Ch'ien Lang, erected a stups in old Hindu style, a misited it first, in mausoleum of marble and gold
1912, a yellow-robod priest showed me, with sorrow in his eyes, the atrocious destruction which had been inflicted this sacred monument in 1900. Japanese soldiers wantonly knocked off was during the Boxer Rebellion, when
the beads of statues with the butts of their rifles and damaged bas reliefs, but fortunately only a small part of the marvelous detail was destroyed by this act of vandalism.
On my second visit, in 1916, after an absence of four years, I was appalled at the signs of decay. The ancient temple of gray wood, with faded but magnificant columns, yellow, blue, and * green, was full of cracks and rifts. It was already leaning and seemed about fall. In place of a beautiful p'ai log which formerly faced the stupa, ay a heap of plaster, stone, and yellow tile. It is a very, very old temple but with a little care could still be made to stand for years
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by the Australian Minister of Trade IRKUTZK MINES TO BE SOLD A Chinese youth pleaded guilty to shows how German subsidised, lince, had GERMAN ADMISSION OF FAILURE: snatching a gold earring, valued at ousted their Britial competitors. It is
$2.50, from a little Chinese girl
shown how the German line of ships run. A rather striking admission is made by
Defendant stated that he threw the ning from Hongkong to Sydney was in: a writer in the Koudsche Zeitung in, the
earring away when he was being chased, direct connection with the main lines is reported that two hundred and course of a leading article on the subject
Sergeant Blickman stated that com to Hongkong, so that cargo could be taken Irkutsk, Siberia, will be sold at public from Germany to Sydney, and Germany tight mines in the neighbourhood of of the moral depression now prevailing in Germany owing to the Allied victories Plainant was returning home from from or to either Sydney, or Hongtong to
suit the convenience of the main lines action on February 25th, 1919 These school, when defendant accosted her in of steamers to Europe or the local lipe, mines bold ficcuses under the Mining Why, te saks, cannot the German accept adversity with the same An unemployed Chinese seaman who wit..enable steamers to obtain a failer cargo and
Queen's Road and matched, the carring and not only ensure quicker passage, but Bureau of Irkutsk The terms of sale sustaining faith as the Englishman or
at either end na required. There was no are:-}| Frenchman! He finds the reason in the the incident immediately arrested similar arrangement between British 1.-To be sold by auction according to
defendant. The girl's car bled as a result
ships
acts 703 to 791 of the regulations concern- The Commission point out that by ing mines. These regulations were made of defendant's action.
Jaw at June 10th, 1914 the, Chancellor of public in the year. 3912. the German Empire received power to subsidise for fifteen years the postal ser viccs of the Empire, with the Far East,
in France.
superior racial and national sentiment of the Allies:-
Did not the Belgian in, the past, feel himself a Latin, almost a Frenchman
Mr. Wolfe sentenced defendant to two months hard labour and
to twelve
I am not so sure that he may not feel atrokes with the birch. He also ordered Australia, and the German possessions in himself ruch, even in the future. Has
not England achieved. the remarkable the seaman to receive $5 reward from the zeific, the subsidy to be paid tola-The tender should include the names
citizen a title
It
purchase of one of these mines should for
-Any person desiring to bid for the ward his tender to the Bureau of Mines not later than noon of February 28th, 1819.
smount bid and the amount of annual and the company,
total
and numbers of the mines bid for, the was stipulated that regular maximum services were to be made every four week payment proposed to be made. This on the Hongkong-Reixal Bydney line should be accompanied by a copy of the every eight weeks on the Singapore New Passport of the bidder. months in the German islands the mail eight mines will be permitted to be par Guinta-Samoa line, and every three 4.Twenty-nine of the two hundred and Boals were to be of German construction; chased by foreigoers, and bids may be and of a speed of knots and 11 mota made on the others with the permission of The war, put a stop to these projects, but the Pressional Biberian Government they provide a useful warming
daly obtained
feat of making the highest distinction
the title of British Poor boz for apprebending the snatcher. the sabaidy to be 1,300,000 marks (for even for the subject peoples? Give Alsaco-Lorraine back to the
SNATCHING FROM A CHILD. ? French, and in ten years, they will con- vert the two provinces with their Gor
The little Chinese boy, who was charged, man population into passionate defenon remand, with, snatching two bangles ders of the French Republic.
from the wrist of a little child in, This is a candid admission about the Bwatow Street, was sentenced by Mr. value of Gerninn Kultar in the fifth year Wolfe: to, three weeks hard labour and:
twelve strokes with the birch
of the war.
1918.
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