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NOTES & COMMENTS.

THE JUMPING DOLLAR,

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1919.

DAY BY DAY.

TO REVIVE FAITH 1S. MORE DIFFICULT THAN TO CREATE`IT-

Beaconsfield.

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Lady Ho Tung, Mrs. M. K. Lo and the Misses E. and I. Ho ng arrived this morning from Tsingtau.

The housing problem is at the moment almost rivalled as a topic of conversation by the rapidly- rising dollar. Just as we all need houses, so do we all require dollars, and the present sterling value of these coins gives us all fariously to think. When we are not reckoning out the sterling equivalent of a ten-cent ricksha ride, we are either thinking of the huge salaries we earn in pounds, shillings

and pence, fates the

that cursing have to spend all Our hard-earned four-and-sixpences

the Colony and tbus unable to take advantage of the high exchange. The man on a dollar salary, who has his wife at Home and is able to scrape up a few dollars in savings is chuckling just now, as also are those who are about to go on leave and have fixed up their auction sales. A dollar approach- ing five shillings makes all of us want to sell up our furniture, The Consul General for the convert the proceeds into sterling Netherlands notifies us that the and go to live in tents or mat-Netherlands Indian Government sheds. We have never lived in has declared Hongkong an infect-. such days before: at times weed port on account of plague. almost feel like pinching our- selves to make sure that we are not in a dream. But it's all true. and when we get to business that, in terms of sterling, we are again to-morrow we may find earning more salary than ever! SERVICE PAY,

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comraodation

The Hongkong Hotel's oc- today by the arrival of the Shinyo Maru.

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Selds are laid waste, their fruit trees have been murdered in cold blood, their wells have been abd even choked with filth

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

pound. We had to bave another made to replace it. I expect the returned key will be put in the Guildball Museum as the first

Atlantic. The

the have suffered every form, it would crossed

Americans seem to be great souvenir hunters. They took two While working with the French salt-cellars at the same time." Red Cross in 1915-16 and 17. I

October 22, 1919.

-(To the Editor of the “Hongaum

Lieutenant Hodes, of, the 27th His Excellency the Governor

Tai gra på."]

Division of the American Army, gave a dinner party at Govern-

DEVASTATED. FRANCE, has forwarded to the Lord Mayor ment House last evening. The

of London a massive key taken Yesterday's health return following were present-Brevet

Sir-May I ask for space in from the Mansion House by shows one fatal case of gastro-Col L Humphrey, C. M. G.,

souvenir-hunting American enteritis, the victim being a R. A. M. C. Lieut. Col. J. your columns to appeal to Hong Chinese.

Thursby Pelham, A. P. D.; kong, to whose generosity in war sailor, under the impression that

Thursby

Pelham, causes I can personally warmly he had secured the "key to the Lieut. Col. W. Loring C.M.G. testify, for help to our stricken City of London" "I never ex- The Eum Sang is a lucky D.S.O, RA; Mrs. Loring: Lieut. Allies in the war-devastated dis-pected we should see the key boat," for there was a birth dur-Col. R. K. Harvey, 1st G. Batt. tricts France? If they again," said an official. "It is.

not "left only

with more than six months since it ing her voyage from Calcutta to Manchester Regiment: Lieut. were this port.

Col: L. Maghew, R.M.L.L.; Lieut. ] eyes

with". they disappeared. It belonged to the Col. E Clementi Smith, 222nd had not much else, for their front door of the Mansion House, Punjabis; Lieut. Col. LR Taylor, houses remain mere piles of stones and, besides being six inches RE: Mrs. Taylor: Brevet Lieut and rubbish, their once fruitful long, it weighs over a quarter a Col. R. M. Crosse, G.S.O.I. Mrs. Crosse; Commander F. M. Hodgson, R. N., H. M. Dockyard: Engineer Commander W. W. Reed, RN, H.M. Dockyari; corpses, while their inhabitants Mansion House key which has Lieut. Commander P. Kilgour, Kilgour: Major Ardoino, 74th R. N., H. M. S. Tamar; Mrs. seem, of human misery.

