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NOTES & COMMENTS.

HONGKONG-WAR MEDAL,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1919.

DAY BY DAY.

THINGS YOU BUY CHEAP" YOU |HOLD IN CHEAP ESTEEM,

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The suggestion thrown out

The wedding is announced to yesterday by a correspondent, to the effect that Hongkong men take place abortly of Mr. R. Q

Hutchison

Miss Rose who during the war have done double duty, as civilians and as Blenheim Jupp en route from citizen saldiers, should bave England. granted to them something to

"A European Resident" (Kong- show for their service, is, one which we

can thoroughly en-moon). As the correspondence dorse. Now, Er-Service" has referred to did not appear in the seen fighting in Flanders and is Telegraph, we have passed your a new comer to Hongkong. He, letter on to one of the papers therefore, approaches the ques-concerned.

tion quite disinterestedly and is

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something. asking for

There was a marked dealine

for himself. From recent in the number of cases of gastro- announcements, it would enteritis yesterday-eight, with appear to be quite clear that six deaths. Five fatal cases of those men who during the war cholera were also reported. All have done service in the Defence were Chinese.

Corps, who were, strictly speak-

ing.

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Last evening at about 5 o'clock and on active service, who could not be spared from a Chinese woman jumped down their ordinary avocations, will from the second storey of 50, not be entitled to any of the war Haiphong Road, into the street. medals, merely because they She sustained severe injuries to have not been in Afighting her ankle. The motive of her act theatre. It may be the intention is not known, but it is presumed it of the Government here to give was a case of attempted suicide. them something to show what

Two women they did in the war, which is

were charged what "Ex-Service" wants done; before Mr. N.L. Smith to-day if so, we think the time has come with unlawful passession of when some statement should quantity of percussion caps, Atammunition, and labels of opium. be made on the subject. Home, the authorities have Mr. d'Almads appeared for the

A remand disclosed their intentions; why defendants.

granted till Monday the 8th inst. Bail was fined at $1,000 each.

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giving a special matinee this service should have a certificate afternoon at the Victoria Theatre at which the prices will be $2 and not always be in Hongkong, and 81. Children will be admitted at occasions might in the future half price. This versatile troupe arise when a document of this were again greeted with a full that they sort would be of the greatest value. house last night, and there is At Home, in public and other every indication appointments, preference is being will experience similar good for- given in innumerable instances to ture to-night. To-morrow there ex-Service men, so that a Hong-will be a complete change of kong man going Home and propramme. having nothing to show either

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1919.

KOWLOON'S FLAT-DWELLERS.

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that he has done war service or A Chinese was to-day sentenc- has been rejected, would be at a led to six weeks' hard labour by

A little boy's navy blue linen from the shoulders without a belt. practical frocks are cool an disadvantage as well as being Mr. R. E. Lindsell for stealing a placed in a most uncomfortable bag of rice. Inspector Macdonald tunic piped with white, is shown It has a sailor collar which is pretty, materialised in pink or

An effective frock position if he happened to be stated that this morning at 2.30 at the left of our illustration. quite deep and wide, and bouffant blue mercerised cotton. applying for such a billet. In any o'clock defendant was seen pas- The short knickers are white sleeves that extend only half way case, bearing in mind that we sing by No.- Police Station, also, reversing the usual order. of to the elbow. The blue applica- little girl is made of blue and constable. He things. His tiny sister wears ations are set on at intervals white jersey. The corsage is of shall for many years be hearing by a Chinese the query "What did you do în asked where he had obtained charming frock of voile with three around the foot of the trock and blue and short waisted, and is cut in the two corners of the sailor with a shallow-round neck long from. He said little muslin trills. the war?" it would seem to be the

