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THE SITUATIONⱭIN INDIA,
DAY BY DAY.
REMEMBER THE KIND ACTS OF OTHERS AND FORGET YOUR OWN,
EXCITING DOCK
INCIDENT.
TWO CONSTABLES IN
TROUBLE
AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.misinterpreted., and bombarded by misinterpreters. 1 wish Mr. Holyoak was less ragne. Who [BY "AJAX."]
has misinterpreted and misunder On Friday and Saturday last
stood him? The charge, I hope, is we received two parts of a m839-'
not lavelled at me. I have had There is no more trying time censored on age, apparently what was doubtless rather B The Archdeacon of Hongkong of the year in Hongkong than say on the scheme of the
Constitusional Reformers acknowledge with the transition from the cold sesif Mr. Holyoak felt that he was grava situation in Todia-not tele-desires to
The zeal, or greed (it is not graphed from India but from gratitude $50, from. Share of son to summer. The weather is misunderstood or misinterpreted yet known which) of two Chinese London and issued by the Press War Bonus for the Chinese settled and one's temper takes either by me or anybody else, his constables has led them into Burgas at Home. We are told Canton Church Building Fundit complexion from the atmos-proper course of action should trouble, with the result that one
pheric conditions. It is also huve been to
there were serious riots, pillage and plunder, and that two banks
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fevident what the whole trouble was about; all that we know is that the whole of the Bombay
Defence Corps Onler issued Presidency and the Punjab were by Major H. A. Morgan state swapt by a wave of dastardly that the parade ordered fur criminality. What "Pumiliation Weluesday, the 23rd instant, has Day" is, that is referred to in the been postponel antil Tuesday cable, we are not in a position the 29th instant.
We authoritatively to explain.
and
correct the
of the hammering he received from a number of Chinese coolies
and the Town all as a place The total output of the Kailan unfortunate that at such a time erroneous notion. He has had of thein was in the Police Court called Kichlu Satyapal were Mining Administration's mines the people of Hongkong should ample opportunities for doing dock today and the other is now burned and five Europeans were for the week ending 5th April throw into the political arena anthis. That sort of chaff won't lying in Hospital as a consequenes killed during the rioting, whilst amounted to 77,320 tons and the apple or two of discord to set catch birds. nine rioters were killed and sales during the period to 71,518 distempered erities by the ear, Their action is not malice twenty-one injured. It is not Loga,
prepense, but, from their point of | Mr. Alabaster, a lieutenant of employed on the Kowloon Dock - view, timely and logical, which Mr. Holyoak in the Constitution-extension at Taiwan, Hunghom, would lose in dramatic power by al Reform game, now attains postponement. Nevertheless, the the Sacerdotalition of Vice unstable were of misdemeanour The charges against the first effect on the public opinion President of the sanctum anen going on an unauthorised that matters 13 the
reverse torium-the Constitutional Regambling raid, and of firing two of their expectation, simply for Association. He bemoaned, shots with his service revolver because the criticisma they in his speech, the many things sud wounding two Chinese challenge is out of balance like that had been said about the coolies who were employed at the Some twenty students the the weather. This is particularly Association, partly in earnest Docks. of Mrs Annie Besant and her senior class of the Canton Cris true of the day-light-saving ques and partly in jest." How wicked henchbacks in Madras a couple of tion College have come to Hongtion and, I am afraid, had the of the jeaters! This new auempt at the Docks indulged in a little It appears that the workmen years ago, the anniversary, of kong in a party for the purpose issue of this discussion been to puch up the cranky machinery iter which the Indian Home Rulers of investigating the educational deferred to cold weather con- merely serves to prove the have pledged to observe. During and industrial conditions of theditions, the Chamber of Com- necessity of throwing the whole the currency of the war it has been | Colony,
merce would have received that caboodle into the scrap heap. the policy of the Indian Govern- ment to discourage inflammatory
enlightened comment and advice, which presumably it was after.
have a faint suspicion that it was
a day that marked the internmen:
The
Management of the
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I have always laboured
the
every day after their tiffin. The constables, who got wind of this, yesterday took opportunity, when the gambling was in full swing, to Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which speeches in the different provinces Victoria Theatre having rented The daylight-saving question der the impression
un.make a dramatic appearance on it the scene, and, it was alleged, being prejudicial to public safety, ars. Besant had at vari-e, building to St. George's seemed to have acted on Major ous times acted in a manner that Society, there will be no show of Macdonald and Mr. Beasis like a was onpardonable crime attempted to blackmail them.
official to That fine, red rag on a theatrical Spanish for au
be seen They got more than they bargain- was prejudicial to public safety. picutes to-morrow. and eventually, under the provis Elm. "Kidder and Ko will be bull. Nothing will be gained by schemers. The presence of Mr. accord, made for the constables, in the company of politicaled for, as the coolies, with one ions of the Defence of India Act, screened at Thursday digging a sapel into the ripe Pollock at the annual meeting of and it would have gone hard with she was prohibited from leaving | matinee.
corpus of the question. As the Madras and eventually interned.
