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THE 10

KAYAt the Peak Hospital, on May 25th, Nelly Henderson Kay. of Edinburgh. Aged 27 years..!

CARVALHO-At St. Paul's Hospital. Causeway Bay, on 24th inst, Alicia Maria, the beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.

de Carvalho of Amoy

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DAY BY DAY.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

CHINESE GENEROSITY.

from

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1919.

CURRENT COIN.

CANTON ESTOMS

PRESENTATION TO MR, BECKE

[BY" MERGARTOR"]

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STOLEN WEALTH.

DAIRY FARM EMPLOYEE

SENTENCEDBANK

Sudden access to riches made a

IF YOU WANT A GOOD INDEX The generosity of the wealthy TO A FAMILY, DON'T JUDGE BY members of the Chinese com-THE÷VERANDAH~JUDGE BY THE

Business generally is very munity of Honkong has been BACK YARD

quiet. There has been no im- At noon on Saturday those of well demonstrated by the splendid.

provement. The dull condition the out-door staff who could be Chinese boy extremely generous. manner in which they have come To-day is the birthday of His due to the unsteady state of spared from duty, assembled at This youth's monthly Tarz 48 forward and provided the means Queen Mary, who was born in business at present all over the the Customs Club, to present Mr. an office boy in the Dairy Farm's of expanding the usefulness of 1867. HMS Tamar dressed ship world. As a result business men F. C. Becke, tide-surveyor of the premises at Pokfulum is $5 our University. This was again in honour of the occasion. are waiting to see how much C. M. Gustons at Canton, with a Therefore, it can well ba emphasised by the official opening

lower prices will go. As a matter gent's suit-dressing case, on the understood that when be came on Friday of the Schools of

The Treasurer of the Society of of fact, a commercial traveller, occasion of his leaving Canton on into possession of his riches. Anatomy, Physiology, Pathalogy

at the it was natural that he should and Tropical Medicine, the heavy St. Vincent de Paul begs to representing a big American firm. twelve months leave east of which has been borne by acknowledge most thankfully the visiting Hongkong expressed the expiration of which, he will retire share the benefits which these riches bestow, with others who the Hon. Mr. Ho Fook, Mr. Ho receipt of $10. towards the funds personal view that much as beffrom the Service

of the Society.

wanted business he would con. The presentation was made by are short of this world's goods as Kom Tong, Mr. Chan Kai-ming

sider merchants rather foolish if Mr. E. C. Tregillus, Chief Tide- he had been. The coolies at the and Mr. Ng Lai-hing. The anonymous donor.

they were to order on their own surveyor, who spoke of Mr. Farm have been value of these. additions

surprised account any large quantity of Becke's long service in Canton in to the University is obvious; Booking is" proceeding very goods in the hope that prices and other Ports, and the esteem his "standing treat" to them the last few days by they will enable students to briskly for the big picture, may improve.

in which he was held by all, some at various tea-stalls. They were carry out research work which "Tarzan and the Apes," which is

who had served with him for a in great wonder as to how he was impossible before, and as a being screened at the Coronet One of the worst lines is result we may expect the Hong-at 5.15 and 9.15 p.m. to-day. In metals. Prices have gone down long while, and others who had came into possession of so much fuence which will be illimitable realistic as possible, the interior of the Armistice, but the opinion a pleasant time while on leave, was missing from a drawer in the kong University to exert an in- order to make the atmosphere as enormously since the conclusion not had the same privilege. He money, until the mystery w

hoped that Mr. Becke would have cleared yesterday. A sum of $11" in its effects. In the realm of of the building is Mr. Ray in- of those who have made a careful and live long to enjoy his well-office. As the youth had access tropical medicine, especially, there forms us, being converted into study of the conditions is that the deserved rest on retirement after to the office, it was natural that should be great scope for Uni-jungle!

