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AMERICAN WOMEN'S VOTES.

IN OLD CATHAY,

A HAUNT OF EASTERN PEACE.

A correspondent

to the Times-

FALSE PRETENCES.

MAN PROMISED ́A JOB.

HEROIC ACT SAVED LIFE. MAGISTRATE SPEAKS TO

HUSBAND..

„A GREAT EXPERIMENT. The Ties Washington correspondent]

At the Magistracy yesterday, a Chi- writing on August 10th says:-—....

A day's train journey through the weirdness was charged with unlawfully obtain- The Chinese girl, who was remaided by. Once more the United States hp for the and tawdry blend of old and new. Easting the sum of $50 by fale pretences, e Mr. A. Dyer Hall:' on Wednesday, on pace to the world in social and political and West, which is the China of today; The prosention story was that the com-charge of attempting to commit suicide by progress and experiment. She has gone brought me to the little city near the moun- plainant's wife was an anah employed in jumping into the harbour after a quarrel "dry" while elsewher, prohibition is still tains which was to be the starting-point of a brothel in Yaumati. On the night of with her husband, was again"in Court, n subject of earpirical discussion, or, at best, of locni regulation now by the my real journey--a leisurely boat trip thriss | October ist the defendant and another

who was present, the Magistrate told him ratification by the Legislature of Tennessee or four days up stream to an ancient Rud-man went to the brothel and interviewed yesterday. Addressing the girls husband,

dhist monastery,· What my real 'errand was of the female suffrage amendment to the does not much matter; it was at least tion, the defendant asked the woman if she that but for the prompt action of Mr.

Constitution she has become the firm coua- {try to give equal, voting powers to nit citizens of both sexes, above the age of 21-to all persons, that is to say, save the negross, mba in the Southern States, where they would control politics if they voted, are by ndry means prevented

the woman.

In the course of conversa"

Charles Young in reieving hee; his wife would have been dead now,

The husband wid that be realized that,

serious laugh to warrant the trip through had a son, and was told that she had. that mountainous district infested with The defendan; then asked if the lad was robbers who, picturesque brigands as they employed, and on being fold that he was aro and mostly deserters from the rabble not, offered to find employment for him and was very grateful.

The Magistrats bound the girl over in armies, have yet learned the, it dory not Roth the defondant and his friend told

the woman that they were tramway con the sum of 250 só bà at good behaviour for pay to interfere with the"" foreigner.".

"ductors and could easily get her son a

six months.

much talking-price," the local magifore the defendants left. it was arranged trate's fubny but friendly offer of a military that they should call again on the follows excort rejected in suitably elaborate langing day to meet the woman's son, unge, and at length a start was made. Not defendant and his friend kept the appoint. very long after leaving the outskirts of ment, and took the woman's son to Hong the city the journey began to take on an kong where they went to Queen's Build-

from entering the polling, booths. In A small house-boat was secured, after job. The woman was very glad, and be

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Tha

GUNNER GETS GÅÓL.

SEQUEL TO MOTOR-BOAT TRIP. Gunner Pearson, R.G.A., who was some

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porne places, for instance, nobody whose grandfather was a dave is allowed to vote. The suffrage amendment merely rends that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the Laited States or by any State an account of sex." It is acclaimed air of loneliness and mystery, We were ings Telling the lad to wait outside, the time ago convicted by Mr. A. Dyer Ball as going much farther towards real derno.

an charges of (1) converting to his own usq cracy than what one newspaper calls the penetrating a region of great silence, where defendant and his friend went into room

4 gold finger ring entrusted to him by a No. 4 for the alleged purpose of inter Western men were unknown. Somehow ** timid and invidious, partial suffrage of

viewing the manager of the tramway Com

Chinese woman, and (2) failing to pay for Great Britain.”. (y was first présented to

After a few minutes, they cam there was an effect of restfulness and quiet pany. Congress in 1979 on behalf of the National magnificence about the scenery; each new out and told the boy that they had the hire of motor boat Australia, and twice was drafted bend in the river brought something beauti-got him the job, and it now only remained remanded for sentence on account of. illness," Sufrage Association. 1

for him to furnish $30 na security before

was again befors Mr. Dyer Ball yesterday...... by Miss Susan B. Antony, the protagonist ful and stage. Here, perched high up starting work. The went home and of the equal sufruga movement from its earliest days, before the Cive War down af a great rock, was a little ancestral tuld his father who raised the money for Inspector Grant reported that the defend- hant was now well; although still a little his son. On the following day, father and

