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NOTES & COMMENTS.

THE POLICE DISPUTE.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1919.

DAY BY DAY.

H.M.S. Carlile is now out of dry dock, her place being taken.

SOMEHOW IN LIFE, WE NEVER The question of Police pay has REALISE WHAT ANYTHING arisen locally on the strengthen- MEANS UNTIL IT IS SLIPPING ing of the Force by the bringing | AWAY FROM OUR GRASP.- out of new recruits from Home. | Richard King, It is evident that some of these men are decidedly dissatisfied at the prospects which face them, so much so that they prefer to return Home rather than accept the conditions offered them. They assert that they were definitely promised by the crown agents, before leaving, a rise of 45 per cent. on their initial pay when they arrived in the Colony, but that all they have received is an

by the s.s. War Sepoy. wines & spirits

for Christmas from

A. S. WATSON & CO.

LIMITED.

Wine & Spirit Merchants.

Telephone No. 616. Hongkong.

Cable Address Telegraph, Hongkong.

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

Office address: 11, Ice House Street!

BIRTH.

MARSHALL-On the 3rd, inst.. at No. 4 Minden Villas, Kowloon to Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Marshall, a daughter.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1919.

IRRESPONSIBLE STUDENTS.

advance of 15 per cent. There may be other aspects of the case. If so, we are not aware of them. But if this is the sole issue.

We

mast SAC that our

sympathy is with the men. If they were definitely assured that they would get a certain advance on reaching Hongkong. then they ought to get it. If they don't, they have a right to hold

fatal case

Yesterday there were two non- of enteric fever reported. British.

Both sufferers wore

Thirteen subscription griffin's will be drawn for to-day at the which arrived by the Suiyang, Jockey Club stables at 6 p.m.

We have received from Messrs. S. Moutrie and Co., a charming calendar entitled "The Favourite. It is an extremely

little

artistic production.

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated

BALLS.

BY "ROBT MacWHIRTER. ")

I looked at Macpherson-hard -for about a minute.

"And what's more forbye, Robbie, they don't twinkle at it nowadays.

"Aye," says L. "I know. The answer's a lemon."

whether through excitement, or what, I wasna' at the moment able to say.

cord lite one of Harry Laudar'a best. That the whole thing was alie was neither here nor there; it pleased the Saxon mind and was always a fit,accompaniment to bis equally distorted views on porridge, haggis, bagpipes and the like.

Are, she was right glad that this was the finish, for what wi' practice dances and unlearning the old dances it had been a busy time. She liked the old waltz better herself, and the Valetra Talking about sampans and was just sweet, didn't I bagpipes reminds me that it think? And what could be has before now been asserted better than

good Barn that the "dulcimer" of 3rd Daniel "That's right enough", says he, Dance now, for instance? Aye, it was really the bagpipe. That, at his eyes shining like black shoe was quite true that the new first blush, looks like drawn-wire buttons and bis fingers wiggling dances werens' So violent imagination, yet it's curious that about in his white gloves like aand one wasns' so tired the the original word for "dulcimer' kid's roes in sea sand. That's next day but-Carree-kerk was "sampanya", and only a right," says he. "They've washed-good Lord. thinks. I to hair's breadth different from that bit out this year.

myself that's surely

name sampagna" by which

between the HCL. and the rise I got out my handkerchief. Aye.

"Well," says I "I don't blame dancing floor giving way. I began the bagpipe was known in Italy the Committee ongway, What to perspire-freely. Bre and bye during the middle ages, of temperalate exchange she was sorry I would have to be be the board. nowadays, something's got to go going away soon-Creek cruk,- different days, my lad.

We're living in there it was agaia and all those Our out innocent folks one-stepping to look on life has changed. instance in pre-war days a thing leg at the least. Well. Robbie, says their doom or maybe a broken

cost-

For

"I'm no calking about eatables" says he.

Hospitals begs to acknowledge price of champagne as well as "Well, if it's drink. re know the

with thanks. the following

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no' the

myself, there's one female Fe ca save from the smash.

where she was, thanks. And had Let't get her downstairs onyway. No, she was getting on fine

ma

it would be interesting to know donations to the funds of the" says I. "Ye mind the last I got my passage fixed up yet? through their streets. Ye might

the view that they have been brought out under false pretences. If such a promise had been made. on what authority it was based. Cn thing is certain-namely, that our Police are not going to work on the rates of pay which ased to prevail in Hongkong. We cannot blame them that. The cd members of the Force will no doubt have their salaries revised in the right direction when the decisions of the recent Civil Servants' Salaries. Commission are put into.operation. Be that as it may, new meh.will not be content to work on the old basis of pay: of that we may be sure.

