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The opening of the first play-TAXES
STERN SCHOOL- JAPANESE SUMMONS ground for Chinese children in MASTERS.-Sir Donald Maclean.
JAGAINST EUROPEAN. Shanghai is an interesting sign of the times. It is indicative of
The Anderson Music Co. has
issued a dainty calendar for the coming New Year, bearing a pretty study of a girl's head.
SECURITY FOR COSTS.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
•
A SUPREME COURT CASE,
His election as Worshipful At the Supreme Court this Master of the Company of Musi- moming two applications were cians will not give Sir Edward made before the Chief Justice Cooper, London's
Lond Sir William Rees Davies, LC, Mayor, quite such autocratic powers as were enjoyed by some For more
and Mr. Justice Gomperts. wines & spirits
for Christmas from
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1919.
A PASSING REMEMBRANCE.
of essentials; at least there is a great deal of forgetfulness. We There is a great tendency for modern communities to lose sight go through life concentrating on the various tasks of the day; we are busy in our offices; we are planning this and resolving that; through the newspapers we watch a world sorting out its tangle of confused ideas and desires; we discuss education; we plan social improvements; we talk of industry as a complex web; in fact, we tusy ourselves with all the embellishments that civilisation has given to us, but in the main there is little thought given to those on whom it has fallen to provide for our daily wants. We take the satisfying of them all for granted. From their actual production to their presentation before us, life's necessities pass through such a maze of business" that we don't often trouble to get back in thought to those who till and plough and reip-those who are the very Sustainers of all the life around us. In another part of to-day's issue we give an article that recently appeared in the Times, under the heading" After the Harvest." and it is an article that we enjoy ed reading, for it took one's thoughts back to Home and to scenes that are dear because they are far away. The writer has there sketched an appealing picture, but it is in his closing thoughts that he strikes the truest note. To make men proud of working on the land is indeed a valuable work for they are the only true producers The craft of husbandry has all others beaten to a standstill when one weighs them in the balance of essentials. It is the foundation on which everything else rests. And is it not strange that in the scale of merit, as commonly judged, it occupies the humblest position%
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to hear from them regarding that meat of Mr. J. A. Miller, head of motion for security. The motion the Ontario Government's Labour should never have been filed at Bureau in that city. This, he all just now, for there was plenty said, was due in large measure to of time to file such a motion the flourishing condition of the before the hearing of the appeal marriage market. "The English came on It savoured very much lassies did not by any means of forcing things. As soon as comer the Canadian Tommies," they beard from Shanghai they be concluded with a chuckle. would arrange the matter.
"Generally," said Mr. Miller, "demands for labour in the.city
Mr. Pollock went on to refer
to the correspondence which had and rural districts remain teen- passed between the Hongkongame desire to stay in the city Returned soldiers do not show the solicitors, and proceeded to argue that the others do, and we are
therron.
not
Mallory Street is a dangerous the growing interest being shown
locality for the unwary pedes in outdoor pastimes by the Chinese. Here in the South, we
trian, for the neighbours appeared to have made a pastime of throw- have seen truly astounding pro-
On August 25 last judgment of his predecessors. gress made by Chinese youths in
ing water, sand, flower-pots and was given in favour of the asthan three centuries the Master the realu of sport during the past There is sure to be a crowded other missiles at one another. In Castlefield Steamship Company of of the Musicians was the supreme few years.. Most of us
cac house at the Boxing Tournament one of these episodes & quarrel Hongkong for damages against authority for regulating the. remember when there were less on Saturday. Booking opened at later by the issuing of a summons hai in an action brought in con- London, and a fine of forty shil- seemed to have resulted, followed Toong Yue, a shipowner of Shang- public performance of music in than a dozen Chinese tennis Moutrie's this morning and in a players in Hongkong when brief space of time practically all by the damaged party against the nection with a charter-party. The lings was the penalty for per- Chinese cricket and football Clubs the reserved seats were sold.
successful participant.