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idea is being accepted in all the the Constitutional Reform As-them, had they not bathought important towns of China, long-sociation gave me fariously to themselves of taking to their This Was a rather kong cannot afford to be the think, considering that he is act-heels.
|ing Attorney-General, and when undignified course
I read that he accepted office as authoritative appearance they chairman for the ensuing year asumed when they came on The annual meeting of the of the CA, then did I ejaculene armed with the fall diguity
they tion served as a reminder that my son. Absalon. 4 lani like stables ran away, with the whole Constitutional Reforta Asociale: ", my son Absalou, my son, of the law. As it was, the con- the Association's obsequies have Hongkong. where everyone crowd of coolies chasing them.
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Action was also taken against Amongst the passengers lear The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- other political leaders, who re-ing Hongkong by the as. China tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for agarded the Government's policy today, were Dr. and Mrs. Forsyth, solitary swallow.
as an unjustifiable restriction of Mr. Lorber, Vice-Presulent of the the liberty of subjects and
roundless interference with con- Robert Dollar Steamship Com- It is dangerous to have in a coun Danbar, Mr. and Mrs. Coleman, stitutional political propaganda, pany, and Mrs Lorber, Mrs F. try so conditioned as India any-Jagd Mr. R. C. Faithfull thing like unhealthy populari agitation.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1919.
FOOTING THE BILL.
LIES ABOUT THE BRITISH.
Sarogini
Railey, ra- this morning fined $50 and given the alternative of At Bombay, it is stated that Mr. Gandhi and Mrs. one month's imprisonment for Naidu, the Indian stowing away on the steamer poetess, addressed a meeting of Eenador. The boy said he was Mohommedans at which inflam- attempting to get to San Francisco matory language was employed to search for his father who had regarding the events in Egypt. deserted from his family. So artfully were the passions of the audience played upon that
Lord Chelmsford, the Viceroy of
successive stages as education
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THE OLYMPIC GAMES.
TEAMS.
The Canton athletes met yester- day afternoon, at 3 o'clock, for the purpose of making preparation to proceed to the Far Eastern Olympic Games, which will be there is an effort made to bring ing has decided that the Canton I am very pleased to see that held on May 12, 1919. The meet-
towas in the United Kingdom | Hongkong on April 28 and join and ports of the Dominions. the s. "Loong-ng" sailing op refer more particularly to the Friday, May 3.
we are informed, must be paid in either gold, raw materials or ment of the ideal. The Montagu-/en the Tytam Tuk Road in or later productive of a corre. Hongkong in line with large athletes will start for Manila via
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A Filipin, boy, named Artunos as yet been performed, and enjoys the privilege of following Desperate sitnations required that it is still alive and kicking his own convictions, to enlist in desperate measures, so thought Never suffer your energies to any party, is worth living in!
the lukongs, and the lakong who was the subject of the above agnate, is good advice for the Constitutional Reform wallahs.
mentioned charges, turned ruandl The old adage of too many irons
his pursuers, and with in the fire is the policy of the ioga Captain Superintendent of his revolver fred two shots Asiation. You cannot have too Police zaken from the most up which hit the legs of two of his many poker, tongs, and all-to-date edition
Beeton's followers. and keep them all a-going. At Cookery Book-Take eight
Mr. R. F. Lindsell has adjour- violence was nearly indulged in. St. Vincent de Paul begs to persistence of the revolutionary vice tegulations, pour twenty is Iring in Hospital will be The Treasurer of the Society of any rate, I admire the dogged tablespoonfuls of the Civil Ser
ed the case, for the constable who acknowledge the reformers who are anxious to let five to thirty drops of Essence India, is stated to have served thankfully an order on Mr. Gandhi, prohibit- sum of $73.80 toward the funds a little more sunshine find its way of Enthusiasm, whip op with charged jointly with the present
into our homes. It is the greatest "Keep to the Pavement." stew ing him from going to Delhi and of the Society, kindly donated by of all mistakes, as Sidney Smith quickly with Indian" chowkidars commiting a misdemeanour. the Punjab. What is objected to, the Lusitano Recreation Clab,
has told as, to do nothing and para wallas, do not separate the and rightly so, is the method of representing amount received by
because You MA only to cream of local society from the agitation which the extremists the sale of programmes at their little, but there are men who remainder, mix in with Chinese see fit to pursue. Holding, as the Sports."
