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Hongkong Telegraph.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919.
日六廿月七
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS,
"KOWLOON NOTES.
FRENCH AMBITIONS IN SYRIA.
GREAT BRITAIN GIVES ASSURANCES.
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Paris, September 16. Temporary arrangements regarding Syris have been agreed to by France and Great Britain, providing for the replacement of British troops by French and assurances that Great Britain will support French desires for a mandate over Syria.
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M. Clemenceau and Mr. Lloyd George have reached a temporary agreement regarding the disposition of French and British troops.in
Turkey:
The British will withdraw their troops to Lower Syria and Palestine, leaving the French in Syria.
The French, will negotiate with Emir Feycal concerning the exact boundaries they will occupy-Hards.
ALLIED ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY.
IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM LITHCANIA
DEMANDED.
Faris, September 16.
Marshal Foch was present at both the sessions of the Council of Fire. He was instructed to send a Note to Germany announcing that the Allies hold Germany responsible for the occupation of Lithuania, the Nate to be in the nature of an ultimatum and order ing German troops to be withdrawn immediataly-Havas.
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ANXIOUS EYES TOWARDS UNITED STATES.
PRANCE WAITING TO KNOW AMERICAN PEACE ATTITUDE. Paris, September 16. Some French critics hold that the French Chamber is prolonging the debate on the ratification of the Peace Treaty because the Government wishes to know what the United States will do with the Treaty-Hatos.
THE MARSEILLES STRIKE.
EIGHT-HOUR DAY ACCEPTED.
"Paris, September 16. The dockers strike has ceased, the dockers having accepted the employers" offer for an eight-hour day.--Haws.
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
FLYING FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA.
PREPARATIONS IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS,
Singapore, September 18.
Kowloon Cricket Club beat the Police Recreation Club, in the Bowls League, last Saturday, by 20 points. This is last match of the season to be played by the K.CC., before the holding of the annual general meeting, which is to take place on the 30th inst.
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Chinese Paderewskis and Indian gin-drinkers who whine. They seem to choose the hour, also, when all the roosters to the neighbourhood are debating the probable representatives for the Legislative Council honours, roosters with and without an idea of decent harmony and roosters which must assuredly have swallowed, alive, a few buck frogs to judge by the intermingling of notes. The best time for listen-
There are many matters of iming to this latest jazz is 3 m; port to be discussed at the annual numerous budding musicians meeting of the K.CC. The new-having then ceased the four- ly elected officials, whoever they finger exercise on cheap pianos. may be, will have a strepnous These Kowloon "notes," Sir, Bre year before them. In addition to well worth airing, and all a large increase in membership, concerned deserve their due re- many old adherents to the Club ward; instant death. I know & have returned to the Colony and few old soldiers who intend to the new membership for the organise night raids on some of forthcoming year is expected to the parties, and if the raids exceed all previous records.
are successful each participant should receive the O.B.E. at least.
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In this connection we under- stand that at the forthcoming
Them's our sentiments exactly. meeting, the question of the The other night we ourselves erection of a new Club House, or were subject to two solid hours pavilion, will be discussed. The of impromptu limericks, lurid present pavilion has, for some and
to the tute two or three years past, been of found inadequate and there is not The pianist (sic) must be one of Brown's Body."; the slightest doubt that any pro- those gentry who go in for posal for a more up-to-date club”” house will meet with general without-a-stop stunts. We feel playing-the-piano-for-24-hours-
approval.
sure he would create a record. ], He played "John Brown's Body" in the bass, he played it in the treble, he played it with varia tions, he played it without varia tions and we counted forty repetitions without a" break Seriously, this sort of thing is not good enough and it ought to be stopped.
Arrangements are complete for the cricket season, and nets are now up for practice.
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We are asked to state that members of the K.C.C. desirous of playing cricket should send in their names to the Hon. Secre- tary. Also, members wishing to join the Golf Section, should intimate their desires to the Hon. Secretary of that saction.
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Just before going to press, we learn that there will be amembers practice cricket match to-morrow commencing at 2.30. It is hoped that all members interested will turn up. The two elevens will be scratch teams and selected on the ground before the match.
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The annual meeting of Wigwam on
Tennis Club will be held Saturday next, the 27th-
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Another matter to which o47 attention has been called sad to which we have previously raferred, is the practicing of bars.
the ball catching on
open space facing Salisbury Road. The would-be "catchers" catch about one in five and we have several times noticed the missed ball go perilously near little children who play on the ground. The spot is no place for base-ball, The game should be played or practiced in a place specially set apart for the purpose.