Little girls are keeping pace collar. They are cut in the form on the shoulders, kimono sleeves" only fair play that all who have he stole it, and took the police to been rejected on medical grounds the place. When they got there with their mothers as regards of very blunt pointed stars, or reaching just below the elbow. should have a document to that they found that the staircase pretty summer dresses, and in the one might perhaps better say, in and quite wide. It is finished effect supplied to them: There partition was broken, and the bag striped and checked voile frocks circles, which have been five only with a small turned back that are now being worn, they pointed. The applications are cuff of the jersey. The tiny skirt must be records of all who were of rice was extracted.

look very charming. These little held in place by stitchery in anot very full, and is fastened on the "turned down." It should thus

bodice without girdle or other be a very simple matter to issue At the Police Court to-day a frocks are very simply made, the different coloured blue.

A white pique suit for a small trimming and a narrow band of such certificates

Chinese was charged with steal top being magyar fashion, with no ing a quantity of clothing from trimming at all, for the pattern of boy has the pockets of the very blue finishes the bottom. There ICE HOUSE STREET.

his companions. It appears that the voile is in itself sufficient short pantaloons ornamented with are two large pockets of the blue

jersey on the skirt. Some little time ago, we sugg they were all carpenters, and ornamentation. White, mustard, vari-coloured embroidery,

A charming little suit for a small ested that the portion of Ice living in the

house. red-brown and black, black and design being two crossed mallets

boy is made of green jersey House Street connecting Queen's Yesterday when two of the com-white, cerise white and black, are and a ball.

The chief thing to bear in mind trimmed with buttonholing. in We have of late been dealing with some of the deficiences from and Des Voeux Roads should be plainants had gone to work, the some of the colourings that are which Kowloon suffers because we know that the community living closed to vehicular traffic of all defendant did not go, but collected exceedingly effective for small when dressing children is that all darker green wool. The suit has With these are, clothes should be comfortable and very short, wide pantaloons which there keenly feels the need of many things being put right and kind. We desire to renew that all the complainants' clothing. maiden's frocks. because these residents believe that Kowloon's wants are always plea, because the terribly con. He was arrested on board the worn prettily shaped straw hats, suitable. Have originality, but are cut in wide scallops on the and never on any account ignore with the wool buttonholing. The being neglected. It is this feeling which has inspired the wish for gested state of the traffic in this Ching Chau in the afternoon. many of them with a Directoire do not let it verge on the freakish, lower edge this edge being finished a special representative on the Legislative Council, concerning bit of thoroughfare has been When he saw the police approach tendency.

A pretty frock of white linen a child's expressed dislike for a blouse resembles a short smock.-

There is a square yoke bordered which we hope more will be heard in the near future. From the impressed upon us again and ing, he jumped into the water,

The fashions for children are with the wool buttonholing, stranger visiting the Colony and seeing how cramped the island of again of late. The police who do and would have been drowned, is bordered with a bias band of particular style or colour. Hongkong is, the remark always comes that on the mainland there point duty in this locality will had it not been for a seaman of rose linen. This is for a tiny.

Mr. N. L. Smith girl and made with a bebee waist always modelled to a great extent sleeves also tordered with wool should be plenty of scope for expansion and for the erection of admit that there is more trouble the boat, résidences. The stranger is right; there is plenty of room, but yet with traffic in this one spot than sentenced him to six weeks' hard and short, moderately full skirt. on the styles of the moment, and and a fairly full lower part The rose linen forma & band as all our dresses this season are gathered on the square oke. The no houses of the type required are built. Even where residences in any other place in the city. The labour.

around the neck and is brought simple in line, it follows that the blouse is not belted and is finished have been put up, no well-ordered scheme of town-planning has been road is narrow and there are no kept in view, with the result that the whole place presents a confus-pavements whatever. Pedestrians Having been entrusted with down the front at one side half children's fashions are equally on the lower edge with button-

holed scallops. management of way to the belt. The frock is charming and wearable.

