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WATSON'S HYGIENOL

THE HONGKONG

NOTES & COMMENTS.

WHAT DID IT COST?

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1919.

TELEGRAPH.

DAY BY DAY.

SIR CHARLES ELIOT. HONGKONG

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AN AMERICAN APPRECIA

ELECTRIC CO.

PURCHASE OF PROPERTY.

A reader has asked us whether

NO MAN EVER STATED HIS GRIEF

Emerson

it is a fact that the work of HALF AS LIGHTLY AS HE MIGHT. connecting Upper Albert Road with Garden Road involved an expenditure of $79,700, which sum has been mentioned in con nection with the improvement. The answer is in the negative, as Parliamentarians are wont to

To-day is Guy Fawkes' Day.

The Alacrits. Vice Admiral

TION.

FOOTBALL

NEXT SATURDAY'S LEAGUE PROGRAMME.

After their brilliant display on The Hongkong Electric Com- Saturday last the Navy will be Great Britain may be con-pany, Ltd. has recently acquired strongly fancied for champion- gratulated, says 'a writer in the an important block of property at ship honours again this Season Washington Past, on the selection Nos. 1 and 1A, Duddell Street, and the match on Saturday should of Sir Charles Eliot, her new Amo-these being five-storey premises prove a real Test of strength as bassader to Japan, in succession occupied by Messrs. Soares and the Club is always a difficult to Sir Conyngham Greene, for Sir Company and other firms.

team to beat. The Club and Charles, who has just been accred- Upon enquiry we learn that Navy are well matched As

A Powerful Disinfectant, Germicide 1935, though we can understand Duff's Yacht, has arrived inted to the court of the Mikadu, is the front portion, No. 1, Duddell regards weight, but it would

Antiseptic and Deodoriser.

In handy tins, containing about gallon. Price reduced owing to the high rate of exchange to

$2.25 per tin.

Mr. and Mrs. C. D: Lambert returned to the Colony by the Tamba Maru. Mr. Lambert held a Captain's Commission during the war.

that

the . Navy

one of the most able men of the Street is to be used by the Com- appear British diplomatic service, and pany as show room, godown, possess more speed and has been for the past year or more store and Meter Department, are more adaptable in front of England's High Commissioner while the back portion, No. 1A, goal Fast forward play and and Plenipetontiary in Seria, will be utilised as a sub-station quick shooting will baffle any with supreme contra of all her for both lighting and lifts, in defence, and in this respect so far agents, military and civil.

place of the premises just being this season, Navy have shown vacated by the company at No. very superior to the Club, who 4, Des Voeux Road Central. do not score to the value of their The buildings will be occupied share of the game. The Navy as soon as the repairs and altera- possess many players fresh from tions are completed.

English football, and this may account for their surprising dash in the opening matches. The match should be a good one, with not much in it any way.

South China may snatch

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., stuck in our enquirer's mind), the kong for Carton. in search of obliged to travel halfway round

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union.

Office address: 11. Ice House Street..

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,

Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Holmes and family thank their many friends For their expressions of kind sympathy in their sad bereavement.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1919.

BRITAIN'S LATEST CRISIS.

his hand.

NOVEL INCIDENT. DUTCH VESSEL RECALLED

BY WIRELESS.

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A very novel occurrence hap- Fictory from R. G. A. who will pened yesterday in the harbour. later in the season turn The ss. Tjikini, belonging to the very powerful pair of teams, as Java-China-Japan left yesterday at 7 o'clock for left Home for Hongkong, and St..

Line Fleet, large new drafts have already Yokohama without signing the Joseph's should just do the trick clearance certificate at the Har- against the Police as last week's bour and huoy dues.. bar Office and paying the har match cannot be taken as a correct criterion of St. Joseph's form.

the confusion created on the Hongkong. point. At the last Legislative Council meeting but one, a vote for $45,000 was approved, and in' Yesterday's health retur explaining it the Chairman of shows one fatal case of gastro the Finance Committee stated enteritis, the victim being a that this was expenditure in Chinese, curred mainly near buildings which have just been completed.