Punjabis; Major J, H. W. Arm- strong. V. D. H. K. D, C., Mrs. saw much of this ruin and Though the "impets" Armstrong: Lieut. P. Mainwar- can never cease to be grateful to been hanging on with particular Lieut. W.C. Hake, R. N. R, sent, through me, to our brave, months, it is generally assumed ing. R. N. H. M. S. Moorhen; this Colony for the help they tenacity during the last few H. M. S. Fame: Lieut. R. C. uncomplaining Allies in re-that they are being gradually, if

slowly, R. N. V. R., Wireless spouse to a letter in which I did too

not even ask for aid. I can never however, is not so, During the His Excellency inspected the tell you how far-reaching this period from November 11, 1918, Prison yesterday morning and help was, for certainly half of it to the end of last March there as shown over the buildings by was of the moral kind engender was a slight decline in their num- ber, but since then it bas the Hon. Mr. E.D.C. Wolfe, ed by sympathy. Captain Superintendent of Police,

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On steadily swelling. The need of assistance is at and Mr. J.W. Franks, Superin-least as great now

Armistice Day the total num- as it was then, and the sooner it is giren ber of persons employed in Gov- tendent of Prisons.

ernment Departments was 420,510. DUTCH STOWAWAY. the sooner can the people restart On July 1. 1919, according to an their own industries and carr official admission, they numbered on without help.

He gives 452,548. This is a rate of expan- twice who gives quickly."

sion that is positively alarming, England, and America have taken on the Government's appesis for Very many societies in France, and a melancholy commentary up this work of re-establishing economy. Economy must begin. the ruined districts of Northern with the dislodging of a few tens

The annual meeting of the Hongkong Chapter of the being held at American Red Cross Society is the Hongkong Hotel at 5 pm. to-day, when a new Executive Committee will be elected.

Eales,

Station.

W. Erkelens, a Dutchman, was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell away on board the ss. Gregory this morning with being a stow.

Apear from Singapore.

There was Do interpreter gentleman who was in Court in connection with another case.

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displaced. That,

tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a all, the business man would ugips labouring madly, shipping available, but it happened that a France, and these organisations of thousands of limpets." That

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1919.

SCIENCE AND WAR.

But this rising dollar has its serious side also. For one thing, it is greatly militating against export trade, and if the upward Here is an item from a shipping things may get pretty bad for Japanese vesselFresh breeze tendency continues much longer, return led by the master of a

weather with some businesses. Taking it all in and overcast

following rather rough sex on. doubtedly prefer to see a standard-

sea on decks, ised dollar than the present un- certainty as to what will happen to exchange. That is the talk in commercial circles. Then there are these unfortunate residents of the Colony whose salaries are reckoned on the sterling basis. These are mostly people in the Services. Their loti a hard one, for. despite the fact that most of them have part of their salary paid at a fixed rate, every penny that the dollar rises means. that they are getting fewer dollars per month. This is a state of affairs

volunteered to interpret.

Yeung Fui and Sun Yeung

Defendant stated that he had Hing, who were charged at the gone to Singapore from Java, Criminal Sessions yesterday with and could not get employment committing an arded robbery at there. He applied to the Consul, the Kowloon Dairy Farm, and and the Consul would not send using violence towards Miss Rose him away. He was formerly a Ahwee, were both sentenced to steward, and he thought he could five years hard labour. by Mr. get employment on board some Justice Melbourne.

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have been co-ordinated under the would not only save the nation'e Ministr of Reconstruction of money, but also probably increase the French Government. But the efficiency of Departments, for am only asking for aid for two an overcrowded boat is particular districts, whose re-difficult to manage than one that storation has been undertaken by is just adequately manned. my own friends, and in parte where, to my personal knowledge, it is so sorely needed.

Reference to D. G. Phillips's forthcoming posthumous novel of

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The part near Noyau and Com-400,000 words has raised the piegne is ably looked after by the question as to whether this is a Fund for French War-devasted record in fiction lengths, says a Mr. Lindsell fined him $50, or Villages, of which ex-President writer to the Daily Chro ticle. four weeks, and said that when Taft is President, and to which It is nearly so. Big books (in Another fine Metro production he came out, the Dutch Consul society I belong. This is my own every sense of the term) like that never ought to be. It is is to be shown at the Coronet would make arrangements to particular part, as the French Tom Jones," "Copperfield." and an entirely wrong procedure to Theatre to-night, when "Out- send him away.

