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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
"DAMNED HUPERTINENCE."
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
CURIOSITY EAS AN APPETITE
With regard to the remarks WHICH IS VERT SHARP BUT VERY made in our issue of Friday last, EASILY SATISFIED. under the heading "Summary Court Humour," it appears that Mr. Leo Longinotto takea objec-
The opening rate of the dollar tion to the statement that he, on denund to-day was 3.1.11-161.
with other solicitors, discussed
the sequence of Marie Lloyd's
AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
A SHAMBEN MEETING
BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
(From Our Own Correspondent)
HUMPHREY'S MEETING.
There is not much variety in To the Editor of the Honga Ling. the week's happenings. The
Takgraph. "I rumpus during the week-end at Sir.-To enlighten a much-be-
Shameen, Feb. 17.” the annual general meeting of fooled public, it would be highly
This evening the annual general of the shareholders of the interesting if Mr. J. M. Alves meeting of the British Chamber Humphreys Estate Co. absorbed would kindly find answers to the of Commerce of Canton took place all the interess, Mr. J. M. Alves' following questions,
at 6.30 p.m., in the Chamber of is onslaught brought a few 1. Whether it is true that he is Commerce Room at the Victoria
wigs
making 20 per cent. on his bo-Hotel the 021
green. had been bruited
nevolent (sic) housing scheme? about
husbands. At the Police Court "The route to "America via the yesterday afternoon, Mr. Long-Commercial Pacific Cable inotto interrogated our re-interrupted. [porter in A very rude manner, stating that he con-
It
Mr. H. Staples Smith, being in
The Great Northern Telegraph that he intended to smite hip and mortgage to him will be gradually and the report for the past year 2. Whether it is true that the the "chair, opened the meeting, sidered the article referred to "Co. annonces that as a tem- thigh the Board which had paid off before his own mortgage was circulated. In a short speech.
figares are refused to take him into their to the original holders
piece of damned impertinence."
been made him appear 85 an authority on the subject in ques-
tion.
reporter getting any information,
Dow al
is which followed for the adoption of same, the Chairman expressed
A
He stated that he had not read parary measure, the article, but he had accepted in the text of Deferred boom. In fact, he had shown returned?
informed that it f tlograms to Japan.
his well-prepared phillipic to 3. If his reply to the last thanks to Mr. O, W. Darch who many of his friends" and "caused question be in the affirmative, had, owing to sickness, been According to the recent tele it to be published a day before how will the ultimate purchasers compelled to tender his resig stated that if, in future, he could from Shanghai, Dr. Sunfriends were bewitched on, happen to Mr. Alves before his tary to the Chamber since June,
Mr. Longinotto further
the meeting, and most of his be secured if anything should nation. He has been Hon. Seare possibly prevent the Telegraph strive Directors,
Yat-sen, one of the seron Admin-
'tis grau
indexed the feel- own mortgage has been paid of? 1915, and unfailing finterest had 4. Whether the idea of an been given. Mr. G.H. Bowker he would do so and concluded his Shanghai, will soon leave for although our friend does not owing to certain
ings of his coterie. But extra room will not fall through had taken on the Hon. Secretary- harangus by stating "And you Paris to attend the Peace Con- lack the very first essential of regulations regarding the width tion and was deserving of the Government ship since Mr. Darob's resigna- can put that in the paper ference. As well, if you like. When
generalship, the ability and readi-of streets!
highest praise for the way in Mr. Longinotto reads the
ness to seize the psychological 5. Is it true that the expense of which he had carried on. The deal body of a Chinese bas moment, he went about it in the keeping the houses in repair will hearty vote of thanks was due article, he will no doubt find been found at the staircase of wrong way. His bomb missed not be much less than the rent? to Mr. Wm. Farmer for the Whether houses privilege of the of the Cham- contains deceased, who appears to be on the line in front with a goods ted down and rebuilt in five years correct, for it nothing which would lead a about 35 years of age, has not as train that took a tremendous time?
The report was seconded by reader to believe that Mr. yet been claimed.
amount of hauling. The situation
Mr. Darch and unanimously Longinotto is an authority on
7. Whether after all his carried. was perfectly tragic from Mr. scheme is not as old as the hills The Committee for the ensuing Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which anything, and we would add that
Megere. Benjamin and Potts Alves point of requires them to forward their names and addresses with comanni. What was reported actually took advise us that the Shanghai Dock somewhat reasonable from that present time though the medium Messrs. Darch, Forbes, Peel, view, but and in constant practice at the year was elected as follows: cations addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, by objection to Mr. Longinotto tak- and Engineering Co. has declared of the Board of Directors. Mr. of loans by banks and loan and Kavarana and H. Staples Smith
place. However, we have "no" all communications intended for publication should be address-the Telegraph, but we strongly for the year ending 30th April, Clark provided a wet blanket to Mr. J. Scott Harston's views on
ing umbrage at reports in an interim dividend of fire taels J. Scott Harston and M. D. Emortgage companies?