Until his appointment a high He added that the connection

commissioner in Siberia, in the of Upper Albert and Garden Roads

summer of last year, was cost more than anticipated, as,

president of the University of upon opening the road, water

Hongkong, a richly endowed in- mains and various pipes were dis-

stitation, devised for the purpose covered which had to be reinoved.

of enabling the people of China The cost of the whole of the work

to obtain all the academic under the vote, he said, was It is believe that a young Por-advantages of an English uni- $79,700 (che figure which has tuguese youth, who left Hong-versity training without being

original vote having been $35,000. employment, has committed sui. the world. This inflation of the vote by cide. It annea that his dead) Sir Charles possesses the most $44,700 on an estimate of $35,000 body was found in one of theextraordinary mastery of the streets, with a knife grasped in Russian and especially of the Chinese languages, and since the latter stands in the sams relation toward English and the Chinese toward Japanese that Latin does letters are very largely used in official, court and social corres

At 10.30 a.. a wireless was pondence in Japan, Sir Charles' Honkong. She obeyed the order

The sent to the ship recalling her to

junior matches knowledge of Chinese and above and came into port at 4 o'clock. which will again include Wain not 20 attractive this week. all, of the Chinese classics will signed the clearance certificate their sturdy full back, but will bo The strong Staffs team give him an altogether privileged and departed at 5 o'clock. position at Tokyo.

The Master of the vessel plead-

without Emberley, shou'd beat SECRETARY OF EMBASSY IN 1.Sed oversight. We understand the Club de Recreio, and Navy Res. Sir Charles was secretary of maximum penalty for such en 2nd XI should also beat the the British embassy at Washing-offence is $5,000, ton at the time American war with Spain and high commissioner to Samoa in was afterward Great Britain's

the joint controversy of England) and the United States with Gerniany boat the possession of the Samoan group. During his stay in American he developed a very close and intimate friendship with the late Theodore Roosevelt, who held him in high regard.

is enough to stagger anyone. A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY."

Now, this more than doubling of the estimate may be quite all; Mr. J. Benties, who was pre- right, and no doubt the moner viously Manager of Messrs has been spent. But we do not Thomas Cook and Son here, and like the method which allows went Home to join the Army such an over-stepping of original with the contingent which left by intentions. Most of all, we dis- the Empress of Russia on May approve of a possible huge in- 18th, has joined the staff of the crease in a particular undertak-Union Insurance Company of ing. such as this Garden Road Canton improvement. being kept from lumped into a general sum cover- public knowledge by getting it.

A Chinese woman was before ing other work as well. What we Mr. R. O. Hutchison. to-day. should like to know is how much charged with anlawful possess of the extra $44.700 required on sion of six tael of prepared the vote was spent on making opium. Defendant pleaded nor motor traffic possible between guilty, and said that she bad between Upper Albert and Garden brought the aptum from Honam. Roads, I would be as well if She did not know the laws of one of our Unofficials addressed Hongkong. She was fined $500. a direct question to the Govera-with the option of six months' ment on the matter. In explain-hard fabour. ing

the increased cost of this work. the Chairman of

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FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES.

riages are the following:-

Among the forthcoming mar-

dre

who can turnout a very strong

Manchester Regt. The R.A. (R) game with Kowloon will not be played owing to the RA's in- ability at present to put two XI's probably fix up with South China in the field, and Kowloon will

Reserves.

the

as the

Dollar Co., to Miss H. M. Rohr. natural order of things, will

Mr. E.E. Brown, of the Robert

en

The games on Saturday, in the

San Francisco by-s.s.-Nile.

Toute to Hongkong from draw very large crowds and there is one unpleasant feature of our Mr. Wr. A Mugford, Writer. popular Saturday sport, which of H. M. Dockyard. to Miss Eva must be remedied at as early the Finance Committee spoke of

He differs from Sir Conyngham To, 11, Old Bailey, A strenuous struggle between Greene, the most water mains and various pipes be-N. Mishu, of Rumanía, and S. C. diplomats, in being of a

a date as practicable, and that Mr. Frederick G. Thompson, of is Of

the roping of the very the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd. to "Miss Navy and Military Grounds. This itg "discovered

upon the open-Wu. of China, was the outstand-strong and masterful character, Beatrice M. Mills, teacher at was drawn attention to repeated. ing of the road. The expressioning feature of the second day's and some sixteen or seventeen Diocesan Boys' School. astounds us. Do not There can be no question that Britale is in grave danger of P.W.D. archives contain plans Lawn Tennis Tournament on diplomatic service.sooner

the play in the Hurlingham Open years ago resigned from the

ly last season, and the failure to suffering more as a result of the war than any other first-class nation showing all water maine in the 16th September.

than ego, and his rise has therefore orily is a great deterrent to good enclose these grounds satisfact- that was involved in the struggle. News has been coming through city?

