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CORRESPONDENCE.

THE PROPOED ROMAN CATHOLIC COLLEGE,

TO THE EDITOR

"THE HONGKONG DAILYPRESS."

Sua In Wedr-day evening's edition of the Hangkan Telegraph there was a special articlson A Jesuit College for Hongkong- it necessary 7"

THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 5TH, 1919.

POLICE RESERVE AND THE PEACE CELEBRATIONS

IN ENGLAND.

[TO THE ROITOR DE TUR HONGKONG. DALLY PRESS."*]

Sin, With reference to "Mac's letter in your issue of this morning, I think it would not be out of the way to state that the Portuguese Company of the; Police Reserve is the back-bone of the force, and, in the evout of any threat from outside, the No, 2 Company would be the Brst section at the skirmish, (1) Why are the Jesuits expelled from (although other companies would also

Portal!

May I throgh the medium of your columns nak * following questions, all of which, exet one, are based on state- ments made the article.

Catholic by cant (2) What is

civilation and Catholic Faith andrite civilisation ? " the insertion

"OMA."!

of the

1 958ume adiective

$80 a

appear on the scene) while it is very doubtful whether the British section could turn out in full, seeing that, for the most part, they are either Peakites of Kowloonites.

Take, for example, the sad occurrence (3) ithe expenses for students at the of Greason Strest; the Indiana, Porta- guese and Chinese were asked to co- Liversity need only bo onth as they are in many cases, operate with the Regulars, and they were it toessary to go to the expense ander their orders until dismissed.... of building a Jesuit College whom Yours faithfully,

for for boarder, would be. about 200 E month, or possibly more?

wiser for the Would it not be

April 4th, 1919.

VERITAS

We are undor the impression that wợ saw, also, member of the British Company on duty at Giresun Street. Probably our to a threat

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ON GQING ON LEAVE.

OH, SAEPE MECUM TEMPUS IN ULTIMUM.

My friends with whom I spent so many hours Bolt, pouches, bandolier, cost-slings, and rifle My bayonet, too-forgive the rising tear

I cannot stifle,

For I must leave you! Say not I am wrong. The cause that bids me go indoed is mightỷ, Tho' still I earn to woar you in Hongkong,

It's me for Blighty.

I leave my corporal, too.

Whom will he now

Strafe well and truly, shouting: "Well you are a Blank Bloky asterisk " My dear old J.

It's Suionara! ·

No more parades. No more that, same old lie, As down my rifle bartel's shining (1) argent (Granting "It's filthy") peers with earping eye-

My Prooshian Sergeant,

But let our parting be not all of pain, Tho' for a year our paths must lio asunder, Take heart of graoc; I shall come back again,

And then-I wonder

E. W. H.

Roman Catholics, in view of the correspondent "Mac" had in mind military / THE EMPTY CLOCK TOWERS, 1 So I had recourse tʊ a not very up-to-date |

expertise and also the present day attempts at reunion. to establish at the University several scholar- ship, of, say, $20 a month?

and

operation when he referred

.Ed., H.D.P.} from outside.

TRIEF IMPERSON TES THE POLICE.

INGENIOUS PLAN FOR FLEECING

A MAN OF $116.

At the Magistracy, yesterday, before Mr. G. N. Orme, at interesting story was related of the wiles of a Chinese, who stole $115 from a marine-hawker by

means of a trick.

WHY ARE THE TIMES OUT OF JOINT!

(CONTRIBUTED.)

Encyclopædia. That nearly settled the matter. There was a bleak description of

It then

granite rock, statistics about the tor- rible death-rate among the troops who first garrisoned the island, and other Among the many fertile suggestions of information about trade which, experta 5) As Protestante, heathens

the newspapers for a War Memorial for told me, was useless and which conveyed Bo I called at the others " can receive education at

Hongkong the proposal for a clock tower nothing to me. not Roman

It was thoro that I the University, are

appears and is worthy of consideration. Colonial Office. Catholics included in the others?

Wo want a reminder that the times are obtained my first clue about the way in If the Roman Catholics want a Uni versity or Jesuit College of their own to

obanging. For many years there was a which Father Time is regarded in the Far the exclusion of "Protestants, heathens

clook-tower in Hongkong, but it was East The Hongkong Department kept: and others," why should not the Roman

pulled down-possibly because it was theme waiting fally half-an-bour. only clock-tower in the Colony that bad discussed all sorts of things of no interest & clock in it. Anyhow, the structure has to me, and finished up by presenting me Catholics build a Jesuit College them:

the Inspector Macdonald stated that com- selves without trying to enlist support of other communities also?"plainant was a marine-hawker living at disappeared, and now it is suggested that with a small blue book containing the our local War Memorial should remind prices of commodities in dollars and ("Protestants, heathens and others," I West Point. On Thursday afternoon, two

friends of the hawker were met by deus that, after all, time is an important conts. The only item that seemed intelli- factor in life. With a sigh one realis gible was the price of rice. I enquired suppose).

