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KLING IT OR SOMESONE ELSE

HAS TRUE MORAL, COURAGE,

brother of Mr. H. W.

Major LG. Bird, D.S.O.. architect, is returning to Hong- Bird,

kong being due here with Mrs. Bird and family soon. Major Bird, who held the acting rank of Lient, Colonel in France, left Hongkong for active service in 1914

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1919.

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never has to fear publicity is the state of mind and feelings of the recipients of national and cită welcomes. How do the enlogistic speeches with which Kings, Pro- sidents, and statesmen are met affect the eminent personages to

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Que son merite est extrame! Que de graces! que de

grandeur!

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Ah, combain monseigneur Doit etre content de

lui-meme!"

To-day the thong his of British ers in all parts of the Empire will

It is not inapt to compare the go out in loving admiration for

Mr. Jahn K Mendelsson, Hongkong with that of Nineveh, present state of the Colony of our King and Emperor, George general foreign representative of what time the Son of Amittai subjects everywhere that he may the Fifth, on this his fifty-fourth Libby, Me Neill and Libby, the was anmmoned from his in- long be spared to rule over birthday. It is no mere platitude well-known firm of canners is at dolence to lift the prophet's rod. the destinies of the Empire. to say that never in the history present on a visit to the Colony,

We have here much wickedness. In Hongkong, there is this year whom they are addressed? asks a of the British Empire has the

and more than six score thousand no formal celebration of the day,writer in an English paper. The Sovereign occupied so high a place sale of wosk held at Montpellier right hand from their left hand, Treaty has not yet been finally to Mr. Chamberlain from The total net receipts of the persons that cannot discern their owing to the fact that the Peace following extract from a letter in the esteem of his subjects as in April amount to £317.7.4, plus also much cattle and dollars concluded. But the day has been Land Marley, taken King George does to-day. We a cheque for $50, which amounts My duty is to chronicle the observed as a Public Holiday, and the had a strikingly spontaneous proof have been remitted to the Staffairs of the week with the keen, all places of business have been throw some of that in the recent Empire Day Dunstan's Hostal, Regents Park. inevitable eyes of the Arab closed,

latter's "Recollections" Ships

light on the in port, both matter "Sunderland was a great, “ celebrations in London, when,

Gashmu after singing of the National An

naval and mercantile, have day. The vision seen, Belshazzar been flying flags and bunting hundred men at the luncheon and There were over two them, the crowd assembled would

stood appalled:

whilst ashore the Union Jack four thousand at the meeting, and not be content until His Majesty

Some one suggested Daniel and Red Ensign have been freely the cordiality of the welcome had appeared before them. And

displayed. At noon, a royal almost knocked me over as I S. Tamar. Happily, the weather ions) to six speeches of welcome salute was fired by H. Mhad to listen (on the three occas the magnificent reception he received showed more vividly

has been All than anything else could the

be desired, and in addition to at last like the man in Zadig. Do could and six speeches of thanks I felt unswerving loyalty of the People

the all-day cricket match on the you remember? The King, to to the Throne. King George

The spell of hot weather yester-

H.K.C.C. ground, sport has been care him of vanity, sent a chorus has made no blatant claims to

general amongst the holiday-to sing to him every Divine Right: he has no use for day tempted & considerable num-

The interest of the week has makers. This afternoon a special minutes despotic rule. He likes best of all ber of people to the public bath centred round the annual general attraction in the form of dragot- to regard himself as a sovereigning beach at North Point, while a meeting of the Star Ferry Com- boat races is being provided at serving the people as a constitut-no less considerable number of pany, and the ez athedra sa- North Point-a navelty which is jonalist monarch, having the well-Chinese availed themselves of being of all his subjects at heart. the cheap tea-cent ride from the ouncement that as the price of sure to attract large crowds of That is why to day, when other Post Office to Quarry Bay. The fares would bely come d

coal has recently come down the interested onlookers, Thrones

Later number of motor-cars on the road on, when the tariff of reduced are toppling. his position is becoming strengthened was also very great.

fares was advertised it provoked and more firmly assured. God

The unsuitable weather having

one to Homeric, laughter. It шву be of interest reign!

