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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
PUNISHING THE GUILTY.
Those who believed in the bring- ing to justice of those who havO been guilty of the terrible crimes which have marked the war, no
'TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
IT MUST BE BETTER TO ATTEMPT
DUTY, THOUGH WE FAIL, THAN SEVER TO ATTEMPT IT AT ALL.
The cases at the Magistracy matter how high their station this morning were of a petty may be, will be glad to notice of nature. late the accumulating evidence that the Allies are not losing
"AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.
[By "AJAX."]
CORRESPONDENCE.
• ROWING PROSPECTS.
HENLEY REGATTA AND THE "VARSITY BOATRACE.
A PUBLIC GRIEVANCE.
This week the Hongkong Sea-|
To the Editor of the "Hong
Tak crank." son is at its zenith. The Race
London, December 8.-AL Sir, Would your esteemed though there has been a good Maeting is a local event of con- siderable interest, attracting newspaper kindly help us in the deal of activity on the Thames, public grievance that all the especially at Putney and Ham many votaries and
pleasure-nhabitants at Sam Sui Po are mersmith, among the principal seekers to this Colony for the now compelled to endurs? The clubs and many newly formed occasion. The hotels are packed, inhabitants are extremely poor, organisations, it is extremely un- To-day's health return shows and it Was not surprising with the exception of the larger likely there will be Any one fatal case of cerebro-spinslo find ย large master firms, such as the Cosmopolitan Varsity boat rsea over THE PREMIER SCOTCH sight of this essential requirement fever, the victim being a Chinese.
the at
Happy Valley Dock, Asiatic Petroleum Co., and] the Putney to Mortlake yesterday. Ladies and gents other shipyards.
course before 1920. "Although Our report of the Rav. J. Kirk Bitting away across the lawn in When the ferries were lately there has been plenty of rowing Maronachie's sermon of Sunday an endless stream made us realise reorganised it was a great pity at both Oxford and Cambridge.it murning will
to that Hongkong, the sleepy hollow, that the poor wage-earner was bas scarcely been of the type necessary for a strenuous race of can be gay if only once a year.
The ferry station is now taken this description. As a matter of Those who frequented the Race from its old position at the centre fact, neither Varsity has at Course yesterday could not have of Hongkong and placed in the present the material from which failed to be struck by the almost West Point district," obliging the a crew could be chosen because entire absence of the Chinesa ferry passengers to use the tram the men of the required
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Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires them to forward their names and addresses with communi-
wa
morrow's issue.
appear in
Over the week-end
had the
the news that
Allied Generalissimo in the Turkish capital had ordered the notorious, German General, LimAD Ton Sanders, to stand his trial for ordering the Armenian and Syrian
We see by a Home paper that massacres. Now we are informed
among recent contributions to that the British military authori-the British Red Cross Society ties have made several arrests in was one of £50 from Mr. C. A. connection with the ill-treatment Hooper of Hongkong. of the Kut war prisoners.
On top of this comes The public is reminded that the statement that sufficient the "Vanity Fair Company evidence has been procured for opens at the Theatre Royal to the conviction of twenty sub-morrow night, with many new marine commanders, of murder. And attractive features. Seven of these are said to have the worst records, and the opinion
The
total
to
this
A conservative
|not considered.
is
Hongkong, surely we may be substantial influx after Christmas,
cations addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, by Tribunal should be included in February 8,amount ed to 7,77 to stay at home. The question sea the ferry reinstated in this probable that the rival Blues will
as an evidence of their bons fides.
the Armistice terms. This is
Allies are in dead earnest over
All communications intended for publication should be address-good news, for it shows that the Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
ed to the Editor.
the punishment of those who
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DEATH.
Walters at the French Hospital, Hongkong, on the 20th February, 1919, Kathleen Elsie Lysaught, the beloved wife of Alfred J. Walters, No. 9, Broadwood Road.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mr. A. J. Walters begs to return siacere thanks to his relatives and friends for the many expressions of condolence received on his recent bereavement, and also for the beautiful floral tributes sent.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY-25, 1919.
