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It is gratifying to note that the FACT WITH WHISKERS ON IT. Directors of the Hongkang Eleocha

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REVOLTING / CRUELTY IN HONGKONG

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lis terminate trio Company, in addition to The members of the Banvard gnashing of

Are large number of dogs 1916 on shows, adopting a policy of far-seeing Company left this morning for wolfram dealers in Hongkong have been missing from Hong wars 112056 divorous dur provision for future contin-Manila by the sa Wing Sang. who, at the time of the kang lately, according to Inspec year, This is at the rate of 112 gences, intend further to justify

Armistice, had been left with large ter Grant. This ja due, it is stated, per 100,000 of the population. Company's

Mr. C. G. Perdue arrived back stocks of wolfram in their hands to the liking on the part of certain compared with 84 in 1906, 73 in- existence as public

ut lity concern from India on Saturday by the Thousands of tons of tungsten Chinese epicures for this animal 1900, and 53 in, 1890. Thes by Leeping in view Arratoon Apear. He is to act are being stored in the hope of as a delicacy on their banquet figures show that the rate bac the interests of there customers A. 8. P. in place of Mr. T, H. rise in the sweet bye and bye tables. Indee 1. their craving for more than doubled during the whilst providing for a fair and King who recently went on, Wolfram dealers have had the canine flesh has created such last twenty six years excluding reasonable remuneration to share. Home leave.

rattling good time for the Iseta demand that certain thieves South Carolina, where the laws holders. Mr. A. O. Lang, in his

three years, disposing of their are have found it profitable to exert do not permit divorce. speech at the annual meeting of The Treasurer of the Society at excellent prices. With the au- their abilities in the direction of the Company held on Saturday of St. Vincent de Paul begs to spension of hostilities these have catering to it. So many thefts last, stated that the Directors had thankfully acknowledge the re-come down with a run. For in have occurred that man have To save at the tap and let all realised the

desirability of ciept of $20, toward the funds of stance, where $45 per load used

even been commissioned by the run away at the bung hole is not making a still further reduction the Society, from an anonymous to be paid for the ore at the owners to proceed to Canton to 80 unknown practice with in the cost of current to con-donor.

mines, to-day the rate is $10 per search for the missing animals, Governmental persons. Evident- sumers. This, in view of the

load. Consequently there is

believed to be taken there for sale.ly it is so now with respect to the substantial profit of over $500,000 Saturday's health return rauch uneasiness among pro-

One case in point was brought efforts to keep out of the country year's working, is shows six cases of plague (two ducers of tungsten in the Colony to light through the investigations that vile and poisonens i atak but just and reasonable.. It fatal), three of cerebrospinal as to the developments of the of the Police, who captured three known as Bolshevik literatur.. will create a feeling of fever (one fatal) and one fatal immediate future. The future Chinese who are were alleged to A correspondent tells now extre confidence in the Company occurrence of enteric fever, All of wolfram is at the present have cast greedy eyes on a dog maly vigorous is the inspection of on the part of public generally, were Chinese...

momeat in an unsettled condi- which did not belong to them, and all written and printed mafter which we regret to say does not

tion, and it is no use to bolster to have stolen and prepared the bath an entering and leaving the exist to alike degree so far as SOIDE "Lloyd's Weekly (Shanghai) of up trade by creating a fictitious animal for food. In the house United States. Not one line of of our other public utility com- May 11 says Capt. Lapsley demand and stimulating over where they live, the Police found dubious matter was allowed to go panies are concerned. The ever-left Shanghai last night for production. The production evidence of an incriminating through. But on arrival at a growing demand for current in the Hongkong, where he hopes to must conform itself to the normal character. The bitch after being British port he found that the Lolony will no doubt enable the hand in his military papers after demand. Last year 96,104 piculs stolen, it appears, was immediate- examination. of his baggage Electric Company to show still 4 years' war service. He may of wolframite were exported from

containing boiling water. It was at all. The whole business was batter results in the future, in take up his post again on the Hongkong to the United States, ly transferred alive to a pot practically amounted to nothing the value being assessed at lilled in the immersion, and the pure formality. And yet a which the public need have no staff of the Kowloon Dock.

to its participation.