Government allowed me to visit so on, are of similar length; be screened.

others pay men in Hongkong on a sterl-witted" .. will

Stevens ing basis. We should like to see Emily.

it shortly after the German while evacuation in 1917. We did al("Dombey." perhaps) and some sufficient common-sense demon-in this picture.

and Lytton's are strated by the Imperial authorities described as six thrilling and All the Chinese schools par- good deal of work there before of Scott's In another column of to-day's edition will be found a condensa as to make them resolve on par- fantastic reels of love and rticipated in the celebration of the enemy reoccupied it in 1918, probably longer. The greatest tion of the speech deliver d by Sir Charles Parsons in his capacity ing every man in the currency of venge, spiritualism and high ft. Confucius' Birthday and most of but much of this effort was outpacer that comes to mind is as President of the British Association, which, as all know, is the the country to which he is sent ance. It is well up to the high the shops, although this is not lost, for the Huns systematically Don Quixote," which, at leading scientific association of cur race. One cannot read Sir on service. For a Service man standard set by previous Metro generally observed as a holiday destroyed everything they had rough count, makes well over Charles' summary of the more remarkable recent advances in to be paid on a sterling basis in films."

were decorated for the occasion time for, in order to prevent the 550,000 words. Sir Sidney Lee applied science and his indication of future scientific triumphs Hongkong is just about as idiotic

His Excellency the Governor and resumption of their agriculture once pointed out that the "Faerie: in its three-parts without a consciousness that there is here opened up a vista seem- as to pay a man at Home on a

the Chief Government Translator and industries by the French Queene," ingly without end. Slowly, but with constant sureness, the human Hongkong dollar standard. It's By the Shinyo Maru this morn-went to the Confucius Colleg: to people. In 1917, during a motor unfinished form, is more than intellect is gaining the mastery of Nature and to-day there could be about time this thing were looked ing there arrived

witness the ceremonies there and tour of hundreds of kilometres, twice as long as Dante's "Com- *Gerusal- Paradise Lost" and enumerated a score of things which are counted coramonplace, but at from the common-sense point of 18, ladies and gentlemen were met at the entrance by the I saw not one undamaged, house, media or Tasso's which ten years ago were almost inconceivable. Even by looking of view. There should be no who touring the world Superintendent, Mr. Lu Lim-yok. church, or factory left standing, emme

"Paradise Regained put to and there was scarcely an agri-“ back to the days when our grandparents were young, our perspective dificulty about it, any more than under

the auspices of the Labour emmigration from cultural implement or a cooking gether. are less than a third of of the great changes wrought by science is made wonderfully clear, there is for firms whose takings Travel Department of the Macao, which has been stopped utensil left in the district.

its length. Indeed had Spenser and it needs but little "imagination to realise that the future will are in dollars paying certain of Missionary Educational move for more than forty years, The other part for which I ask but completed his poem in his assuredly witness scientific discoveries of even greater marvel than their obligations in

sterling.ment. The missionary move- seems likely to be those of the past. The President of the British Association only That is one Imperial reform that ment

revived Hongkong's belp is near Armen-anticipated 24 parts it would is the union of the again. It appears that large tieres, where the work of restore- have spin out longer than all the touched the fringe of things.

is badly needed the raying of Churches in America to study numbers of labourers who tion

has been undertaken b great epics of the worldput into one. The world is now taking breath after the greatest war in history all Service salaries in the cur- the needs of the Christian world had been collected from districts Madame Logson, the wife of the

The plague of tipping in Eng- awar in which science played a far greater part than in any warrency of the place to which the and to advertise them in the along the south-west coast well-known French poet, playland is reaching stage of previous and one cannot help reflecting on the relationship between men are sent.

