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The busiest man in Hongk

| during": "the Victory-Calibrations 24.

was undonbladly His Eroelling. the Officer Administe Government Batturday have been a trying day for what with official attendance the early morning review presid ing at the meeting of the Conseils, the giving of three receptions at tendance at the official lunches assisting at the judging of the Motor Car procession, and being present at the dinner to naval men and other functions as well But Mr. Severn came through it all with that barural affability. Some of the girls attending the and happy courtesy which St. Mary's School, Kowloon, have is so characteristic of him. His subscribed for six mesquito nets unexpected visit to the Instituto be sent to Siberia for the use

and

the to

Ingidentally was expected The sa. Chunsang strived here provide the Nareation

the лишен on the 19th instant from Java refreshment so needful to take with

the Colony safely through the of enquiry with a fullcargo of sug

maelstrom of coming strasnous | various parts of the work The ax Loongsang arrived here days Every one gathered on Chamber has awakened

the let instast from Manila Friday and Saturday nights on needs of the day. If China with 13 saloon and steerage the Prays and in the streets and have a share of the trade of the one felt more than ever the im2 world the Chiness marchants passengers and a general cargo

pression of being complètaly should adopt western methods of swallowed up in the crowd. People manufactures exported to Americs from the Fast, from Kowloon, and Europe. The Chinese mer Hongkong and the neighbouring chant's now consider that Hong

Taat kong should take the lead in the province mingled in one emotional throng struggled andy matter. fought their way through ases of humanity. The latter came "from

tion of Shipbuilders and Engin-of British troops.

***** eers was greatly appreciated, and

Mt. A. F. B. Silva Netto was especially his little tribute to the

rud it ha me to pass through ma way?"

stant touch with the

Many who have been in

Wales since herbògi about freely amongst have been struck, most fore

The in the

mplete

from hus

tiva Vin his ax:

for the part they have played in Court on two charges of failing insusion on the hill and the out in over the local piece-goods | jociability, obser men of the Mercantile, Marinet to-day fined $10 at the Police the vine-wreathed cottage and the Now that the Lancashira look by his extreme the war. One could not belp be to cancel the stamps on two houses in the busy street where market is again strong. |ing struck, also,with the appro-recent forms for $3,157.49 and life is never still,” drawn by some rancashire cotton - operatives)

complex social impulse and com-have got their demands satisfied, priateness of all his public, utter- $920 respectively.

mon interest. The great crowd and the increased wages which ançes on Saturday- they track

The Hongkong Tramway re-swirled and eddied, up and down, employers have been forced to pay the the right note, and, as psual, were packed with common-sense carpts during the week ended to and fro, with no apparent plan their labour is reflected to day His Excellency would, no doubt, July 19 were $20,205, which is and no purpose beyond that of in higher prices for the different have preferred that the new Go- $4,301 share the same week last sight-seeing. It was a tremendous sants. Prices will presumably for vernor were here on such an sus year. For the 29 weeks of crowd and a good-natured crowd continue to advance. Piece picious occasion, but it can be the year, the total takings ware to crowd that did not even goods have already gone up vary to h picts the cured through his $424,839, or $30,666 above the complain of being, served with high and the Lancashire mills me the and falling with

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beaten fifty years ago. During firm and are likely to go up, friends immediately.

hundreds - and 83 anticipated by me in become increasingly popular. He

the day these has never been weighed down by

thousands' drank in pleasures as my previous notes. The local the dignity of his office; he has

the soil drinks in the rain. And made friends on all hands. On

everywhere there was a sobriety Saturday he yet further establish

and decoram that was intensely gratifying. All went home ton ed himself in the public esteem.

Saturday night with the satis Like the speaker at the St.

A quarrel between twe ashfaction of having spent one of George's Day dinner, we almost

at Kremer Street, Hongkong's greatest holidays in wish he were to be the new Carrier

Yaumati, ended in one of them thorough holiday mood. Governor.

being stabbed in the head. The Police, who were informed of the affair, arrested the assailant and removed the injured man to the Hospital, where his condition is considered to be serious.

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DEATH.

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1919.

MORE DREAMS.

Professedly retired from politics, our old friend Sun Yat-sen has recently been gaining fresh prominence by the promulgation of a scheme of industrial development which he thinks will benefit Chins and have an important effect on the preservation of peace in the Orient. We will come, in a moment, to some of the features of Dr. Sun's proposals, which are most admirable in themselves, but which will no more be realised in our generation, if left to the Chinese, than China will lead the cations of the world within that period. The whole trouble with Dr. Sun is that when he is not

UNFAIR CRITICISMS.

A Japanese arrested by the Police for having three pistols, three revolvers, and 50 rounds of ammunition, was to day fined $1,000, or, in default, nine months hard labour. His explanation was that the arms were given to him by a Japanese cook.