116,539. The fall in price of the qalms BS boh in reduced rates and im-

We learn that Captam A. ore in the United States is due to Chinese had already proceeded rigorous censorship is still main proved service. A word of praise Fraser, formerly master of the these large supplies and have to scrape half its skin off before tained over the mails, as if they a stop was put to the gruesome were the only medium of conduct- must be said also for the efficient Wo Fat Sing Company's 8.8. overstocked the market. operation by the arrivaling this dangerous traffic. manner in which the Company Telemachus, has bean transferred Secretary

of the Police. A large bas functioned during a most to the ss. Sui Sang, which ship Colonies has already announced

...of firewood,

Evidence accumulates that the There has been

of shavings. and a world of to day is demented. The difficult time. nothing in the nature of a disor- now belongs to the above firm, the termination of the system of quantity

number of cooking utensils war has upset the mental balance ganising breakdown, which fact the negotiations for her purchase control of tungsten. It is satis pile

Afforded eloquent testimony to of nearly every clases and in- fully justifies

having been concluded on Satur-factory to learn, however, that the

while the Minister of Munitions the fact that the epicures had dividual, and the derangement alone

day morning last. Directorate in its allotments

has decided to end the existing lost no time in preparing their has even spread to the highest bonus to staff and

A surprise was given to the purchase arrangement immedia feast. Two of them, apparently seats of the law. Of all mad to Provident Fund.

tely and will not accept delivery

cheered with the prospect of a proposals surely. Lord Buck of any tungsten ore or molyb

gone to sleep, leaving their con-barristers is the maddest The seas ports on ocean steamers after April 30th he will consider federate to prepare the meal science and art of law are claims based on any loss of profit their pleasant dreams by the business; and nine women out They were rudely awakened from parely-logical-and-unemotional. sustained owing to deliveries

Police, who immediately marched of ten are purely illogical and being then stopped. He con-

Besides, it wil cludes with an expression of the them to the Station. The third emotional.

certainly lead to the abolition of Lindsell said: "Why don't you hope that producers in their man was also arrested. start an English school

In the case of one of the the wig, if not of the gown and Chinese? The beggar was fined interests will take immediate prisoners, who claimed to be a banda And as Cumberland in

steps to reduce production."

barber, it wes stated by the Police, the "Choleric Man" says, "thera in Mr. R. E. Lindsell's Court is much good sense in old "dis- There is a threatening shortage to-day. that he kept a barber's tinctions. When the law lays of rice throughout the East and the ference, which has shown the

Far East. The Federated Malay shop, but finding that he did not down its fullbottomed parriwig. whole world the type of people Lindsell with, being in unlawful States and the Straits Settlements get enough business, had taken you will find less wisdom in bald with whom the Entente has to possession of a part of a revolverare quite perturbed as stocks off to the more profitable trade of pates than you are aware of”: „If.

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1919.

THE PRESUMPTUOUS HUN.

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public utility concern stands out pre-eminent as an example to! companies of this class, and it is to be hoped the lesson will not fall on deaf ears.

BETTER SIGN NOW.

We have dealt in our leading article to-day with the intolerable behaviour of the Gerinan delegates at the Versailles Con-

terms.

out.

begging struck up in English Excuse me this time and let me I am an old man and my SOR по give me for my expense." His loquacity in

that English was such

$5.

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A Chinese who was arrested on the Leong Wing Wharf тая to-day charged before Mr. R. 2.

place the Chinese had come to the Colony. "A fine of $100 was imposed.

