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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10: 1919,

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ONLY · COWARDS FIGHT INTO HIS NEPHEW AT HOME no time for the man, who, having may be feeble so far as general

PORT IMPROVEMENTS.

After

comments of CROWDS. Wednesday on the necessity of a policy of progressive action in regard to the development of Hongkong as a port, the article

There was a clean bill of health in Hongkong yesterday.

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which we yesterday reprinted The Chinese national flag has from a Shanghai shipping journal been much in evidence ir. Hong- on the same subject was par- kong to-day, which ticularly apropos. Both Shanghai aaniversary of the establishment the and Hongkong, as our Northern of the Chinese Republic. contemporary says, have this much in common: that both ports The s.s. War Trooper is to be 25 YEARS IN WOOD. require the utmost watchfulness launched at Kowloon Docks to- on the part of the authori-morrow morning. Lady Rees ties, lest, by lagging behind Davies is to perform the the developments of ship con- ceremony. struction, they become superseded

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1919.

SHOWING A WAY.

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rescinded the decree declaring Hongkong an infected port on account of plague.

ated hernia after they're deliver- the Scottish middle classes than it, didn't he, eh? Well can't he

strain on the system.

Man, I've some respect for a bad no need to keep throwing water man when he keeps the black on a drowned mouse. Like the flag flying to the end, but I've got Labour group in Parliament, they

had a good time when he was political procedure is concerned, able, turns moralist, and parson but to do the men justice-all "Hongkong, Oct. 1919.

is his declining years. Take the Labour men that is-they are Dear Alick,They're a' Scots- sweet Psalmist of Israel forever busy on their own trade- men," says he.

Look here for instance. What a beauti- union affairs-no light task mind Mac, says I. "I might need ful character Was his. If ye sad its hard for them to glasses of a night time but I he hadns fought Goliath and understand even the olementary harna noticed anything wrong gotten a swollen head there facts o' business. The Economist didna think I'd mistake it for him. But wi' the sinking of you; The Railway strike is one more way hearing up to now. e might have been some hope for doesna' sell like a picture paper, for Hindustani did yo?" It was wee pebble into the forehead of lesson to Labour in that our in- then that he started blithering the Champion of the Philistines, dustrial situation cannot be settled about bowls being the Royal and the blood lust was roused in by extremists or by noise-makers. Ancient game, so I let him tighten the breast of this Biblical hero. It can only be ended by the up his spring- bit before I re- If there's any doubt in your mind rigorous application of the tenets minded him about Drake on regarding him, turn up the Books of commonsense

and fairplay. Plymouth Roe stopping to draw of Samuel. No Chinese pirate We must not forget that the mind's by others and fall back to the The Chinese Y.M.C.A. is to-day the jack before setting out to could ever hope to emulate his of working folks have been position of mere ports of call for celebrating the first anniversary isarrange the Spanish Armada deeds. Did ye ever hear of his neglected for the past five years. ressels in the coasting trade. We of the opening of ite new build-That brought him up wi' a round brigandage while staying wi' the It's no fair to suddenly expect should like to think that Hong-ing. There will be indoor sports he's no glib.

tum but Macpherson's nothing if people of Gath; his blackmailing them to think wi' the exactitude "Aye." says he. of Nabol: the terrible atrocities of stable-trained logicians. The "that's the chap. question with the same, thorough-present,

Him that he perpetrated when taking the fact that there was so little invented tobacco." nese that Shanghai intends doing.

"Aye," says Cities of Ammon; his carry-on damage done in the last strike I drily," the very same." There. sum of three hundred The following telegramı was

wi Uriah's wife, his six other compels us to admit that many of "Look here," says I, after I'd wives and uncountable thousand taels has been set aside received by the American Con-

con- the discontented men might fairly- for investigation, by expert en-sulate General, Hongkong, from given him time to tidy up his cubines? Even on his deathbed be called sportsmen.