Wa. 4 player comply with the instructions of been exceptionally rapid. He has sport at the We could understand the with every with very uncomfortable persistence of how the financial position expression if the reference were coaching, placed the ball with foreign affairs, the

evidence of good the then secretary of state for served in turn at Petrograd, at civilian Club do not experience Valley. The has been on the verge of collapse, and the latest wires to hand, to Roman ruins or prehistoric great although somewhat lamentably delayed in transmission, deal almost samstu jars. But it is ridiculous nearly everything back, won the which he was opposed on grounds converse fluently in Turkish, tion of funds, Master Gunner May Marquis Tangiers, at Soña, at Belgrade any difficulty and it is certain accuracy. and. getting of Lansdowne-instructions to and at Bucharest, and is able to that if the matter is only a ques- exclusively with an important debate that has taken place on the to speak of "discovering" water first set at 13-11. Mishu then of lofty principle. subject in the House of Commons. It is a little difficult for us out mains and other pipes. Surely improved and won the second set

Syriac. Arabic and Persian. here to gain an exact appreciation of ail the points in this matter, the "P.W.D. knew

Even in that these at 6-3 Wuled at 5-4 in the was

those days

and Mr. Warne R.N., if they take He has eren published a this matter up would receive agy- but the thing that stands out clear is that the country has possibly mains were there when the final set. Hat Mishq made a great by his countrymen that

so highly thought of Ficnish grammar, which at the support they required from the never been faced with a situation of greater economic gravity since estimate was first drawn up. effort, and won the next three London

the time he produced it-it was dur- Hongkong sporting fraternity or It became an industrial and financial centre. In trying to get one's Then why the unexpectedly heavy gantes, the set, and the match.

"newspapers printeding his stay at Petrograd-was otherwise. thoughts straight it is essential that there should be horne in mind expense?

The columns of expressions regret at regarded in the service as indicat known

two well Anyhow, the public

the idea of the nation being de- ing the possession of an almost Hongkong Club who were un-

sportsmen of all that has happened since the war in 1914 came to upset the has a right to know what this normal state of things.

little bit of work cost. When the A Chinese was before Mr. B. Eable a servant. A few months since there was no sign then of misunderstanding is perhaps an prived of the services of 50 valu- demoniacal "craze for knowledge, fortunate victims of last week's It must be remembered that before the war Britain was figure is supplied it may possibly Lindsell to-day charged with afterward he was appointed vice any diplomatic controver-y be instance of what can happen on the greatest trading nation in the world. Although it had few raw be found that the

was unlawful possession of a revolver chancellar and rector sum materials of its own. it drew from distant lands and its ships were in sufficient to "discover" a whole and 200 rounds of ammunition. Laiversity of Sheffield at a salary which a knowledge of the Finnish Valley playing grounds, and

of the tween England and Russia, in such a scattered area every sea. Through its great banking system it financed operations buried city and to pay the pass- Mr. Lea d'Almada appeared for calculated to cause the lips of language would be useful. in every continent and it could well be said that the world paid age out from Home, and back, of defence, and pleaded not guilty. even an American college pre-

these gentlemen's sporting re- toll to Britain." To-day its national debt is of incomprehensible & real. live Egyptologist in A Chinese constable

ESCAPED MANY PERILS. magnitude. The latest figures show that it is more than forty-four addition.

gave sident to water, and, was some.

cords are sufficient excuse for evidence that whilst he was on years later requested by the title to his star of the Order of of the state of affairs which Sir Charles Eliot, who owes his the incident and condemnation per cent. of Britain's estimated national wealth, few other countries CHILD SLAVERY.

search duty yesterday, at 5.45 secretary of state for the colonies S. Michael and George, is un- allows a playing ground to be having such a figure. When one tries to think of the millions of workers who were taken from industry to line the battlefronts or does not exist in Hongkong defendant's luggage was being University of Hongkong.