(6) In view of the Pope's attitude fendant, who represented that ho bad a

during the war, and the necessity quantity of old iron to sell. The iron, how small the world now is; the bustle on my return home what we paid for rivu. of the west is coming to the Far East. When translated into cents, with the decline the invitation to visit Hongkong, But an for the result was alarming. assurance, that our monthly consumption of rice was a negligible quantity enabled me to take more interest in the little

of curbing the influence of Roman however, was stated to be on board the The "good old days," so spacious and dollar ut 48. 23. it almoet decided me to

Catholic Priests, in, for example, India, is it wise to encourage the introduction into the Colony of political sect like the Jesuits - Yours, etc., Bongkong, April 4th, 1919, WAR

MEMORIAL

SCHEME.

CATHOLIC.

HOUSING

TO THE EDITOR OF TUR HONGKONG DALLY FRESS."]

Fub Lam, which was lying in the stream,

The two friends said they had no money, but they would introduce him to a man The defendant accompanied who had, them to complainant's house, and stated

so peaceful, have departed never to re- turo. When the house boy says of the household time-piece "Ho no walkoe" we cannot ignore the suggestion that his "fliend" must be allowed to tinker with

that the iron would cost $100. Complain the works. In the "good old daya the Colony which was then only a name. ant agreed to pay this sem, and accom-early settlers simply said "maskse."* pained defendant on a sampan to get to The "griffin" coming into the "match

the vessel. On the way, defendant changeless harbour" is at first puzled by the native place. There were taxi-cube, the

ed into another sopan and rowed off.

appearance of two towers which meet the He returned, however, a few minutes

eye. If his ship enters via Green Island later, and, calling upon the other sampan he sees one tower to the right, crowning

With a to stop, clambered on boarů.

the University buildings, and one to the constable's truncheon in his hand, he left, well in front, marking the railway a little reflection he charged the men with being opium smug station.

·LONDON AND HONGKONG, London, in these days was a fairly electric underground, and plenty of rail- Way stations. Unless you had a private motor car your day was bounded by the (let us say) 849 m. train to the City and the 5.12 train from the City. You made noat calculations as to whether you dould cross from 'Liverpool Street Station was quicker to go to Hambersmith by metor-hus or tube. You always looked at

Bix, Several of the suggestions re ceived by the War Memorial Committed are very good, but it is rumoured that the now City Hail sebene is the one that glers and said he had a warrant to search recognizes what is wrong with both to Waterloo' in 17 minutes or whether it

will probably be adopted. It is estimat ed that the cost will be one million dollars, and, it is expected that one-half of this amount will be subscribed by the

After

towers. They are, as. ho will learn later, typically oriental. They are clock towers without the clocks. There is a story of a man who built a two-storied house with out a stair-case, but is there any city in

this boat, which he subsequently did Complainant and his fokis were also searched, and $115-were taken from com- plainant and handed to an accomplice The boat was then rowed ashore, and the better theatre, public hall, library, and accomplice, asking tho men to wait while the West where they have built a clock-

Government

Although

new B

and

he went to the Police Station for hand-

museum are very desirable, it must be cuffs, disappeared. Defendant also tried admitted that what the Colony and the to escape, but was arrested by complain- public need most at the present time are ant and a District watchman.

Defendant stated that he was an in- houses and many more new houses, In

nocent party. It was the other man who attempted to dupe complainant.

Mr. Orme sentenced defondant to six months' hard labour.

ARMED

ROBBERY LAI-CHI-KÖK.

IN

MEN GAGGED AND BOUND.

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stend of spending a million dollars to rebuild the City. Hall, more than a hundred houses could be built with the money, and it would go a long way to solve the Housing Problem which is be coming more acute day by day. The houses should be built in various local itics, each one of which would then be) a fitting War Memorial, with a simple, but dignified, monument of granite in the vicinity. The squares, avenues, terracos,

An armed robbery has been committed villas, or bungalows could be named

in Lai-chi-kok.. after the British and Allied heroes, and

An accountsut of the Kwong Lee Yuen would perpetuate their memory in the

grocery store, 81, Lai-chi-kok, has report- Colony. The policy of the public, ined to the Polise that about 9.10 p.m., on general, should be houses first as April 2nd, while he and his fokir were theatres later on. Yours, etc.,

in the shop, six men entered, armed with B1.

revolvers and knives, and, after threaten Hongkong, April 4th, 1910

ing to shoot them if they gave an alarm, |bound and gagged them. The robbers then stole $27 in money and 30 prokete of cigarettes, and disappeared.

