1919-07-04 — Page 4

WATSON'S.

FORMAZONE

(REGISTERED)

Refreshing, Invigorating and Pala table Drink. Particularly suited for Tennis Shooting and Bathing Parties,

Pints $1.20 Per Dozen. Splits 70. Cts. „

32

S. WATSON & CO.,

"

༣ ་

ARATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.

TELEPHONE 436.

LTD

Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requ ir them to forward their names and addresses with communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, by as an evidence of their bona fides.

ed to the Editor.

•

*

All communications intended for publication should be address Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager. The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 per annum. (Payable in Advance)

The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip. tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a full month.

The "Hongkong Telegraph” is delivered free when the addressee is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.

Single Copies. Daily, ten cents. Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed period will be continued until countermanded.

The "Hongkong Telegraph is now on sale at and will be delivered to subscribers by the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd., Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. I. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union. Office address: 11, Ice House Street.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 4,1919.

THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

esse to pa

a point to which we feal is only the

right to refer, in justice to those and one fatal occ

Publicity

me of the story? Irish bricklayer whose fore found him laying down on

The Dairy Farm Company has 1756. received a fresh consignment of "Daisy" butter, and will be able to meet all demands from to

morrow.

A thanksgiving service in connection with the conclusion

Michael" - saya, be, what'll ye be afther doing?

Laying bricks us ooorse, the one the top t'other," says Michael.

|

Chin

tha to fodude:

by the local BK

Japanese simp

Cout to

Image that he should oop to warning his rice from Japanese,"

which

He explained to them that be had considerations outweighed those of tism. One of these Back proto came the seathing aiderations was his wife and The of peace will be held at the reply "Ach shure an be the children. Words having no Cathedral of the Immaculate quatense y yo, shura sonywun with the foreman, his friends Conception on Sunday next, theud think ye'd been afther laying threatened to stab 6th inst, at 9.30 am.

backed

The Hon. Treasurer of the

קטן

their threats

who have so loyally served the peral fever. All were Chine community during the past four years, under conditions that hays been most exacting. We regret to have to say that during the course of the hearing of the Talloch case-in fact, ever since the man was indicted at the Magistracy-there has been tendency amongst a certain class of people to make it the peg on which to hang criticisms on the Hongkong Police Force as whole. It is unfortunately in the nature of things that we shall al-

Will he might lay quiet assault. ways have with us a certaintype of humanity which is only too ready Alice Memorial and Affiliated enough but it always has the The patriots to-day stood in to take the example of the black Hospitals begs to acknowledge salt of its labours to a wondering being called there by the foreman prerogative of announcing the row before Mr. RF Lindell, sheep of the family as an excuse

with "thanks the following for damning the rest of its mem-donations to the funds of the world. For all the publicity wewe on a charge of assault. The came bers. We do not for an instant, spitals Mr. U. Rumjahn, $95 got so far as regards the Peace has been remanded, until Men-

Celebrations it might as well believe that the opinions of such, M. Alves & Co $25, W. E have been the Shrinera or Free people carry any weight with Loxley & Co. $75, Dairy Farm masons sitting in secret session. those who know the facts, but, un Ice and Cold Storage Co. $100: The Press Censors were, parrots fortunately, such expressions gain Whitesway Laidlaw & Co, $10. in comparison. Alongside them been under the weather a bit wi currency beyond the confines of

the Colonial Secretary might be ingo fever. We can sympathise the Colony and then outsiders.

The American Consul General termed talkative, or the shrink for we went through all the life pleas there gain the impression that

bas received instructions from may be something in it. It is Washington indicating that the ing violet taken for the orange stages of the same sort of trouble the moy

lity. Mind ya, I don't blame the during the days when we added makes for the benefit of these outsiders Derartment of State has taken Publicity Committee altogether. the word "maleking to the die hesitatingly that we emphasise the fact that over the personnel and duties of Maybe they've been sailing under tionary. We know that America whose possibly in no other Crown Colony the War Trade Board, of the sealed orders all the time Maybe finished up the war for us and piesă. does there exist a finer, a more

United States. It is also in- conscientions or more loyal bo lycated that all control over the if our pro tema Governor had that President Wilson is now the have known for certain whether he leader of the world, but some peo-crea of men than the Hongkong

export of wheat and wheat flour has been transferred from the was going to be the ple do like to be reminded so Folice.