His Excellency the Governor filled up to the highest top sparkle his heart of patriotic devotion and cup of public duty. But there

not the semblance of

market is healthy""

A good rustic toast is likely be concerned with beef and beat Bke that compre Arcadian wilds, which is: 35

The trade of Hongkong is being hampered by the distur- bances in Canton. The Canton Baker's best rend administration talk about the best beef, and kew rights of the people and the In Another form country, and squabble among | inside of a loaf themselves for privileges and gaol, a pound of seize the opportunity of grabbling. pot of good ale.. We cannot any longer stand this toasted byen enig nonsense.

fore, dead in the Land soul behind.

We regret that on a previous qccasion we have had to refer to

given for a toast: very unfair and most unjustified During last week there were the exaggerated gramophone A good number of people and well buttere criticisms by an evening notified are fatal cases of plague. his notable uttarances locally are today interested in that bain't toast contemporary the last instance three fatal cases of cholera, three "Beshrew we but that was roubles. I, for my part, think Some toeats are being in connection with an abeo cases of cerebro-spinal fever an absolute good jest" Mr that roubles will right themselves. May in es lutely inaccurate statement in(two fatall, two non-fatal Severn proved a brilliant protag It is a question of waiting cat go

SOOD

MCGREGOR-On the 21st inst at the Peak Hospital with regard to jurymen being occurrences of enteric, one fatal onist in a moving drama. Alittle while. Some fellows get comes. To si

unnecessarily detained. In the case of diphibéris and one non-simple enumeration of the scenes cold feet. when they buy polite to raise your present instance we cannot in fatal case of paratyphoid fever in which His Excellency took at ten cents rouble, while words. common justice and fairness, let Two sufferers from cholera were the lead will bring home the high others get colder feet when semiman the criticisms of Mr.Franks, in Filipinos, one on enteric an merit of his busy hours.

they sell at six cents a rouble. strength his statements at the Police Re-Indian and the paratyphoid fever

The only reason why roubles are yew does zes serve Club meeting, pass without patient at American. The rest

so cheap to-day is because there all fazzers giving publication to the true were Chinese

From the spectacular point of is no export from Russia, Russia facta. We hold ano brief. for the Police Reservists, whether A case was called up before the motor-car procession is a great grain-growing country

In the smoking-room: officers or rank and file. Much Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Police was the best item in the celebra-and as soon as order is restored that has been done by the Court this morning, in which Hoons programme. It was in the and the agriculturists go back to Bachelors Club I have must be

keeping of things that His the land there will be a sharp spurt an entertaining little administrative body we cannot Chuk Ting, of No 4, Gircular Excellence should have awarded in the price of the rouble. Now late King Edward, narra approve of, but that should not Pathway, a broker, was charged "The Greatest Mother of All" a Russia has nothing to export, as Man About Town” in the deprive it from justice, The with stealing a contract made comment we refer to, first of all between Messrs. Moses, Manners consolation prize. Indeed the nobody grows anything. Russia Evening News. As a young me states that Mr. Franks, as a chair and Backhouse, Limited, and the judging was rather a farce, and is such tremendously large be bad a liking for de

when the three winners territory that she can stand intimate friends on man, should have asked for a se-Chan firm of 18, Winglok Street

CAME along I almost almost any shock Her riches morning, which he conder to Mr. Arnold's motion. Mr. W. B. Hind, was for the swooned. In my humble have never been exploited clare was the only Mr. Franks, as a chairman, did prosecution, while Mr. Hall, of opinion I think I could have and 毎日

as the really got to himself, ask for a seconder, and the motion Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, de- made a better judge. Mr. Rusians take seriously to paay with, the late " as seconded-by Mr. Gerken. fended. A remaad was granted. Suzuki's prize was well-merited, developing the country they will ford and the reco Full and free discussion was allowed and the subject_|_(the Police whistles blown at the although those who have not been be quite ablesto look after all the story, he called one mo indulging in visionary ideas and thoughts on concrete questions, production of a balance Central Police Station this mort to Nikko (the decorated cer being roubles that have been issued. friend, whose man be is mixing up with shady political intrigues. He was once sheet) was flogged to death. ing,seemingly conveying the news-to-life, reproduction of the It all depends on order and ex- the door e

Nikto bridge) could not under ports. Bolshevism must be stamp-parently new to recognised as the leader of the Reform movement in China, and we Next there is & statement of some dire catastrophe, brought all know how he came to a position of pre-eminence in the land that a reply "because we out the whole men of the Station Stand why it won any prize. 1 ed out and when that happens apparently from when he was appointed the first Provisional President. Since then, were muzzled then was given and adjacent quarters. A rash was must admit I was struck consider it will not fake long for roubles constry. He ask