I've aye gineers, of the question of improv- the Manila Observatory at 9.30 mind a bit. "seeing you know so he handed over a few odd curses said that the rudiments of fair- much about bowls being a Scotch to his son Solomon to carry on play are rooted in their minds. ing the approaches and berthing a.m. to-day Low pressure area

game, can you tell me how it is for him, which be did. He What is there accommodation of the port. Ship-over North China Sea.

to-day 鞭 that they didna' christen the wee was the chap that had ping_and__Engineering suggests

even cultivate and strengthen those white bowl a 'jock' when they more With characteristic enterprise.

wives than his old minds? During the war working that the Hongkong Government

Why the Palace Hotel, Kowloon, has were at it?" Mac's still thinking dad. Well, maybe that wasna folks were allowed to drift about should follow this lead.

over that one. We have been told that arranged another dance for to-

The answer's due altogether bis fauit, for what onyhow, liva not?

onyhow. read the authorities here have secured morrow right. The band of the about next Wednesday and I'm could ye expect from the son of onything and listen to Socialist huge sum of money from the ss. Nile is to play during dinter only hoping, for his sake, that he an adulterous mother and a poly-spouters by the score, and then we

doesna let it loose shipping control scheme. some of and at the dance. See advt.

on Mrs. gamous father? No, the Songs expect them to be fair, patient, which is to be spent on the.

Macpherson in the middle of the of Buras if ye like, but I draw the virtuous, unselfish and all the rest housing problem. To what better An old man, 65 years of age, night or he'll catch it, mind I'm line at the lessons from the of it. During the war they got or more appropriate purpose was to-day before Mr. R. E telling J. Mac says that bowls Psalms of an ex-bandit, ex-black- some surplus money among their could this money be devoted than Lindsell, charged with committ- is an old man's game, but when-mailer, perjurer and roue. "By fingers for the first time. A lot of ever I tell him he's about their works ye shall know them." it was not well spent, but it's no the investigation of the port's ing an indecent assault on a little

As for Burns, if we are to take easy to expect a working man needs and the carrying out of girl. The case was remanded till due to make a start at it, he aye an adequate programme of in- Friday, bail of $1,000 being fixed. things both ways you know, will have to get busy, for, apart short experience of a

takes offence. Ye canna have him for our mentor, Scot's folks and his family who have had a -better Provercents? We trust that the

The Dutch Consul General besides I'm about sick and tired from a saying or two and maybe a standard a' life to shut their eyes authorities will give sympathetic

informs us that, according to hearing the game libelled that couple of songs, Burnsania has to it altogether. You see Mrs. consideration to this suggestion. BLUFF AND SIDE-STEPPING....

telegraphic advice, the Nether. There's few men in this been sadly neglected. How many Jones next door has now got a

Colony in their primo lands Indian Government has

that Scotsmen know the words of piano in her parlour, so why When it was first suggested

bowls

couldna give @ stiff "Auld Lang Syne." for instance. shouldn't Mrs. Smith have one. leg to the next day, after the first Precious few. In Scotland how too. Nay more, why shouldn't ference should be resumed, after

time of playing. Another thing, many

working men's Burns Mrs. Smith put her neighbour's the abortive attempt by North

the man wi a foreshortened Clubs are there? Just as few. nose out of joint by buy and South to come to an under-

vocabulary is no' earthly use as No, it's Rapers just arrived from

a curious thing that ing a sealskin coat-the upstart ? standing, we indicated that the Bangkok are full of descriptions it's the only game I know of that the ploughman's bard and cares less about the economio a bowler. What's more forbye, though Burns was of the people Old man Smith doesn't know and gathering was not likely to be of Bangkok's Peace Celebrations, needs action to fit the words. It was very fruitful of results, as there held on September 21. The

their guide, philosopher climax likely to evolve from were grounds for believing that celebrations synchronised with beats me how some of yon players and friend, so to speak, his works such luxurious purchases. It's the real efforts a: settlement were the return of the Siamese Er- don't give themselves strangul- have become more of a cult wi' his money isn't it; he worked for being made behind the scenes.

peditionary Force, which was This probability has apparently reviewed by the King. Many ed their shot. It must be a big the working men. And incident blooming well spend it how he now dawned on Tang Shao-yi, decorations were bestowed on

ally, though I think big, ides a likes and when ho likes? The the head Southern delegate, for officers and N.C.O.'s Nineteen

But it's nice to see the two good one mind ye, in my opinion toffs buy these sort of things and a wire says he has resigned his men of the original Force have They're & fine lot of chaps yon Club" (I wonder where he got better economics for him to buy communities come together. that's why Gordon's "Ye Cronies anyhow it's a blankety sight position because the militarists been killed in the war. in Canton and Peking are

Shanghai men. They like the that "ye" by the way) will never what he can afford, than to negotiating secretly, while the Hongkong is not alene in that it has a problem of housing and Peace Conference is merely a

There's no attempt to keep a sealskin wife The latest Trade Inquiry List place fine, I bear, only it's a pity be a success here.