Teat temple; there tumble-down pagoda Lo the time of her death,

The Magistrate said that on the first Like prohibition, equal suffrage has eap-guarding some tiny village half hidden sen met the defendant and his friend by

count, he thought jmprisonment would do tured, country piecemeui. One of

the by the clustering feathery bamboos that appointment outside the post office, and

friend. They then all proceeded to the defendant good, and sentenced aim to chief features of the American Constitu- fringed the water edge. Then, suddenly, the money handed to the defendant' tion is that it leaves all the power possible round the next bend a glimpse was caught Queen's Buildings. Telling the complain. one month's imprisonment with hard labour. in the hands of the Governments of the of a great fantastic peak that formed the ant and his son to wait in the corridor, On the second charge, the defendant waa constituent Stales Sumptuary rules, questions of education, and, until recent Brazite outpost of the mountain range be the defendant and the other, man went sentenced to a fine of $10, or 14ʻdays. Tha

Fond.

into nae of the rooms, and that was the sentences, in case the fine was not paid, to even direct taxation apart from Excise. About noop on the third day the limit inst the father and son saw of the defen run concurrently. were given over alimos entirely to them. of my journey was reached. The scenery dants for a long while. Eventually, feel- Thus the States have been laboratories for had been steadily growing grander anding suspicious, the son proceeded to the experiment in government in a way which more lonely, and now those great fantastic ground floor of the building, and was just has on the whole made for sane progress peaks were closing in on the ever-narrowing in time to see the defendant leaving the The lad ran out after Prohibition was the rule in many States, stream. Surely no other human being-main entrance. especially in the West, for many years af, at any rate. no other Westermer had hinu and had the defendant arrrated. The ALLEGED SHIPPING DISCRIMINA before the famous sigh eenth amendment to the Constitution was passed. The nine ever broken through into that silent realm, her man was nowhere to be seen,

There was no mistaking the place as the teenth amendment as the suffrage amend boat lovely rounded the last bend of the and not he who received the money. Ho ment is ufficially called, will give the voe river. High up on the shoulder of the knew nothing about the matter.

The Magistrate pased to something over 26,000.000 women, DI compared with about 29,000,000 men. But mountain stood the monastery, a faint three months hard labour. of these women some 18,000,000 would any mass of brown and dark-red half hidden how have voted in he Presidential Election by a clump of trees. under State suffrage laws, though owing to the peculiar nature of many of those laws less than 10,000,000 would have been able to vote for Senators and members of Congress.

QUESTION. THE LIQUOR

The defendant said that it was his friend

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AMERICA AND JAPAN.

TION AT KUBE...

A Washington telegram to the Japan News

goth agency, dated September sentence of reads :-Joshua W. Alexander, Secretary of Commerce, replying to a letter of Admiral Benson, of the U.8. Shipping Board, calling the attention of Secretary Alexander to Japanese methods at hobo in' connection with shipments of American goods," says:--" This "department is well- aware of this situation which, according to reliable reports, has existed for some The nature of the discrimination.

every case, is so ribile that, nOG withstanding as reliability of the are Possess, it is almost impcable to take formal action.

"The best solutiop soems to be the direct transportation of American goods American ships, wherever posible.

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NEW BRITISH LOAN.

We are informed by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation that they have received, a wire from their London Office stating that Government are issuing 415,000,000 Local Loans 3 per cent. stock at £50 por cent, not free of tax to foreign residents. List closes October 18th,"

The long climb now began, first by a

THEFT OF ALLOY. mountain track, then by numberless rock- heen steps that ended in a little clearing.

TAIKOO DUCKS VICTIMISED. Straight in front was a massive old door, guarded on ofther side by huge rock upon

A Chinese was charged before Mr. G. whose smooth face certain mystic charae N. Urme, yesterday, with the theft from The immanence of the Notember polling bera had been carved. Rather timidly I the Taikoo Dockyard, of 35 lbs. of metal naturally increases tenfoid the excitement pulled the great bell-rope and listened, with alloy. produced by the consummation of equal something like are as the great waves of The police said that on October 3rd, the suffrage. Buth parties publicly groet. its sound went booming acroes the wide valley, defendant and a gang of coolies were ratification as an act ofjobvious justice to A gentle-looking young priest appeared allowed out of the gates of the yard to American womanhood, and of providential and, after struggling with the unvindly work on a new building which was in course timeliness for, hemselves. But behind door, opened the way to a warm welcome. of construction. in a kezesene tin which their propitiatory joy is much nervous speculation. The Republicans proclaim ne inside the spacious court-yard it was the defendant was carrying, the Indian their certitude that the wonen will knife easy to forget all else and give oneself up watchman found the alloy which the de- Mr. Cox, because of his wet" proclivi. to the charm of the place. My guide led fendant alleged ran to be used in connec ties. The Democrats say that the women