War Trade Board and vested in when we celebrate or merely often about it. We've done some Supernamary-in-Chief it would thing even greater than that, some- the Dnited States

have made all the difference thing greater even than Colombus Director,

in the world to the amount did. While he discovered Ame-

AN ASSURANCE. „

14

Wheat

day.

The pro United States bega which wear the Sta

boar

For the past four years those. men of the Hongkong Police who. The coolie wanted 2 cents, but of publicity let loose. I heard rica, we have discovered the cal Company remained in the Colony have been the passenger did not see fit to to-day as a dead secret of course Americans. Well, that's true The total pro

that the calebrations were to only in a

Hmited and in country up working short-handed, doing accede to the extortionate dem-take place on the 19th of this complete sense. We have not extra duty, cheerfully exposing and. He handed over ten cents themselves, regardless of their and received this for a blessing: month but I wouldna be heard really discovered the Americaus personal safety, to the gravest wish that your dead body mentioning it for fear of the com- We have only become slightly dangers with, as we know, fatal would repose in the mortuary or sequences. (This news has since acquainted wi them, but it will be results in more than one instance.that you had perished in the

become public property. Ed.

a long time before we discover H.K. T.) They work for anything but Raecourse catastrophe."

them in the sense of knowing high wage, too. In volunteering blood-curdling utterance was too

them as they ought and deserve for active service, men of this much for the pas senger to pat up

to be known. It is as easy for a Force were amongst the first ofh. He gave the abusive coolie

Scotsman to understand and the community to ask to be into Police custody. The coolie

appreciate an American as it is WILLO

to be produced indep allowed to go, and those who today was a sadder man, for he

for an Englishman to savvy & were selected to remain were found that his conduct had cos

Scotsman, and we from the North as a by product of

up of moussite sand for genuinely and bitterly disappoint-him $10.

side of the Border beliers that nitrate, C.H. Viol finds that process has not yet been fully should get abouté accomplished.

20

This

so you see you were a bit out in your prognostication about who would be the first to fy the At lantic. Mind ye, the Americans are a very bright lot of people When Hawker was trying toy across, the Admiralty, in answer

few pointed questions, said

go

handrail as 2

Such

side

ment,

the old

Mr. Willson, in his race

shake to the

ed. The men must feel keenly the accurrence which has taken A plank of wood was carried in effect, that they couldn't hire

The subject is a delicate ons-- place, but it is an utter libel to away by a thief from a timber shed out any of their Navy on any side- suggest that the Force has in Samsuipo. Seen by the owner line stunts. Mind ye they warned about the Americans I mean. been disgraced by what has of the wood, be become panicky, him first, oh yes, they were mind. Such progress as the world dreams age to Congress, rec now happened It is the man dropped the plank which he was fal enough to do that, but after of is impossible without English removal of the barz himself who is disgraced, and if carrying on his shoulder, and doing so much, they carefully and speaking unity and understand- facture and sale the affair can be said to have any bolted but to no purpose, as he Pilate-like washed their hands ing, and I'm one that believes that wines. He bearing on the Hongkong Police was eventually arrested. The of the whole business.