to my

Viscount Kato is not the only Club's Gymkhana Sine de, entry apparent consideration for ferry March last forty-one joint stock full tilt against the Kaiser. Calcutta, 9th May. During Japanese diplomat who has come fees paid by competitors will be passengers came at the eleventh companies were registered in Marquis Saion, formerly Mini- returned on application to Hon. hour and had been produced by India with an authorised capital star in Berlin, has just related in Sec. Polo club, and money paid the campaign that was opened [of Ra. 660 lakhs, Bombay accoun-Tokyo that on one occasion the refunded by Messrs. U. Rumjaha inst the Company in these ting for Rs. 489 lakhs and Ben-Kaiser, in order to boast of his place at Wanchai on Saturday & Co. As soon as possible the for Cash Sweep Tickets will be

gal Re. 204 lakhs. For the twelve knowledge of current events in night, whether he be Britisher or new date will be announced and

months ending March last, the Japan, said to him: "Tsee that that such a fracas could occar in American, can but feel disgusted entries reopened. these days in a British Colony.

number of companies registered the Diet buildings in your country The view is widely held that the was 292 with an authorised capital have been destroyed by a fire of For two or three hours last Company is not to establish a companies with Rs. 3,058 lakhs of The Marquis, intently watching raison d'etire of the Star Ferry of Rs. 2,138 lakhs as against 278 suspicious origin. Is it a fact th The happenings vividly remind night on the Prays East several cheap passenger service between authorised capital in the prece- the Kaiser's face, deliberately as of the old times when grog hundreds of people" shops were in full swing in waterfront and watched

lined the Hongkong and Kowloon, but toding year. Queen's Road Central and when great interest & dragon-boat race who travel by it to spend more

replied. "It is a fact, and the squeeze the legion of clerks, etc. fights between marines of different in which three crews participated. than they can afford and more than

worst part of the story is that the ELECTRIC SUPPLY IN MADRAS. nationalities were a more or less One race was especially exciting is justifiable. This object has been peration of Madras considered the signed by a German architect." fire was caused by electric cur Madras, 15th May-The Cor-in which the buildings were de- rent, owing to the defective way common Occurrence. Bur on the boats racing almost abreast this occasion, judging from the the frantic efforts of the crew in Company, which has a monopoly reports of the Committee on the The Kaiser repeated the words accomplished. The Star Ferry evidence adduced in yesterday's one of the boats resulting in it on this run, feels no competion, proposal of the Madras Electric German architect" thrice, as Police Court proceedings, mat-reaching the finishing point bare- and, nothing daunted, it goes on Supply Corporation regarding the if to express his doubt, and then ters were even worse than they few inches in front of the doggedly. I lay special emphasis enhancement of rates for lights burst into a hoarse laugh. old-time- "scraps," for the other two competitors. The aggressors were not content with crowds on the Praya enthusiastic-truth it enshrines is of the utmost

on this for recognition of the fed that the proposed increase of and fans. The Committee report- confining the conflict to sailor ally cheered the winning crew. folk but must needs interfere

importance.

one anna per unit might be per- with civilians passing the locali-

mitted on a clear understanding

The town of Shaftesbury, in It is a matter for speculation ty in rickshas. It seemed to among motorists on the Kowloon

being given by the Company that Dorset, which was sold by Lord have been enough for these peninsula why the road leading heard bewailing the lack of really which period the rates will revert men, is to be submitted to auction The voice of the critic is often three years only, on expiry of syndicate of three local gentle- the increase is to be in force for Stalbridge a few months ago to a infuriated American marines from Yäumati to Kowloon Old sedition mongers seem to be as active to-day as they were before indulging in behaviour of

India is at present being swep: by political undercurrents. The that was a sufficient excuse for is also very surprising why the Hongkong Government in the to the existing rate of four annus in numerous lots by Messrs. Fox

that passere by were Britishers: City is not more developed. It practical interest shown by the the Chelmsford-Montagu Reform boons; and the Hon. Mr. Edwin most cowardly and unwarranted sprayed surface in perfect con-

interests of the public. a road should have stretches of tax-officials have of late been trans- Samuel Montagu, the Secretary of State for India, in the course of character. In the case before dition whilst its general state is ressing all legitimate limits, say his speech last week on the Indian Budget in the House of Commons the Court, a respectable Britisher, atrociously bad. If the Govern- of the community are not yet The said the Government of India was determined to give unceasing in no wise concerned in the rum-ment would undertake seriously fully redressed, and, to add to service

The various grievances battle to seditionists until they were extirpated. The dangerous pus, was passing and, on his the development of this road and the same, there is a feeling profitably and efficiently between methods of the revolutionists may be recalled, and the forceful nationality being discovered, he make it fit for motor traffic, it legislative measures known as the Rowlatt Act, the introduction of was promptly laid out by a blow would be a great boon and add tract should never have been charging à cents per head (5rst well-know sportsman, who has which was a blow aimed at people associated with anarchical in the eye with a bottle.

