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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

PUBLIC MEETINGS

TUESDAY THEY 91919.

DAY BY DAY.

The total

AN ISLANDER'S DIART.the Victoria Theatre. Every night TO-DAY'S I

large batches of the Military, repair to the Victoria, and as 8OOZE

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IF YOU LOSE YOUR TEMPER DO From: the point of view of NOT TROUBLE, TO FIND IT AGAIN.

[BY "AJAX."}

as the orbestra strikes, up the "1--- want simply this world National Anthem they rush to better, taught, so that wherev anything in the nature of a

the door. On Friday night a the fame of God can representative gathering, last

When we observe a condition very large number who attempted been hit (writes r night's meeting at the City

of temerity of anxiety, Hall was a fiasco.

of to do this were brought to a in The Undying Fire. Ar Kailan Mining Administration's hail them as outward and visible who ordered the boys to remove educated, to be explicit, I mean a

output of the nervousness in an individual, we standstill by the Military Police, will a suppose edu generous estimate would put the number of people present well mine for the week ending 12th signs of mischief and danger. their caps and the tobacco from mowledge and understanding of wants the region of 200 and the air amounted to 75,611 tons and These may be hidden, undiagnos- their month and come to the history. Yes, Mr.

the sales during the period, toed, undetermined, but the mis attention. No doubt meeting practically resolved it-

62,859-tons. |self into one-half voting för, and

chief and danger are there. In the Tommies were merely acting in you to suppose a warldi instructed these on by history. When I ask seconding the other. The result

abnormal, the danger and mis- differently by neglecting to stand and educated in the place of this was that 36 gentlemen were

chief are probably eatirely in at attention. I am sure they old traditional world of unguided elected to serve an the General During last week there were themselves and consisa diseased meant nothing wrong. Happily passion and greed and meanness Committee and six new names notified six fatal cases of plague, imagination and ballucinated their loyalty is beyond question. and mean bestiality a were added to the sub-committee, four fatal cases of cerebro-spinal ideas. Frequently, when this is

world That means-> out of an fever, four non-fatal occurrences the trouble, the case is hopeless.

taught by man instead of a world audience of about two hundred, of enteric and one fatal case of A real danger, tangible, or mis- over 50 per cent, figured in the cholera. One of the enteric chief merely created by brain educational authorities in Hong-change in human nature. I ask I have often wondered why the neglected by kirelings, I do not

ask you to imaginasnymiraculous- categories of either proposers, pro-sufferers was English all the and naive derangements, is kong do not take a hint from posed, and seconders. Sir Paul others Chinese.

difficult to circumvent. In this Singapore by adopting the custom mind had the utmost enlighten- you only to suppose that each Chater, in his opening speech,

direction lies the most terrible of of getting all examination papers ment of which it is capable instead vindicated himself with regard

all human inflictions, where set outside of Hongkong. This to the attacks made upon him by The Hongkong Tramway Com-reason has departed and sheer has worked admirably.

of its being darkened and" over- The a section of the local press. pany receipts for the week ended lunacy succeeds.

cast. Such a state of things Singapore examination papers In one paper he was made tacitly July 26 totalled $16,503, which

are printed by Messrs. Kelly and will not, indeed, mitigate natural to have admitted he was wrong. is $1,371 above the same week By the result of the meeting last last year. For the thirty weeks of

Walsh in Hongkong and sent vanity or natural self-love; it will There is a nice old story which under a seal cover to Singapore, not rob the greedy man of his night, it is clearly shown that be the year the total was $441,342, will illustrate my point to a nicety Why could not the same be done greed, the fool of his folly, the was right, and the whole matter or $32,037 more than the cor- and which carries with it the with the Hongkong University eccentric of his abnormality, nor might just as well have been left responding period of last year. wisdom of China. Hong Tong, papers? They could be printed will rob them of excuses and the lustful of his lust. But it in the hands of himself and bis'

an old Emperor of China, was in Kuala Lumpur, for instance, hiding places; it will light them colleagues. Another paper has, for

once discoursing with Ti Chi, his and thus make a leakage impos within and cast a light round weeks past, continually referred

We learn that Messrs. Komor counsellor, "Tell me, Ti Chi, sible. I commend this suggestion to the rights of "the public in and Komor have purchased the asked Hong Tong," what is most to the committee of the Univer- about them; it will turn their svil these matters. As proved last whole of the Raemaker reproduc- to be feared in a Government ?"sity for their consideration.