M

PEACE CELEBRATIONS {TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,”]

LIVING ON TWO CENTS A DAY.

tower and omitted the look!

At Any

your watch three or four times an hour, and were grateful to the street clocks

That was London. which retninded you that time is money. The effect of few weeks in the States on the locks

out accentuated this habit of looking for

The quick lunch counters, the tape machines in the Hotels, rate, Hongkong has provided two adverthe shops that keep open all night--every- tisements of the dominating feature of the only twenty-four hours in the day and thing seemned to point out that there are For East. Maskeo, the time," those you must in each hour and each minute "Days and momente empty towers seem to say. "Time was of every hour. made for slaves" is a proverb among the quickly. Bring, blond the living with the Irish. "Anytime can do" is quite as popular in China. But there is an amme-. ing local legend that some one was so That was a comfort; it was something keen on the time that he took down the elock in the Bupreme Court and walked away with it without even a "by your "leave."

It was all hustle in the

theshore in Hongkong one

that there was a clock-tower. Western. The sampans on the barbour looked, at a distance, picturesque; but on closer acquaintance they were not clean The rickshas seemed unmanly.

It was all no The streets were narrow. unfamiliar until one saw the clock-tower. of dear old London. But one soon

Perhaps it should be explained that it hated that the clock tower was

is now more than six years ago that I

about time in

aw for the first time the Colony of Hong quite unnecessary. Nobody son to kong. I confess that I was impressed by applice to all measurements-time, space the general appearance of the place. It a spood The clock tower was an empty monument. One day a far-sighted man was better than the descriptions. When thought that the East would become it was first suggested to me that I might Westernised and he believed thnk he could graphically demonstrate that Time exista. like a life which included a daily realise so ergave money for a clock tower. reznained to his tion of one of Kipling's fights of fancy That man was an optimist, and the monu-

ment should have (seeing "the dawn rise up like thunder memory. But instead of that it was pull. out of China 'orose the bey"), I waeed-down. Now they want to build one sublimely ignorant about this "Gate to to remind us of the hard times during

the war. + the Far East." It was just a little speck on a big map of Asia to one who had strikitig. It is midnight.

Just now there is the sound of eight Time nover travelled beyond Europe. Onco indoes after all. The watch is an examination-room as a boy I had been relieved, the ship settles down again, and heartily grateful to Hongkong. There all seems quit. The sight bella carry their

notes of enco

encouragement to the exiles. All was a question about the British poses the way Home we shall mark each

alf-hour so the ship'e bell strikos it

Bin-Apropos of the schemes-snch sa bon-fires, bridges across the Harbour, aponuments, etc.-for celebrating Pence, would it not be better remembered if the At the Magistracy, yesterday, boforesions likely to be visited by a passenger balls will carry us: bank tá the city. Government could give us peace and Mr. G. N. Ormic, an old Chinese saan travelling via Buer to Japan. I wrote of along of taxis, of rich and bazatle, health by removing the odours we are

down Hongkong with a algh of relief, Asid (them, so pormers is haman zuturo, subjected to in Hongkong. In Wanchai was charged with hawking without a

for it was the last on the list School after sock lathe Thatched How Clitb

shall think of Elpling district some of the building are visited licenco. throo or

Defendant, who had a previous con- boys of to-day have to thank the Balisoar the Fast a callin' Our thoughts four times during the night by different coglies, buif, suffocating the inviction against him, stated that he had bury Administration for adding to their Perut pe sure of those who suggest the boon provided with a capital of 30 ocota burden, because oxaminers in geograph other proposals are scoure against Lils by three of his countrymen for tho, pur-will-be sure to expect those phantom ships sort of Huilando. Anylaw some sort of pose of starting a hawker's stall. Up to to call at Wai-hai-wois "'- drainage system would never be for gotten as a War Memorial-Yourketo

BETTER HOUSING FOR THE

FT POOR/" Hongkong, April 4th, 1919,

will wing back again to this sittle islanti whery time is a negligible quantity. W share those constant traininders of the limourshat finalle aéthing sexina stille And perhaps, when we return, we may Beyond a nodding acquaintance with, and olds which walked what warn fos of new ideas likendayligin-saving. tent with making two outs a day for the map of Eastern Asia sullojent to. They may even be fred in the two towers whloữ nów krvabant. For, make no his oxpense.'

mark. Hongkong, my mind was a blank sizindan about it, we really?skbulda 'feel. when a visit to Hongkong was suggled. | ashamed of tiideo empty block-towers.

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