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NOTES AND COMMENTS,
DELAYED NEWS, CABLES.
DAY BY DAY.
NOTHING PLEASES SOME MEN MORE THAN TO HEAR DISAGREE ABLE THINGS ABOUT SOME ONE THEY HAVE WRONGED.
Plague and cholera are very had amongst the Chinese in Saigon, whilst many foreigners are suffering from dysentery.
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The only case of communicable disease notified yesterday was one fatal occurrence of plague- a Chinese.
If at times the public is dis- appointed at the staleness of the news coming over the cables, as well as, occasionally, at the utter absence of telegrams, we can thoroughly sympathise with the viewpoint. We share their dis- appointment; the fault is not ours. But whose is it? That is what we should like to know. Much of the delay is, we are aware, occa- sioned by the congested state of the cables. But is there no delay at this end? Of late, we have Abeggar who was said to have been receiving batches of Reuter's made a nuisance of himself by telegrams in which the date mestering Europeans in Western and time of receipt have been Street was to-day sent to gaol for obviously mutilated, and
į seven days. altared. On the 18th instant- for example, the original date of
Kowloon Inland Lot No 1382, receipt in Hongkong was given comprising portions of the fore as the 15th in several instances,shore and sea bed. is to be leased: though the messages did not It has an area of about 87,110, the reach our office until the after-epset price is £13,066.50 and the noon of the former date. Bataannual rent $500. new time and date had been written in. Even now, all the wires coming to hand have the machine to that used for the date of receipt typed by a differant rest of the message. Why these things are, we know not.
WHO'S TO BLAME!
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It is notified that His Ex- cellency the Officer Administer
the Government in Council day of July, 1919, to be observed has aupointed Tuesday, the 1st as a General Holiday.
1894.
·HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO.
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(Compiled from the “Hongkong Telegraph" files for week ending June 30, 1894.)
SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.
A GREAT SOLDIER
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
The Channel Tunnel may open for tretho sooner than fi Yesterday contemporary anticipated in some quar stated that Field Marshal Sir Sir Francis Fox, who Douglas Halg had not proved probably take charge of himself a good soldier, that he English section, prides him held a subordinate position under
I
Marshal Foch and suggested that on the fact that most of his for anything he did Marshal undertakings are completed well THE DOLLAR.
Foch should have the credit. June 5-The rate of Dollar, on demand, to-day is 2x. it is safe to say that few people made at the instance of Cent under contract time. One of his When the war began, în 1914, higgest efforts in speeding up was id. 3/8.
in England knew anything about Rhodes. The crops had failed in. Sir Douglas Haig
che
IT WAS EVER THUS, June 25-A quotation from Goldsmith's "Deserted Village”, which Hongkong landlords don't quote when on the stump
"Ill fares the land to hastening
ills a prey, "Where wealth accumulates,
and men decay.”
"THE PLAGUE plague cases to Lai-chi-kok. to June -The smuggling of escape the vigilance of the Hong kong sanitary authorities, has been going on at least four days, but curiously enough it was not the Government and the police found out about it; and it is still until yesterday that the Telegraph,
more carious that the Daily Press first mentioned it this morning.
A CANARD. June 7-We are reliably in- It is notified that General of truth in the startling rumours formed that there is not a shadow Licences permitting importation current during the last 48 hours addressed the Eastern Extension Gold or articles containing gold: to poison the whole of the water Some days ago, in order to get into the United Kingdom bave to the effect that anti-foreign at the bottom of the matter, we now been extended to cover (2) agitators have hired desperadoes
which the date of receipt had Telegraph Company on the sub-(b) spirits. ject citing two instances in
supply of the Colony. What price Daily Jest information? been altered. In reply, the Com-Colony
A Chinese arriving in the
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT pany stated the times as original- mistake of the typist."
by the Empress of
CARNOT. ly given
Japan from Canada #&*
June 27-The French Consul day fined" $300 That
for being in Hongkong notifies his com- in possession of a revolver and patriots that President Carnet would have been quite
reasonable
170 rounds of ammunition: which has been assassinated and that explanation had "the mistake
were fou'd wrapped up in a sack at address of condolence to be only occurred in
couple of
forwarded to the Government of cables. But these alterations
the Republic may be signed at have of late been the expection
the Consulate. It would be a
were
wrong------'e
rather than the rule and, as we say, even now the receipt date is not given in the same type as the rest of the message. The point therefore suggests
itself that there is something happening" at this end to account for some of the delays experienced. What is it. we wonder? If these de-
has been
in a bucket.
is
DOW
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to
and other residents would also ask to be allowed to show their
Mr. M. K. Lo returned to the Colony yesterday frour Tsingtau, graceful and fitting act if British where he left Mrs. who
Le practicaliv convalescent and is making good progress towards recovery. She will remain at Tsingtau for the summer.