amount of damages was referred forming without his sanotion. did not exist and when not the
At the Police Court, before Mr. by the Court to arbitration. Since Nominally it has still the right to slightest interest was manifested
RO. Hutchison, this morning, then the defendant has filed a lavy that fine on unauthorised by the Chinese community in
The Hon. Treasurer of the Fkuta, a Japanese woman living notice of appeal, which is due to musicians, ⠀ but-unfortunately. may think-is without athletics in any form. What Alice Memorial and Affiliated on the 3rd floor of No. 1 Mallory come on for hearing on January 5.80ms
This morning there was do we find nowadays?
power to enforce his authority. Hospitals begs to acknowledge Street, brought a summons of The
with
the Colony's best exponents of tennis.
thanks
following disorderly behaviour against Mrs. motion brought before the Court football and, in a lesser degree, donation to the funds of the B. Watting, an old European by the defendant asking for the Even the Canadian urchins are cricket are Chinese, to say noth-Hospitals Mr. Ho Ngok Lau, lady, who occupied the 1st floor arbitration proceedings
to be "
strong" for the Prince, as the ing of their prowess in
of the opposite house, No. 2. stayed until after the hearing of following buman little story games as basket-ball and volley-
The alleged misconduct was the the appeal. There was also a shows. When His Royal Highness ball. This remarkable change is
the com- motion by the plaintiff Company was being shown round Toronto, The Chinese charged with pouring of water on not a fleeting development either, t nlering 27 ien-rupee notes at plainant, as the result of which asking for security for costs as the a grimy-faced youngster, clad in defendant is resident outside the a bathing suit and a pair of for if there is one thing charac- the Mercantile Bank of India with she was completely drenched.
The Magistrate. (to the jurisdiction of the Court. teristic of the Chinese sportsman the intent to defraud the Bank
trousers tied up with a piece of it is the serious manner in which on the 8th inst. was to-day com-defendant): Have you anything Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed rope, dashed out in front of him he trains and applies himself to mitted by Mr. J. R. Wood to the to say?
by Mr. W. E. L. Shenton) appeared and, coming to a sudden stand- whatever he takes in hand. WeSessions.
At this question, the old for the plaintiff and the Hon. Mr.still, gravely saluted the Royal have seen that in the case of
to have H. E. Pollock, KC. (instructed visitor. The heir to the British" lady, who appeared football and tennis, particularly.
imperfect knowledge of by Mr. A. H. Crew) for the Throne smiled at the youngster, A Chinese woman was to-day English, One begins to wonder when the fined $500, or three months' hard and
became excited defendants.
shook his hand, and patted him Chinese will take up boxing in labour, for being in possession of of disjointed statements the drift own motion for a stay of the ing to bis rather scandalised made a number Mr. Pollock before making his kindly on the head. Then turn- same thorough-going spirit. They 614 taels of heit opium. are so alert and agile that they female searcher found the drug know what "that lettle person" objection to
Aof which was that she did not arbitration made preliminary entourage, the Prince said ought to show up well in the tied round the woman's waist, atfreferring to
the motion forWell, that was the coolest way fistic art, especially in the lighter the Han Tak Wharf.
the complainant) security for costs, pointing out to come and greet me, anyway." classes.
wanted with her. She lived alone that
Eastings and and bad continually been pestered Hastings could only act оп A WORD FOR THE YOUNGSTERS. A Chinese ex-Police Inter-with the attentions of the neigh-instructions from their legal There is practically
Children always copy their preter was to-day charged before bours. "I prayed them leave me principals in Shanghai and employment among women in elders, and so it is that Chinese Mr. R O. Hutchison with alone, leave me quiet to finish that they had not had time Toronto, according to the state- juveniles of to-day reflect the atempting to obtain 3 sum of my enthusiasm for sport of those $82.60 from the China Australia against her?” older than themselves. We see 5.5. Go., by virtue of a forged bill. His Worship-No. She sum- that evidenced all round us. O The case was remanded. every available bit of waste land.
The defendant Oh, very well, Chinese boys may be observed
very well.