Silk and woollen jerseys and Another suit for a boy has very ed and bedraggled appearance, If we except the main road. It is and rickshas, chairs and motor-the business this housing question upon which we wish to make a few observa care get hopelessly mixed up, travelling arrangements for the open here and is fastened with tions, for one thing is certain-that this issue is sure to be raised if and the place is in a constant World's Seventh Sunday School three rose covered buttons. The jumpers in all colours are also short trousers of. black jersey there is any useful result from the proposed public meeting.

state of uproar. Now, are condi- Convention at Zurich in 1913. rose linen is used also to border useful for the youthful person's which are worn with a pleated These are usually blouse of white pique which bas a Thos Cook and Son the skirt and the sleeves and to wardrobe. Kowloon is now studded with flats. That is a relatively new tions of this kind pleasant to Messrs.

made with a belt. The play-frock plain yoke with a straight line of development. We well remember when the first buildings of this anybody? Obviously hey are not. have been appointed by the form the girdle.

Another dainty frock for a little with knickers to match is now embroidery defining it and orna- type were erected. No-one then imagined that within so short a Then why not do the sensible Transportation Committee of the time a very big proportion of the peninsula's residents would be thing and restrict traffic here to Eighth World's Convention as girl is of white mousseline with made in loose tanic style, and ments of buttons. The yoke ex- flat-dwellers. But that is the situation to-day. Now, to our way pedestrians? We know that this travel agent for the Convention applications of blue mousseline. not with the kilted skirt that was tends over the shoulders in square of thinking, flats are not the best type of residences in a place like is the age of rush and bustle, but to take place in Tokyo, Japan, The little frock hangs straight worn this. They are all right, and they fill a very necessary place, in we cannot believe that time is so during October, 1920. large cities where suitable building sites are very few. But they very precious that the extra resources of the firm's world-wide

has recently been are an anachronism in such a spot as Kowloon, where there are couple of minutes involved in organisation wil be placed at the

into car busy thoroughfares & Brigade refreshing suggestion of the unearthed at Marlborough House. acres upon acres of ground and where, if development proceeded using either Pedder Street or disposal of delegates and their

The sketch recalls the fact that 29 & means friends who anticipate attendance on rightful lines, we should see pleasant little residences, Wardley Street

when he was a young man getting from each with its own grounds, dotted all over the place. Flat-of

Queen's at Tokyo. A series of attractive

Lovers of old time practices

There is a characteristic story King Edward was very fond of dwellera seldom know what quietude is; if the next-door neighbour Road to Des Voeur Road, or vice tours are being arranged. The is not having ejamboree" some-one in the block is, whilst there is versa, is going either to hurt or number of delegates expected to will be interested to know that, never quite the same privacy about a flat as there is to be rain anybody, not even our broker attend from America varies from within three miles of the city, a told of King George. Just prior attending fires in the Metropolis. obtained in one's own house. But the flat evil has even over- friends. That we are earnest in one thousand to fifteen hundred thatcher is now busily engaged to the war a member of his house- He used to accompany Biz Eyre lapped into areas where there are four and five-roomed houses, this plea will be evident when we in addition to which there will be in putting a new roof on a charm-hold arrived at Buckingham Massey Shaw, who was at that The King stely His Majesty gave up his well over 200 years ago, says the ptuous motor-car.

owing to residences of this type being very commonly " shared" nowadays say that the abort cut through delegates from Europe, India, ing old Camberwell cottage, built Palace in a new and very sum-time head of the brigade. Ultim- by two families. This was never originally intended, of course, but this bit of street is very handy for etc.