to the likeness of a disease of night, when it comes to the point, tions which were exhibited at the Chi became meditative, and

which, they themselves in their the public is quite content to City Hall, and the pictures will after leave such things in the capable be on view at Massra. Komor's

time replied. "In

clear moments will be ready to be opinion, sire, nothing

cured and which they will hesitate hands of the unofficial represent-premises free of charge. The is more to be dreaded than scheme has proved an absolute to transmit. That is the world atives, and the meeting showed reproductions are saleable and what they call Rat in the fiasco, and it is quite probable which such of us schoolmasters up, in a lurid light, bow for such will be charged for at the same State, The Emperor could that the rice riots of Saturday and teachers among as as have statements really represent the prices as fixed

the not understand and asked for an were expected. I wish to goodnessʼn lit in our hearts, do now labour and Sunday came sooner than the undying fire of God already feeling of the general public. City Hall: In view of the explanation. "You know, sirs,” Sir Reginald Stubbs, when he fact that the inclement weather replied Ti Chi, that it is the that some one enthused some generation by generation, against arrives, will do well to sift to the prevented many people visiting common practice to erect statues Goverment. In that conceited hope, to bring about; that is the

business methods into

our defeat and sometimes "against bottom to whaterten: these so-cal- the exhibition and possible result in various cities. These statuss the led "public meetings" are repre- ing sales in aid of the good people make look like solid stone spirit which has characterised present work God has for us." sentative of the community. Last cause. (for blind French soldiers but, of course, they are of wood, some of the local Government's night's meeting will make a very Messrs. Komor's action is a most hallot, within and deftly painted actions in the past, the Govern- The triumph over the disability": good basis on which to form an generous one. It might be men without Now, if a rat gets into mant thought it was quite of a lost limb is not only exam- opinion on the matter. As stated, tioned that the examples exhibit one of them, one does not know competent to handle indepen-plified in the case of the one-leg- the general public is quite contented are exclusive and no further how to get him out. Fire cannot tous problem as the control of need to be downhearted, about a

dently such

momen-ged cricketer.. "There is no to leave these matters to their reproductions are available, the be employed for fear of burning rice. It did not take any of the lost leg or arm," writes a cor- leading public men, and to talk necessary materials for repro- the wood, nor water for fear of reputed business brains of the respondent to the Daily Chronicle. about rights of the public is duction having been destroyed. washing off the paint." sheer nonsense.

|Colony into its counsels, but after I have lost my left arm, and six months of watching and can do practically everything In any event, we do know what

A humorous scene was witness-stitutional Reform Association?

Isn't that true of our Con-studying. Isunched out into that a man with two arms can

痣 scheme to ensure the I can tie my tie as neatly and has been gained by the calling of ed in Centre Street yesterday. That very, Dame is anathema Securing of our rice supplies quickly as I ever did, lace my this public meeting at this Preoccupied with her task of stage in the proceedings. The buying some rice, a Chinese the Constitutional Reform As-been in sight long ago; and every drive & motor car, play, billiards For whom does at prices below those ruling at boots, ride a horse and bicycle In criticising the Government's rice control scheme & few day, gathering originally convened woman was oblivious to the fact sociation speak?. Certainly not one knew of prices were bound to (using a block of weighted-wood

the time. The rice shortage had drive a horse

and trap. ago, we stated in unequivocal terms that it was a pons assinorum, purpose of settling the prelimin-themselves on either side of her elation in the ranks

by Sir Paul Chater was for the that two young rogues had placed for the mass. ill-conceived and ill-executed and would prove not only a drain, on aries and getting on with the and were af the moment engaged the local Exchequer but fail to accomplish its mission. In the light | drafting of the address; which in riding her pockets. This proof the Secretary of State for the the problem long before our swim quite easily. Cutting up go up higher. The Chinese Rice with three grooves in it as a of the rice riots and the rates fixed by the Proclamation which was would later have been submitted cedure was witnessed by a Chinese Colonies and during the week we ergoes from Wabu and the in the deft use of a knife ins

interested gang at the reply

Association in Canton grappled rest), golf, hockey, tennis, and insued on Sunday night, and which came into force yesterday, we to a public meeting. At that constable. Coming up quietly, he have been treated by the organ Yangtze ports. Wahu is the pipe from s pouch of lighting re-affirm our conviction that the Government has bungled the whole meeting any amendments, if waited until the boys had deftly of the Reform Association to cents of Chinese rice production, a match is simplicity itself whe- Government, and purchased big food can be done with practice thing. The Government should have looked into the matter long considered necessary, could have fished out purse, then seized mach naseating balderdash! If and Canton gets a great portion ther you are sitting down or before it did, and in not doing so it has neglected its duty. We pay been made in the text

of hold of each by the collar and I were to enumerate the vagaries

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union. Office address: 11, Ice House Street.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1919.

THE RICE PROBLEM.

WHAT HAS BEEN GAINED?