• Yesterday's bealth engaged in "scratch" football
The complainant, Ekata, in matches, on the results of which shows three non-fatal cases of evidence, stated that about 3 p.m. they appear to place as much teric, two cases of diphtheria on the 3rd instant she went to (one fatal) and one fatal visit a friend who lived on the importance as the players in an occurrence of cerebro-spinalfever. second floor of No. 2 Mallory astray, and what does it matter diphtheria cases, the remainder was English Cup final. The "placing The enteric sufferers were all Street. Whilst going up the of the teams may by a little British, as also was one of the staircase, the defendant who if there be only imaginary being Chinese.
standing boundary lines? A whistle is
the verandah and had seen her enter, generally raked up from some-
met her on the landing with a where, by the use of which some
After hearing Mr. Pollock's Placing a large number of return diminutive youngster exercises been reported to
A robbery with violence has receptacle containing salt water arguments, their Lordships did ed men throughout the country."
and
all over splashed her
uphold his the powers of a very real dictator. Mr. Yung Kan-chau, living at clothes. She returned to her costs.
plea that the Police with it, completely drenching her
the motion for security of Having occasion to cross the And how the kiddies enjoy No. 15, Seymour Terrace, says house which was on the other made an order for security to be Whitehall I could not resist the was unreasonable, and precincts of the ancient palace of the tussies? It ell takes that whilst returning in a chair side of the street, and effected a given, but the actual question of temptation (says "Diarist" of the
to to his residence after landing change of clothing. after which the costs was reserved. the time when we were boys, from the Canton steamer wharf she went to the Police Station doesn't it? But this is a new ex-
Westminster Gazette) to peep into at 12.30 yesterday morning, he
The motion for a stay of the the building which was for so
and it is making finer men of Gardens by two men
Kone into long the Press Bureau-the chief perience for these young Chinese, was set upon when near Blake and reported the matter. A few arbitration will be
home of Dora. The newspaper them, too. They are bound to forced the coolies to lower the on to her own, which was exactly
days later, whilst she was on her to-morrow morning. They verandah, the defendant came out
and news agency representatives benefit from healthy outdoor chair after which they laid hands
"WHERE SHELLS LANDEE." who passed innumerable weary exercise. But where have many on him and stole a handbag con- opposite and made a motion of
The 128 places within the en-hours there would scarcely of them a place in which to enjoy taining a quantity of clothing, netice of it, but went back into the German "Berthas" landed wonderful transfiguration bas took no virons of Paris where shella from recognise their old haunt. Á themselves? Nowhere save the the whole valued at $40. From her room.
spitting at her. She streets or odd bits of unoccupied his pockets also they extracted
with deadly precision are shown taken place. The dirt and the land. European children are in money to the amount of $72.20. the complainant said she knew first by the French journal, and makeshift appearance of the pretty much the same plight too. Having got all that they wanted, the defendant but had not spoken Excelsior, and
Questioned by the Magistrate, in an interesting map published litter, the generally unkempt In every well-ordered community, the robbers disappeared into the
recently the playtime of the little ones is darkness.
for place, bave disappeared. Gone is warded by Thos, Cook & Sen the semi-circle to her previously.
of telephone catered for by the authorities.)
Is there any reason why she to all their agents. The boxes by which Dora com- The slogan of the day is "efficiency," and it is in the rural places in this regard. Let us of home-sickness induced them sand thrown at me
Hongkong is sadly behind reost
[should pour water on you? positions of the bombardment municated with the outer world. Two banishees whose feelings No, I had no idea. I had take an interesting significance. and gone also is the more famous producing districts where efficiency is most to be found. Modern hope that this question will in to return to the Colony shared the other persons. Even Europeans centration of the fire on the centre which cities boast of efficiency, and city trained advisers waste reams of future receive more
before by as the map shows a decided con- Paris-London telephone box. the Feace Conference paper trying to bring their rural brethren "up to the city standard, than it has in the past. We Police: but if the percentage of efficiency were as low in the country as it owe it to the children in our returned to the Colony to obtain at me.
attention came fate in being caught by the who passed through the street of the city, while the outskirts, brought into existence. Instead, is in the city, large numbers of people would go hungry, who, as it midst, whether
The one said that he always had something to row although liberally spattered with there are now visible the graceful is, find food in abundance. This is not hard to prove. In the coun- otherwise, to see that adequate business, and the other, who was
European
Another occasion on stragglers, were not so thoroughly curves and column and the try on any day during spring, summer or autumn, one will find playgrounds are provided.
money from his mother to start a which I had water thrown at me covered. During the fierce bom shining mahogany rostrum of the everybody working. There is no time to think of strikes; no eight-
was last month when someone bardment by these monsters 256 Royal United Service Institution a seaman and just returned from drenched me from behind whilst persons were killed and 620 lecture theatre. The decorators hour days, no five and six-day weeks. The agricultural worker is INTERNATIONAL SPORT.