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A Kowloon resident has sup- -Some time ago we referred, in plied us with an interesting this column, to the fact that we example of the loyalty of some had applied to the military autho- Chinese during the war. Our in- an officer of the rities for information as to what formant was use it was intended to make of Police Reserve, and during the of the plot of ground adjoining war, part of his duty, as "Warn- the Kowloon Godown Company's ing Officer," was to send to each property outside the Ferry member notifications of duties, He approached one Wharf, and when the dirty hoard- each week. ing which enclosed the plot was of the principal Chinesa em- likely to be removed. We also ployees of the firm in which he stated that after kicking our was engaged and asked if some In connection with the Daily Mail competition for £10,000 for heels for the best part of an hour coolies could be supplied to de- the first successful airman to fly from London to Australia, Capt. outside the sanctum of one of liver the notices. The Chinese Rigby and Lieut. Bryce were to have started, in a small Martynside the Military officials we were told replied to the effect that he was two-seater, fitted with Boats, from London on September 8 under the that no information could be too old to fight or to take any active part in helping to win the war but said that every man must- help the King somehow. He some work of military importance free of charge to deliver the Naturally, we assumed that thereupon supplied three coolies was going on, the details of which notices. Good Man! it would be inadvisable to make public, although it was pretty generally known in Hongkong and Kowloon for what purpose the Military authorities original- ly acquired the land.
auspices of the Royal Aero Club, Pall Mall. The airmen are due to vouchsafed on the subject. arrive here on September 23.
The Borneo Co. has charge of the landing and the probable sites will be the Racecourses both at Penang and Singapore. The sirmen are also calling at Rangoon and Bateria
. Should sayone sight the machine in difficulty, he is asked to immediately wire to the Inspector General of Police or the Borneo Co. Expenses will be refunded.
ANOTHER EX-GERMAN SHIP.
Singapore, September 18. The 8.8. Stolberg, another ex-German merchantman, now flying the Inter-Allied flag, arrived here from Dutch waters yesterday. This makes twelve of these vessels to arrive. Two have left.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
PREPARING FOR GERMAN TRADE.
Shanghai, September 19.. It has been decided to abolish the regulations in regard to commerce and property against German and Austrian subjects ag the first step to be taken in the peace attitude towards them, and that the word “enemy "shall not be used again in documents.
NORTH V. SOUTH.
Shanghai, September
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Plans have now been completed, and work will be put in hand almost immediately, for the erection of a new fire station in Kowloon, next to the Post Office on Salisbury Road. The building However, the deadly "secret" is will contain all the most up-to- now out. Instead of forts and guns date appliances, including work it is latrines and richsha shelters, rooms etc, and will consist of two down and the P.W.D. is to build 60 feet. There will be sufficient ac The hoarding is now being pulled storeys with a frontage of about an additional latrine and shelters commodation on the ground floor for ricksha coolies. We must for four engines. On the top floor be careful the enemy does not there will be two rooms for the get hold of this information!
accomodation, of firemen. The structure will be, of course, fire proof, composed chiefly of re- inforced concrete. It has not yet been decided how many engines will be stationed there, but it is. assumed there will be at least two new motor engines, in secage and probably a police ambulance will also find accommodation in the building.
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The new works will be of the same character as the existing shelter and when complete, will add to the general cleanly appear ance of the approach to the Farry wharf, and, we trust, assist in keeping the rickaba coolies in order.
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But perhaps there is more in the matter than meets the eye. The new quarters for European. Government servants which have
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BINGLE COPY: 10 CTS $36 PERANN UM.
to secure certain figures from KOWLOON MEETING. TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
USE OF MASONIC HALL REFUSED.
souros, in fact the only possilbe sourds, from whence reliabls information could be obtained on this point (and it is not a Govern ment source) Roughly, the total resales about one thousand. This is the minimum figure. A more
With regard to the movement generous estimate would add for holding a public meeting of another five hundred, but we pre-Kowloon residents on the subject of fer to be on the eafe side.
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Kowloonites be blamed for asking In view of these facts, can
that they should have a repre- sentative on the Council to look after their needs?. The present state of affairs has been going on for the past three or four years and yet we have only just got the promise of adequate measures for dealing with fire. Are we to wait another three or four years before we get a hospital? ·
We firmly believe that it is by pure chance we have even gat our fire station. If the position of C. S. P. had not, luckily, bean
filled by a man of extraordinary energy and ability, Hongkong might have fiddled whilst Kow- loon burned.
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the representation of Kowloon on the Legislative Council, we hear use of the Masonic Hall, Kowloon, that the application made for the
for the purpose has been refused, on the ground that a clanse in the lease prevents the use of the Hall for any other than Masonic purposes.