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India

POLICE RESERVIST'S APPEAL

There is a certain entertaining quality about the London Moray ing Post demonstration of itk favourite theory that "it is war that is normal "-and not peace. as some of us had supposed

dealer in canine flesh.

a judge were to appear on deal There has been a lot of Inspector Boulger stated that the

rice are low and the prospects

The barber (to Mr. Lindsell Bench dressed as a jockey, though- wild. irresponsible talk by

I am a barber,

his law might be that of Hard- man had a permit to carry the of getting no supplies in the last German speakers and newspapers revolver in Batavia, from which quarter of this year have raised

The Magistrate-Yes! You do wicke or Cairns, the suitors would Mr. James, the great fears. on the possibility of refusing to sign the Peace Treaty, bu

Food Controller for the Straits nothing else except shaving dogs not think so. Dignified costame

and men.

has a double effect upon the we imagine that a good deal of

Settlements and the F.M.S.. is

The prisoners were acquitted imagination of him who sees and this is sheer, characteristic Ger-

already devising means to meet on the charge of stealing the dog, him who wears it. The abolition man bluff. Anyhow, the Huns

the situation." Rationing is one owing to insufficient evidence of costume and cermony has had The Banvard Company gave of the many things that is going On the charge of preparing the]a deplorable effect in the now find themselves in a cleft If we want an insight into the German character we can get it stick. We are assured that in a repeat performance of "Off to to be tried. It almost looks as if animal for food they were found American Courts-Saturday Re-

six view. by contemplating the attitude of the Hun delegates at the historic the event of a refusal to sign the the Front, on Saturday night, Hongkong will have to imitate

thus concluding their season the Straits people. Rice control guilty and sentenced to

months' hard labour. gathering at Versailles when the Allies laid before the enemy Treaty, all military arrangemente plenipotentiaries the terms on which Peace can be finally concluded. have been made for the Allied here. The house was packed and has been a necessary evil in India, Their behaviour, we are told by Mr. Massey, was more impudent Armies to advance exactly in the he evening's fun greatly enjoy Burma, the Straits Settlements ed. Mr. Banvard informs us that and the Federated Malay States. and more aggressive than anything he had ever experienced, whilst same way as they would have the Company expects to return to It is not quite true that the rice all the Entente representatives, including President Wilson, were done had the Germans not ac Hongkong on June 16 and play a control in India and Burma has surprised at the tone of Rantzau's presumptuous speech. When cepted the Armistice

short season with new pieces been imposed solely in the German delegation arrived, the Allied officers assembled out-In other words, if Germany re-

of famine relef. side the building had the common decency to salute them, but the fuses to sign, the war automatical which he thinks the public will interest

The conditions in

The case of an appeal to the Huns did not salute anybody, either coming or going, though they ly re-opens, but with a decided appreciate very much.

were not due solely to the failure Supreme Court on the part of a were the delegates of & conquered race. Then, whereas M. advantage to the Allies, as they Clemenceau stood whilst delivering his speech. Count Rantzau had are now in occupation of certain

A tap attached to the piping of of crops. The failure of crops member of the Police Reserve the audacity to remain seated, in explanation of which his Secret parts of the Fatherland (which an oil tank at the Wellington came when the Indian stocks against a sentence of confinement. ary tells a feeble story about his being unable to control his voice they were not at the time the Barracks received the attention were depleted to supply the needs to barracks by the D.S.P. is to be or his knees, thus being afraid that he would be unable to stand if Armistice was concluded), whilst of a thief on Saturday. The man of the Army in the field and was held on Thursday next. It ap be tried to. If this excuse is taken at its face value gives a the Germans have already been proceeded to unscrew it from its aggravated by the high prices of pears that a Mr. Guimaprez place. His procedure. was non-food commodities, while the was ordered to be confined to pretty picture of a distressed Hun; but we prefer to believe that the rendered more or less impotent watched with great interest by price of food for the poor had barracks by the U.S.P. for an incident was typical of the German outlook on life, which is based by the operation of the

a Chinese

of sapper the beaten all records of previous alleged misdemeanour, against on the idea that the Huns are the most superior people on earth termos enforced since November