Ferry con- Hongkong and Kowloon by to Mr. James White. the movements. India. like Egypt, has for sometime been a hotbed of assailant was fined $15 by the available for vehicular travel.

His considerably to the mileage sedition. Various heinous plots were discovered. and in some the Magistrate and ordered to pay

renewed. This has practically class passengers). The Star been responsible for some large machinations of Germany were traced, but there is to-day in India $11 as compensation a punish-

exhausted all the patience of the Ferry Company to-day is yieldingated the sale of the Covent Gar- a large mass of people who have imaginary grievances against the ment in no way commensurate now asking for better offers for rights of its people and even its

citizens. The Government, they a magnificent return on its origin-

real estate deals and who negoti- The Canton Municipality is British Raj, and it has been deemed urgent to kill sedition root and with the act of which he was

say, has entirely ignored the al branch, as its dangers have recently increased. To depend on the guilty. A stiff term in gaol was Canton Tramway. According to a protector of the public interesta

capital Its tactics

den property Associated with the proposed franchise of the own responsibilities and duties as By capitalising profits by the man by birth, were Mr. S. B. Joel

28 ancient ordinary law for the suppression of conspiracies in India is to what he thoroughly deserved.

the

Mr. White, who is a Rochdale depend on a measure which has been consistently tried from the

the order of the Municipality. Nothing could be more unwise and

issue of new year 1907 onwards and which has consistently failed. The British

sbares it has and Mr. A. L. Ormerod, of Man- "watered " issued May 30, the offers submitt impolitic on the part of the admin- deluding the public into believ£75,000. One of the conditions of law, which is the foundation of the law in India, assumes that every

ed have been made by the Pacific istration than to adopt a policy fing that the return

its

chester. The purchase price was capital, citizen, who is not an actual criminal himself, is on the side of law

Constructraction Co., offering one which tends to diminish in any capital is modest and legitimate and ordez and that he will, without fear or favour, give evidence of

million dollars as gratuity for way the confidence of the mass. the facts within his knowledge if the law is broken; but, if owing notice would not have been so thousand dollars as a loan to the natural bitterness that there is An incident of the kind under the franchise and five hundred Many evidently believe with very to apathy or terror, witnesses do not come forward to testify to the repugnant were it but an ordinary Municipality. things which they have seen with their own eyes and heard with squabble between sailormen. As offer has been made. Unless a

So far no better still truth in the advice of Solo- their Own ears and, if mea are shot in a

If a serious debate could be not purchase it was to be offered crowded it was, there is every reason for better offer comes within the princes." All that I have to say ject of the Star Ferry lease with further stipulation made that street and not hand is raised &

"Put not thy trust in raised in Parliament on the sub to the tenants. There was a to arrest the murderer, believing that these American next seven days, the franchise is that I hope the Government the Government, an intelligent before any further action was the British system of law Iust and other measures be taken to combat the particular evil. The intention of making trouble by ion Company.

necessarily break down marines came ashore with the full may go to the Pacific Construct will shape its policy and admini- and well-informed opponent could taken each individual occupier Defence of India Act scotched the revolutionary movement in attacking British Service men. India, but, being a

stration in such a manner as to soon make it manifest that there was to have the option of par it ceases to be operative Even that would not have been after the conclusion of peace, the trouble makers thus being once so bad had they carried out their

inspire confidence among It is feared that motorists will

the has been a serious miscarriage of chasing his house or cottage at a citizens. more free to spread their octopus-like tentacles over the more ill-intentions as men and not as not be able to enjoy the round

common-sense on the part of the reasonable price. Not long after- balanced of the people of the land. legislation was enacted. To leave India unguarded against these their fists. The average Britian rats for the next three months. mischief. For want of a nail the contract in question.

unless

Colonial Government. There is wards it was announced that special skunks using bottles instead of returning via Chin Wan at any trip from Kowloon to Castl-Peak,

no more damning instance of a Shaftesbury had been sold to a vile and contagious conspiracies against law and order would in soldier or sailor can hold his own Work on the bridge at Chin Wan shoe was lost, for want of a shoe

A little neglect has bred great woeful lack of judgment than the group of local residents Mr. R. itself be a criminal act of negligence on the part of a great Govern-in a straight fight, but he has (which it will be remembered was the horse was lost, and for want

