1918-07-03 — Page 5

WAR COMMENT.

A Home Letter to Soldiers Oversex.

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megotiation with an unbeaten people who still to-day are break- ing every law of humanity and every treaty, contention and agreement to which they have sver signed their names,

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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY

FAMILY LITIGATION,

Interesting Point in Chinese Custom.

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A somewhat involved, but neverthelem interesting, case is being fought out at the Supreme Court this week, before the Chief Justice, Sir William Bees Davies. The story of the dispute is that several years ago, an old Chinese, living in a small village, died, leaving a considerable amount of Ela also property behind him.

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TYPHOON WARNINGS,

There is an old catch-phrase which has lately become popular London, May 7th.-There is in town. It has been going about spring in the air, gray, drab, for years, I believe; at any male busy old London has taken on a friend of mine tells me be used to new colour and a new jauntiness hear it in Gallipoli. But it's only in the spring sunshine. In front recently that I heard it sta masio of the house where I am writing hall. That's the staff to give -• plane tree and a chestnut, that "em." I am reminded of it by the only a few days ago stood stark statement of a German cfficer after naked in their winter gauntress, a recent show down near the seem to have decked themselvee Somme, "We had good men like in a single night in their summer that once" he said, talking of the green. Ioonald swear they had men who had made him prisoner, left a will, and, according to this, nothing on the last time I looked "but look at what we have got his estate was to be divided into now.' He pointed to a couple of ten parts, six parts of which were On my desk a blaze of scarlet hundred sorry looking Boches to be 1st aside sa ancestral geraniome and slender white guarded by a handful of British worshipping funds controlled by Barciesi, with their esra preased and Australian soldiers. "I have his on and grandsons for- back, bring right home to me the seen our big men gradually go ever." The other four portions be transition from winter to summer. down since the beginning of the allotted to various members of And when I walk out in the war, and these are the men who the family. A diapote arose over streets the asagulls on the Emre left to Germany now." the leaving of the six parts for bankment have given place to Be was very depressed, and ancestral worship, and after legal pigeons, and the midshipmen on little wonder, for he had come up proceedings it was decided that shore leave have exchanged their against the British fighting man the decessed had no right to leave blas esps for white with the com- at his best, just as did the thirteen the money as he did and that ing of H. There is now life in Boohe divisions that met about the money would have this old London of oura. The three of ours on April 29th be be divided

among his son. Vormezeale and Ridge The eldeet eam thea grimness of war seems, for the tween

¡To the Editor of the “Höng og moment, farther away than a Wood. Then they went back forward and claimed a double

Telegraph."] week or two ago, especially as the with their tails down. The British share of the remaining money,

Bir-The readings of an Ordia news from France grows better fighting man"That's the stuff doing so on the ground that it every day. There is hope in the to give 'em every time. And

was according to Chinese law sad ary. Aneroid barometer were of wir and the fruit trees are blossom- the French fighting man top, if it custom that he should be given much more value than the in ing and the birds are piping. comes to that, for we have learnt it. The other branches of the formation conveyed by the signals "After all it isn't such a dad war. just exactly what a dam good family disputed this, and further during the approach of the recent

That is what an English Spring | fighter the poilu is.

Legal proceedings have been pend- typhoon. Doubles the lack of means to us who are watching You who live overesse have one ing. Some time ago it was decid. returns from the Phillipines as events with so much anxiety from thing at Bay rate to be thankfuled by a Full Court that the issue largely responsible for this. The afar. I wonder if spring in France for you are safe from the anti: should be judged by Chinese law Press, however, did its best in has not slao some cheering messing activities of Dors. Dors is and customs, and the Chief giving as the position of the blow age for those who are steeped in the presiding deity of our lives Justice is now sitting to jadge from time to time. The latest, the bloody buriness of battle. Ist home. Strong men are power-hether the son of the eldest son in this morning's paper, gives us wonder if it helps to remind the less, when Dora pats her foot (as the eldest son has died) should Lat 240 N. Long 1150 E. se the war-worn and weary that there is dowp.