These names were proposed by object to threats made 1919. The dividend is payable smother the explosives lying what he actually means by
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., that the construction placed house No. 25, Bard Street. The fire and Mr. J. Scott Harston got question will not have to be pulber room in the Victoria Hotel.
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BIRTH.
VICTORS OR VANQUISHED?
no shadow of
ROYLANCE. At the Government Civil Hospital, on February not succeed, while the German 18, the wife of Inspector Royiance, of a son (Allenby).
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1919.
A WORLD NATION.
Foreign Minister indulges in a deal of claptrap from the reading
atter-
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Chinese
the
about. Mr. Alves' contribution
Also it would be well to bare
"-seeking to turn one of the to the seance was a clever dis-Directors off the board when such play of discontent, but as the director came up for re-election";
rent of his eloquence proceed and rebuke of Juvenal: Hoc tolerabile fed we were reminded of the
si non et furere incipias,
。
kind occurred etc...
"-when a vacancy of another
In my poor opinion, a director, whose term expires, is eo ipso off the Board until such time as he Mr. Leod'Almada was tempted may be re-elected. In other to break a lance with the Chair-words, seats are vacancies until man for he had made the study they are again filled by the former
joined in what was, after all, & his own special metier. of Mr. Alves' building interests holders or others elected by the
domestic settlement of accounts.
He votes of the shareholders.
Apologising for interfering. It is quite possible that the meet-
Yours etc.
FAIRPLAY. ing would have been a little livelier if Mr. J. M. Alves had been able to reply to each point
*
•
も
ronius, we'll deserveit.
་་་
Hongkong, February 18, 1919.
to a
*
(chairman).
Mr. H. E. Smith.
Mr. C. G. Fry and seconded by
scription for the ensuing year the It was agreed to fixed the sub
same as for last year, as no reason was forthcoming to warrant in- creasing the amount. This was proposed by Mr. H. S. Smith and seconded by Mr. H. E. Smith.
sense of rate of picking. There was much
scheme
exey
great
The funds of the Chamber of There is now no doubt about it
Commerce were reported to be good, with a credit balance of over that the Germans are still in a
$1,000; and on the proposal of very haughty and unchastened
Mr. Sutton, supported by Mr. mood, despite the fact that they which they staked their all. We notified nine cases of cerebro have lost the great gamble on During last week there were
Bowker, a donation of $100 was do not know whether that remark spinal meningitis, of which six
voted to the French Chamber of Commerce." can truthfully be applied towere fatal; two fatal occurrences Germans of all and every class, of diphtheria; and one non-fatal
"TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY. im but that it fits the case of the official element in the Fatherland case of scarlet fever. Since the there can be
In California cotton has recent- three cases of cerebre-spinal doubt. We have Herr Erzberger, meningitis (one fatal) and was auswered by the Chairman. of fashion. A geol number of The device works on the principle ly been gathered by machinery. for example, talking about fatal occurrences of enteric fever Flis speech was full of challenge, the shareholders and the reading of the vacuum cleaner, and means
a new war" if the pourparlers for have been reported. All an extension of the Armistice did sufferers were Chinese.
and inna ado and
what public were excited by the on revolution in cotton-picking was intende.l as a Bertha shell sianght. We are not accustomed methods that must benefit the fizzled put like a harmless squib to this sort of vivid lightning whole world. Hitherto from. This morning, while a Chinese of novelty and brilliance. The in Hongkong. of which one might almost assume was taking his walk down Des large crowd that Mr. Alves suc-was splendid, and it will awake son per day was the ordinary The thunder 100 to 200 pounds per per- that the Allies, and not the Ger- Voeux Road at 5 o'clock, he was ceeded in gathering round him shareholders mans," had lost the war. Herr stopped by a constable who was did not find him like a sparrow their duty and responsibilities, waste of the crop, as the worker Schiedemann, too, has the audaci- anrious to have him examined. alone on the house top. ty to lay down ten essentials He was delighted when the search
and be a warning to those Direc-did not care to indulge in the which include, amongst other revealed 31 taels of prepared
tors who are naughty. What is back-breaking process of gather- things, the restoration of Geoping, tied round his waist. Mr.