THEN AND NOW,

It is common knowledge that the pay of the Police has beer substantially increased at Home in recent times. We saw a para- graph in one of the provincial newspapers the other day to the effect that the new scale would involve an addition of over 235.000 a year to the finances of a parti- cular county in a rural locality, to say nothing of the increased pensions which are to be given to all ranks, The which even constables in small pay towns at Home now receive is as high as many of the so-called middle classes were in the habit of getting before the war. The risks they run, of course, are in-

Hospitals:- Ministering Chil- dren's Leagua, $800.

To-morrow's Pictorial Supple- ment will include group pictures of the Thompson Mills and Ainslie-James weddings, as well

a photograph of H. E the Governor presenting the Military Medal to Sergt. Hutchins of the Hongkong Police. Police

A Chinese woman this morning jumped from the verandah of So.. 98. Cochrane Strict. Death which occurred from fracture of the skull was instantaneous, and the remains were removed to the Mortuary. Suicide is given as being the motive for the woman's

act.

assault summons was

adjourned by Mr. J. R. Wood this morning. The complainant was Mrs. R. Morgen, resident next door to the Palace Hotel, Kowloon, who charged Vences Noronha with assaulting her and indieting a back eye on the 29th November last in Kowlcon.

bonus ye got when---

"Ave, quite so says Mac, kind of irritated-like, thought. What I was talking about before ye started on your infernal economics"

says he

"was the Fox Trot."

"Well, what for did ye no' mention it at first?

Wit that he started to dier back and forward on his toes like a hen on a hot gridle

"If that's a twinkle," says I, I'm glad the stars are as far away as they're supposed to be, ntherwise vertigo would be a more common complaiur than it Dance to me. I can see now how is. It looks more like St. Vitus' hard it must be to train yon elephants at the circus.

did I no?" says he wi' & sneer. "Well. I payed for ma ticket And if I have got on in the world, that's no to say-"

"That's right enough," says I. "bat ye needna let everybody see than intelligent." that it's better to be born lucky

then ye winna be so

funny

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Ja

and as

But telling ye that wouldna* take re like the pipes if ye didna' want to. AII the same that just reminds how few folks, even Scotsfolk, unity of listening to pukka have really ever had the opport

bagpipe music. The knowledge of townsfolk, either north or south

in hiscoin-collecting meanderings of the Cheviots, is mostly based on the efforts of the itinerant piper

No? Aye, it was true that the as well compare the performance fares were terribly high nowadays of the fiddle-scraper of the side but-creek-crnak-my God, there streets to violin playing in the was that ominous sound again concert halls. To such folks and all these care-free folks un- distance certainly lends charm to conseinus of their peril sliddering pipe music the farther away on that rotten foor. Aye, she the better. Agreed. But would excuse me for a minute, should hear the real stuff as certainly. Daly going to see a played by a master hand, and, "So I did ", said he, his Adam's committee man? Oh, aye, cer-believe me. anything in the brass apple the while running up and tainly but only one, mind ye. Some band line is merely noise in com- down his neck like water in a folksneverknew when to comeout parison. Mind ye, it can hard- gauge glass, so I did. Dida't of that place downstairs once they ly be expected that the suprem- tell ye that they don't twinkle at gor settled there. Mind only one. sey of the pipes would be

nwadays?"

Poor fool, thought I, wait till ye granted as a matter of course by wakes up in hospital wi' your all the English-speaking race. thigh bone in three places and Wi' some it'll ever be, musically. damned speaking, as vile a contrivance as it is possible to imagine; harsh, Now, Robbie, says I to myself, iraperfect and untunable. These ye want to go dead slow wi' this folks say that there's as much discovery of yours or else ye'll be resemblance between Highland starting a panic worse than any music and real music as there another listen. Are, I'll stick my of run on the Bank. Better have is between porridge and puree head in at this door. No, nothing wrong. Highland music isna

woodepeks. But they're "Ach, doing at this corner of the room confined to the ranting reel. Real gomeril says he, raising his Try again at the other side. Xo.mind I'm telling ye, Jou don't understand, ye and the door looks quite steady.music's music, the world over, cice. "Mac," says I wi dignity everything's OK. here as well. Shakespeare bas said "The man there's nothing like a white As I was looking in there, I that hath no music in himself is fit dress shirt for making ye feel caught Macpherson's eye as he for treason, strategies and spoils." that way-mizd ye're A Chinese, recently arrived in among a lot of firemer the now.