have a double share of the sum position, where the ts phoon is aomething outside all the filth suffragette so masterful as Dora, orginally set aside for ancestralling up! Lst 180 N. and Long and ferecity of fighting that is Her powers are enormous and worship, or whether all the 122 is also given as a previoue worth fighting for. Nature goes she is no respecter of persons. branches should take equal shares. position. on all the time tingeing the world Only a day or two ago a Justice The whole point of issue is with beanty. The sun shines of the Peace was fined £5 for whether Chinese law and custom down even apon No Man's Land, allowing his coachman to feed entitles the eldest son's successor Even amid the desolation of sick horse on cats. “If you think to claim what he is seeking. Armageddon the crocuses push the practice should be diecon-

There are many partiss repres their heads shyly through the tinged" he wrote to the court sented at the bearing, the Hon. grass and the ruins, and there are trying the osse, will you tell as Mr. B. E. Pollock, K.O., Mr. O. G. blasing glories of poppies that what we should feed it on

Alabaster, Mr. Eldon Potter and mare poeta to pong and waken The bench was unable to advise, Mr. F. C. Jenkin, being the something or other in the hearts but said that Dars forbade

counsel engaged. of mere ordinary men like our-horses to be fad on cats and

At the hearing yesterday, Mr. salves.

what Dora said went. Dora

Pollock opened, and later I am sure there must be a good is an speolate, tyrant, but we all evidence was given by Mr. S. B. deal of the epirit of home in the obey her just becanee she is

C. Roes, Postmaster-General and hearts of you men overesa-ID.O.BA-the Defence of the formerly District Officer in the don't mean only homesickness, Realm Act.

The rescue of the orew of a We submit to her New Territories, as to the Chinese though God knows you must. orders because we know that it is customs. He stated that it was abmarine from the bottom of *suffer from that, but home-love, all part of the Great Contribution simcet invariably the custom for the ses is the subject of a thrill

home-memories, love of England towarde winning the war. Dora' the eldest son of an intestate ing tale told in the London or Scotland or Ireland or Wales lateet is to forbid the manufacture father to take two sharea of Gasetts by the announcement or Manzland. I can see it of dog biscuits. When I told my the property, bat he did not of the posthumous award of the shining oat of the faces of the dog, he threatened to go on think that that applied all Albert Medal in gold to Com- wounded in the embalances, hunger strike. But Dars doesn't over China, In the present as they reach home. There are care; I suppose I met just look case the elders of the deceased's good, kindhearted women who pleasant about it. But I feel

village would have dealt with the wait at the terminus etations to i: clined to send her this bit of estate according to the local law meet the hospital trains and doggerel, just to express my feel and custome. shower dowers on the wounded,ings in the matter

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as though to say:-"Thank you It isn't any use to frown for all you have done for us." When Dora pate her trilby down. And they are smply rewarded for She must not be disobeyed their trouble by the grateful By man or wife or boy or maid, smiles they receive in return. To her methods we're resigned, There is nothing more wonderful For if we fout her we'll get fined in Blightly to-day than the By her minions we'll be chased emilea and the

sheeri If we ever dare to waste. ..of.

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in Food, especially cereala, batcher blae. I never used to | And all sorts of materials. belive the people who wrote of Cats and dogs must not be fed "the cheerful spirit of our On milk or biscuits, meat or bread. wounded." I thought it was For a borse a diet osten more journalistic am. But it's Is most rigidly verboten, true, marvellously true. Since I She bane oar cakes, she baze our visited hospitals and had talks. emckee with some of the men in the She even bane my naughty jokes, wards I have been busy recom- She bans our food, she bane our mending a hospital visit as a care drisk, for damps and depression.

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Yours etc.,

SPECTATOR. Hongkong, July 2nd, 1918.

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LI Sum-ling's Mission to Manila. Li Sam Ling, counsellor to the Minister of Finance of Chias and formerly auditor of the "Five Power Loan, has arrived in Wm. Manila from Peking whers. he comes to have a conference with Governor General Harrison con cerning public subscriptions to "The North China Flood Relief Committee."

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Mr. Li Sam Ling in comment. ing on his mission and affairs in China maid (according to the Mana Bulletin). There are Dow 5,000,000 people in North China who are homeless and without food owing to the fact The damage to property and crops amounts to millions of pesor. These people are really in dire distress and any help afforded them at this time will be deeply apprecisted by the inha- bitant and the Peking govern ment. I fally intend to take this | matter up with Governor General Harrison during this week.... The Filipinos Americans and for- eigners in the Philippines hare already gived some agristance to the offerers.

that their lands have been flooded.