Mr. Alves' arguments have perhaperequired is a shareholders' ing near the ground, and con- many's Colonial territories. If these
association to protect the interests fined himself to the bolls on the be the
J. E. Wood was delighted as been variously crticised. There ances of the members of an well to welcome him into his were members of the Chairman's concerns of the Colony. By the ports estimated a waste of as much
of investors in the joint-stock top of the plant. Government re alleged reformed and democratis parlour, and told him in a few household who thought it was way, if Mr. Alves gets a seat on 48 50 per cent. But the machine ed Government, we almost shud- well-chosen words how delighted mere milk and water; there were the Legislative Council, when gathers all. It is a comparatively The text of the League of Nations Covenant which has just been [der to thick what would published marks the first step in a new era of the world's history, the mien of the
be the Hongkong Government would others who thought it was meat tha bleased Old Gang feel if he contributed $2,000. If that was the proper nourishment Constitutions! Reform is
structure of light
and easily an era of new and nobler principles, of true prosperity to all nations, if they had still remained in Le does not oblige, then he will for Directora stomachs. If Mr. suctioned, he should be of grea: power engine,
moved about. It has a 16-horse- of lasting peace and international good-will. The League of office. German Democracy assur go to gaol for nine months.
3 centrifugal Nations is now more than a theory, for the Covenant, as drawn up, edly has a distinctly militaristic
Alves has not been successful it help to the Constitutional Reform separator for parting the cotton shows that there is every chance, that it may soon become an flavour about it.
is not his fault. accomplished fact. Never has the future of nations been more
"Tis not in mortals to com-has the makings of a
gang to advocate their aims. He from the leaves and debris taken promising, for in a League of Nations will be found the remedy for NO TIME FOR MERCY.
A certain Chinese took special
mand succesa,
in, and a suction pump for the delight in watching jugglere all those evils with which the path of progress and peace has been
five nozzles, which are at the reformer. But we'll do more, Semp- bese: from the beginning of history. The new system which we
He went yesterday evening to
end of the 18-feet rubber tubes. are to have is so stupendous, so full of change, that it is difficult to anyone reading these messages opposite the Central Market to
The point that must occur to the piece of vacant
Each nozzle is operated by a ground
Filtering news from one-news- realise it in full. The possibilities are endless, but even now it is which put forward the German witness
gathering concern by another is man, and the fire between them possible to understand some of the benefits which will accrue to us. attitude is the
The activities of these very somewhat common, at any rate in can gather 5,000 pounds a day. First and foremost, the new order of things will sound the death-Boches in demanding this and mongst the crowd there were their relations to the Companies thing as a property right in newal ion slidresses on record was that
jugglery useful persons, Directors, and Hongkong. nerve" of the
There is such a knell of war, that terrible scourge that has ravaged the world from insisting on that. Who are fingered fellows who prey on from time to time been open to having a temporary commercial when he stood for a division of One of the most original elect- ther jugglers-those nimble the beginning of time. If we turn the page of history we will these representatives of a defeat-
whose affairs they manage, have gathered great experise and issued by Dumas pere in 1848 realise the magnitude of this gift from the League of Nations.
History is composed of wars, and we, in our time, have known race that they should, at this pocket-juggler succeeded
ed, disgraced and humiliated bulging pockets. One such
attack, but there is nothing to value. The decision of the United Paris. Although Domas ha in full what war means. The last four years are like a nightmare: time of day, assume a dictatori- removing the
shut the door against the infusion States Supreme Court in the case been an ardent Republican lon think of the unutterable tragedy which has been enacted in Europe al
purse of the
of new
blood and which has left it shattered and devastated: think of the millions conquerors?
their particular Chinese who is one of shareholders deem euch naces the International News Service, Philippe, it was mainly as an
- should
the of the Associated Press against before the downfall of Low of precious lives which have been sacrificed: think of what might iousness of these Huns is as story.
presumpt- the dramatis personae of have resulted if Might hal overcome Right. A League of Nations astounding as it is galling. The great when the purse was restored dissatisfied with any particular the point of actual business ry, "During the past 20 years (h The latter's delight was occasion to grumble, for if they are as by the American mail, goes to sought the suffragee of democra
sary. Investors should have no fall report of which has reached employer of labour that he means the end of all this; it means that a remedy has at last been Foreign Minister must almost him. Fortunately, Mr. R. E. Director they could combine to practice and the property right wrota) I have composed 400 vol found which shall do away with for all time the terrible evil which be a humorist besides possessing Lindselt did not order the purse get rid of him at the annual in news, Justice Holmes thus ames and 35 plays. Each volume the world has suffered from throughout the ages. Of course much an overflow supply of self-assur- be confiscated. The thief was will have to be done before this Utopia can be realised, but the tex, ance, for he comes forward with kindly requested to spend three general meeting of the share-sets forth the kind of thing the faveraged a sale of 4,000 copies, if only the nations work together earnestly for the common good. victory was economic and not months iu Y, G.
holders when he retires by virtue International News Service has and each play averaged 100 per The old system of international relations must go. The world must military.
of the articles of association. been doing in sending out as its formances. 1, have thus helped be one big nation in the future, and not, as
He apparently has pow, a host of forgotten all about
My experience of Hongkong is own news actually stolen from to give much employment to prin- conflicting races with selfish ideals and petty desires.