no was filling and backing wi his

green one-stepper. From the I hadna' seen him for months, from the Colony by the s.s. Victoria Pull yourself together man and colour of his ears I could see that till we met below the sign of the

Australia. was charged with having a revolver, looking at ye." says I.

to-day no have folks turning round and he thought I was criticising his three brass balls under Auchter- dancing. The poor fool, if he only muchty. Home politics used to a Winchester rifle, and 49 rounds finitesimal for seldom does any of ammunition. These souvenirs

less life and no his footwork I obliged. Aye, I'm no denying he knew! It was metely his worth be his long suit, so as usual I thing happen to disturb the even of Australian life were found by

was interested in at the moment had had several drinks. Funny tenour of their ways. It is not to the Police in various pieces of If anyone were asked to imagine a more foolish campaign than wandered at, therefore, that our luggage. The rifle was hidden in

No, there was no creaking there, how liquor at a certain stage that of the "boycott organised by Young China it would indeed be Hongkong Police should want to

oayway. On the way back who produces a clarity of vision and the fold of a camp bed, the

should I meet but Mrs. Mac. No. brings wi' it thoughts and a rush difficult. One does not mind Chinese refusing to buy Japanese goods better paid than they bave if they think that it is the proper and test thing to do, but as regards dangers to which they are sub-shoes. A Ene of $250, or three been. When we recall the daily ammunition inside the man's revolver in a pillow. and the

I hadna' been downstairs yet, I of words ordinarily absent from a the methods that have been adopted to prevent all sale of Japaneseject, we cannot but feel that they months

was only looking for a-creek- | man's vocabulary. Maybe he had goods in the country, one cannot speak too strongly. For a long have bees very inadequately paid

"Look here, Robbie," says he crank-aye that was it, a-creek-read about in a magazine-some- was inflicted.

Sergt. D'ye see ye them hands-" time this noisy campaigning has been going on and with it all the

Fallon prosecuted.

craak-well if I would persist where-sometime--and uncons- Chinese are losing a very great deal of the sympathy that would in days gone by.

We have to say

"Aye," says rudely, I'm she'd have some claret cup but clously stowed it away only to be ** otherwise have been their If the inspiring idea was to promote in a different age, when labour is good-bye to those times. We live

afraid."Your hands are a right you know-creek-cruak- From Messrs. Alex Ross and What ye neod seen to is your

released by the spur of argument the manufacture of these goods in China by Chinese, then one could

Co, we have received a copy of head."

Aye, I had located the noiseand-whisky. hardly quarrel with it, but, unfortunately, it is a monstrously foolish better rewarded. And

right enough and every time she Aye," says he. "all very movement being conducted by a set of irresponsible youths whose only hope that in the present dis-

their new catalogue, which is the

W that he glared at me. I took a breath I got another earful well for ye to talk. I don't blame elders ought to have had enough firmness to check. Every day pute some means will be found to Machinery Office. It is a very creeping up behind his ears and chair she was sitting in. No, gone through what they poor first issued by the Company's could see incipient apoplexy-creek-craak. It couldna be the them for no' working. If I had there is fresh news of the movement and that received yesterday satisfy a class of men who de bulky production, containing over I was right glad when turning surely every chair in the place devils went through in France in only goes to show more clearly what a really idiotie proceeding the serve the very best conditions 60 pages, is very freely illustrated round I saw Mrs. Mac at his couldna' be on the superannuation the cold mud and the wet, I

that can be provided for them.

and will no doubt be found elbow telling him that Miss list. No, I'll watch her careful wouldna' feel like going back to Our Shanghai correspondent tells us that shopkeepers are to be asked to sign pledges to boycott Japanese goods, but it is just as

of much value to motorists and GERMAN QUIBBLING.