What New World, come reports revealing that, in these days of newly alists. We do not doubt that that American concerns are seek wit a few more level sites down a bit before I can contemplate the affluence of Smith for the past high rents. Frem all countries, though to a lesser degree from the blind to satisfy the "constitution issued by the American Con- that some of our hills couldns' be bigger snob than a Scotsman efter on a musk-rat salary.

shifted up North. Aye that's he's got on in life. My idea o'abart it? sulate General, Hongkong, shows

true, for in return we could do human nature will have to change fourd peace, people are hard put to it to find accommodation under Mr. Tang is correct in his state-ing Hongkong connections 29

You see the comparative safe roofs and that, even when they are lucky enough to find such ment, for we all know of the listed below:-Import and export; town on level ground affords less wi his compatriot-one of the account. He's now a ring higher bere. What's more forbye; a Scots taipan sitting cheek by jowl few years has to be taken into roofs, they are being called upon to pay dearly for the privilege intrigues which have been going food products, of sleeping under then. Millions of men in war-time slept under the on cf late, in which Luk Wing shirts; telegraph and telephone opportunity for some folks to look hewers o' wood. Mind ye, it's no' in the social ladder.

workingmen's

He has **blue dome of heaven" where now they want a home. Then, house ting has been a very prominent

down on their fellow men,

altogether a question o' class dis- undoubtedly learnt to appreciate building, owing to scarcity of available latour and materials, fell to figure. But when is this inter- supplies; chemicals, ails and

for as I was saying, the tinction. It's the same wi' Free- some of the better things of this a very acgligible concern. And whilst we in Hongkonglare talking minable muddle to end? Here greases: air craft: general hard best music in Hongkong of a masonry and its different Lodges, life, things only dreamt of before about our own difficulties in this respect and seeking, in what some we have the appointment other metals

ware; raw silk; old iron. brass and Summer's night is the clink of Boiled down it simply means that the war. consider a very listless and ineffective manner, to find a solution, or the chief Northern delegate

He's maybe ac- the ice in a long glase. No,' a man will always go where he feels quired a taste for bet- other communities are similarly engaged. Certain it is that we have strongly objected to in many a long road to travel before we have satisfactorily tackled the pro- quarters, so that the President Chinese was before Mr. N. L. trombone for the last twenty-five this Today--I mean Cronies may even shudder at the thought At the Police Court to-day & I've a brother that's played the see difficulties in the matter of of his abnormal war wages, and mind ye, that I'm against bands, most, comfortable. Besides I can ter tipple, on the strength blem, and in our contemplation of remedial measures it may be just himself is ics quandary, and Smith, charged with adultery. It years wi stops in between, of Club. as well to lock at what others are doing or suggesting. The problem now the principal Southerner appears that the defendant and

I'm thinking about the of returning to the comparatively in every community must differ in some of its aspects by reason of retires from the field. local circumstances. Lut, these differences apart, a little benefit are in just as tangled and be the woman were employed in the course. Our family's all musical. Police. First of all, there may be tasteless swipes called beer. He

except me. Give me might be gained by comparing cotes, as it were, and taking hints.

Annie difficulty in registering the Club. may now have a home wi' a real Nanyang Tobacco Company. The Laurie" or "Ye Banks less a state as they ever were, woman shusband, a cool-coolie, on Braes" and I wouldna' thank ye ance at here. In any case, I provisionally ear-marked By a recent mail from Rangeon we learn that the Municipal judging by surface indications. returning home last night found for some yon soulful foreign tremble to think of what might attendance at the local Academy and Secret societies are looked ask- bathroom. His Johnny may be Committee there has been seriously considering the question of Well, we can only hope that some the defendant and his wife occupy stuff. Lots of music is like dress happen if some of our sleuths instead of running messages for high rents and has been in communication with the Local Govern- sort of agreement will soon being a cubicle. He at once made clothes; they're no right unless behind the door interpreted our Binks, the grocer, round the ment, submitting various proposals, among others being the intro- arrived at, whether secretly or duction of a Billa suggestion that did not apparently meet with otherwise. The bluffing and fendant was arrested. Mr. Smith