Marshal There must Foch's hammer-blows
3. John R. Sonrers, who is to that this is the exception sad not the Associated be no secret treaties between nations, for in that way lies animosity strategical successes in the last give a Variety entertainment, at the rale. The ideal to be aimed at falsehood is a little more subtle, booksellers, &c.; also to actors,
and
Press: "Thaters, papermakers, bookbinders, and hatred; instead the future of international intercourse must be few weeks of the fighting, his the City Hall, to-morrow, will in- by the Directorsshould be the pro- the injury a little more indirect, actresses, stage hands, scene prin- one of honourable and friendly relatione, in which the different Army Commanders could probabclude in his programome an astou-tection of the investor's interests than in ordinary States shall work in harmony in the knowledge that respect for the ly enlighten him obligations imposed on them is the only way to ensure peace and that_point."
so.newbatonishing piatolt ick in which a pistol So far as Hongkong ia concerned, unfair trade, but I think that The sale of my works produced of ters, theatrical costumiers, &c. mutual progress.
It is high time is loaded with a marked ballet by we have been ingularly free the principle that the Entente Powers took a firma Vainntear assistant from the from any canker in our joint-the one condemns the other. It the money paid to see my plays condemns about 11,853,000 francs, and And there is every liklihood of this happy state of affairs taking stand in their dealings with the audience and fire at the performer stock companies. place, for the nucleus of the League is composed of those powerfal Germans and made them actually who catches the bullet either been, as a rule, honestly formed infusion of fraat, is necessary to Taking the
They have is a question of how strong an totalled obout 6,360,000 francs. States, the integrity of which has been tested in the fire of war. Never feel that they are the conquered, in his mouth, his handl or in any and honestly conducted. Au ill-torn a favour into a poison. The wage has a time been more propitious than the present. Britain, France. not the victorious. We have no other manner he may be re-advisal venture is not necessarily dose seems to me strong enough three francs, and reckoning 300 Italy and America, the four most powerful states in the world, are, sympathy with those who would after four years of war, bound together by ties of friendship and like the bed softened for the quested to do. Mr. Somers has a dishonest me.
Some people here to need esteem, which nothing san break. A League of those four nations Hans; let them be made to taste performer this trick with great are too optimistic.
8 remedy from working days to the year, my would be in itself powerful enough to preserve the future peace of the bitters of defeat. If they were success in many parts of the
the law." The gist of the books have kept 692 persons for the world, but, with the help and sincere co-operation of the other but the victors, we know what East. It will be recalled that
Supreme Court's decision 20 years and my plays have kept nations, everything is possible. There will, of course, have to be a precious little consideration the Ching Ling Boo met his death by Satire yielding her mighty ideas that are copyrighted but priod." This address, of which One of the poets talks of Was that BA it is not 1,041 pareas for the same great amount of give and take on all sides. The stronger nations Entente peoples would be shown. performing a similar trick, but fail" He must have had the form in which they are.emage quantities were distributed, will have to forego many of the rights they possessed before, and the The German idea was to grind Mr. Somers aures as that he prophetic vision of Saterday's bodied, so it is not news, as such, failed in its parposs smaller and weaker nations will have rights that must be respected the Allies to dust. It almost does it in a slightly different thunderer. Never was a flail so that the law declares property, later Damas sought and upheld by the League, but there can be no question that the succeeded; scheme as laid down in the text published yesterday is eminently sacrifices as the fate averted which is a most attractive one, with 23-horse power to quelch gathered and offered for sale. So defeated, P
only by terrible
way" Tomorrow's programme, ponderous as that brought down but the form in which it la Guadeloupe and practical in every detail. When, the League of Nations has really The time has now come for eac become a practical organisation, there can be no war: that is the Germany to pay the bill. She comprises three parts character the Board of Directors of the long as that form has a comto hi main fact, and we look forward to this happy consummation at the deserves no mercy whatever; we
monologue sad chalk Humphreys Estate Co. It was mercial value, it is entitled to so dagus! earliest possible date.
- trust the will receive none, e sully and conj
war in the protection by the law, or bog
attitude
towards
The
of the Covenant shows that the many obstacles can be overcomet the statement that the Entente's
оп
in
cases
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of all concerned at
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