W. Borley, Dr. Harries, and Mr. ment. During the last two months disturbances have arisen at an inteuse loathing

Herbert Viney. the Daily various places in India when mobs of ignorant people have come into the coward

for washed away by a typhoon last of a horse the rider was lost, who relies

News was informed that the conflict with the troops and the police. These disturbances arose missiles to help him through last year) is however, progressing. over opposition to what is known'as the Rowlatt Bill and to false In any event, conflicts of this replay, as can be reasonable being overtaken and slain)cutive Council of the Hongkong structions, and that the sale is The composition of the Eze.Property is now being placed on- rumours circulated by agitators whose object is to discredit the kind between European blue the bridge would have been open illustrated in the contract between cil should at all times be free from is a market town of some 2,500 the open market by their in- expected: It was anticipated that of this aphorism is amply criticism. The Executive Coun-

by the enemy. Indian Government. It had been freely alleged that the effect of jackets are much to be deplored to traffic by the end of July at the the Star Ferry Company and the all influence. The question is

The truth Government is a subject of much open to all bidders. Shaftesbury. the law would be to give the arbitrary powers to search houses in such a place as Hongkong, for latest," but this is now rendered and to stop peaceful public meetings. These false rumours had reasons that are obvious We extremely improbable a fact

inhabitants, 3141⁄2 miles from a rail- been sedulously propagated by the villy disposed. The Rowlatt regret to have to say that this is which is to be regretted, as the stipulate in the contract that the be Act does not give the police any powers of arrest or search unless by no means the first incident of roadway is now complete on than a certain fare has done the difficult

The failure to who should and who should not way station. It was built (or the Viceroy and his Government are satisfied that revolution this sort We even go further either side of the bridge.

Company should not charge more cutive

member of the Ere rebuilt) by King Alfred, and is

Council... It is s and anarchical crime are being promoted in any district or province. and assert what is an undeniable

the centre of an important "thing The new Rowlast law is narrower in scope than the Defence of fact, that more trouble is caused

agricultural district. mischief and to-day we have to offhand. For instance, many India Act and cannot be put into force in any part of Indie until the here by American bluejackets that as there is a great rush for sent covenant. Pretty strong, the Gilded Chamber, for it saying which finds widest falfil-

bless the memory of these of our argue that those controlling large Viceroy and his Government are satisfied that anarchical crimes than by the naval men of any

We have asked to announce law-makers who framed the pre-public companies should not be in Like father, like son," is are being promoted in that peace. The action of the Indian political other country. That is painful the Victoria Theatre patrons who aver that it is not strong enough that these would offer would be General's daughter and three sons leaders in opposing the Rowlatt Bill and in encouraging the storm assertion to make, but it is

sests for Thursday's matinee at you will say, but the protestants naturally follows that the advice ment in the Botha family. The of opposition has been the most grievous blunder in the history of unfortunately the truth. Now, do not look their seats early will to describe how they are being not disinterested. There is much have not only a strong facial res Indian political life. It means, to put the matter in a nutshell, that this kind of thing must be probably be disappointed.. There butchered to make they are in favour, whether they realise it or not, of throwing away put a stop to, for happenings like a dual attraction on that even holiday. all existing experience and allowing anarchy a new lease of life. those of Saturday night ara re- ing, for besides that excellent The Indian-owned Press, with a couple of exceptione, has carried gretted as much by the American film, The Story of the Great on a campaign supported by mock heroics, false appeals and gross community as they are by na If: Boer War in five parts) the perversions of fact. The liberty for which they are crying out is American warships cannot come. Manila string band from the Emmetification for the outrageous ate, usually the not the liberty of the loyal and lawabiding citizen but the liberty of here without occurrences like press of Russia will be in attend fares in si veritable red-herring there is no reason why a The second bey the secret conspirator to pursue his nefarious schemes the liberty those taking place, then frankly: Victoria Orchestre, thus heighten dragged across the scent. Theo has extensive

ance and will augment the fine to corrupt the youth of the country, and so spoil the lives of hundreds we want neither the ships nor the of young men Reuter has told us that the Secretary of State for men in port. It should surely being the musical trest. A better to mind what we read of in Don Inte for Indis strongly-defended the Rowlatt Acts which he asserted possible for the ships officers to Programme has seldom been pre- were necessary to cope with men with whom any kind of Govern prevent unseemly brawls of this outed by the Victoria Theatre ent must deal and who were a danger to any country. He character. If not, the men hadanagement to its patrons. This simply poleed the feelings of all who have lived in India and know far better be denied all shore ning at the matinee that the present conditions of that country.

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the town was first to be offered to the contract laid down by Lord Stalbridge, it was stated, was that

the Mayor and Corporation at a reasonable price, and if they did

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