London, gave it out that he was going down the staircase. wounded. The map sbows a strip have been busy indeed, and the at it every day from scon after dawn until, practically dark. His We are gratified to see that the dropped into the Colony to ground is always being planted. tilled and
His Worship (to defendant) of heavy casualties extending from building is still packed with harvested. and Hongkong Football Association transfer his family to the country. Have you any question to put to the northern limits to the centre scaffolding. Outside, the engine there is no such thing as ungarnered corps,
unless it intends fixing up an attractive Notwithstanding these excuses, the witness-I don't want to
of the city. Among the better of a vacuum-cleaning machine be that war or devastation intervenes. There is a very different International match, between they were punished picture in the cities of the world. Thousands of men are idle; teams representative of England Magistrate this morning with leave me alone.
by the put any questions. They won't known sections struck are the works industriously.
They made Tuilleries, the Hospital Villemin, as 8001 as one industrial dispute calms down another rises to and Scotland, for the Christmas sentences of nine months and much noise outside my door. Jardine de Luxembourg and Rus take its place: "men are downing tools in greater or lesser holidays, and that the proceeds one year's hard labour respective was afraid they would come in des Invalides. According to Mr.
The following suggestive number; and the boasted efficiency of the cities is soon seen to dis- are to go to the deserving. The stocks will also be and pull me out.
George F. Harrisca, the General thoughts by George Saintsbury ap sipate in thin air. As one goes on to think of the thousands of idle Devastated France Fund. The brought into requisition at the On this particular date did you
Manager of Thos. Cook & Son, pear in the Bookman for Septem- rich who are living lives surfeited with luxury, whose very extrava. Association is always ready to expiry of their terms.
throw water on ber?-Honestly
who returned to New York from ber-That criginality is not the gances waste the energies of many workers, one gets a better idea use its influence on behalf of of the value of the humble worker on the soil. "Hodge," as we call charities, and in this connection
I did. I must say bonestly I did. a trip through the devastated are- most commion feature of him in England, ought to be proud, but he is too near to nature to a word must also be said for the.
That was the only time I did. If as of France and from the war-books, is not a very rash or coa. get that sense of superiority that the useless ones of the earth are so players, without whom, of course,
Fam to be punished, then punish affected sections of England this tentious proposition. But things year, the marks of the raids by might become less peaceful if an fond of exhibiting. It is the farm labourers of the world who feed such fixtures would be impossible,
define the other millions, who work almost without respite, and who, curi-
The defendant at first refused air and by the "Big Berthas" are attempt were made to
originality, or at least the ways of ously enough, get less pecuniary reward for their labour than any
to go into the witness box still deplorably seen.
ascuring it. For a good many other worker. It is a remarkable truth.
to givo evidence, but whenvist No. 9 Mallory Street more years past the idea of it has been After sober reflection on the graded values of men's contri.
the Mag strate suggested, that than once or twice a month. very mainly confined to style; and butions to the work of this life, it is really not surprising to find very considerably. We like these rumours these last two days give she went into
Hongkong has been full of she might have some reasons to There was no damage to her aven to one part of style--that is that there has arisen a revolutionary school of thought, which says: International contests and would regarding supposed wrecks and muttering: "I have to defend through.