market will improve as soon as over forty-three years of service he versity students, and we look for

peace is signed and orders begin The suit case would serve to the thief. most valuable development in Armed with a revolver. two to come in for reconstruction remind him of those who had the extremily forlorn in the Police this direction. After all, the Chinese committed a robbery on work. Take iron bars, for in-pleasure of taking part in the Conft this morning when Mr. T University hitherto has been been No. 7, Shankewan Road, on but a shadow of what it is destin-Saturday night, at 6.45. An old locally are much lower than the In replying, Mr. Becke, who brought up the charge. Mr. R. Oliphant, of the Dairy Farm, ed to become. Only the founda-woman who was in the house, replacing cost. Of late there has tions, as it were, have been laid. was bound by them to a table been no demand for them. Those seemed deeply moved, said he D. Hutchison inflicted on him

was quite unprepared for la sentence of six Now

are beginning to sum of $175, and clothing to the local merchants who had ordered being made the recipient of such imprisonment. build. and it is well that we value of 50 cents, formed the fairly large quantities have lately handsome present, he had done should take long visions and realiseth at the greater part of the appreciable haul of the robbers been selling them by auction in nothing to deserve it, or of being |

lots, so that prices have come so honoured. who eseaped. structure has yet to be erected.

down with a rush. FUTURE NEEDS.

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presentation.

Mr. Becke's health was then proposed and drunk with the usual song and three cheers, not to mention the Tiger

In

was suspected of being He Tooked

weeks"

FANCY DRESS DANCE.

AT CLUB LUSITANO.

On Saturday Mr. A. J. Vieria

responding. Mr. Becket wished long life and prosperity to all present, and said that he was Ribeiro and friends gave a fans the last of his family; when he crossed the line, there would be dress dance by Portuguese child- no one, to whom he could leaven at the Club Lusitano. The Club premises were tastefully the suit case, but he would try decorated and the programme of of those present, for future use. and arrange that it be sent to one dances was thoroughly enjoyed.

Two Japanese havebeen arrest- Conditions in the piece-goods As in the early beginnings of ed by the Revenue Officers market are little more cheery, most big enterprises, the Univer aboard the Tosan Maru, from The crisis has long been tided sity so far has been run aBombay, on a charge of being in over. A Chinese dealer sometime the more or less makeshift basis. possession of 150 lbs. of raw ago went bankrupt for half-a-lakh C.The staff has managed to rub opium. It is alleged that one of of dollars. Prices on this side are along somehow by doing far more them offered a bribe to his captor well-maintained for staples and a than could reasonably be expected to secure his freedom. They revival in finished goods is con- of it, and all the time has been were this morning remanded by fidently looked forward to in the working under high pressure. the Magistrate, on the application course of the next few months. But the tirie has come when, as of Chief Revenue Officer Wildin. There is a demand for shirting Mr. Severn told the public on

but the market is generally bare. Friday. the position has to be A friend who had given him of stocks. The marker in piece- the opium to carry, but who on goods is weak and very, little has seeing him caught by the con- been done for forward deliveries, stable, had left him in the lurch This is partly due to the unsteady by meanly taking to his heels state of affairs in general and in number of the Staff saw him off, was the person blamed by a China in particular. The high fusilade of firecrackers. Chinese at the Police Court to-exchange, one

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1919.

LEST WE FORGET.

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clock which

Would have

Mr. Becke left for Hongkong. The children threw themselves The which he intends to make his into it with great gusto.

following girls took part future headquartas, per S. S Kin Shan at 5 p.m. A goodly The Misses Christina: Maria Gutierrez, Bertha Dolores Vas, Celeste - Carolina Osmund, to the accompaniment of a

Maria Luiza Gutierrez, Maria Lourdes: Gutierrez. Linda- mira Maria Gutierrez, Elfrida Vivina Barros, Regina Maris Vieira-Ribeiro, Carmen Maria

ard Bearer: Miss Julie Maria Vas, Olga Maria Baptista, Stand- Gutierrez.

Masters Henrique

MACAO NEWS.

Lifu-hon (late Civil Governor

of

faced. A larger and a better paid staff is an absolute necessity, whilst if the utility of the University is not to be impeded. more equipment is urgently re- quired. Mr. Severn goes so far as to say that more than four day when he was charged before thought, would have stimulated million dollars are needed fully Mr. R. O. Hutchison with being imports, but owing to the rise in to equip the University That is in possession of 10 lbs of loose the exchange being rapid and La huge sum. to be sure, but we opium. This story was as im- continuous, dealers have stood by are confident that it will be pro-pressive as others of a like ne-watching the market. They are vided when the precise needs are ture; that is to say, he found it a apparently marking time in the of Canton), Chan Ping-kwon There is a danger than with the war as good as ended, the more emphasised. We naturally look wasted excuse. Sentence of hope of seeing the present ex- present Civil Governor