nie on through halls, and rock-temples. tion with the work on hand, but witnesses will be behind Mr. Cox and the League, stablos, kitchens, workshops, and other would be called to prove that this state. because the League will lessen the chance weird and dust-laden places. Silently, I ment was untrue. The watchman took of war, and is the kind of thing which wandered in imagination back through the the defendant to see Mr. Bell, who. by nmisunderstanding, took possession of the BI. Hard. years to the time, when the old place was at alloy and allowed the defendant to go. appeals to the female mind.

the height of its fame, for now the monk The defendant did not turn up at the yard ing's henchosen retort that, on the con- trary, the women will be against, the were dwindling band, and ""Ichabod " League, because it might commit the was plainly written amid the dust and again until Wednesday, which was pay day. He was then placed under arrest United States to warlika responsibilities. | decay of the centuries. In those days no and charged. Only opponents of female suffrage in Con- fewer than 300 monks lived here, and the The watchman said that the defendant gress' are openly nervous.

monastery was often used as a place of had a puas to take a can full of oil out HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE. calm retreat for pions Chinese Buddhists of the yard. He stirred the contents of the from far and near,

can with an iron rod before allowing the We hail rambled on for an hour or so defendant to pass. He felt something marked influence in the local affairs in when a young acolyte came softly to anbard and hears at the bottom of the can, those. States such as Wyoming, Colorado, ounce the evening meal; Would the illus and questioned the defendant who then Utah and Idaho, Washington, and Culi- trious visitar from the West condescend to took out the alloy. As the metal was not formis, where it has obtained in some cases for more tha a generation,

turn bis jade-feet towards our peor decayed mentioned in the defendant's pass, witness Only ona

took him to Mr. Bell thing ca npretty anfely be said about it. fare?" He led us under a low gateway It will certainly make it much more diff; into a great cavernous apartment with à witch's cauldron of the largest size cult for the country to retreat from local dangling in the bago black chimney-place. aridity, even to the comfortable régi

gime of light wines and beers which many demand The good brother who acted as cook was for there can be no doubt that the female deaf and dumb, but, as if to make up influence has been the chief ally of the for this seeming discourtesy, he beamed in Anti-Saloon League in its victory. Hence the most expansive way as he took a steam- it would seem reasonable that, if he and ing bowl in both hands and gently placed it his party can plausibly be suspected of before me. After this strictly vegetarian sympathy with brewers and such people, meat we adjourned to a shady old pavilion Mr. Cox will not be the gainer by the in-built on the very edge of a precipice. That novation.

The truth is that the women's vote is an unknown quancity. Neither socially nor politically bug it had, as a rule, any

RESULT OF THE WAN.

CORPS.

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDEXA BY LIEUT.-COL, L. G. --

BIRD, D.5.0., ADMINISTRÁTIVE

Mr. Bell said that the defendant had a permit to take the oil out of the yard. The but none for the alloy found in the kero

sene cão.

The Magistrate passed sentence of dan month's imprisonment with hard labour.

MORPHIA IN PARCEL.

MAN: FINED $2,000.

A Chinese was charged before Mr. A. Dyer, Ball yesterday with the unlawful possession of 1 lb. of morphin,, or 1,400 official dosen, valued at $2,000.

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The

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COMMANDANT,

Thursday, October 14th, 1920.

PARADES.

Infantry Battalion less Beserye Platoon. and Machine Gunners will parade as Headquarters on Monday, November 1st, at, 6.30 p.m. Dress: "Drill order. Attendance: Strong as possible, Mounted Bection will parade with Light.

Infantry Platoon.

A Class of Instruction for Signallers and:

Lewis Gunners will be held at Head- quarters on Tuesday, the 19th inat... at 5.30 p,,

Dress: Plain clothes, but Signallors parade-

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with rides and side arms.