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There is much

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"in the East are paying. The Food Control Committee was called has been some little delay causer, The elder boy at the Police Court spread myself, over columns of truth is that you cannot make hand is easy when you know how prices for food here much higher than those which other people the address. As it now stands there hauled "them off to the station of this Reform organ I could of its rice from Wuhu. The standing up, and washing the one into being to regulate the prices af our foodstuffs. It has done and a cumbersome general com-to-day said he was also buying matter but precious little in that direction. All that it has succeeded in doing mittee has been appointed. What rice and was wrongfully arrest organ in question, not very long ago that prices had to go up as can put a glove on with the ver has been to control its tongue and its activities. It had done so these committee-men are going ed.

rice low enough. The Govern- to make use of the scrubbing little to justify its existence that the Government had perforce to to do, we have not the faintest cent in

ment should have realised long brush on the wash-basin. appoint Rice Controller. Mr. R. O. Hutchison, who has been idea. Neither is anything gained G. N. Orme asked him how he advocated an unofficial majority satisfy the consuming countries, link in the shirt cuff by the same asked to act in this capacity, has had very little business experience. by increasing the size of the expected to buy rice without

pocket, Mago, solemnly stated that it never there was not enough rice to of your teeth, and place a sleeve He had previously acted as Superintendent of Imports and Exports, sub-committee. When all comes money. but that in itself does not entitle him to be regarded as a business to all, the drafting of an address from my pocket when I was with a strong plea for an unofficial Mr.

on our Legislative Council, but "My money dropped unofficials. Now, it comes along. I doubt it very much whether

just more representation for the man" in the strict usage of the term. such a momentous question left to him to be solved, Mr. Hutchison job; it is a matter for one Magistrate discovered that the sistency, gentlemen, consistency, as that assigned to him. First during the war, an immense

Naturally enough with is not even a sub-committee's arrested, the boy replied.

The Government is about to The majority on the Council. Con handle

Hutchison was swimming in the air.

can disgorge, from its vast and In its haphazard, go-as-you-please way, the Government did not man. A dozen men..cannot do the boys had no fired abode, they is what is needed among our Con-of all, he has had no prec- quantity of unbleached linea such a big problem heterogenous hoard accumulated deem it necessary to appoint a Committee of leading business men can combine in writing a leading given the plea of buying rice was

job any more than a dozen man slept in the streets. The boy who stitution Reform Die-Hards. to Lelp Mr. Hutchison. He was the dur er machina and by a stroke article. So what has been gained given one year's hard labour, of the pen and with the cable service his free disposal he was to by all this bother and insistence flavoured with four hours' stocks, usber the dawn of cheap rice for the residents of the Colony on the alleged rights of anwhile the other defendant was We have seen how Mr. Hutchison went about this job. He did not imaginary public? Nothing what-sentenced to be birched and to deem it necessary to get into immediate touch with the Saigon ever. The same men as original-twenty four-hours 'detention. Government and use its good offices in getting a regular supply of ly chosen will do the work. The rice at fixed prices, but numerous middlemen in Saigon were engaged only difference is that a few more to scour the country for available supplies. This was blunder No. 1 people have been brought into. Blunder No. 2 was that he disclosed his cards to the local dealers.the limelight by the inclusion of Now, why in the name of sweet reason and common-sense, did Mr. their names in a committee which Hutchison get into league with the dealers and explain to them that will have practically nothing to he would buy their stocks at the market rate, if they agreed to sell do.

TYPHOON WARNINGS

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tical business experience, and, some of which resembles Tussore knowing that, the Government silk, and which will be very

smarting under an imaginary out this year; at any rate, until quanties of not less than 80 should have appointed an ex-suitable for women's and chil Some of our European soldiers perienced business man. The rica drea's clothes and for household stationed in the Colony

are shortage is going to last through purposes. It is to be sold in grievance that we civilians look the new crop of rice comes in yards. Most people will ask how down upon them. Consequently material quantity, The Govern- it is, when the Government holds at a parade on Wednesday which ment is guilty of short-sighted-huge supplies of this and other was held of the Manchester ness By buying in the open wearing material, that such-sup Regiment for the special purpose market in Saigon no amelioration plies are not used to reduce the of enquiring from the men what for the local labouring classes can scandalously high prices that all his rice at his quotations? What was the result? The dealers THE SHANTUNG QUESTION,

they would like to do with the be expected. Contrast this with drapery ggods have reached. But ,watched the Controller's movements and slowly raised the market,

The "telegram quoted below $2.50 which the Peace Celebrat-the action of the Philippines the Government does not intend and when the first consignment of rice on Government account was evidently been freely discussed from the Manile Observatory at money be returned, as they the Saigon Government for their exclusively to the izade, which

was received by the American ions Committee granted them, Government, about to arrive here, hang went the rates upward. This hastened in Paris of late, and there appears 9.30 p.m. yesterday