a report to the Police and the de- ye feel uncomfortable. I'd feel mysterious language as something corner. He may No, my very much favour. The communication before us shows that after side-stepping that have been going told the man to pay the husband porterhouse steak than the most shevism in the Far East. Ther Smith and his kind will pot a very protracted sitting of the Municipal Committee it was agreed on make everytcds tired of the 50 as compensation, and a $50 high faluting thing in G. Sharp the fat would be in the fire... abandon these things without a more soothed any night wi' a bespeaking the advent of Bollad it's reasonable to expect that that a considerable amount of hardship was being caused to large whole business. numbers of persons living in Rangcon by the recent increase of NEED FOR UNITY.

that was ever "ground out of a The confusion of tongues over struggle. house rents, and also that steps should be taken by legislation to After all, the perpetuation of

fiddle. Of course, mind ye, I the present industrial trouble has check and, if possible, remove such increases. During the this squabble between North and debate which ensued, one member very courageously said South is not only a serious matter

don't want to hurt anybody's got the Tower of Babel looking be recognised and that is that There's another thing that must feelings. Them musician chaps like a four-flusher. Every re- the working folks at Home can- that 'landlords were as full of tricks

as. а cartload of for the country itself in its

are easily upret-temperamental spectable newspaper that comes not be bludgeoned back into good monkeys,"

whilst his likening landlords to monkeys internal affairs, but it has an

For out East has a different idea on sense. If the big stick is to be -aye, that's the word. might be open to question in. the matter of taste, we certainly important tearing on the nation's The Manila Times has received

this very same reason do know here that of tricks landlords have quite a few. The posi-relations with the outside world, a dozen or more letters regarding

I the crisis into which the nation used at all, it can only be laid on wish that the Telegraph in has now drifted.

As a mentor, the tion of Karachi was cited by one member, who said that in that A few days ago came across a competition announced by the its Musical Notes had put on the Reuter is about as useful as the the extremists on the outer crowns of the yalpers Port an official committee was appointed by the Government to very pointed comment by take evidence, and after examining 2,000 cases it was found that 49 American journal bearing on this for the coining of a word to Police Reserve Band that time it's

an Philippine Chamber of Commerce soft pedal when criticising the fifth wheel on a cart. Mentally

for himself fringe of the crowd--all street per cent. of the increase in rents was due to prosteering, Without very point.

crowds for instance, have this Writing on the include Britanzia

the Governor landed. It might and such evidence the legislative action that had been taken in Karachi Shantung question, it observes United

devil take the element-but at the same time be quite true that they played the hindmost. Macpherson, who has care has to be taken that a blind could never have been taken. What was wanted in Rangeon was that if China prefers internal This competition was started in States of America.

same thing a few times over, but, long since reduced cocksure- rush is not made to disperse the the appointment of a Controller with power to act. When a land-discord to political unity, she the United States and a prize of hang it all, they werens there nese to a science, save that it's majority, who while thinking they lord or a tenant was aggrieved, one or the other could take the will be at a disadvantage in the $1.000 offered.

to reel off selections like a the Labour Party in the House of have legitimate grievances, have matter to the Controller who would then ascertain what the rent councils of the nations, and goes

gramophone and so didna' come Commons that's weak. Mac's not yet lost their wits entirely. for the particular tenement in question had been for the past six or seven years. He would take the highest and lowest and, by work much smaller country, is resolute Philippine department recently hiatus fine

ou to state that Japan, though a

prepared for that sort o' thing. idea of a strong man is two-fold: Indeed far from it, for, if anything, Two air service cfficers of the As it was, they filled up the physical-as applied to the man they are too sharp for the times ing on the rule of average, fix what he considered to be a fair rent in purpose and more far-sighted demonstrated the general" band were trying their best onyhow, a bit of matchwood, or can drive is in danger of doing more talk- having due regard to all to the facts. Eventually, at a later meeting, in statesmanship. These are true inesa" and convenience of sea- free gratis and for nothing, and along a bunch o' clamouring fire

and besides they that can make the caber look like they live in. At present Labour the President of the Committee undertook to hold an enquiry into words, and they surely ought to planes when they few over from when a man does that, while he men wi' a fifteen-inch spanner, of its conferences have, closely the whole question of rents and announced at what times he would convey a lesson to China that so Corregidor in 27 minutes, tied maybe doesna' expect a bouquet and mental as exemplified by imitated the proceedings of the ing that working. Of late many be sitting so that people on both sides-landlords and tenants long as this domestic unrest con- their machine up at the "hitching wi a box of chocolates hanging the brazen state of a man's lungs Kilkenny could produce either written or oral evidence.

