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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1919.

POLITICAL INCONSISTENCIES.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

TAIPO ROAD.

Motorists using the Taipo Road can appreciate the efforts which are being made to improve it, but they would like to see something done with the surface of the thoroughfare which would make it fit for travelling upon in wet weather. It is true that much has been done to widen the road and eliminate some of the most sharp, and dangerous corners, but ! though considerable stretches of

DAY BY DAY.

NEARLY ALL OF THE FOOL 194S ARE STARTED BY ME WHO-

HAVEN'T ANFTHING TO LOBE IN CASE OF A GENERAL SMASH.

Yesterday there was a clean bill of health in Hongkong.

The business at yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board was of a purely formal character.

At the Kowloon Bowling

to Mr. A.A. H. Milroy by the p.m. a presentation will be made

members.

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At the Magistracy to-day a a small boy was charged, before possession of a number of lottery Mr. N.. L. Smith, with unlawful

posed or 14 days' hard labour. tickets. A fine of $50 was im-

The wedding is announced it have been finished in this re-Harold Collins Pomeroy, electric- to take place shortly of Mr. spect no steps appear to have al engineer, to Miss Eileen been taken to put the road Patricia O'Sullivan. into decent repair. As a result, when there has been a little rain, portions are absolutely Green Club on Thursday at 7 impassable by low-powered motor cars or motor bicycles, but, what is more important, the road is extremely dangerous. One can quite understand that while the thoroughfare has been in aged 30, has been sent to the Tung A Chinese named Li Kam, course of improvement it has been Wah Hospital suffering from in- impossible to preserve the surface-juries received due to falling from What one would like to see, how. evar, is the completed portions a gangway while carrying coal, remetalled so that the bad patches

in Kowloon Dock. might be gradually lessened. Many motorists' pleasure has been quite spoilt at the week-end an account of the bad state of the rain either on that day or a day Taipo Road when there has been or two previous. One can gen- erally count on the road to Shatin for motor traffic. These roads are and beyond Taipo as being good as good as they are anywhere and they dry very quickly, but muddy Taipo Road is to the what a great disappointment the motorist. Apart from the fact that even in a high-powered machine there must be a very car is to negotiate safely this skilful driver at the wheel if the muddy, greasy road, no-one who cares anything for his car will risk driving it along this spot when the chances are that he will have there has been rain. If he does,

We do not wish unduly to find a pretty big repair bill to fot. fault with our road surveyors; we are only voicing the desires of motorists when we ask that a good surface shall be put on the completed portions of the road as soon as is expedient.

The sailing of the C. P. O. S. Empress of Japan, which was postponed. The vessel is still scheduled to leave to-day, has been under Government and the delay is due to Gorera- requisition

ment requirements..

cook on board the launch Tak. Li Tin, aged 16, employed as a

launch and sustained savere in- Sang, fell into the hold of the juries. He was removed to the Tung Wah Hospital where he received medical attention.

a chicken. Defendant said whilst Police Court to-day with stealing A Chinese was charged at the

he was walking along Canton Road, he was feeling a little hungry so he took the chicken. He was sentenced to three weeks* hard labour by Mr. R. E. Lindsell.

below:-General

1910

MODERN MODES.

NOVEL GOWN WORN AT THE RECENT HOME RACES.

The Cretonne Craze at Home.

SOME NOVELTIES.

TO DAY'S HISCELLAN

The boy William

Robarts,

fell thres hundred feet down the chiffs near Dover and end beds with a dislocated hip, is a plagiarist in his way. An almost identical feat is one of the traditions (it may almost be call ed one of the attractions) of Lulworth, where a placard on the beach calls attention to the fact that on September 7, 1892 girl of eleven fell from the summit of the cliff, a descent of 580 feet and escaped not only with life, but without life-long inju The miracle was attended coincidence for Bre Treves, who' was and attended to the was interrupted. written by her father

Peace hath her troubles al- though they are not so big as those of war (writes a country correspondent). When our parish meeting discussed how we should celebrate peace, some of the speakers seemed to think that food and drink should be as plentiful as they are reputed to have been in London after the Battle of Agincourt But who was to pay? It was decided that if possible a 13éd. rate should be imposed, and everybody was happy.

Now peace has come. and, the Parish Council met to deal with matters. Some elected persons found a rate unpopular,

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а tremendous discussion ensued whether it could be, dis- pensed with, but the chairman ruled not. Then we discussed whether a band could be afforded.. Here we met the crowning cala mity Peace-day clashes with the local fixtures. The "Prize Minister bas been too quick for our village. We had fixed other amusemente, and hoped August would be time enough for the national event. The secretary of our local sports wants us to ap- proach the Government for an alteration of date, and his support of the Coalition Ministry trembles in the balance.