We understand that an effort will now most likely be made to secure the use of a room in the City Hall, in which event the meeting will probably be confined to Kowloon residents
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Trade Enquiry List No 122, issued by the American Con- salate General, Hongkong, shows In all fairness, however, it must that American concerns are sæek- be said that our worthy C.S.P. has fing Hongkong connections. in given tangible evidence that he is never-skid tires; typewriter. more or less alive to the condition ribbons and carbon paper, of things in Kowloon. It cannot karosene, gasoline, lubricating be denied that the Peninsula has pils and cup greases inks, been terribly neglected in many stationery and paste, match directions and this has no doubt making machinery. pianos; been due to the ignorance of the mirrors and plate glass, railroad officials of the rapid growth of the signaling and interlocking; food community on the mainland. The products; general representation: -C.S.P. has taken the trouble wood products, cotton; cereals;
to see for himself and the new oils, greases, etc... Fire Station is one of the results
A correspondent writes s been erected at King's Park, just { follows:-I do not know whether behind the existing block on Cox's you are a light or heavy sleeper Path, will be ready for occupation but if the former you must often by the end of the current month. be impressed by the variety The buildings comprise six five- of Kowloon's night music roomed bouges. Bousa's band in a death
be | grapple with the latest Broadway
Tuan: Ki-sui's party has declare that if peace can!" concluded in Shanghai, it will mobilise the Participating Ara. Abo | Jazz pales before this midn
emy, the Fengtai Army and the An Mu Army to fight | and encly morning cher
of his inspections.
But one man cannot tackle the think of whole job, and everything. The C. 8. P. has
plenty to think about in connec should be used for the purpos a tion with Hongkong and he wants referred to, would create a furore somebody to help him do the amongst Church-goers. I think thinking so far as Kowloon is it a pity the suggestion was concerned. That "somebody" is ever made." the representative we want on the Legislative Council.
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There has been another out- break of "barracking" amongst **Church-goer" writes:-"Ithe ricksha.coolies outside the regret I cannot agree with Star Ferry Wharf and the awful the remarks of Robert McWhirter muddle that takes place when the in connection with the refusal of evening ferries bring across the the St. Andrew's Church Vestry | workers from Hongkong is appali- to allow the Church Hall to be ing. One gentleman, the other day, used for the purpose of holding a nearly had his eye poked out by political meeting. I think any the shaft of a ricksha Church officials would adopt the necessary to point out again to sams attitude. The argument the authorities that the place that the Hall was presented to the where regulation is most needed public and not to any particular is immediately outside the body (and I do not admit landing stage. A Chinese con- the accuracy of that statement) stable running up and down the does not hold good. The Hall length of the shelter with a stick was undoubtedly intended as a only make confusion worse con. gift to assist in Church work, not founded. One would think that for holding public meetings of the ricksha proprietors would any, kiad. I am quite certain take a little more trouble in the that the officials of Union Church matter themselves. One morning would take the same stand as they will wake up to find that St. Andrew's Church have done, they have to meet a heavy claim and I should imagine that if there for damages from a person who were a hall attached to St. John's has lost the sight of an eye or Cathedral, any suggestion that it something of that sort.
FOREIGN
COMPETITION
The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 45./I 11-16d..
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SLANDER ACTION:
JUDGMENT RESERVED.
The bearing of the case in. which A'da Souza," of Messrs. Hastings, Hodge and Co., claims $1,000 damages for slander from, Chan Puk-kwong, compiadore of the same firm, was resumed this morning before Mr. Justice Melbourne.
Yeung Ngai-hing, a share- bruker, stated in the witness bar. in reply to Mr. Davidson, that he was acquainted with the parties in the action.. He was in the compradore's offica of Messrs. Hastings and Hodge. on a date early in August. On about the 1st or 2nd of August he went to the office to ask for risksha money. Ab Kau came in for payment, The compradore asked for commission. Ah Kau replied that he could not give it as someone in the office instructed him to made out the bill different to the original bill. If he gave commission he would lose money. That was all that passed. He did not know whether Ah Kau was paid or not.
By Mr, LoHe was standing by the compradors's desk. Twe other men were present. He di notsee plaintiff entertheroom.“Ah Kau came in for his money.. He did not, notice an account book in Ab Kau's hand. He was a disinterested witness. He re- membered going to Ab Kau's house with the compradore to discuss the case.
He advised ther, as friends, to settle the case. Mr. LoYes. So much for your disinterestedness!
By Mr. Davidson-He took no part in the discussion between the compradors and Ah Khu.
Cheng Lok-u, `a clerk in Hastings Hodge, and Co., ex- ployed in the compradore depart- ment, said he knew Ah Kan when the latter came for his money. not before. He naked Ah Kau to pay commission, but it was re- - fraod. The compradors asked the reason commission was refused. Ah Kau then replied that if he were asked to. pay commission arain he would lose money. The compradore, seeing that Ah Kau would lose," and as the one per cent. 000- mission was so small, gare Ah Kau the cheque. Ah Kan said the orginal bill not such as
he was instructed to make it out after wards by somebody in the office.
By Mr. Lo-Ah Kau did not [say to witness-that the price of {the flags had been cut down. The compradore did not ask Ah Kau to explain what he meant by his statement in coniection' with the alteration of the bill; He did not bear Ar Kau tell the compradore that the contract wak made on condition that the price should be net and that nothing- should be deducted.
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Mr. LoAb Kai has stated that from the witnes hor
Witness--I did not hear him, say it in the compradoss's office. Addressing the Court, MrS Davidson said he took the poti tion that the innuendo was too wide and therefore plaint must fail. Elie Loki decide whether the def invented the story, that the evident
to support that.
Mr. Lo said that Mr. Hodge
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