the box clothes except they were wet to Bay, phraseolozy. We have "Away with all this falsity." We call the exponents of that school that there were more of them in in consequence there has been a myself. I want to give some
been told that we must not repeat by various names; some we call Socialists, some we call Bol- Hongkong, not only in football little extra work for newspaper
His Worship (to the defendant)!oll phrases, however good they sbevists, and some we baven't troubled to name
I wil fine you 1. I will ask you are that everything of the kind at all but in other branches of sport men, who have only succeeded in At the conclusion of the taking not to throw water or sand at must be personal and new.. It With the realisation of the worth of the humble workers, also. There is endless scope for ascertaining that one wreck has of the oath, she added:"If I other people for the next three was probably wrong of Shak- men have risen up and are saying "To such as these should the fixtures of this order in Hong- taken place--this being the sink-don't speak the truth come and months. ultimate power be given," and if all men were honest they would kong, in which the Chinese anding of the s.s. Lien Shing, with take me away.
You will sign a bond of espeare to use four such frightful- agree. But humanity has edged itself about with certain ideas and others would no doubt take a very such disastrous loss of life.
I don't want to $50 for three months. If you ly common words, so ordinarily structures begotten of civilisation that prevent direct and sudden active interest. On the sports
have any complaint you must go put together, as The rest is The Magistrate-Now what's to the Police." changes. Labourites and moderate Socialists are content to work field, representatives of various going round as to the fate of the the trouble all about?
Last evening there were slóries
silence" he should have sought along paths of peaceful propaganda, realising that it is only by the races can learn to appreciate and Shinkuku Maruthat is bringing a
The defendant replied that she something more in the Gon The defendant consent of an intelligent majority that government by the workers get to know each other better. European mail upfrom Negaptam agitated): I don't know, I don't could find nobody to take up her But perhaps there has been a (greatly had reported to the Police but courtian or Meredithese manner. can supersede government by interest cliques. Those who seek to Events of this kind can do a She was due to arrive yesterday establish that order before the time is ripe are imperilling the whole world of good. Let us have more and her non-appearance must
case. The neighbours had a mistake here, or at any rate a too structure of civilisation. That is what the Bolshevists are doing. of them.
Why didyou throw water on habit of throwing bamboos and exclusive devotion to one side of By force they are trying to set up that which only reason can hope,
bave set tongues wagging. We her-Because they threaten flower-pots from their floors on to the question. The more excellent to raise. We bave said before that it is not with their ideals as a
Dave enquired at the Post Office | me, - always come Up people in the street. "Will I be side of originality-certainly the whole that we quarrel, but with their efforts at a premature forcing.
to-day and learn that up to and threaten. I am a lonely fined or hanged for it?" She rarer may possibly be dis- To the philosophic mind there is much to hearten in a contempla-
tiffin time no signal bed yet widow. They threaten me with asked the Magistrate.
coverad elsewhere; in the tion of the simple life of the world's rural workers. Amid all the
been received. As the rap Rock something if I go out. I threaten His Worship said that if she ability to find, and make good, a strife of politics these men of the soil keep the noiseless tenour of Agent and General Manager of morning it may be that the ship them if anything happened to me to go to the No. 2 Police Station, view. The field of thought on Major W. S. Nathan, C.M.G. land line went out of order this them, saying that I would know had anything to report she was distinct and independent point of their way." Sharing nature's contentment, they at least have grip on essentials and in consequence are content to let pass all the tion, has been decorated with a ailed. At any rate there are at leave me alone. I have no wit-
the Kalan Mining Administra- will come in without being sign-I paid my rent, and they did not where she would be beard.
almost all questions has been so gaudy trappings of modern civilisation. It is a question that many very high Japanese; order, the present no fears for her safety, ness. Take my word as you have I hope so.
The defendant:-I hope so, much tridden: the claims have are asking with sincerity, whether men generally will not have to Second Glass of the Sacred because it is known that the mon- taken hers.
But I must not say been so marked, and overmarked- get nearer to Mother Nature before they find the happiness that Treasure, a decoration seldom soon might easily delay the boat's
anything more, I must not say and cross-prospected, that it is - now seems so illusive,
The complainant, in reply to the anything more. May I wish not easy to secure such a position awarded to a foreigner.
Magistrate, said that she did not you "good morning" and leave? of vantage..
$2
This Boxing Day match should
be a great one, and, by reason of the friendly rivalry aroused, the French Fund ought to benefit
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