are always clamooring
"lady" for
hawker without a Government of India does, that the ultimate ideal of full and
immediate and stupend us effects, licence. The latter can be got and think that virine and krowear the Western and Central HONGKONG AND CANTON zasponsible self-government can of Miss Father Florence Sullivan, ledge are by reached in time only by third laughter of Mr. J. Sullivan tower or a temple are to be in- of the spy's presence. By this to be increased 13 a Marketa, when they are not aware extend, as elements of dissen- and Mrs Sullivan, of the Hong-creased. No good effort is ever time the other ingredients should "Can she pay?" is a question which must have recurred to sion diminish, and as farger kongand Whampoa Dock Coy, to many during the last few days on reading the different estimates of numbers of the vast inarticulate - Thomas Blair, second engineer entirely lost or is any strenuous have been brought to a boil and the bill that Germany is to be asked to foot for plunging the world populations of India acquire somes. Chak Sang, only son of Mr. and honest endeavour to improve served hot. The average cost is into a catacylsm that will go down to history as the greatest that measure of political status and Thomas Blair, late of Jarling the condition of man ultimately aut much, It is reputed to cost ever befel mankind. So many opinions have been expressed on 'experience, we must condemn Sagar Refinery.
made in vain. Une effort may several gentlemen their tempers. the subject and so many suggestions as to what sum would be most strongly the advocacy of the
seen insulated and inefficacious, within the capacity of Germany to shoulder that there is consid- establishment of a complete erable difficulty in arriving at a solution. The Council of Four, we autonomy in terms which deny or hard labour, was to-day inflicted and fruitless, but many make a
A fine of $200, or two months'e endeavour may appear sterile are told, has fixed a protisional um of 125,000 million franes which wholly ignore the possibility of Germany must pay for restitution and reparation. The whole sum, successive steps in the develop a Chinese who was arrested regate that is always sooner negotiable securities in annual instalments, the minimum amount Chelmsford Reforms, it was a possession of a revolver and 12 ponding benefit. to be laid down by the Peace Treaty. Of the 125.000 million france pected, would put & stop to tonale of ammunition. The that Germany will be asked to stump up. France is to receive 55 seditica efforts in India. Busche defence was to the effect that
Mr. Percy Holycak, the retiring Baby Show that a correspondent The Hongkong and Canton per cent., plus an additional sum of 4.000 million francs yearly habit has grown up amongst the defealant carried the revolver Chairman of the Constitutional is desirous of projecting. By athletes will be in the charge of towards the cost of the French military pensions. which will bave violent type of Indian politicians in visiting his ancestor's
Reforma Association, 73 aall means, let's have a Baby Mr. Li Ming Tok, while the to be defrayed by Germany,
We are assured by some, economists that Germany possesses British in India as merely selfish against armed robbers.
of denouncing the interests of the at Stanley to protect himself pathe ic figure of injured in- Show. It would be described Canton volley ball teara will be nocence when he said: "Que fittingly as Bearis's Babies" under Mr. Yau Kie Cheung the vast wealth and in that lies the means to wipe off the financial and commercial. A moment's
hardship of engaging in public and Macdonald's Mascots ". disabilities imposed on the Allied Nations by Germany's ruthless reflection
coach. The captain of the volley will convince any attack on freedom and civilisation, and in it also lies the carb by man
A rather large hand of opinn life is that one is misunderstood.
ball and football team has not of common-sense that
misinterpreted and. 170 taels-was effected by and which the Allied Nations" may prevent "junkerdom" from disturb British interests in India ere
yet been elected. ing the world's peace at any future date.
when he own experience is "that I am Make Germany pay" much deeper and wider than that Sergeant Thomson
A RELIEF SHIP.
The Hongkong volley ball is the parrot cry, because she can afford to do so. Let the Allied They go
of searched & Chinese boy and girl bombarded by misinterpreters.
representatives are
Ko
Sik and friendly nations bind her in shackles of regulations which she India's prosperity. They run on the steamer China. The value Nevertheless, shall be powerless to resist. Thus, and thus only, can her great through the social fabric of India, of the drug is $2,292.50, and misunderstood or
Wei, Chien Kwang Yan, Ho Ka We learn that the B.I. 8. Lau and four others. Canton debt to humanity be atoned for in any tangible way, and her power a powerful force making for the the fines, if imposed, would I think the strong man is one Netralia, which has been under will select twelve volley players. for evil in the generations to come be effectually crippled. moral uplift of the races, and amount to something like who has his own convictions and Unfortunately, a great many people ignore the question of the stand, as no other influence in $23,000. Mr. Orme has adjourned defends them because he believes ambulance transport since the there will be Wong Yan Yang, Government requisition an From Canton Christian College, capacity of Germany to pay the indemnities. This is dismissed in the whole course. of India's a light-hearted way, and as Mr. Claude Lowther, M. P., has intim- chequered history has stood, for Mr. E. L. Agassiz, who is appear theru through because he, at any passing through the Colony on Kiang You Chang and Lin Tshing the case, on the application of in them and attempts to carry beginning of the war, and is uow Tan Cho Yam, Kwok Lum Shong, ated to Mr. Lloyd George that the amount which Germany is to good, clean government, for im pay should not be decided until the potential resources of Germany partial justice and for religious ing for the defence.