The Shantung question has Consulate General, Hongkong, many, I hear, asked that the made direct arrangements with sequently the linen will go almost The Philippines to become retail trader; con- the rice rots of Saturday and Sunday. Being on the horns of a to be some anxiety on the part of dilemma, the Hongkong Government issued a proclamation making

alleged they have been very supplies. It is too late in the day will get it at current rates. it a crime for any rice dealer to retail his rice at above the rates the Japanese delegates to take Long. E and 18. degrees Lat. N. residents of the Colony in public. authorities must bear the stigma Are persons engaged in the

Typhoon in about 111 degrees shabily treated by the European to do anything now, and the local proclaimed. But it is a source of great surprise to find that after some of the bitter taste out of the moving W.N.W. six months of shilly-shallying the Government should have fired pill. It is still not clear, however,

They, therefore, did not desire of short-sightedness in the matter, liquor trade, either directly or a the prices of rice at the quotations of Saturday-rates which are sions amount to. There is talk miles distant, moving N. or N. N. be spent in giving the children

precisely what Japan's "conces Northern Luzon, less than 300 proposed that

Cyclone or typhoon E of to, take their money. Some

shareholders, fit for membership admittedly inflated, abnormal and artificial.

the money people should not expect lower prices than those fixed by the from Shantung and of restoring

We are told that of removing Japanese troops E

of a Christian church? The It is suggested that the Chinese question has often been asked in Proclamation, and, moreover, owing to the world-wide demand for

of Hongkong a treat, while may be educated to the use of church circles, only to be evaded. * rice, the price of this commodity is certain to go en rising. So the Chinese political rights there, but Guam, moving W.N.W

Cyclone or typhoon. S.W. of not a few requested that it be wheat flour as a substitute for The Irish Presbyterian General trouble is not even yet over. The Government solemnly states at the same time we are informed

paid to the widow of a police con- rice. Wheat flour is high in price, Assembly, however, was called that the proclaimed price at which "controlled "rice is being sold that Japan will retain

stable who died recently of but comparitively not as high as upon recently to vote on apells a loss to the Exchequerend that at Saturday's rates!

the cholera. All this proves to us rice. People have an idea that matter, and rejected it by more Criticism to be of value must be of the constructive order. We always and also possession

that there is deep-seated resent rice is the cheap food of al China than a two to one majority, Into have a serious situation to face. What is to be done? One way out of of Kiaochau. Of the former

ment in the ranks at the conduct It is not. A very large part of the merits of such a delicate the difficulty would be for the Government to take over from the rice nothing is said. But merely for have to go unclothed." said the to me that when he was purcha- West Chins raises wheat and person who does, and on the

German mining and other rights

of a few foreigners. A certain China cannot raise any rice at all. question we would not venture to exporters here at least half of the quantity estimated to be necess Japan to remove troops from the manager of Messrs. Woodrow, the sing goods at a certain store a millet but no rice. Southern affirmative side, would have to "It seems as if the world will private the other day complained The loass country in North and go, says a Home Paper. The ery for the feeding of the poorer classes. That would amount, at Province and yet retain posses- well-known Piccadilly hatters, to lady who happened to come a China depends a good deal on be very sure he had a perfectly most, to about four thousand tons a month. The exporters might, sion of the port of Tsingtan is not press representative, in discus little later than him when import rice. The relative cost between clean bill of health with heaven, of course, assert that they have contracted to supply, this rice by any means satisfying China's sing present shortage of all forms uned to sit down by the storekeep wheat flour and rice has not been for connection with the Hor elsewhere Japan, America, Europe, etc. but it is safe to assume desires. The concessions" ap- of clothing and raw material or retorted that she would do to figured out, but I think it is trade, may not be the only or the that in all forward contracte the seller protects himself by a clause pear, as nothing when compared Take our own line, for example after that man left the shop, cheaper than rice. The question worst sin The Church, like, guarding him against force majeure. Rice exporters do not make with the gains to Japan. Some hats. We have been in business This is hardly conduct worthy of is whether the Chinese locally other bodies, must be as far inore than an average profit of three or four per cent. unless they thing better than this will have for over 20 years, but never bare Britisher in this Colony Re would take to this substitute as possible, practical in its policy speculate, and the Government could pay them that percentage of profit on the rice taken.; Such hardship as there is, would fall on to be hit upon if Chine is to be experienced such a egarding the grant made by the There is nothing like mal Importers elsewhere, but even that would only affect abous fivá per really visuaged.

traordinary demand, as there is Peace Celebrations Committee, astempt and the only way

certainly is not practical to-d The manager offer. I am told that the Manchesters would be by the establishm

total abstinence Henry Heath told the same tale Have vizorica Byd

cent of their orders under the arrangement sugge

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SHORTAGE OF CLOTHES.....

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amartly cut lounge suit and soft civilians as a whole" look dow

felt hat The straw hat is

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