The Peking government is now trying to get mediators to bring about peace between the northern and southern leaders and I am of the opinion that this matter will be adjusted in a very short time.

"Peking can now bosst of two

English dailies, macaged and edited by Chinese journalists who have been educated in the United States.

"All the German teachera in the employ of the Chinese govern ment have been dismissed and "Owing to an accident, the practically all the German busi- submarine became fast on the neses are now the property of the bottom in 38 feet of water, parts government. The former president This morning, Mr. Eldon Pot of the vessel becoming floeded. of China now living in a beauti ter, who is appearing for the After several hours the only proeful building in the German eldest branch claiming the two pect of saving those remaining concession af Tientsin. ahares, addressed bis Lordship on board appeared to be for some- on the question of custom, con-one to secape from the submarine tending that his client was in order to concert measures with entitled to a double share.

the rescuers, who were by this The hearing was again ad-time present on the surface. journed.

Commander Goodhart after consultation with the command- ing officer, volunteered to make the attempt. After placing in his belt a tin cylinder, with instrus.”. tione for the rescuers, he went determined to do its best for the into the conning tower with the men who fought for it. The whole commanding officer. The conning problem of demobilisation-gett tower was flooded up to their ing men out of the army into jobs waists, and the high-pressure air is being tackled in an efficient was turned on; the clips of the and sympathetic manner.

conning tower were knocked off. We have a Minister of Recon-and the conning tower lid was struction and

2 Minister of Boon wide open. Pensions and bundrede of public

"A_large-group" of Chinese, journalists will visit the Philip pines next year on their way to Sydney, Australia, to attend The World Press Conference.”

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It's hardly even esfe to think, That is why I feel quite con- She bans our coal and bans our fident that the Prime Minister is

gas speaking by the book when he She must be an a-ban-doned Isas bodies and organisations whose stood up in the dome, took a deep enys, on his return from the I only bope that, after the war, whole business is concerned with breath, and made his escape, bat, Front: The Message I bring Ban will be placed on Mam' selie the future of the soldier. New unfortunately, was blown by the from the British Army to Dora.

schemes are being continually pressure of air sgsinst part of the the people at home is Be of

The wg a young Cockney Isnnobed to make life worth superstructure, and was killed good eheer: we are all right""

knew in the Umpteenth Battalion living-after the war. The latest by the force of the blow.

"The commanding officer. The British Army always has of the London Regiment, who was before the House of been all right. There are still need to say "It's all very well Commons last week. It provided whose intention it had been to few cynics and pacifists among their ouckin' bokays at us and for the construation of 300,009 return inside the submarine efter us, of not much account but with callin' as bloomin' 'eroes and houses for the working cleesss Commander Goodhart's escape a mighty belief in their own im- blanky patriote and all that. But at the public expense. Esch was involuntarily forced to the portance, who ridicule such a wait till peace breaks out and you house is to contain a living zoom, surface by the air pressure, and statement. They are man who back to your grateful a parlour, a scullery and thres it was thus rendered possible for have never been touched with the 80 spirit of sacrifice, men who have country and ask one of 'm bedrooms. There will never be the plans for resoning those still job. They'll say more than twelve beusea to the inside the submarine to be carried naver aoffered a ha porth of dis-wet, you enliste, did you, sore and in the country only out. comfort themselves and simply without waitin' to be fetched, eight. (La some parts of London Commander Goodhart dir don't understand the feeling that Foolish fella. I'm sorry, my lad, to-day there are 60 homes to the played extreme sad heroic daring maken us want to 'do our bis' for as there's nothin' dais

scre) Valuable prises are being in attempting to esespe from the our country. They go on - Er, Jenkins, will you show this offered for the best designs and submarine in order to save the Ding about "universal brother- hood" and "pesca by negotia-Person the way out. Goo-ood the whole thing is well on its way lives of those remaining on board, wae a to being an accomplished fact, and thoroughly realised the for- tion". As if there ever could be morning". My friend brotherhood between a British Pesimist-aleo he had heard of instead of mere dream, Englorn nature of hie sot. His last was: If I don't get up, the tin seeman and the resmen who fire what happened to soldiers after land should indeed be better remark to the commanding officer

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