to foster this feeling As enough for this to place it in higher public estima that he picked it out of the British Navy had no precedent regards America, this shouldn't be recommendation. Force as a whole, it surely is to thief told Mr. Lindseli to-day st official-like thing as the very effort should be made demobilization has tion, because such an occurrence harbour. This story prompted to

on with which to such a hard job after all; for, as upon, and the Unite is just an isolated exception to Mr. Lindsell to put to Sergeant do any such thing. There Wells has said "In every human not go day on July the high standard of duty that toor this question: Was it fore it couldna be done. It birth, with a little variation, aing to the special animates our Police generally quite dry when you saw it was poheard of But when the slight fresh novelty of arrange of last year, wh We say to those who Are Yes, your Worship."-The poor chap and his gallant friend

issuas rise covers whisky

more wise have occ One hundred and forty-three years ago to-day, America won inclined to cast reflection on the thief; "I dried it." The Magis disappeared from human ken for again. Our ideas even her independence and the United States became a free and living Hongkong Police as a whole that trate Fourteen days...

four days, nearly all the British

than ont blood flow from greater law is feet in Home waters was sent to multitudinous sources". If we January the Biz entity. "The Glorious Fourth" has been celebrated annually ever it will be evil day for since, as it is being ro-day. This is the day when all friends of them when it becomes en Seven coolies of the Sanitary look for him chop-chop. No time consider America and her ratified the America extend their congratulations and felicitations to the people accepted maxim that the black Department, caught by Sanitary or expense was to be spared. people aright, how and where iptal prog

is indicative of of this great liberty-loving netion, and we are happy to think that sheep

the Inspector Frith in the act of in-That's the British way. Always they sprung from, it can surely been passed by: none do so more heartily or more sincerely than those of British colour of the whole flock. If the dulging in some sort of game in hat. And always will be till the by truly said that they can claim thirds of the nationality. The Americans, with whom we once fought and failed. Hongkong Police are interested their quarters, wera promised end of the chapter. In Hong blood brotherhood with us. This interval of are to-day our greatest friends; old sores have healed; a new and to know the opinion of the vast "beans by the latter in their re-kong if a certain flight of stairs air business is going to help Jan. 35 unbreakable union between the two nations bas been firmly founded majority of the community-the evective.. sub-departments, Two needs a five-dollar lamp at its considerably. The quicker you againstzi This unio has been cemented by community of sufering and the people whose opinion really other men, who also took part in gaf or

can get hold of a man to explain varied sitrance shedding of blood in the Great War, and never was it so strong as matters we assure them they the game, having the distinction trimming, do you think the your viewpoint in an argument, develope

But so at this moment. By the war, the growing movement in favour of a have nothing to worry about, for ofbing "outsiders," were brough Govprament would take any the less time he has to think that half-y clor Anglo-American understanding has been immeasurably that opinion undoubtedly is that be Mr. Frith before Mr. R. E notice of any warning as to what you're no goot anyhow. We've beend strengthened.

our European Police are as fine a Lindall, to-day, and charged might happen? No, sir. Some got to get over the habit of Amend

fall But tiis Independence Day has a special significance; it is the body of loval servants to the with tr spas ing Despite their boy has first to calling every Americana and break a per: hot-air merchant. You'd first to be celebrated with the grateful feeling that the Germans, British Government as can be claim to being bosom friends of dowy the greatest enemies, of: freedom and of civilisation, have a last found anywhere in the Empire. the Sanitary coolies they were fecly good neck or a leg before think from that express when they met recently the been laid low and that peace has again come to a troubled world. They have a thankless task and each ord red by the Magistrate the official mind gets its portion the American nation made General assemblies of the Church

engine into motion. Then a fifty- the manufacture of typhoon Church had before shem

of Scotland and the Unif It is independence Day in a double sense, for the war has been are often subject to cheap, suger to hand over $4.

candle light, fit to dazzle the speciality. They're bright swart accentanted form the all-im fought and won so that independenes and liberty may be assured. inz criticism, but they perform It was because Germany flouted the independence of a small coun-splendidly a service to the com- try that the great Powers of the Entente came into line and unity which cannot be over- en a-g'el in some hair. Its dis-good as none at all for the purpose conquering a continent from will ton of union. The y determined that the rights of small peoples should not be crushed estimated.