THE DANGER OF EPIDEMICS.
of the malady's terrible revages in Australia, America, and many
WHAT OF THE OTHERS?
The Government has spent mach money on reclamation, and
1920.
A Healey Royal is far more. likely of realisation. One en- thusiast, it is said, has already Rowing men generally look for- hired a launch for Henley week.
ward to an early pronouncement
by the stewards on the matter.
at the grand stand. It is said cars to and fro and at the same physique have been otherwise that by way of revenge because time the ferry fare now engaged. Even supposing a large their representations to open the increased. Where does the poor number of oarsmen speedily re-
man come in?
turn to their respective quarters, doors of the Jockey Club mem-
As we cannot afford to live in and there is certain to be a becship to the Chinese have so far proved fatile, the Chinese kept away.
allowed to land at or near the the necessary training could business centre of the city. The hardly be completed in time for estimate places the decrease in former landing station was most the race to take place at the the takings and in the distribution suitable.
usual time. It would be possible of dividends in the various raring
to have a "Varsity Boat Race, if We, always admitted that a outpuc of the stakes at about thirty per cent. local Aerated Water Factory had precedent, so far as the time of
attributed the most right to the Wharf and year is concerned, were for once is expressed that their surrender Kailam Mining Administration's d
the week ending the Chinese prefering would be grateful if we could ignored, and the race decided in and trial by an Allied Naval mines for
the autumn, but it is most tons and the sales during the Will the Stewards consent position. period, to 23,181 tons.
This ferry service is now being
not meet on the Thames before to altering the rules of the Jockey Club and take in a few Chinese? steadily abandoned by the peop'a The staging of "Pigkie and That is a moot point. It will, no who find it cheaper to hire a the Fairies," to be produced on doubt, be a tremendons wrench ricksha and take the Mongkok the 21st March, will surpass any with the past. The Chinese ask: Ferry- thing ever done before by the Are the articles of association of A. D. C. Some of the best music the Hongkong Jockey Clab like housing schemes have been al talent has been secured and the laws of the Medes and Persians great success, which I now feel
When the management com- over fifty girls and "children will that they cannot be amended and will prove a failure, as the be featured in the show. The modified?. The subject is a trouble and expense to reach mittee of Henley Regatta do meet But what we are interested in music of "Pinkie and the Fairies" debeate one, but cannota feamble Hongong is exorbitant; only the they will have to sppoint a new chairman to fill the vacancy. knowing is whether the Allies are is by Frederick Norton, com-plax be devised to meet both Tram Co. gains.
caused by the death of Mr. Her- Possibly merely going to be contant with poser of "Cha Chin Chow," and viewpoints? In a conversation
the above large bert Thomas Stewart It is pro- bringing to trial men who, after although the play was first pro-a very prominent member of the business concerns will beg the bable that Mr. W. A. L. Fletcher, Goverment to reconsider their who took an active interest all, were subordinates, and many duced in London over ten years community yesterday at Happy
poorer employers.
in the management of“. Thanking you for this great the of whom, it may safely be said. ago, it is still toured in the Valley revealed the fact that there
innumerable details were either acting under instruc-Provinces and always enjoys is complete unanimity favour.
Club tions from their superiors or, in phenomenal popularity.
the Jockey
during the last few years; will be Yours etc..
the DOW chairman. Captain on this subject. their foul deeds, had the tacit
SELF GOVERNMENT.