pm. on board the s.s. Sunning, to undertake the organization and married, is 55 years of age and subject to all Whether slavery does or next to the Hau Tak Wharf, the the direction of the imperial may be said to bear a charmed interruptions.

and sundry. man the warships, or manufacture munitions, one can see how the is

The spectators earning power of the nation so greatly decreased. When the war different people have different first box was handed to him by GETS ON WELL WITH JAPANESE. mouths be has been travelling all away from the playing area, but

matter проп which searched. The key to open the

life, for during the past twelve should be kept at last six feet did end Britain was undoubtedly approaching physical exhaustion. ideas, according to their con- the defendant's friend. Defend- The absorption of the returning soldiers into industry

Sir Charles, however, in spite ove: that huge tract of country without ropes this is impossible. * very intricate problem and the Government Wception of the meaning of the ant then produced a key to open of his masterfulness and deter- which extends from the Pacific Feeling always runs high at foot-

grant "of term. unemployment benefit-intended to help a transition from soldier to civilian-vary unfortunately

man during his General once referred, in his all the contents of the latters capitally with the Japanese in Mountains, a region infested with comfort should be studied. A One of our Registrars the second box. After emptying mination, has managed to get on coast at Vladivostok to the Ural ball matches, and the players turned into a premium on idleness. Thousands of men, so long which he admitted was at any bottom, so he broke open a part have frequently been of the most who, although under the com- and there round the field, inside was annual report, to a state of affairs box, witness suspected falke Siberia during the last eighteen armed hands of Bolsheviks, of sprinkling of officials connected as they could get this Government grant, neither sought rate closely allied to it. But on of the bottom and discovered the.

months. Although the situations Germans and of Austrians, with the contesting teams, here work nor wanted it. Idleness has resulted in a very consider- one point there will be no dispate, ammunition, enclosed in holes delicate character, owing to the mand of their own officers, are the ropes during the game, would able decrease in production in nearly every line of British and that is that Chinese children bored in the bottom of the box lack of unity of the Entente nothing more nor less than brig also be a distinct advantage. industry, and particularly that of coal, which forms the very base are bought and sold of Britain's industrial power. Reduced hours of working, in couse British Calony, without their $100 on the man. The arms and policies with regard to Siberia and acter, and by all sorts of other Saturday's

10 this Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine of powers on the subject of their ands of the most merciless char The games and officials for quence of Trade Union organisation, has materially assisted in the consent being in any way obtain-ammunition were confiscated. reduction of output of every manufactured article, and Britain is noted, and that no attempt whatever

Russia, yet he not only managed to bandits similiarly interested in follow- selling abroad nearly so much as she is forced to buy for her is made to hide the fact. That

maintain the most agreeable re- obstructing the projects of the HONGKONG LEAGUE: DIVISION I sustenance. Considering this reduction in the amount available is a Chinese custom, and whilst

lations with the Japanese com- allied powers for the restoration Royal Navy v. Club.-Olub for export, the increased cost of domestic supplies, and all the other we admit that very many of these

manders, but even was able to of law and order in Asiatic and Ground, kick-off, 4.30; referee. factors, it is not difficult to imagine, unless there is a speedy children are far happier in their

induce them to defer to his views, European Russia.

Mr. F. Wright. remedy, the loss of Britain's international trade and a very serious servility than they would be in

although Japan was the only

Had Sir Charles been killed in- R. A. v. South China.-Navy position as regards cost of living and production. The whole freedom, we say unhesitatingly

power that had really a large body jured, imprisoned, had he been Ground. kick-off 4.30; referee, of the news we have been getting through from Home bois down that it is a custom that ought to DEFENCE CORPS DECISION.

of troops, some 60,000 men or even turned back had bequarreled Mr. J. Coaker. to a consideration of this position together with projects and be suppressed. We can under-

moro, în Siberia:

with any of the various Allied St. Joseph's V. Hongkong suggestions to bring about an improvement.