Alberto Barros, Unit Victor An- pacifically-minded amongst the Allied peoples will forget the to the wealthy Chinese and the $750, or three months imprison change rates eclipsed. before plac Kwangsi). Tin

Man-lit late tonis. Casaer Augusto Cunha, horrors of the past four years and be inclined to hold out the band Government to help in matters ment, was passed by the Magising orders. Again, dealers are Treasurer of Canton) and Com Henrique Alberto Barros, Julio of friendship to a race of people the Germans who have been such as these, and past experien-trate.

disinclined to purchase anything mander Ng Chiu Leung arrived Carmo Vieira Ribeiro. Manuel- guilty of acts of the most barbarous cruelty. Even in Hongkong ce warrants the view that these

that is not in stock locally. If at Macao per s. s. Sui Tai on Alberto Baptista. Henrique we have individuals of this type. That is why we are daily publish- sources will not fail us. It is; That part of a

you ask them to buy three Saturday afternoon, and put up Maria Noronha Britto, Hen ing little reminders, under the heading Lest we Forget." of some indeed. an opportunity for joint should have contained machinery to take the chance as they do interesting to note that reports Frederico Vieira Ribeiro, Vicente months ahead, they do not want at the New Macao Hotel. It is rique Maria Barretto.. Arthur of the atrocities which have been definitely laid at the door of the British and Chinese support and formed the snug hiding place, for not know what the conditions have been prevailing in Canton Ferrer da Recha. Dance Master: Huns. These are not imaginings: they are sworn statements by assistance. witnesses of what they actually saw. Many of these hesitated to University is doing a splendid munition, discovered by the The substantial decrease in cotton Wingting has ordered Mok Wing-

inasmuch as the a revolver and 4 rounds of am- will be three months bence. and Hongkong lately tha: Luk Master Eduardo Lionel Vas. speak, lest what they said, if it should ever he published, might work by spreading British ideals, Police on board the involve their friends and relatives in danger, and for that reason whilst at the same time great yesterday. The Chinese whose buted mainly to buyers holding Canton, to hand over the post to Miss Maria de Lourdes Gutierr the present Tuchun in each child received a souvenir, imports into Hongkong is attri sum, it was found necessary to give an absolute promise that names benefits are reaped by the should not be disclosed. In all cases the exact words of the wit-Chinese of the younger genera- arrested by the Police and this in the maintenance of present return to Kwangs to take up sented by Mr. Hermillio dos property the clock was, was off owing to lack of confidence Chan Chin Ping-kwan and to ez, carrying off the prize pre- nesses have been given, though abbreviation was sometimes inevit-tion from this seat of instruction, morning fined $250. He stated able, and wherever a statement has been made by a witness great future lies before the that he

prices. It is hoped that the another post. Owing to Mok's Remedios tending to excuplate the German troops. it has been given ir. full. Hongkong University. It is up and offered the: famous plea-advantage is likely to be secured to consult on the matter with Li came from Australia opinion will soon grow that no refusal Chan came to Hongkong In every case the name and description of the witness are given in to British and Chinese interests ignorance of the regulations of by further waiting It is expected La-hon. It is said that Mok is the orginal depositions, which remain in custody of the British to see that its opportunities are Hongkong. This plea was also that business will again become now backed up by both military

tendered by another Chinese who active. The Belgian

cotton and police in Canton, and if Chan was fined $50 for being in posses-spinning factories have all begun insists on having the post, trouble sion of 50 rounds of Winchester operating, 35.000, bales of Ameri- will result. he claimed to have been born in rifle ammunition. In his case, Canada, and to have resided there operatives have been increased can cotton having been dispatched To.. Ghent. The wages of for the greater part of his life.

a hundred per cent. as compared with 1914.

Government to that they may be available for reference.

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S.S. "ARCHER" AND "NANKING.”

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It is reported at Macao that TO CARRY CZECHO-SLOVAK His Excellency the Governor has

TROOPS.