Eighty-four taels of raw opiu were found in the hold of the s. s. Hailan. The drug was amongst

DEMAND FOR JAZZ PATTERNS. the combination of the latter with As an illustration "of the DEVELOPING OUR COLONIES.

some luggage belonging to

There have been foulard sum-cretonne is often advisable-it amount of detailed and careful Chinese passenger, who claimed sammers during which 90 per

mers and

silk summers, and does away with bizarre effects. labour required in making a good Lord Leverhulme, speaking at it as his property. He was im-cent. of women dressed in babyish the cretonne craze has spread manufactured in Sheffield, issu- Some idea of the way in which penknife, a pamphlet on cutlery a meeting held a Central Hall, mediately arrested.. Westminster, recently, pointed Lindsell fined him $600, or four muslin, but in few cases have marks made by salesmen at two of the Sheffield City Council. Mr. R. frocks and hats of sheer white may be gathered from the re-ed by the development committee out that our first duty now was to months' hard labour. find out how the enormous debt.

things gone quite so far as with of the biggest West End furnish-states that after all the different due to the war was to be paid. Mr. N. L. Smith to-day fined a

the present, craze for cretonne. He had no merely stated & Chinese $100, or three months, doubt about that. All sorts and

ing stores. Both agreed that the parts of a four bladed knife have It is a cretonne year; there is no present SÜKÜMƏT demand for been assembled on the cutler's proposition but had offered for unlawful possession of a conditions

curtain stuffs" was absolutely bench there remain no fewer than solution: He suggested that we revolver and 54

of cretonne itself, unprecedented, while the lengths 154 distinct operations to be pet- should make use of the Tropics, ammunition.

rounds of besides tapestry and figured of material which are bought are formed. The variety of patterns for he maintained that the that he was formerly a cook on ed into service.

Defendant stated upholstery linen, are being press-on quite a new scale. Nowadays of penknives is enormous. No Tropics, if properly used by the the Monteagle and the revolver

it is a usual thing for women to maker seems able to give a leaders of industry and the and ammunition were given to wore frocks, hats, and shoes of for a dress or for about half a it must run

A trio of girls. boating, go in for a piece of stuff suitable reliable estimate of the figure, but organisers of Bcience machinery and by those who com- and the ammunition were found sunshades to match, and the boat can make a hat!

and him by a soldier. The weapon cretonne; they carried bags and yard of cretonne from which they thousands. At one establishment into scores of We see from Home papers to hand that the Government was manded recently defeated on a division in the House of Commons on what for the

capital, would pay concealed in the side of a box.

alone more than 10,000 different Great War. is termed the Women's Emancipation Bill, a measure introduced by Crown Colonies are for the . The

cushions were covered in the

patterns had been produced before a Labour member. It was generally admitted that no political cst part situated in the Tropics issued by the American Consula's chair covers.

same material. The whole effect Trade Inquiry Lists No. 121, was rather suggestive of animated

the outbreak of the war, and the significance attached to the adverse vote, as there were very few and peopled by races who have General, Hongkong, show that

-At the present time the tenden-average number kept in stock was members present and the Government had intimated that it intended not a power of social organisation American concerns are seeking means a fashion for the girl with silk gloves, those introducing grinding the finest grade of razors, cy in glove styles is to much 12,000. Machinery has been pre- bringing in its own Bill on the subject. The purposes of this Labour which fit then for self-govern- Hongkong connections as listed nothings year, though. Prices fantastic designs done in bright and a recent development, which The cretonne craze is by no trimmed and fancy effects. Infected capable of both forging and Bill were to enable women to hold civil and judicial offices, toment. The question is how are amend the Representation of the People Actof 1918 by providing that these territories to be turned to agents: galangal root; leather made of curtain stuffs and cushion spangles, are the newest. A volume of the trade in cultery is purchasing for dresses and dress adjuncts coloured beads, and sometimes has added considerably to the a woman might have and exercise all such franchises as are conferred the best account and produce the cloth; automobile tires; cigar coverings are high, and there is white silk glove with incrusta the manufacture of cheap table on men by that Act, and to remove the sex and marriage disqualifica- greatest amount of food and other ettes, general import and export; every likelihood that they will go tions of lace in butterly design knives and forks forged out of tions with regard to women sitting and voting in the House of Lords, products for the world's consump glue, gelatine and chemicals; higher. In other words, it was a fairly comprehensive "women's rights" tion? measure, and we should imagine that its provisions would greatly the British Empire from a lending chinery; women's shoes.

The War has converted telephones; tire rebuilding me

supplies an enchanting note. steel in a single piece by machin- At one West End dressmakers, please the suffragette faction.

ery. The discovery of stainless- nation into a borrowing nation. Now, it will be, interesting to analyse one aspect of this mea- Our foreign investments

simple overall frocks made of Time was when white shoes or rust-proof steel, made about and aure, so warmly supported by the Labourites, and at the same time loans to foreign nations before Mr. N. L. Smint this morning of the establishment says that she elegantes are wearing them with materially to the prosperity of cretonze run from four guineas and stockings were relegated to five years ago by a Sheffield A Chinese was charged before upwards, and the lady at the head cotton frocks, but just now all the metallurgist, is also likely to add to see how its underlying principle bears on the general Labour the War gave us attitude on industrial questions. One of the disqualifications which income

an assured with stealing $80 and three gold has orders for more than she can the Bill proposed to remove related to the Civil Service.

this

the black satin frocks "de care-the trade in cutlery.. source rings from another Chinese. Both turn out in ordinary working monie," and very amart they woman, the Bill said, "shall not be disqualified from bolding any sterling per annum. This income coming from Singapore.Defendant garden wear are priced at a for state

of some 200 millions defendant and complainant were hours. Sunbats of cretonne for manage to look in them. Even official or judicial office or place of profit or trust under His Majesty." has been converted by the war borrowed a basket from complain- minimum of 398. 6d. But it is significant that there was no mention in this Labour into an annual charge upon the ant to use as a pillow, and during

Occasions they are quite "de rigueur.”