W. F. C. Holland is another en- view, shortly, The latest acquisition for His approval of the latter. We have
Hongkong. Feb. 23, 1919. thusiast who will be sadly missed. He officiated as distance judge been told more than once by ambulance work in Hongkong is that this year's depreciation
and was a very popular figure in- responsible statesmen that holor waggon for conveying in takings would be nothing
the rowing world. He coached hesit-patients, which, we understand, compared to the next or succeed-
is the gift of the Hon. Mr. P. H.icg years, should the Chinese senters should take up any the Oxford crews of recent years Holyoak. Built locally, the upper lecide to continue the "boycott." grievance, if such a one is ex-prior to 1915 during their training.
on behalf the real sinners, whoever they fist is constructed on a Regal It is to be hoped that a spirit of isteur,
of
Whether there is rowing on a the are. Then what of the ex-Kaiser? chassis. It is coloured blue with compromise will prevail.
Press, The dissenters state big scale or not next year, nothing that they
is more certain than that the He is, we presume, still in hiding the Red Cross on the sides and
were surprised to in Holland. When is the machin-in front the shield of the Brigade.
find the Press left out in the principal clubs will lose no ery to be put in motion for his The waggon will accommodate has stirred itself and has ap Press is really embarassing. All of clubs will meet under the The Hongkong Government cold." Such solicitude for the opportunity of renewing activities without delay. Representatives surrender to the Allies? All sorts two stretcher cases, while there is of fanciful arguments have been seating inside for half a dozen or the measures to be taken to cele- ficial, suspicious and ill-hatched, Rowing Association early in the pointed a Committee to consider this makes the agitation so arti- auspices of the Thames Amateur trotted out to show that he is more slight cases. The necessary brate the conclusion of peace in At any rate, the Press, for whom New Year to discuss the possibili- merely a "political refugee, but folding steps and other provisions no-one who knows of his part make it a useful vehicle for its The first list, which appeared in their hearts. have now been competitive rowing at one or two.
a manner worthy of Hongkong. Dissenters have a soft corner iu ties. That there will be in the war can seriously advance that contention. Incidentally.
the Gazette, of the 14th wasa fairly honoured with places on the centres is a certainty. The. of murder have
comprehensive one, and every Committee. returned
community was well repre-
the
ate
Allies will not
to call to account
work.
BELGIUM'S THANKS.
not amongst members
Was
A beautiful memorial by Victorsented. The Hon. Sir Paul Hossan, the Belgian sculptor, is Chater, C.M.G., by virtue of his
an come. If the chairman asking."
He formulated
to
his
to
some
is
secure
Up to the present, Hongkong, for some unknown reason, has verdicts
demand for it will be irresistible. definitely been little touched by the wave of influenza, which has left its been
The National Amateur Rowing terrible mark throughout the five continents of the world. We say against the ex-Kaiser by more
Association, which so effectively- unknown reason, for it is impossible to understand why a place such than one, English jury, and we
Mr. J. M. Alves, has been caters for what one might term
the working-class amateur, as this should have escaped. Hongkong is one of the biggest ports cannot see why, on those verdicts, in the East, in which is to be found ships from every part of the his extradition is not applied for. to be erected in London early position and bis horsurable again before the limelight during already preparing for the future. globe, with the result that this Colony is one of the most cosmopoli The Crown Prince, also, has been next year as an expression of the record with the Colony, was the week. After the annual meet Mr. T. W. J. Woledge and Mr.. tan towns in the world. Again, if we consider the existing condi, guilty of extraditable offences. gratitude of the Belgian nation to fittingly appointed chairman of ing of the Humphrays Estate and F. C. Soper, two officials of the tions of the place, especially the great dearth in housing accommo- Then why should the Allies Great Britain. Every Belgian that committee. It was beyoud Finance Company it was his turn Association, are leaving no
unturned Fairplay in stone dation and the consequent overcrowding among the Chinese, it temporise any longer? If sub-refuges in this country has con- the wild dreams of anybody that to be beckled. seems virtually impossible that we should have escaped this world marine commanders can be put tributed something towards the such an appointment could be the Press put to him seves a resumption of rowing on wide epidemic so long. Even now in Shanghai there are a few on trial. So can those higher up. cust. the sum collected be objected in any circle. On the pertinent questions on his housing the Lea and Thames as early cases of influenza of the pneumonic kind, and one of the local The guilty deserve full punish-
ing £0,000. The sita
will 17th a letter, signed by "Some scheme. Two of these interroga-as possible. The association were schools has been closed. For the last few weeks in Hongkong wement for their crimes. Let the ba given by the
"Is it true that the developing international races on English Dissenters" appeared tories were: County have had very many cases of the ordinary kind of the malady, and Allies be consistent and put Council. The memorial, which in the Press taking objection to expense of keeping the houses in a big scale in 1914, and doubtless it has been daily increasing, but as yet the more dangerous form, Wilhelm and the ex-Crown which has left behind it a trail of death in other parts of the world, Prince on their trial with the rest is nearly completed, represents the chairman of the committee repair will not be much less than every effort will be made to get has passed us by.