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respect and sympathy in a similiar
manner.
LIGHTHEARTED.
June 27.
t
When he
went out to command one of the Rhodesis, and so as to get supplies. Sir John French's small and Francis to try finish the Vryburge two Army Corps which made up into the country Rhodes zaked Sir gallant army in August, he was and Buluwayo section of the hear much of him in the retreat, hardly known at all. Nor did we Cape-to-Cairo Railway a relj
to
not until
the line
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glory is that of the rear-guard, of many dificulties, this was because in a retreat the post of before the date specified. In spite and the great rear-guard action (accomplished, and on November Dorrian. was fought by the other Army 4, 1897, a train ran through froma Corps under Sir Horace Smith- the
. It WAS that his name began specially to was told the comments of a
Capetown to Buluwayo. Af the & .battle of the Aime, end of the journey Sir Francis disengage itself from those of the Matable chief who watched the other general officers mentioned train taking in water at a way- dated October 8, Sir John Franch side station. He described it as specially selected Sir Douglas "a huge animal belonging to the in despatches. In his despatch Haig for particular mantion. On white man. It feeds September 14, when the first and hates work so much that it on fire footing had been gained on the screams when the white man north bank of the Aisne, Sir John French wrote as follows:
pumps it to make it work,” on this day, under the direction "The action of the First Carpe
decisive a character that he gained military men and command of Sir Douglas history of the idea, it is curious When we remember the past Haig, was of so skilful, bold, and to see with what apparent calm positions which alone have ex-receiving the triumphant revival of to-day are abled me to maintain my position of the Channel Tunnel scheme, for more than three weeks of very for if there was one thing more severe fighting on the north bank than another which used to ranse of the river."
soldiers to fury it was this plan? he had described how an advanced minds
Later, in the same despatch, Perhaps at the back of their and commanding position had that the been seized and held, and General tunnel was associated with Napol- lay the memory French wrote: "I cannot speak ean's scheme of invasion; perhaps
original
idea. of too highly of the valuable services there was a good deal of that rendered by Sir Douglas Haig old legacy of war which made and the Army Corps under his Lord Raglan habitually speak of, command."
the French, even in the presence Sir Douglas Haig had proved of French officers attached to. himself bold, skilful, and rasolute his Staff in the Crimes, as thes as the leader of an advance. He enemy"-an inadvertence but s was to prove himself a few weeks characteristic one.
But in an later to possess to the full that case, despite the fact that te Rev. Doolittle Dubbs-I feel already shown
tenacity in defence which he had engineers and civilians it seem- lays merely applied to messages callance the Officer Administer-pleasant thoughts.
It is notified that His Ex-light-hearted and so full of on the
20 happy this morning, on certain subjects, the Censoring the Government has declared
in repulsing ed just as easy fifty years ago to 80 the German counter-attacks block or defend either end of the
Aisne: In ship would suggest itself as Mr. Horace Perev Smith to he
October, Channel as it is admitted to be Berlin Diet:-Vot kind of beer from
the British forces were moved now, the soldiers were always being the explanation,
even duly elected a Member of the
the vos you drinking?
neighbourhood though it
of hostile and no Government dared Soissons officLicensing Board during ially intimated that the Censor absence from the Colony of Mr.
CONTAGIOUS.
from to overrule them. They had the
June 29-Recent experiences centre of what has been described in the Nineteenth Century, which Ypres to La Bassee, and the backing in the press, too, Hotably ship of the Press has been Thomas Frederick Hough, within connection with plague in the as the greatest battle in English threw all its influence into the abolished. But all" cables are effect from the 18th June, 1919. being held up, and all have these
Colony have shown that if cer- history-the three weeks' battle scale against the project. And altered receipt dates. What does
tain Government officials had for the defence of Ypres was in yet, reasonably considered, it. it mean? Is the Government or
kept their mouths shut it would Sir Douglas the cable Company to be blamed meeting of the Sanitare Board getting in and foolishness get-wrote Sir John French,
The agenda for Tuesday's have prevented microbes from Throughout this trying period, fession of weakness on the part Haig's bands does seem that it was a co- for withholding news from the includes the Renort of the Com-ting out. public!