ably by the way the ladies bore to right themselves, be

the callers, and however, many changes have taken place, and we recall the answer to a question by Mr. made for Wellington Street to the strain, and in a hot sun for There is no official rate for the said: Just tell meteoric character of his overlordship in Canton, when he was the Franks as to whether the mem- find out the carse, but there was over an hour without headgear zouble at present. If there was, of Wales woun virtual head of the so-called Military Government but had to make hers had a right to demand no occasion for alarm. It was this could be very well imagined roubles to-day would not be worth him for smot himself scarce when his soldiery deserted him. We should say he balance sheet at the present only Mr. G. G. Perdue, the Miss Grimble posed admirably as eight cents. In America the please “Ob, lord has fewer friends amongst the Chinese to-day than ever in his statge and why it was not asked holding a whistle-blowing demo-Britannia. So, realistic it was, rouble to-day has a value of 15 startled reply.. career. Since his departure from Canton, he has been in relative for before. That statement is stration with a number of raw that I was for a more it non-cents gold, seclusion, and it would be interesting to know why he now comes absolutely insccurate. The re-recruits for the Chinese Police plussed whether it was a human forward with a sovereiga zemedy for all China's ills.

mark about being muzzled was The C. S. P., when informed offgure or a mere statur. Sun Yat-sen's ples now is for co-operation and mutual help in not made in connection with the the exact situation, issued orders

Recently there have been moment. the development of China, and he puts forward this idea as the discussion of the balance sheet for the recall of the m

unprecedented purchases of dried sprest means of rooting out the cause of future wars. His pro-It was made in connection with →

Which is the most enterprising and canned fruits, far exceeding gramme includes the building of a hundred thousand miles of the runing of the Club by In H.B.. Commercial Secretary railways, a million miles of macadam roads, the improvement spector Clark, who said I re of Lege ion requests us to state firm in Hongkong? That question those of during the period. A write of the old canals and the construction of new ones, and the member at the beginning I started that he is now receiving from the is not easy of answer. Most of of the war. In Europe as the d development of commercial harbours, docks and communications a whist drive, but I was muzzled United agdom copies of our large mercantile houses are well so great has been the from But what are the prospects of these things being carried out? after that." It was never seriously numerous Trade Directories, enterprising in one field ar need for canned and dried fruits taxi We have seen going on in China, ever since the Republic was contended that the P.C. had not Catalogue and Journals devoted a rother but certainly Messrs that buyers have even gone to (though established a series of internal squabbles which has had ognal rights in the Club with the to the special interests of various Alex Ross and Co. de- third and fourth hands to secure tells us & most disintegrating effect on the country and which has DB.P. It was suggested that as industries, Those publications serve to be classed in the whatever surplus stocks were against stood in the way of its progress. In fact, it is not too much to say a Police Rezerve Club the con- may be inspected at his office in category of our enterprising firms available, many of the retail taxi side-c that the continuous conflict between rival groups of politicians has cera was being run at a loss and the Neg Government Building by Messrs. Alexander Boss and Co. dealers surrendering, their small the old almost led the country into serious trouble with other nations: The there were not sufficient funds in persons interested, and on receipt notice, have opened a branch stocks, which in the aggregate vantage of spe procese still continues, too. So far from being able to co-operate hand, or visible, to contigue... In of a persons) or written applicas office in Aleppo, which stands at could be assembled by some the Temps, is with other countries in works which would obviously be to the the report of the proceedings by tion he will always be glad to the meeting points of several broker to be shipped in carload takes so long the European that you have advantage of the Chinese themselves, China has shown a complete our contemporary, M, Cartwright furnish enquirere with the name trade routes in Palestine and quantities to inability to preserve harmony within her own borders. Such & was made to say suipe and addresses of Manufach Syris, and up to quite recently countries who are so greatly se long to get thing as cohesive effort for the common weal is unknown in China thing about being chucked and Shippers in Gras Bitals, yas the chief carean station in need of these fruts had got there today. With Provincos divided against Provinces, and the squabe, tont Mr. Cartwright never and with any other information between the Levant and the California, I read, will have always could

Euphrates, while before the dis- this year, in most lines, an | London as bling even carried to disputes between members of the same political / said anything of the kind and at his disposal."

covery of a ses route to India it increase of production above the hansom. groups, how can we hope for united effort to lift the country out of himself has denied the statement the mire

attributed to him. Mr. Franks had With his bands folded in was considered one of the greatest normal Notwithstanding the was delig

most unpleasant duty to per- supplication to the Magistrate, trading contres of the world, heavy crop which is now anti-days of the form and a fairness to int it an old Chinese to day faced Mr. Aleppo is bound to be a great cipated, orders have beer received step up as

ust be said that he handled an G, N.Orms at the Police Court centre of activity in the by the various Californian fruit tra

machinery line, and this is growers associations and inde

un may talk of railway and road and dock schemes very lithely, but an initial difficulty hich he appears to overlook is

#Chinese themselves are not agreed as to who shall ing the co

is any con

gry andience extremely well. and heard the charge against him already recognized by many pendent packers that are

Finally, M7. Arno

was which was to the effect that be Continental and American firma, in excess the anticipated yield.

over assaulted his wife with

ant, hoe and then attempt

den

Pap

:

minute while I fetch late King: subsided: and hearty laughter