an appeal was RE. who waited until the famines. It was merely for which and which apparently, even the great humiliation they have now fast. So any declining to accept thief bad inished his work before famine relief for which Burma's to the CS.P. who upheld suffered has leis prectically unafacteal. That is the view taken by the Peace terms will only re-act

disastrous he pounced on him. The thief rice had been requisitioned, but it the order. The appeal the Allied plenipotentiaries, who have come to the unanimous on the Huns in a conclusion that the Germans are the most tactless people on the manner. They will have nothing was this moming sent by Mr. was to relieve famine conditions was heard in Chambers, before, On the same principles one could face of the globe.

to gain by it, they will lose more R. O. Hutchison to prison for aggravated by depletion of stocks the Chief Justice, on Saturday maintain that red headedness was

due to the war.

morning last, and a decree nisi the normal state of civilisation For cool, unadulterated "cheek," the speech of the chief territory and in the end they three weeks.

returnable on Thursday was seeing that since the invention. German delegates would be hard to beat. Here are the Ger will have to swallow conditions

A Chinese detective on Satur- The shortage of coal is still made, the appellant being admit-of the Celt there must always have been a red head somewhere mans beaten at their own special game-war-having to sue for even harder than those now

We also understand that or other in Europe... peace, and then, when the time for the presentation of the terms presented. So they might just as day captured an opium fiend at seriously affecting South China ed to bail in $250. comes, instead of appearing in a meek and humble frame of mind well save all the bother and the latter's abode at No. 7 Cooke in manufacturing and transports. they show open discourtesy, whilst their leader has the "nerve" trouble and, with as much good Street. The fiend was supervising While Japan is still the largest another member of the Reserver pans supplier, her exports to Hong-was arrested at Shek Tong Sui, to deliver a harangue on war responsibility. It was some grace as their nature allows, bow number of pots and

wherein some three mace of kong have declined from over during the week-end, for failing thing gained that Count Rantzau should admit that the power of down to their conquerors' terms.

a million tons in 1914 to 700,000 to comply with a punishment opium were being prepared. When German arus had been broken, but he soon showed that he did not

the Police microscope was tons in 1917 and 360,754 tons order. intend to eat any humble pie, for he had the temerity, in speaking

brought into service it was found valued at £1,486,652 in 1918. While

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Dr. Frederic Adams Woods. working through a careful study of 450 years of European history from 1450 to 1900, found that in the first century war occupied 55 per cent of the time and in the last century over 30 per cent. In the whole period there were only two spaces of time, one of ten and the other of seventeen years, of“ complete and universal peace all over the Continent."

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If the Sunday Games Associa-

tion has its way, and cricke

football, and other outdoor gam are played on Sunday, we shall simply be reverting to a phase of English life in the days that were.

with

of war responsibility, to say that Germany could only take a share SHIPPING LOSSES. of it, adding that all Europe shared the guilt. He did admit Ger- An over night telegram gives that his offence admits of two imports from Formosa only com- many's guilt as regards war crimes an admission which must be the details of the Allied shipping charges (1) being in possession of menced in 1915 with 2,500 tons of interest to record in the earlier. Besides, we have plea- kept in mind-but even here he endeavoured to offset the losses during the war, and from the drug and (2) preparing the by 1917 they had increased to movements on the local Stock sant memories of a squarsonTM Buns brutality by alleging that the Allies, by their blockade these will observed opium. Mr. R. O. Hutchesion. 125,000 tons and in 1918 to 179,480 Exchange. China Sugars have and another country parson also registered another advance, clos- who used rather to encourage methods, had killed non-combatants with cold deliberation. That, that, as was, generally known, however, considered one charge tons falued at £510,552.

ing steady at $160. One of football among rustics on Sunday. from & German on such an occasion, vividly illustrates the Teutonic Britain is the biggest sufferer. to be enough, and he fined the

Chinese 85 on the charge of being Cassia or commercial cinnamon the Glen Line vessels, last afternoon. It was a common frame of mind. What these Huns appear to overlook is that they Her mercantile losses come to

is very largely exported from week, took a full cargo. of custom centuries ago for men and were required at Versailles for the one purpose of doing what they well over two thousand vessels, in possession of the opium.