of the gang who have abused the Belgium symbolised as a woman, being other than an Englishman, the rent?. Whether the house race with a French crew" next year. One wonders whether We read of thousands of deaths in London alone and thousanda accepted methods of conducting expressing through a boy aur
Scotch, Irish or Walsh. It has in question will not have to be the democr stising influence of the throughout the rest of Great Britain. The same is true as regards warfare.
girl to the generations yet un-
been most amusing to note the palled down and rebuilt in five war will result in any degree of the other countries in Europe. Africa, and especially South Africa,
born the generosity of Great fuss and solemn comment of the years?" "Fairplay" administere fusion of the A.R.A., and NA.R.A.. has suffered more than any other country, and we bave also read
Britain:
On either side are Disenters on the Government the counterpoints with an inquial. Each body regulates rowing bas reliefs of a knight symbolis announcement. The clamourous tiveres that Mr. Alves statemen: for men who indulge in it for the mere love of the sport, parts of Asia. Nearly every ship from America that arrives in this GERMANY'S PLIGHT.
ing Great Britain and
terror of these gentlemen leaves at the annual meeting, thathe was 3 port reports one or more deaths on the voyage from this source, and quite recently in Japan, and especially in Kobe, there have in Ger.nany at the moment from is the address of revell and w-wow and truculence no good housing problem, justified him it NARA. are debarred from com bom many deaths: in fact in Kobe, it can almost be said to have which the utmost danger may gratitude
There are two factors operating woman, Fidelity. The following me cold. Out of all this pother and helping buadreds to solve the but at present members of the peting under A‚R.A, rules, simply the to
British
because they earn their livelihood become an epidemic. It will be seen therefore that as far as the
arise. We refer to unemploy ation
ia one of the stamp of Sir Paul criticism of Mr. Alves' scheme through the exertion of muscular by East is concerned, the new disease has become a real and imminent
M. Smeesters ment and a great shortage
Chairman of
Chater there should be nothing which, danger. We do not know what steps, if any, the authorities in
the
according his anergy, Mr. R. C. Lehmann years Belgian of foodstuffs. This is vouched
view, were the sam 201 Hongkong have taken to meet this danger, but we consider that for by British officers who have Repatriation Committee, on beto grumble at
ago sought to have the distinction substance of the indictment. Mr.removed, but without success.' It some precautionary measures should be taken at once. In this case been investigating conditions If of the refugees:
"We too much stress cannot be laid on the truth of the old saying there. A telegram appearing to hill Devar forget thar
Alves outburst in reply is doubtful whether the new con- "Prevention is better than cure," and we cannot but think that the day gives details of the situation when our country was overran by provocations to larid pranty ing to his friends. Mr. Alves barrier, but the NA deserve The dissent scintillates with "Fairplay' letter was suspris ditions will break down the authorities have sometimes in the past given more of their energies these respects. to the care of epidemics than to their prevention. But the question told that unless outside help nent offered us on behalf of the collection:
We are he enemy the British Govern-Here is 8 gem of the raised his hands in holy horro every credit for their enterprise of epidemics is not only a local one; it is one of the most important is forthcoming, either famine or
"In view of the at this. Here him speak: "] and initiative in the past. ation a. refuge where we could fact that the English, Scottiah,
The professional side of the for all the countries in the world.