her way North, will probably be Hee; from Pui Ying, Wu Hoa Chi, This is extremely poetical. 1 can be more easily gauged than at present. It is only in goods freedom. They mean the and labour that payment of an indemnity is practicable, and, as preservation of order within and A pretty wedding was recently admire the sentiments surrounded to relieve the passage rou-Wa Sze Him, Tam To King, Chu Mr.Holyoak gestion in China in the game I Chiu and Lai Ping Chik, from those economists who have studied this question carefully the protection of India from solemised at the St. Andrewing this statement has told us, the problem bristles with difficulties. It external aggression. The British Cathedral, Singapore, the con- seems to make a great parade of manner in which the s.8. Marama Pai Ching, Mr. Chang Yik Yig
was used in Singapore.. talk of indemnities without regard interest in India is more vital to tracing parties being Mr. Fred his convictions, but
The Neuralia is expected to] to the limit of the enemy to pay and the need of precautions in India than to Great Britain. And Donwell Haigh (formerly of individual's convictions are not leave Hongkong for England Canton Christian College will also The basket ball team of the order that the payment shall not indirectly damage, those who the Indian agitators are only Hongkong) eldest son of the late of great value, except for himself about the middle of May. receive it. As Sir Eric Geddes sometime ago stated, we must be doing their country untold harm Mr. David Haigh, "Kurnool," When Dean Swift was arguing
proceed, to Manila for a contest careful not to carry our demands to lengths which will injure our by continuing their own industries and stimulate those of the enemy, and that might methods.
present Rawilon, Yorkshire, and Mrs. one day with great coolness with
with other Chinese teams fro North China and the winning happen whether the goods flooded the markets of the British Empire
Haigh; and Miss Carmen Marie a gentleman who had become Page, youngest daughter exceedingly warm in the dispute,
team will represent China at the It is a debatable point whether Germany can be made to pay
Olympiad. The Canton basket Mr. Robert Baldwin Ross, the Captain Page, of the steamship one of the company asked him the bill for this war, although common justice demands that she art critic and executor and admin- Ho Nam. The bride was attended how he could keep his temper so
bill players are Tan Chao Yam, ought to pay. Many argue that Germany is one of the world's ist-ator for the literary and dram-by Miss Heytman, while the well."The reason is," replied The following is the approxi- Cho Ping Kwan, Liu Sung richest countries, possessing the greatest mineral resources in atic estate of Oscar Wilde, of 40, duties of best man were efficiently the Dean, "I have trath on my mate statement of the Hongkong Chen, Wong Yan Yang, Fong Europe, especially in coal, iron and potash. For the development Half Moon-street, Picadilly, W., carried ous by Mr. Collier. A side." Does Mr. Holyoak lay Tramway Company's traffic Sam Chi and Wei Chark Shong. of agriculture and manufactures she has a position in Central Europe who
died on Oct. 5, left! communications internally and externally with contiguous nations drawing by Aubrey Beardsley married couple were heartily arises spontaneously, from alarm- which is pre-eminent.. Her railways and waterways render her £34,321 15. 5d. He gives the reception was afterwards held at claim to be the Dean Swift of receipts for the week ending
the Raffles Hotel, where the newly Hongkong? Natural conviction 19th April, 1919- admirable for the development of trade. According to statistics "The Toilette of Salome," and prepared a year before the war, the coal resources of Europe wore drawing by Richard Dadd, "The congratulated by a wide circle of ing impressions estimated at 784,192,000,000 tons, of which Germany possessed over Castle of Seclusion," to the friends. The bride and bride providential events. half, which means, in power to produce and to transport, National Arts Collection Fund groom were made the recipients which depends on coal, that Germany has approximately fifty-four for presentation to the British of a number of handsome pre per cent. of Europe's resources,
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and Mr. Li Sik Sam.
Mr. Yang Sik Chang of Canton Christian College will be sent as" Aggregate Receipta
Feceipt one of the swimmers to attend for week for 15 weeks the Olympiad, and Mr. Chang This Year... $13,693 $225,344 | Heung Shong also of Canton Last Year:... 14,090 216,640 Christian College, will be select- 8,704 ed for the 220 yards low hurdles.
On the version of Mr. Holyoak, Increase: he has been misunderstood and Decrease!...
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