Hongkong to the United States of China sugar for London. The youths to go straight from were told, and not to indulge in arguments or villify their conquer-representing over, seven and a

to practise archery ors. As one of the wires puts it, the Allies are in no mood to admit half million tons, in addition to We regret to record the death, America. The U. S. A. takes price of raw sugar has gone up church the discussion of their right to insist upon the terms of peace which there have been lost twenty at the Government Civil Hospital, nearly half of the exportable recently, Java crystal No. 24 beat the butts, and other sports substantially as drafted; the only suggestions they can consider are ships of 95,000 tons on Admiralty on Saturday morning last, of surplus. There are two qualities ing quoted at $11.50, Java crystal were favoured provided they practical ones not involving any watering-down of the conditions. service. These are some of the Mrs. Cooke, the wife of Mr. F. L. of cassia exported from Hong- No. 18 at $10.25 and soft white did not interfere

Count Rantzau wound up his impertinent oration by declaring losses which the Germans now Cooke, of the Oriental Tobacco kong, namely, Kwongnai and Java $11.50. According to the gions observance. Then in the that the Treaty would be examined in a spirit of goodwill He lied have to make good in war, of Company. Mrs. Cooke had been Saigon cassia Hongkong - latest telegram to hand, this course of years came a violent last Fear £102,072 year's estimate for the sugar reaction, and among those who when he thus spoke, as the news from Germany amply shows. One course, we expect to bave ship-in bad health for some months ported

Kowigesi and crop in Java is 1,300,000 took a stern view of Sabba Berlin message says nobody even considers the possibility of ping losses, especially when the past and finally paralysis set in, worth of accepting the terms; another says no German Government could enemy is a maritime Power, which was the primary canse of £46,692 of Saigon cassia. Of tons, showing a decrease of moralities was Sir Isaac Newt

compared & few years ago a note book ever sign such a Treaty; à German newspaper describes the Treaty but in this cas: the greater death. The funeral took place at these, the United States took 300,000 tons as the product of thoughtless, intoxicated brutality; whilst General part of the-

casualties Happy Valley on Saturday after £54,924 Kwongsai väriety and with last year. In Cuba, too, the by him in his undergrad Ludendorff gives his views in such dignified and gentlemanly was cansed by the U-boat noon, the Rev. V. EL Copley £29,652 of the Belgen quality output is expected to decrease was discovered and language as this: "If these are the Peace terms, then America campaign, which was conducted Moyle officiating. There was a The first year of direct trade with by 400,000 tons to 2,800,000 tons, and among the marat can go to Hell!" Here we have some choice examples of the in defiance of all known rules of large number of floral tributes the United States iz cassia was making the total decrease in secount of Ne Germans' spirit of goodwill! Well, whatever the Germane may or civilised warfare. That is a fact which testified to the exteem in 1917, as previous to that year it these two places, 700,000 tons ation befo may not think about the Peace Treaty, they will have to accept it which cannot be to often insisted which the deceased was held by was exported from Indo-China, via It is also feared that the output

friends. Great Hongkong to Europe and thence in Europe will not show substantially as it stands; there is going to be no picking of the upon, and it is for that reason her many

appreglable increase this document to pieces. The time has come, as . Clemenceau that the Allies have rightly order sympathy will be felt for Mr. exported to America

In spite of such pessi reminded the German delegates, to settle accounts. The Allies ed recompense to be made on the Cooke and Mrs. Reynolds, dangh must not, they will not, wayer in their determination to make the ton-for-ton and class-for-class ter of the deceased, in their Beyond the rise in China prope there E

Sugars there has been nothing dem unishment fit the enormity of the crime.

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