She

not restricted by lack of funds. Now, some little time ago, the Bishop of Victoria expressed his regret at the publicafon of these, Lest we Forget items, CRIME IN THE COLONY, describing some special beastliness of the Germans, arguing that the sooner we forget them the better and saying that we should fil Legislative Council are availing our minds with righteous things. The impure things," he said. themselves very fully of the up-

been instructed by the Home have an awful power of sticking" in the mind and defiling porturity of sending in written the thoughts. From the strictly Christian point of view all this questions to the Government and

Government to remain in office is very admirable, but are we to be expected to yo lightly forget thus taking advantage of the

The American Government is pending the arrival of the new and forgive all that the Germans have" done? It is precisely very sensible. arrangement in-

We record with much regret,

Governor, instead of handing requisitioning vessels for the car because the Allied statesmen have not forgotten Hunnish crimesstigated by the Acting Gov- the death, from pneumonia, at the Chinese and Japanese competi- over to Senter J. A das Santas, ringe, we are told, of Czechos that the peace terms

Slovak troops from Siberia to Po- the fact that the punishment is not to be confined to the present sc. It will have been seen Queen's College. The deceased boycott of Japanese goods, which

are so stringent as they are, and fernor. We are glad that this is Peak Hospital yesterday, of Miss tion with Lancashire goods is as previously ordered.

Kay sister of Mr. W. Kay, of growing daily. The Chinese

land and North-Russian fronts. generation shows that the German outrages are to be kept in from

The s.a. Nanking, of the China Mail our issue of Saturday remembrance, as it is right that they should be. If we are to that both the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu- lady, who was only 27 years of is reported to be now in full swing. from Europe for sugar from Cuba Steamship Company, which has proceed on the lines advocated by Dr. Lander, end those who think pak and the Hon. Mr. Ho Fockage, and who was here on a brief will lessen the Japanese menace and Java. Especially Java recently been commandeered by with him, there would be no reference in our future history books to have been seeking information in visit from the F. M. S., where she but the competition by Chinese sugar being bought up by Great the American Government, is to such happenings as the sinking of the Lusitania and hospital ships, regard to the recent wave of had been teaching, was taken ill mills in Shanghai and the North Britain, resulting in the continu be used for that purpose. the defiling of Churches, the bombing of open towns and the abuse crime in the Colony. The ans- on Sunday week last, suffering is still there and is gaining ance of remarkably high prices. In port at present is the sa. of the Red Cross. There would be nothing about guilt for the war, wers given reveal the unpleasant from a chill and on Friday had strength. The total number of Secondly, in the case of Java Arches an American vessel that since it would be better to forget these things, or of the attempt of a fact that between October 17th to go to hospital. Her death came spindles at work in China is sugar, restrictions have been im- arrived here on the 9th.. powerini military nation to crush weaker peoples. Our historians last and May 22nd, no fewer than she made many when she came sandles are in Shanghai, the reat sugar, owing to the shortage in ing a cargo of 20,000 tires, for

as a shock to her friends, of whom $1,300.000, of which

700,000 posed upon the production of came from San Francisco, carry- would merely give us a consecutive story of the battles 77 armed robberies have occurred fought and of the glorious victory achieved by the Allies." We could and nine others atteripted. The to the Colony for a holiday last being in the neighbourhood of the output of rice. Thirdly, the Kobe, Shanghai Manila and cite instances galore in which history has been written on the "Lest Government showed that the year. The funeral took place Hankow Tientsin and Tsinan. output of sugar in India has Hongkong. She brought 800 tons we Forget" basis. For the moment we will merely ask Christians Police Force has been condsder yesterday and was well attended Before the

shown a drop of 600,000 tons as of merchandise for Hongkong. if they have been in the habit of overlooking such barbarities as the ably augmented from military in spite of the inclement weather in Shanghai 5 Chinese, 3 compared with the first estimates, having discharged all the other Armenian massacres because the thought of them might defile? sources, but the fact cannot be and the short notice. Miss Kay British and American and and 900,000 tons compared with cargo on the way out, Hongkong On Saturday we gave an official deposition by a Belgian, telling of overlooked that only 23 Europeans was to have left for home on 2 Japanese factories. There are last year's harvest. It is said being her last port. She has now how a.Uhlan plunged his lance into a little girl merely because have been secured by these means, Friday next. Great sympathy is

3 Japanese now

and 2 that India consumes 3,500,000 gone into Taikoo Docks, to be. her mother resented, being forced to walk faster. And the Blue whilst the European strength of felt for the family in their British and American mills. In tons of sugar every year on fitted up into a troop ship and will Book from which this statement is taken contains dozens of cases of the Force has suffered a far heav

bereavement.