.. had been looking for ly. There it all others interested in engineer-bim all over the place for the crank-wi every other movement

was again-creek- || my old job myself. well to remember that the request is being made not by China's

The German memorandum on ing, electrical

But they're at home now, the plants, office next dance. responsible statesmen but by a crowd of school-bors. These over the Scapa Flow sinkings is appliances, etc. Such a cata

of her ample chest-creek-crunk-gainers and all the ricber through energetic lads have also embarked on a four days' school strike, and

another

"Ach," says he, "I don't like surely it couldna' beaye it must their experience." example of thelogue is evidence of the wonder them new dances any more. I be why of course it couldna "It's no what they have gain- are conducting demonstrations and lectures. It has entailed the kind of quibbling which

iful growth of this enterprising thought I could do them fine be anything else but her corsets.ed. It's what they have lost putting out of extra police, for these demonstrations" usually characteristic of the Huns. The firm. The printers are the China bring out the worse elements of hooliganism. The Education main argument is that as Almir Jail, Ltd.. who bave made very

My goodness what a relief. And that's going to make Department has issued a circular to all the schools telling these lads al von Reuter was cut off from nest job of the publication.

"Since the twinkle has been cut me very near making myself the the richer in the years to come. that the military and the police have been ordered not to interfere the homeland, he assumed that

out of the Fox Trot, madam," says laughing stock of the Colony all True, they gained a victory over I. it hasna' the same go in it. through a vain old woman who the German... Their greatest with the demonstrations. Then follows the perfectly inocucas the Armistice ended on June 21st. admonition that students must bear in mind that the people of a when he ordered the sinkings, in from France went on a jamboreeing it all to me."

A Chinese labourer just return-Mac here has just been explain hadna' sense enough at her time victory, though, was over fear. country must be in harmony with their Government's foreign policy. accordance with seamen's usage. whilst in the Colony. The amount

of life to let her interior mechan- They lost the sense of fear, fear Is it official China's foreign policy to have nothing to do with Then, as he was withdrawn from of liquor imbibed

Oh" says she in her beatism alone but needs must com- of the boss, fear of losing their made him entertaing, Japanese goods? If so, then better would it be to put up a tariff the German

boy-go-catchee- press it multum in part to ber job, fear, of the other chap, fear Government's jubilant to the extent that his more-hot-water-please, kind of own and everybody else's discom- of the future, aye, even the fear wall against them, but China knows that she cannot do it authority, the latter is unable to conduct was regarded by the voice that makes no difference, fort. The silly old fool. That's of death itself." without creating an international "situation." China's markets accept responsibility for his acts. Police with suspicion, and when for the next one is a One-Step in the worst of a woman, wi' five Lcts of folks thought are free, and the people can take goods or leave them, but it should All that is very plausible and

just he kicked at the idea of being any case." not be left to a few indignant youths to create disturbances and specious, but we imagine it hauled to the Sistion, four police-

chins and a stemach like a because they learned discipline Venetian boycotts at their own sweet will and in their own sweet way. won't cut any ice with the Allies.

blind, reading the and got the knack of standing Not only in Shanghai but in Canton, too, is there evidenced The suggestion of arbitration on him there. Before Mr. J. R. Wood

of coreet helping them to regain that they would be all the better men were detailed to frogmarch

woman's papers about a new kind four square to a sergeant-major this excess of youthful ardour. Readers are well aware of all the the subject is doubtless a ruse by this morning the conduct of the

their youthfulness of line. Huh! workmen for it. when they got trouble that has been made in connection with the boycott, but on which to escape immediate ad- this occasion students have taken a stand upon another matter. mission of liability and the mak was inquired into, after which a Chinese, who was now quite sober,

back. It's like the story of the cats They now have a complaint against General Ngai Bong-ping. of reparation. The only fine of $1 was imposed in spite of

Ayeit's over and bye for another that were the means of extirpat- Baying that he has committed an offence against them. Not content value that the memorandum has his protest that a friend who had

age, cober. One thing I missed proved year. A fine turn out and sober, ing all the rats and who in turn even more of a pest with sending petitions to the Military and Civil Governors demands that it deânitely fires on Ad invited him to a party at a ing that the General be dismissed or punished, they have made miral von Reuter as the man who restaurant had lavished too much

though this year was the wild than the rats themselves. Ye public their intention that if the petitions are ignored they will gave the order for the sinking of hospitality on him.

story-the good old hardy annual canne tamper wit nature, my organize a great demonstration and camp out on the streets sur-the ships. That rather knocks in

about the man, full of assurance lad. Those who have been com- rounding the various yamens until a satisfactory reply is received. the bead the fantastic suggestion

and whisky, sitting on the City pelled by discipline to acquire Could one imagine a more boyish proceeding? They are also going of British duplicity in the matter.