United States.

of Kwantung were recently sent wright, and journalist (he is now extraordinary severity. The de- scientific endeavour and man's destructiveness. The old belief that RENT PROFITEERKING.

to Hongkong, but owing to the editor of what was M. Clemen-mocratic tanner is no use now war produces influences stimulating to thought and artistic express- Rent-profiteering is com- ion bas gone, for we of to-day, know that in the modern world

The American Consul General were not accepted. They were then turned her house in Paris into safe for democacy under the

strict Government inspection they ceau's paper). Madame Loyson that the world has been made. mon in most parts of the has received z copy of new there is one kind of stimulus that comes from the conflict of nations world at the present time. The regulations from the Philippine taken to Macac inlarge batches convalescent hospital during the autocratic rule of Mr. Smillie and

a practically unlimited force of mechanical inventiveness. War trouble is that the landlord who Government regarding the im-

and three so-called lodging houses war, and 11eated there over Mr. F. Hodges. I often dine our, physical strength as between nations bring with them improved cannot be es aped. We can all territory, which are on file at the the s.s. Haimun anchored outside I am sending you still stimulates some of man's better qualities, but contests of charges more than he ought to pertation of live stock into that have been established for their 1,400 soldiers, many of whom writes a contributor to a Home accommodation. A few days ago came from this part of France, paper, and although waiters are mechanised means of destruction that threaten to reach a hideous become vegetarians and we can Consulate General and can be Macao harbour and over 500 of which I received from her lately, meal they serve, they are more an appeal now paid a fixed ware for each perfection. The late war has given us.a glut of slaughtering all wear our ast-year's clothes, if consulted at machines, and

since the armistice there have been it comes to the push; but we regulations

these labourers were put on as it tells more eloquently than I insistent in their demands for a official trials of a new machine-gun that can spit out hundreds can't very well sleep out of doors. interest in that they provide a

are of particular board. It is said that can of these poor peoples' needs. tip than before the war. of bullets at an incredible speed and never jam. The mastery of Ways are being found in America new arrangement for the taking Dutch

destination is Banks, a As I knew many of these men dinner the other night it cost the air

was used for destruction, gases were concocted to to curtail this form of profiteer- of dogs, cats, and other pets into

island éast of Sum- and some of their families while the host £20 to satisfy the wait- asphyxiate hun 'reds of men, and so one could go on reciting ing. In New York, we read, the Philippines.

atra. There is aa emigrant they were in Paris in the hospital, ers, and that on the top of the how science is not only mastering nature, but is making possible Municipal Rent Committee, act-

law in Macao, but is not very I feel a special interest, in their provision made for them "by the slaughter of millions. Always, apparently, the thought of war ing in co-operation with the

strict. Provided the labourers, cause.

the manager of the restaurant. broods over the chemist and the engineer. Lard. Fisher, when Courts, has conce to the

It has been suggested that a who explained, by the way, that looking ahead to the triumph of the oil engine, said it "yet will relief

Six masters and mistresses of in replying to questions put by of exploited tenants. cargo boats were charged before the officials, say that they are bazaar should be held perhaps one of the reasons for apparent revolutionise commerce and alter the whole of art of sea war". The When complaint is made thought of war seems almost inseparable from the march of science of excessive Pental charges, this Captain B.R.H. Taylour, R.N., will to 80, nothing else is in December-in order to raise profiteering in wine was that they this morning, for being outside asked. It is rumoured that funds for these two organisations, had to get sufficient out of that to and one can hardly think of an invention the principle of which has Committee investigates and fixes of more than Eve boats lying another shipment of labourers and His Excellency the Governor pay the cost of wa ters" wages. not been pressed into the service of the military commander. One a fair rate, based on valuation of alongside the as. Tjibodas on the will soon follow

has generously offered the use of Everywhere it is alike; waiters may well ask "To what end is science taking us; is it leading us to the property. If the landlord 21st instant. Sergeant Matthews UBIQUITOUS BOY SCOUT, Government House for the par-demand tips. At the luncheon a fuller and better use of the things of the earth, or is it marching refuses to accept this rate, said that at 2 p.m. yesterday he

Lieut-General Sir R. Baden-pose, and his co-operation in the to Field-Marshal Foch at the on only to destroy?"

The question could easily lead one to a great deal of moralising, and action is brought against the made fast in two separate sets, boy scouts at Dorchester recently,

eviction proceedings are blocked saw defendants with their boats Powell attended a great rally of work.