average, and has regard to the organisation of the an

been be ready about, the end of this She does not sail for a similar kind, whilst in casually looking over its pages we notice ier drain than this. Even if

mills, there is much difference, importing about 500,000 tons month. instances of children's hands being cut off, of a baby having its most. of these men come back, it

besides her own output. It is Vladivostosk until a week after. What is not good for Kualal according to the management. head plunged into boiling water, and other atrocities of a like is notorious that the Force, even Lumpur is not good for Hong- A mill in Wachang, which can not easy to get Java sugar in She will have accomodation for nature. Are we to be expected to forget these things? The idea before the war, was not as strong kung. A Chiness who had been turn out 250 bales of cotton a day view of its increasing export to 1,840 soldiers. is monstrous. Christ Himself once said "Whoso shall offend one as it should have been. There banished in 1914 for life from and bas 900,000 spindles, makes Europe. Therefore, India must

The Archer will take

a fall load nof of these little ones, it were better for him that a millstone were can be doubt about it that the Kuala Lumpur, dropped, in a profit of 10,000 taels. The same order, through Japan, the sugar

Vladivostock. Czecho-Slovak troops," who ha, d banged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of Colony has been suffering far too February of the following year, factory, is now installing 40,000 of Formosa. the sea. We commend that Scriptural quotation to those who much from the attentions of dan-into Hongkong and was ejected more spindles, of which 20,000

fighting against the would tell us that the sooner we forget German crime and beastial-gerous criminals, who are all too by the Police. Nevertheless, he have already been installed. A real El Dorado is Siberia. Bolshevists in Siberia, and plant ity the better...

frequently well armed The again returned and was yesterday. Although Japanese mills have With a small capital a person them on the North Russian fronts. The remembrance of what the Germans have done in this recent statement by the Colonial caught stealing metal from the increased in China, things are who takes up stores with him to The British Government has war, not for one year or two, but for generations, is part of the Secretary that "rubbers have re- Naval Yard. Mr. B. O, Hutchison; not so favourable for them as Vladivostock could do a roaring already transported, 5,000 to 6,000 punishment which the Huns have earned by their diabolical deeds.cently used toy pistols" is now consulted Inspector Kent, this might be imagined in view of the trade there. A cup of tea cpst 60 Czecho-Slovaks from Vladivo Our seamen are not going to follow the Bishop of Victoria's advice; rather toned down to the assertion morning on the sentence to be, anti-Japanese feeling among the roubles, atin. of butter 400 stock in the Canadian-Pacific anyhow; their boycott reecive shows that. The French people will that various seizures of toy passed on the obdurate banishes. Chinese and the unsteadiness in ronbles and every necessity is vessels which were commandeer. not readily forget, either. They have seen with their own eyes pistols in the possession of known The Inspector stated that the the rate of exchange through a sold at fabulous prices. Of course, ed a couple of months ago. things that the majority of our preachers have merely read about. bad characters have been made." maximum sentence within his lack of uniform currency.

roubles have depreciated con-Archer, unlike the other boste Hongkong business men are not feeling any too charitably disposed There was really never any Worship's power was one year.

siderably. They are quoted at 6 that carried Czecho Bloys towards the Huns either; hence the display of that telling British necessity to speak of thest toy There was also the punishment!

Various reasons are advanced cents each and there is a like fugees and froops will Empire Union poster with which we are all familiar; hence also pistols after all, most, if not all, which the banishes must receive in support of the present high lihood of their going down to 3 Siberian contingent via their desire to see the Germans excluded from the Colony for a of the armed robbers have been for stealing His Worship decided price of sugar. In the first place, cents. A grest fur trade is done Francisco, instead of the period of years. No; there are some things that cannot be forgotten. equipped with quite modern to wht the marmam sentence the production of Cuba sugar has in Siberia Undressed for Canal In this category we place German methods of making war. We weapons: And to cope with these thms Three months, for Infceny been handicapped on account of which can be had for 2,000 to have a right, may, a duty to future generations, to keep these things man we still think the Police Force and ning months for returnin

the outbreak of disturbances 3.000 rombles, fetched at St. Loutfitted fr needs far greater strengthenings from banishment

there. There is a grest

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