tressful cluck, cluck, worried it is intended, is immediately in men and wilder nature, they first prepared for an amicable under foot. And in that determination, America was destined to

Lo Cheung who had a kind heart, danted for and at the end of six had to provide for a growing and ment by the Com play a great and a noble part. Once she entered the war, she

and who could not bear to see the months duly installed. If the scattered population. As the two Churches, to THE PEACE CELEBRATIONS. threw herself heart and soul into the struggle, and not only did

bird suffering. Tenderly, he bent accident is sufficiently sanguin country grew in wealth and joint her wonderful organising powers have a fine effect in the smooth The revised programme

of down, picked up the chicken, ary, a hand rail might be thrown power the problem of production

in as make weight. That is the became scute. Of human hands settlement the running of the Entente war machinery, but the magnificent fighting events which are form the soothed it and freed men she sent acrose. the seas-many of whom made the supreme basis of our local peaco celebrs from the hair. A watchman British way.

there were not enough. Necess identity of the Cr sacrifice-proved one of the great factors in the winnings of tions has met with general public could not understand Lo's humane. Now take the Americans. Their ity forced them to multiply their would be misinte victory. To-day, the American people, in their national celebrations, approval, particularly their action. He mistook it as being way of tackling this Atlantic hands by mechanical aid. To the same time he

characteristic day they have machines that can bear the car will no doubt bear in mind those who laid down their lives angements with regard to proprompted by Los thieving pro-business was in the greatest of all causes so as to make the world safe for viding some lasting memento for pensities, and arrested him. Lo, Their's was the difference be figure out everything but the spirit democracy, And in this connection we cannot do better than quote the children. The elimination of after He had explained what a tween democracy and red tape. Bolsheviti, filing systems that dev the words of the greatest of all American Presidents-Lincoln the meeting at the City Hall is big mistake the watchmen was They figured it out, I suppose, would make "The Lost Chord when, in his famous tribute to the men who fell at Gettysburg, he also regarded as a very sensible labouring ander, received a re- that their Navy might as well be impossible, and machines. of sald The world will little note nor long remember what we say move; indeed, it is thought that ward for his. Kid action in the spread out across the Atlantic as every conceivable description, here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the the Peace Celebrations Committee form of fourteen day hard labour, strung along the American Coast. whose sole justification for living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they are particularly fortunate in hav

A destroyer has to be somewhere existence is to add to our business! Admiration who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather foring cut out this part of the original A Chinese cobbler yesterdayIt costs no more for it to station-and-subtract our difficulties, said to have been us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that draft programme, for, had the left his basket in Des your Road ed Dear the Azores than it would Shick, yeh. They even borrowed point in the from these bonored dead we take increased devotion to that cause fixture been retained, it would to go up to his house to get some ware it lying adjacent to Alabams. the chewing gum idea from the from which the gave the last full measure of devotion that we have been more than probable Implements of his trate thief The Americans saw in this air cud-chewing cow." here highly resolve that these dead shall not Have died in vain, that that the meeting would have saw in the cobbler's absence, an business more than aapzat the nation duder (iod, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that been a fiasco, which is about the opportunity for him, and de-It was the prelude to Big government of the people, by the people, for the people shall last thing one would desire to camped with a piece of leather Business and why if American from the earth." Those words might well be applied when have to record on such an oc- In attempting to diapose of it, the money and Americau organis, ose who have falled in this greater war. It is casion. The programme which thief was deep by a constable who ation could help, well it was

„people, by the people, for the people ” that the ; 355

today arrested him on suspicion. Arrivare even if they did Beppen for safeguard. And though peace has come there con

ing at the Police Station the

ment to be inva and his-captiva we

to be done.

pol

A chicken had got its less eyes, to an extent as to be as folks. They had to be. After

..

Idess are one of the strongest forces of the Americans only have had a long sta business race of the wor

stated

by

ther Chiro)