Sir of the soldiers to raise objectionE mittee appointed to consider the
Douglas Haig, aided by bis on the grounds stated. question of Scavenging and the
divisional commanders and Disposal of Household Refuse. Hotel, last night, Professors
June 29-At the Hongkongbrigade commanders, held We were told long ago in one and the draft by-law governing Kitasato and Aoyama entertain- tenacity and undaunted courage. that the "backbone of the army
the line with marvellous of the "Barrack-room Ballads Workshops. Overcrowding in Factories and ed to dinner the members of the Words fail me to express the is the non-commissioned man." Yesterday, in a Reuter's message, we had given us the Japanese tion caused by large numbers of the Licensing Board will be held connection
local Medical Profession and admiration I feel for their con- Officers would be, of course, 'only views on the recent disturbances in China. On-re-reading the cable, people nightly at the bottom of in the Conneil Chamber on Mon- The guests included Sir Stewart tinent fought strenuously, but its allowing the men to be led over others, in the Colony who have duct, or my sense of the in-they are too expensive and the It is notified that a meeting of been associated with them in calulable services they we must say that its tone strikes us as being rather too good to be true. Nathan Road outside the Chinese day, the 30th day of June, 1919 James, Panny, Cantlie, Gerlach three brightest achievements in the top" by non-commissioned have number is necessarily limited, with the Tokyo Government does not consider the situation as being wide open spaces on which they considering the following applicand Molyneux. The learned the early days of the war were officers. The supply even of none
the plague. rendered."
The British Army on the Con-to be conserved to the extent of #
even in Germany, where they had Not satisfied with the 12.15 m. for the purpose of serious. It all depends, of course, on the angle from which the are at liberty to
Lockhart and Dra. Lowson, subject is viewed. The matter may not be serious to Japan, in the recreation or sprawl in comfort ation under the Liquors Consolid- Professors, in sense that in many respects China is under the thumb of the these hot days. hundreds
indulge in Japanese, but there can be, no mistake about it that if the boycott people,
after dinner attributed by Sir John French, commissioned officers is difficult is perpetuated, Japan will find it a decidedly serious matter for her old, citer about the roadway.
of ation Ordinance. 1911-From speeches, expressed their high" 80 far 36 both
leadership Tokuzo yetsuki for the removal appreciation of the way in which concerned, to young
was to provide for and to keep'up to: trade. In another part of the message, it is stated that the Japanese and generally block the traffic. 15, 16 and 17, Connaught Road
of the Nomura Hotel from Nos, they had been received since Aisne, Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, war. Put the Japanese Educa
man. The the number, required in a great and Chinese Governments are at the moment working in complete In Hongkong anything of this unison. We should not have known it but for this assurance from kind
their arrival in Hongkong both these Central.
are clasps which a Japanese source.
Sir tion Department and War Office professionally and socially. would immediately
Douglas Heig will wear more have between them evolved a There is an evident desire on the part of the official or officials to be Kowloon, no notice is appar- Sergeant Purden had
stopped, but because it happens
RAVAGES OF FLAGUE who supplied the material from which this telegram is constructed to ently taken of it. We have our which he submitted to the Macis the ravages of the plague of much in the eye of the Army for By this means there will be a proudly on his medal ribbon than brilliant scheme. Non-commis At the Police Court to-day episodes have come under our knew so little about him, Sir to be sent to a normal school and
June 30A number of sad any man in his force.
sioned officers, when they have place Japan in the light of a nation with the loftiest aims imaginable. selves seen native constables on trate was a serious one,
Although the public in 1914. served their time in the army, are We are informed that Japan is abstaining from assisting point duty, whose work it should one of trespassing at the Peakable instance. At the long time. Sir John French special encouragement for men
observation in connection with either the Northern or the Southern Chinese, and that con- be to keep people on the move so Hotel in which a Chinese vouth last year, the Hongkong Telegraph knew him well, for they took in the ranks to try and arcelas
It was which the following is a deplor-
Douglas Haig had been very transformed into school teachers, sequently some irritation has arisen amongst the Northerners owing that the thoroughfare shall be was charged. Mrs. D. R. Blair. to the cessation of Japanese help. Officially, Japan may not be free for vehicular traffic, merely the manageress of the Hotel, belping either North or South, but can the statement be taken gazing on and sometimes entering observed the youth in the seroccasions, to the condition of No. Chief of Staff to Colonel French in and who have a passion for further than that? And as to the irritation caused to the Northern-into an
directed the attention of the their first big course of practical while the staffing of schools ers, we suppose that it is the militarists that are referred to, with the idlers.