On the result of this tinues the country can never rack" enquiry a Bill will be drafted for submittance to the Local Govern become really great. So we say, the Army and Navy Club, just in a lot of loose talk flying around. bring down his clenched first on allowance for human nature, and

outside and entered on to it, yet he feels sore if there's and the force wi' which he can makers have not

cate. Millennium--

made due "For Hongkong there may be some very helpful suggestions in or otherwise, let the Chrese get people watched the flight of the is rotten form, onyhow. What's associates grey matter wi mer-the differences in brain power whether by secret arrangement time for luncheon. Hundreds of Looking a gift horse in the mouth a good mahogany table, Mac respect, I fear, has not been paid this. It certainly would be a very wise preliminary to any legisla- down to first necessitiei and put seaplane as it circled over Minils more forbye, this sort of thing curial ointment. Weakness wi It wou'd be useless to deny five action if a properly authorised person or body sat to take their house in order.s Strong, and the bay in the morning. evidence, for we are inclined to think that some very startling facts bonest men are needed in China's could be adduced by such a method. We are certain that it would political life. But, alas, where

isna' likely to improve our him either means the want that Labour has MISSING BETTISH FRISONERS.

also been,. chances of getting the City Band sleep or s compound fracture o in many instances, an unsuspect- demonstrate the need for legislative action, and the suggestion that are we to look for them?

Lord Newton has just returned that this chap has been cracking the shin bone. A man given to split ing party to the dissemination of such action should take the the form of the appointment of a

from Berlin where he has been np of late.

infinitives bas bis sympathy, for, Bolshevistic Controller or Assessor is one that might well be taken into serious

"Aye, making inquiries with regard to

Mac.

anarchical that's as he says, he once was troubled views. But they have suffered consideration. In the matter of rates, an Assessor bas always been

the return of British prisonera, quite true", says 1," even a bad wi cracked chilblains himself. from more than that. In the past in existence and it would not be so very much of a revolutionary MOUSE CAUGHT BY AN OYSTER. Ee states that the number of man can give ye good advice at In short, Mac's like a lot more they have suffered from indiffer- step if an Assessor could be appointed for rents as well. Of course, Mr. John Symonds, a fish mer reported prisoners who cannot be times. Mind ye it's no' an easy in this world: he can only describe ance and, particularly of late, there always will be men to talk of "interference with private chant, of Great Yarmouth, found traced has now been reduced thing to live up to, the lessons most things in terms of the from official Incompetency. All rights," but the principle has been laid down incontrovertibly that on opening his shop recently in from 3,000, at which it stood after taught us in the Psalms of physical. Outside of that it's an the brains are not in the State the State, or whatever body is in charge of public affairs, has an the morning that an oyster had a the Armistice, to under 600, and David." "But Dyer was right. uncharted country, An absolute right, on moral and humane grounds, to interfere when mouse tightly caught by the there is

in-skull Millions of men.have had every prospect that

"says he." Aye, aye, hospitable place, full of snares, sharp experience of State service the majority of citizens are suffering a hardship. We have heard head. Apparently the oyster before long it may be brought that may be," says, "but you'll pitfalls, meaningless conversa during the last few years. There'

lot about vested interests" controlling local legislation, but in opened to feed and the mouse down to quite negligible figures. agree wi' me that if David had tion. this matter of housing and high rents it is getting high tried to eat the oyster, which, Bo far as can be judge the Gerbeen a better man in his prime the But as I was saying, while it's tical man. Let the shoe-maker

́a morsi in this. Trust the prac-- some move was actually taken. There has been enough talk, being alive, closed its shell and man authorities are giving every lessona ofhis penetential psalmody true that the Railwaymen are cheaven's sake, let's ece something done.

kiled the mouse.

assistance in tracing missing men, would have been easier to follow, starting work again, yet there's (Continued on Puge 6.)

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