Fourty-four bags of rice valued

Hall steps loudly demanding the the habit of obedience are always to publish a newspaper for the purposes of propaganda, and are Anyhow, the German Govern-

at $220, into whose origin the

hire of a sampan, This chap, if the first to throw off the habit Yaumati Police is enquiring, still busy in routing out what they describe as "low-class goods".ment cannot be acquitted of re-

I mind right, used to be in High-when the necessity no longer formed the subject of a charge And meanwhile. China-the more serious part of it--continues sponsibility merely because this

land costume but his sporran exists. The lad that looked over at the Police Court this morning,

somehow or other had veered the rim of a trench in France got along its sleepy way, apparently content to let these hot-heads Admiral chose to assume that when three Chinese were charged. disturb the peaceful run of life and carry on in unbridled fashion. the armistice had ended.

from the South due North. His a better idea of perspective than 1 steered It appears that acting on the

Mrs. "Young China is generally credited as being the hope of the

Met to Glengarry, of course, he bad lost, he ever had before. Aya there's receipt of a

the message from the the biggest and softest looking and, as country, but it has a very great deal to

story goes, it a mighty lot of fear teen lost learn yet before it

only when he began over yonder during the past can ever hope to accomplish any good. It is said that these youths SIBERIAN REFUGEES Hongkong Police that a junk seat that happened at the moment was

loaded with a

cargo of rice to be without a tenant. No, she to divest himself of his five years and what's more Isuspected of having been stolen) didns' care for an ice cream, clothing in order to swim across forbye, it's been lost for good. So

from another junk way Taumati the Yaumati. Police and on through the night just took pity on his dementia and escorted they used to, it's not fear that's at thanks, and eating sandwiches off to Kowloon that his friends took if the men are going to work like

set out to intercept the away one's appetite for supper.him round to the sea front and going to make them. One war cargo as it was being discharged Man, she was finely gotten up for saw him safely abroad a real is over but another has just on the forestore. The coolies who the occasion and seemed so solid sampan.

婴 I'm

bit hazy begun, the war for bread and were engaged in the transporta- from the shoulders down that her myself regarding the trimmings butter, but just when it's about tion work scattered at the dress looked as if it had been of the

story-that is to begin R-r-r-ng! What's three men, the present prisoners, shoe-horn and the strength of a the appearance of the Police, but shrank on wi the help of a usually supplied with gusto by that? That must be Dance No.7.

English onlooker who That's the Caledonians. Aye, were arrested. The origin of the good right arm, Her fan she throughout the next year at the the

will be waiting rice has not been discovered and kept on at middle speed most of mere mention of St. Andrew's for me and I wouldns' have- the Magistrate agreed to an ad- the time and she seemed to have Ball used to wind up his main- her miss it for the world. journment of the case.

difficulty in breathing, but inst apring and reel of the whole re- No that I'm Leared, yo ken..

whole thing is

O

we can

Mrs. H. R. Harling. Mrs. Mi M. Murray. Mrs. Segerdael, Canton. Mm. Purves.

are students, but surely they should, have drilled into them the fact that one of the very rudiments of education is the recognition Further donations of boote and that sweet reasonableness is always more efficacious the mis-directed clothing have been received from protest. Their continued action against the products of their the following:- nearest neighbour can only result in a greater atraining of the relationship between the two countries, for Japan is not quietly looking on taking no note of it. The whole position has an import that the young moving spirits behind the movement fail to appreciate, and it is time that the more mature public men came forward, and took very definite action against them. China has thanks, and more will always be These are acknowledged with more than a sufficiency of internal problems to attend to without gratefully received. getting herself again mixed up with strained foreign relations. No matter from what standpoint one looks at this boycotting business it stands out as being a most unfortunate and ill-considered policy,

E. M. STABB.

M. MOORHEAD

E. L. DUNBAR.

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"Oh, all right, where is she?" his partner had been hung on a says be, looking about him as if book on the wall all ready for through it." him. "I suppose I'll need to go

ward wit a young thing dressed

W that Mrs. Mac came for

in green and an underdone smile. "All right you," says he to me as he tottered, off, as elegant as a crab going to jail-backwards, all right," says he, "I only hope you're seasick all the way down."

And that's how Mac and I fell out-the last time.

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