authorities, on animated conversation vants' quarters and apprised the 32 Praya Central. Official visits that brilliant series of minor opera-military precision and discipline
military education two or three Major Haig, as he then was, was to whom the army is everything together.throughout the country with men and only these. Others know what Japanese "help" has often past meant. The most important point of all mentioned in the cable isance has become rather more fine as a deterrent to other would I dition, but we are not aware that pared the way for Lord Roberts' effects in promoting the military
During the Police The Sergeant requested the question of the return of Kiaochau to China. It is stated and eggravated, an open-air attraction be trespassers, as it was impossible any of the glaring defects then began he was closely associated and cyphering may sufer, but
weeks the nuishig Worship to impose a brawy were paid to the premises which tions round Colesberg which pre-will have the most desirables this is the first time we have heard it that "Japan has intimated in the form of some kind of to prevent such en offenen in a existing were effectually dealt with Sir John in the work of is
were in a most insanitary con- to China that she will return all the territory, formerly leased to theatrical entertainment baving place like Germany, and taken during the war, immediately peace is signed.
advance, and when that advance spirit. It is true, reading, writing That reads admirably, but there are one or two queries which dated in an enclosure which, find anything serious in the case toms of the plague and they at where he was Directory of Milione. Even the schoolboys would been set up. This is accommo- Mr. Hutchison said he could not the occupants developed symp-experience at the War Office, scheme, in short, is a magnificent
the Peak Hotel with. However, a few days ago the Cavalry Division. He had than suggest themselves. When was this magnanimous resolve come to? though stretching far back from He imposed a small fine, £5, and Why was the promise not definitely incorporated in the Peace the road, does not prevent crowds gave the youth the ontion of residence and arrived there in he was Chief of the General Staff for it would close the schools better to be e soldi Treaty? And is the return of the territory to be unconditional? The of Chinese gathering found the undergoing seven view has been held from the beginning in many quarters that Japan's entrance
once set out for their family tary Training, and in India, where long for original declaration that she seized these territories "with a view to trying
days' hard eventus restoration to 'China meant that retrocession would be for nothing. of what is going
parts, labour.
safety but they were all dead to Lord Kitchener's successor, For and give them a holiday-Un- conditional on certain payments and concessions to Japan. Is on
catch a glimpse,
next morning. An entire family the last two years before the war fortunately this brilliant plan 'that idea yet forsaken? It may be noted, too, that this new pro- not content with this, get as far
inside. Other
wiped out at one full swoop. The be commanded those divisions comes a little too late. There is mige merely refers to the actual territory. But what about Ger- back into the middle of the road people,
inference to be drawn from this concentrated at Aldershot which, that pestilent League of Ratior's many's former rights therein? Are these to be abandoned also, or as they possibly can, so that they
sad story is too obvious to require ander Lord Haldane's scheme, with its devices for Hmiting is Japan to make the return of territory dependent on the granting can just see over the boards which
explanation. of concessions in other directions?
were known as the "striking armies. But with careful, ma have been erected to screen off
force," that is to say, a force alpulation the new plan ways mobilised and always ready made to counteract suc at a few hours' notice to go abroad, for undermining the
the nation. Bo hag
:
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1919.
JAPAN AND CHINA.
KOWLOON OBSTRUCTION. „
From time to time, a good many complaints have reached us with reference to the obstruc-
The source of the comment is given as Japanese, and it is said that theatre.
few
or
to
other
and
be
DON'T FORGET.
Bostock's
a case
TO-DAY.
Circus. Perform
The above are some of the points which suggest themselves on the show. As a result, they are a close, reading of the telegram. Japan is convinced, we are so wrapped up in the hit of assured; that the disturbances will cease on the signing of peace, amusement they secure that theyance at Kowloon-5 p.m. and That, we fear, will depend on the matter of the conditions, if any, are not aware of approaching 1.9.15 p.in. attaching to the return of Kiaochau. In any case, if Japan is the traffic until nearly knocked down Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. true Head of the Chinese which this message would lead us to We would suggest that the Police believe, why cannot she prove it beyond question by handing hack Authorities should give more Kisochan to its rightful owners without reservations of any kind attention to this; breach of the P whatever? That would be the best possible proof of Japan's sin-regulations and keep these cerity, But until the Japanese act, in place of talking about their loiterers on the move; otherwise Intentions, we much for that, regrettable as it is, the boycott will one of these days a serious accid- Continue at any rate for some time after peace is finally signed ent will ocem
Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 9.15
TO-MORROW.
Victoria Theatre-3.15pm. Coronat Theatre-5.15 and 9.15
A DINNER.
and six other naval officers have JAPAN'S GERMAN SUBMARINES.
Lieut-Commander Yoneyama been formally appointed Com- manders of the seven Germa way to Japan under the sacort of abmarines which are on their Japanese Botillas. These vessels are expected to arrive outside Tokyo Bay by the 17th int and enter the port of Yokosuka the Hollowing day
one
Administering the Goymen
His Excellency the Officer
Major GH W has been tossed temporarily to be Adm Commandant of £ Defense Corps, Dic
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