CAMP.

scene can never be forgotten the pano rama of great rolling spaces and weird As in England, equal suffrage got its lonely peaks was truly wonderful. A deep final impetus from the war. Before the peace came over me, and as one and as way the agilation for it, after years of other came and gathered round, it was

Camp for Infantry Battalion will be held almost unregarded progress, was just be as if the spirits of 'long-departed worthien Inspector Moore, who prosecuted, said

for this season on the last week and coming marked, and the tactics of Mr. had stepped quietly out of the shadows to that the defendant was seen by a Chinese Pankhurst and the militants were just be-greet me.

in November and 1st and 2nd week. detective in Farthing Street, carrying &

end in December. ginning to be rather feebly imitated. At length the light began to fail and it parcel, As soon es defendant saw the Thone tactics were not As with us, abandoned with the outbreak of hostilitic brief but kindly, the mocks turning out defendunt, ran through Queen's Street to Tho following extract from Army Council was time to depart. Our farewells were depective making towards him, the defen Minimum attendance for members. Three

days. detective gave chase. The During the strenuous years of 1917 and in body to see me off, and begging the Praya where he attempted to throw 1918

the White House was constantly to come back to them for a longer stay the parcel into the harbour, but it

Instruction No. 558 of 1920 is pub- Picketed by women with questions, such as

foll

lisked for information :- why Mr. Wilson, if so keen shout demo- I am certain whenever the world seems before the defendant could pick it up, the Definition of trained me

That chance may never come, but of this from his hand on to the ground, and Territorial Force Instruction No. XXX.. cracy in Russia and "eisewhere, did not see to it that his own country had

too much with me, the memory of that detective seized him. a really

The parcel contain. The following men will be regarded sa train--- democratic register. There was much journey will be like a little window through ed morphia. The defendant struggled ed men:- lobbying and some excitement around the which I shall look out and catch a glimpse violently to get away, and the detective (e) Men who have served for not less Capitol, and a few harmless disturbances of that quieter world withis the world, had a lot of trouble keep his hold on tho than six months during the war of

defendant until an Indian constable came

1914-1919, and who re-calist into the to his assistance.

same arm or branch of the Territorial Force on or before December 31st,

and need arrests..

TAN

however, retarded rather than advanced the cause, and was con

The Magistrate imposed a fine of $2,000 They nursed and helped with the soldiers or three months, and ordered the confisca demned by most of the leading women in

But where they public life. The womed here, as at home in ovory possible way,

at particularly excelled was in the "drives tion of the drug. earned the vote by their work in the war.. Their work was rather different from what economies, and so on. There they reached for war loans, war charities, war it was in England.

The war as over

before the United States had had to call leadership in public affairs. perhaps THE POLICE AND MOTORISTS. upon anything like the whole of her man-grenier than that which their British

A charge brought against Mr. G. H. Power available for the front. As a copters have yet got. That leadership they sequence, women were less to the fore in have kept in politics, The Central Cam Wilson, of Messrs, Robertson Wilson & Co. taking over the work of men. There were upon them many, women, who are there tram-car in Queen's Road East, was dis paign Committees of both the parties have for passing in his motor car a stationary towar of them! in monition factories. Our not for show, but, for the efficient work missed yesterday by Mr. A. Dyer Ball. did not find them ticket-punching on which they are doing. Both parties are the Magistrate scoopting the defence that trains and that sort of thing, though preparing to send out hundreds of women Mr. Wilson had not seen the signal of the before the Armistice they were beginning to conduct omnibuses and lifts, and to oust upon the huntings as the campaign warms sergeant to stop. waiters from cafés and clubs. Their atzi- op.

the Eleven chauffours wore before the Court liary military and naval organizations suffrage amendment there had been, quits yesterday for various breaches of the traffic

serious talk of a в поглад were relatively smaller.

They did, of Cabinet. A woman in Congress regulations and fiaes ranging from 810 to count, feat work in emergency Covers already been. She sat for Colorado, but $25 were imposed. In one caso a driver rent offices and, in banks and other busi war turned out at the last electionShe was ordered to pay in addition to his nar nesses, whose resources were strained.

may have successors in the next Congress. a sum of $15 ns compensation to a pedestrian (Continued at faol aj nezl evlúms.) She certainly will before long.

he had injured ROMANTENEROUS

in

the nex

1920.

(b) Men who have served for not leas than six months during the war of 1914-1919, and who re-enlist, within 18 months of their discharge from any of His Majesty's Foroos in the same arm or breach of the Territo- rial Force,

(c) Men who have served for not less than six months during the war of "1014-1919, and re-enlist (on or before December, 1920, of within 18 months of their discharge from any of His Majesty's Forces) into "an arm or branch of the Territorial Forco other than that in which thay. Borved during the war, as soon as their 0.0. certifies that they are efficient in all -rospects.

G. F. E. EAPAON, Bt.-Major,

Adjutant, H.V.D.C.