Morning Post. The thatched happened to see the car standing exciting excursions there is the fact. It is a consequence of the shortage of houses and the Telegraph, whose offices are the tremendously high rentals prevailing.

situate 80 near it. But when

A Chinese was to-day charged, house, probably the last of its kind in the quadrangle and passed to Queen Victoria's fear that he Now, does anyone suppose that people live in flats or half-rickshaing, we shall not mind before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, with in London, stands in the middle admire it, the owner respectfully might meet with an accident,

Where are you going to live houses because they prefer it to residence in a self-contained going round the other way if the attempting to steal a quantity of of Camberwell-Grove, which at saluting him. His Majesty ex- one time formed part of the amined it most critically, asked house? Obviously they do not. They are forced to do so by stress restriction we suggest is enforced, rice. Inspector Macdonald stated of circumstances because there is nothing else left them except We make the plea purely in the that at 7a.m. yesterday, a Chinese grounds of Lettsom House. Joba various questions respecting its when you are married, Lily!" it be hotel-life, where home comforts are few. The trouble, so far interests of the community and was following his coolie who was Lettsom, who lived there in the make, horse-power, and so forth. a lady said to her servant, who as Kowloon is concerned, is that it would not pay to erect the better control of street traffic. carrying a bag of rice, when latter part of the Eighteenth When these details had been had just shyly given a week's houses in the outlying parts of the peninsula, even if sites could be Now, will the C.SP. think the three men came up to him and Century, was one of the most given to him he gave a sigh which notice. In California, ma'am,

asked him "Will you give us $3 extraordinary men of his day. seemed to come from his boots, said Lily. "In California Isn't cheaply obtained, because the means of communication are poor, idea over ?

for tes money?" The man said A Quaker physician and a great and said, "I would like to have that rather risky! They have When the tramway comes, however, we hope to see many small

he would not do so.. They philanthropist, he used to sign one like that, if I could afford it!" so many earthquakes and violent disturbances there, you know.” bungalows, each with its garden, spring into being at points from

then said: "If you do not his prescriptions "I Lettsom, which quick transit to the ferry would be assured. Then we should

GUN WITH 100-MILE RANGE.

give us the money" we will which signature occasioned the They are starting. A German The more the merrier, ma'am, " have living conditions much more suited to the place than the

firm with headquarters in Ham was the cheerful answer. Lily Faris, July 18-The Commiss- steal your bag of rice. He re- following doggerel. interminable blocks of flats now existing in Kowloon From this

sentiment. It ain't standpoint, we are sorry that the Government scheme comes within ion of Inquiry on Metallurgy and fused again, and the defendant "When any patients call in haste, burg advertises exriare, only you surprise me! What a shock- the category of flats. The ideal arrangement would have been the Briey Basin, yesterday heard then ripped the bag open with Iphysics, bleeds, and sweats em; European agents dealt with" in ing either for the Government to erect small bungalows and let them M. Bourgoin, Chief Naval Eng- a knife, whilst the other two men If, after that, they choose to die, at reasonable rents, or to advance funds to bona fide residents with ineer, who stated that he could got away with a good quantity Why, what cares I? which to build, repayment to be made at a rate somewhat compar-easily have made a gan with of it. A district watchman saw

It was here where the hero of able to what is now spent in rents, the houses eventually to become range of 100 miles for the purpose what had happened and arrested the property of the occupants. But perhaps this is so much idle of bombarding the Germans at the defendant. He had a pre-William Black's romantic novel Madcap Violet" stayed, and the dreaming. Be that as it may, Kowloon cries aloud for better Briey, thus preventing their housing accommodation, and that is a point which will, we are sure, carrying out industrial operations Mr. Lindsell sentenced him to cottage and grounds are fully be emphasised in the campaign which will shortly open to secure in that district. His plans, how three months hard labour, and described therein. The house is

aver, were refused.

four hours' stocks.

indeed a singular sight, and brings better treatment for the people across the harbour.

All the

vious conviction against him.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

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indulging in angry wards over it. My young man's the & Straits paper. Straits people are sentituent, ma'am, but hard fact, It is a typically Hunnish trick to reporter, and he says attack the patriotic Briton through describin parish meetings

such-like musty things gives him the miserable. So he goi his stomach Englishman,

An old drawing of the late place where there's mora ch King Edward in the uniform of a of an eruption or a big fireman in the London Fire to give him a rise in the