It may be recalled that the command and diplomate, matters Police:-Military Ground, kick- The question of national expenditure is discussed in the latest wrote us yesterday at discovering stand the horror of the lady who

intercourse between the Ameri- would have been even still off 4.30; referee, Lieut Snook. telegrams, and there is no need here to review the many points of the existence of this pernicious meeting of members of the Hong-sometimes

Major Wakeman presided at a

can and Japanese commanders more complicated than they are HONGKONG LEAGUE DIVISION II. the debate. The reduction of spending on the Army and Navy system in a British Colony, and kong Defence Corps held at Head- the breaking point, owing to the lived through it all unharmed. Navy (R)-Club Ground, kick-off-

almost reached to-day. That he should have

Manchester Regt. v. Royal, certainly should be carried as far as is possible, consonant with whilst we agree with the senti- quarters last e7ening to discuss nature of the instructions sent to either physically or in reputation, 3.00: referee, Lt. Thornton. national safety. The reductions foreshadowed in this respect ought ments she expresses we are glad matters regarding the selection of Gen. Graves from Washington and should have even emerged. to prove a great relief. The income from Customs and Excise, lex that she realises the difficulties a team to represent the Corps in instructions indicating not only a therefrom with vastly increased Depts, Navy Ground, kick-off Club de Recreio v. Staffs and and tobacco, has gratifyingly been much larger than was expected. of the matter. and the cessation of the unemployment donation on November 21

lack of decision with regard to prestige, promises well for the 3.00; referee, Mr. Langford. should be a material help. But against this there must be placed get the matter brought to the that Corporal Grimes, Sgt. Major 3 lack of confidence in the fact that we shall not get all that is really due from Germany notice of influential persons at Frith and Corporal Lyon form a

After discussion it was resolved the Bolshevik insurgents. but also succese of his embassy at Tokyo,

Kowloon v. South China Res:- where e British Ambassador of Military Ground, kick-off 3.00; this year, and there will be delay in receiving the monies due from Home. It may interest her to committee to select a team, the

Japanese allies. If ruptures strength and decision of character referee, Mr. Whistler. the Allies and the great self-governing Colonies. The discussion learn that the vory first enact-fast named consenting to act as

were averted, it was largely due is needed.

QUIZ. of a levy on capital as a whole to meet the situation leads us to ment passed when Hongkong Secretary should Pte. Jenkins, believe that such will not be introduced, but there might very became British was an

SMART SEIZURE possibly be some means found for the nation to benefit by the great Slavery Bill,

OF OPIUM. who is absent from the Colony, fortunes that have been privately amassed during the war. But measure was disallowed by the not wish to continue in that

that this out of it all there comes the assurance that during 1920 there should Home Government as it was be a substantial surplus available for the reduction of the National considered that the Imperial

capacity. Debt without additional taxation or borrowing. Britain is un- Statutes for the abolition of ammunition would be supplied to The Chairman announced that doubtedly going through a crisis and her public men are whole slavery extended; by their own those taking part in the competi- heartedly giving of their time and genius to pull through. With proper force and authority, to tion and would also be sold at a examination. & $2,000 the general public growing to realise the position, there will Hongkong. That means that the reduced price for practice. inevitably come a great common effort to fight off the threat, just laws against trafficing in human as there was in 1914 a common shout of acceptance of Germany's beings are still operative. Then begin on Monday, 10th inst, and It was resolved that practice boastful challenge. By something inherent the Briton can never go wby under-when he knows facts be faces them and wins.

are they not rigidly that each unit of the Corps should enforced?.

nominate ita representatives.

RIFLE LEAGUE.

We wish her the Rifle League.

success in her determination to

but

anti-

our

matches are 25

to the diplomacy of Sir Charles. It is just as well for the peace HIS RISE EXCEEDINGLY RAPID. of the world that there should be Belonging to a junior branch of a strong man in Tokyo to keep be the ancient Devon family, of fore the eyes of the Japanese which the Earl of St. Germans is people the fact that England bas The Hongkong Palice made a the chief. Charles Eliot car- for some eighteen years past been very amaz seizura last night. Oxford, and although a member ally of Dat Nippon, and that if had arrived from Macao, and ried everything before him at the principal and most powerful They boarded the Sui An, which of Baliol, was offered, without Japan has been useful to England after a search of a short duration # year in the present war, the latter, found 1,500 taels of opium con- fellowship of Trinity College, with its virtual supremacy of the cealed on top of the chief officer's. ed the diplomatic service at the is contended to the contrary, of awning.. which he still retains. He entersea and control, despite all that cabin, between the cabin and the

suggestion and on the nomination the money markets of the world,No arrests have so far been of Lord Rosebery some 24 years is infinitely more useful to Japan made.