According to the Times corres- measure of industrial liberty, or, to use the Labour term," emancipa- British Empire" for interest on the voyage he broke open the order for a complete cretonne tion That, apparently, is, from the Trade Union point of view, our foreign indebtedness alone basket and stole the money and toilette-cape, frock, hat, shoes, Parisiennes have recently pinned himself beyond the walls of the

"A lady recently placed an

pondent, the ex-Kaiser is 07- a different story.

tremely nervous and is said to The ostrich tips which the fear being kidnapped if he shows And the thought naturally arises whether, of between 100 and 200 millions rings. He was sentenced to one and hag. Everything was made to their waists or shoulders in the castle, his idea apparently being in their anxiety for the emancipation of women from certain sterling. We have incurred a month's hard labour. legal restraints and disabilities, the Labourites are prepared war debt of some 8,000 millions

very plainly, since such materials evening are now often replaced that he might be carried off in a to advocate complete equality between men and women, whether aterling. We are faced with a

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lend themselves to by large, very soft, rosettes of motor-car or that an aeroplane they are willing to agree that women shall continue their work serious position. Something must"

elaborate styles; nevertheless the ostrich feather centred with paste might descend and snap him up. in all industries, as during the war, so that they shall not be be done to wipe out this load, and deprived of a means of livelihood. We can answer that question Lord Leverhulme's suggestion to.

total cost of the outfit was just or passerpenterie.” These and be off with its treasure like in advance, for we know what the average Trade Unionist thinks develop our Colonial Possessions

on thirty guineas.

rosettes are exceedingly decora-the fabled Roc of the Arabian about women in industry. The test we have mentioned is sufficient is admirably practicable. It can

Cretoune bags are very popular, tive and they are designed to Nighta. We did not expect to. and can be made at home out of I strike & distinct note of unex-to find so quick a parallel to the to demonstrate the inconsistency and insincerity of the Labour not be denied that the develop professions of liberality embodied in the Billa woman may be ment of our Colonies has been During May, Jane and July shops, however, high prices are

left-over remnants at a cost of pected colour. good enough to serve the Crown in any post, but she is not fit for badly neglected in the

practically nothing. At most

case, mentioned in a recent volume of reminiscences, of the free, unrestrained entrance to the workshops of the country, no They are capable of producing and South China War Saving London shop: 258. was the price a gold, studded with diamonds of sparrows. It must be realis

past subscriptions to the Hongkong asked for such things. At one to wHAT

One of the latest crazes is nobleman who fancied he was 3′′ matter how capable she may have shown herself to be!

or band in platinum crumb and went in mortal terror Though the Government defeat on the Bill was not of import and their mineral wealth has not amounted to $150,210 (Hongkong than a third of a yard of cretonne, worn on the upper arm. A constitute a real difficulty when

enormous quantities of foodstuffs

Association by its ance, it demonstrated lack of Ministerial co-ordination. One of the been by any means sufficiently Currency); $70,890.74 (Straits some bone rings, and a piece of venturesome lady exploited the the question of the ex-Kaiser

members asked for a bag made from less or precious stones. It is ed, however, that, aircraft do clapses of the Bill proposed the extension of the Parliamentary exploited. franchise to women on the same conditions as men. The Govern

Currency): £3,230 19 10 ribbon. At seaside resort cult of "chic by sppearing with a future comes to be consider ment objected to that proposal on the ground that, if enacted, it

(Sterling) fo would make an early dissolution necessary. On the other hand,

recently some plainly, made necklet of diamonds, wom with a St. Helens, only 1-206 These amounts, were invested cretonne workbags drawn up on tight black charmense skirt, the African coast, is no longer

from there was the Government pledge, given during the election, of a

in Straits Settlement War Loan a cord, jumped from 18. 6d. to 75. weighted with a fringe. The plain safe prison in days

One of the chief reasons urged on the slightly decollete reck Bends and British War Loan. 6d. each in three days! corsage had a fringed cape, and and airships

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WAR SAVINGS.

MORE HONGKONG. SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Association is now 1306.

in favour of cretonne, upholstery The total amounts now subs-linen, and spok cribed are

further concession of equal rights to women, and in face of that TYPHOON WARNING. The membership of the pledge many members of the Coalition would not cast a vote which tht be construed as contrary to it. But the House was influenced ize to deprive the advocates of direct action of kich they might manufacture from an * Mizitiam in election times and Minis,

Robert Cecil said, the great thi Area Country the recognition of

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