Mansion House the waiters even May I ask that all France's there went round and blandly, and it is difficult to avoid the temptation. But the one great landlord on the ground that he outside five or more others along & feature of the proceedings being Allies in the Colony, especially and almost bluntly, asked for a question that remains for all men and women who think and feel is: endangers life by driving a family side the 5.8. Tjibodas. They a picturesque display on the an- the Chinese, American, Fort pourboire, so that Lords and Whence is to come the enlightenment and the motive that shall into the street. Some other cities were fined $10 each.

cient Roman amphitheatre at uguese, and Japanese, who have Generals, and those august per- turn all this astounding intelligence and ardour from the service of have decided that there shall be a

Maumbury Rings. Addressing a already so vitally helped in the sonages Alderman and Coroman death to the service of life? By what shall be stimulated the sumre-assessment of houses, basing

meeting at the Town Hall, the war, will join us in this work of Councilmen ware 8020 diving total of goodwill that will make unthinkable future recourse to wars their value for taxation on the A Chinese was to-day charged Chief Scout said the movement sympathy and restoration? into their pockets for the neces- of destruction The conclusion of all modern wars has been income from rental, a step which before Mr. N. L. Smith with bad its origin in Dorset and the

sary piece of silver. marked by a searching of heart on the part of thinking people, and is calculated to lower rents very assaulting another Chinese. The creation of the Girl Guides in these days there is more thought being spent in introspection quickly. How would these plans complainant stated that he knew was entirely due to his wife, than during any future period of the world's history. The basic work in Hongkong? The defendant. On the night of the who was a Dorset woman. idea of the League, of Nations is to do away with race jealousies authorities might turn them over 16th he was sent to defendant's had just come back from America, and prejudices, and there is daily expression being given to the in their minds, anyhow: imperative need of establishing and maintaining universal peace.

house on some business and when where the Scout movement was for he reached there defendant szid developing in a most remarkable But, great as the effort is, it needs to be a hundred times greater, and At the Police Court to-day, a that his younger brother owed way. When he left there were there is scarcely a man or woman who can say that they are Chinese was charged before Mr. him some money. and so he over 400,000 scouts in the States, entirely free from the taint of distrust, for one has not to look very R. E. Lindsell with unlawful pos- demanded payment. Witness re-and largely through President -far to find endless causes for it. And it will take a long time to session of 66 taels of raw opium. fused to pay him, and Wilson's efforts they expected to Lady Decies, formerly Miss mountain routes bas been or- achieve a complete purging. We are not among those who beliers Defendant said that the basket immediately he was pushed on have a million by the end of the Vivian Gould, has turned her ganised by the Touring Club of that human nature must of necessity contain an element of envy containing the opium had been the floor, and on getting up he year. General Baden-Powell, Sunningdale home into a hotel, France, and the Automobile Club, and greed, though it is pretty obvious that great would be the change given to him to look after. He was struck on the head with a referring to the progress of the starts her day's work at 6am and va ious types of war tanka is no such element existed. Certain it is that the emancipation of did not know what it contained, stool. Mr. Mason appeared for movement all over the world, As soon as Scotswood Hotel is entered for the race are expected men's higher thoughts will have to experience a decided stimulas He was arrested whilst going on the prosecution. Mr. Smith mentioned that in Bagdad there filled, Lady Decies will live in to gather. Peace-time laurels in if he is to ever make himself safe against the horrors of his own board the 8.8. invention. Shelley pointed the moral when he wrote: Man Mr. Lindsell fined him $500 bond of $80 to keep the peace for Chief Scout appealed for the sup-cottages will be annexes to the tank must complete the circulf Sui Yick bound both men over in a personal were already seven troops. The house in the grounds. Seven the storming of the A pa. Each fabricates the sword that stabs his peace,"

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TAYLOUR.

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Yours etc. HARRIET OSGOOD

ALPINE RACE FOR TANKS. Paris, September 7-A moun- fur tanks enclosure is too lengthy tain climbing race insertion to-day-Ed. H.K.Torganised on a big sce'e, starts:

to-morrow and ends on. Monday in the Haute Savoie. This two- days' race to test the practica-

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