As soon as peace is secure, and shipping free. again, emigration Balshevism, and probably botire and escape the tyranny of Irish and Welsh were the chief the writer in raising those ques lose through the death of William appears to me that the object of sport has sustained a very serious will begin on a large scale. North and South America desire more vest. It would seem, indeed, that forget the wave of friendship the active prosecution of the
he Germans. We shall never Britons directly concerned in tions was more for a mischievous Albany who was killed in action labour. For example, the number of immigrants into the United, the latter is already rapidly States in June 1913, was 176,261, whereas in June, 1917, it was only spreading That is what one which passed through England. war, we strongly think that the wish to 11,035. On the other hand, the general distress in Russia and gathers from the terrible things he sudden formation of nearly Chairman of the Committee desired information." many of the other countries in Europe will cause many to that are happening in Munich 4,000 committees, the kind hos ought to be a representative of Mr. Alves.
влу opportunity
emigrating. And France, and other places. The outlook ispitality offered to our people by one of these races especially Belgium, and perhaps Germany, will require
1000 too cheering, but it is hese committees as well as by when we remember the terms of abroad. It will be seem, therefore, that we are likely to experience at least comforting to know, private families. Under the the Ixal conscription ordinance." "Fairplay" makes s a very great movement of population, and that at a time when on good authority, that there pretection of your laws we have 4 mo e mischievous letter could and clear statement. To me will speak out, it will give us an dispossible to emphasise too muck the danger of epidemics. The no immediate danger of a re-been able to maintain in England not be conceive. It is an un- this has been plain, but I am inkling of how mattera stand.
is everywhere rampant. In these circumstances, it is terrible toll of influenza has shown us that epidemic disease has vivel of any mistake the special characteristics of our generous stab. It is customary open to conviction from the othe. Mr. Alves ends up his epistle as become an international question, and that the civilised. States Aires or interests to prevent 1200; we have had munitiones, malterate, if not depreciate side. Euch conviction, however follows: Possuishy là might be of the world must taker joint action. if a colution is to be found. We the German people from getting factories, our of our church cable and experienced in not to be induced by men ble to do him: (airplay" must have international supervision and international control, and out of hand; for chaos and con- and our papers, and it English, Mugite grintia vituperation, but by acid an a good turn, as like 19 some system must be established at once, for it is better to forestall fasion can only complicate the in trup to say the Great Britain on will sneer, quite so, but if sabile reasoning of winch I am principle to return god fo the danger than to wait until we have to face it. It is not only a vential conclusion of a satisfac has given hospitality not to some the dianters had had the most sorry Mr. Alves has not so far Mr. Afree final outburst is great question for the doctors, it is a matter for statesmanship, of which provision is supposed to be the greatest attribute. Supervision. on to be revictualled; of that there sul which was able to breathe have obviated such a reference, mastery. He, like Frankenstein, innocence of Mr. J
tory peace Germany will have individuals, bar to the Belgian ordinary gumption they would shown in this matter s complete This pathetic an international scale is urgently necessary, and the duty of super is no doubt. But due safeguards freely whim the Belgian territory Hides, for the life of me I can has created a monster capable of the unco guid, was too vision rente primarily upon the Allies, the urgency of whose will have to be taken in the, domestic problems should not bling them to the fact that recon
was under the heel of the enemy" not understand why these Dis no end of mischief. If Mr. Af struction at Home will hardly be possible if there is chaos abroad..
take
of
Jabour from
will ensue before the next har
power. All the same, it is in the
*
intention than a
have
sincere some, months ago. Although in- Tut, tut, in France, Ernest Barry will be the valided home after being wounded.
able to defend his title sa chẩm- pion of the world should there' be any challengers.,
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