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GERMANY AND ARMED FORCES.

Now that the time for the actual ratification of the Peace Treaty is drawing near there is a lot of clearing up work to be done, and not the least important is that of seeing that Germany keeps to her bargain and does not violate the Treaty in the matter

of excessive armed forces. We referred to this subject quite recently owing to the crisis that

THURSDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1919.

DAY BY DAY.

20:

WEALTH MUST BE CREATED

BEFORE IT CAN BE MORE JUSTLY DISTRIBUTED.-The Archbishop of Fork.

MUSICAL NOTES.

[BY "ENHARMONIC".)

BANKRUPT WARNED.

REPRIMANDED BY THE

TODAY'S MISCELLANY.

· CHIEF JUSTICE.

He was a green Scottish lad, and one of his duties was to ans- There is not a great deal to

For incurring further debts war the telephone, write about this week at least whilst he is still an undischarged called on to do so, in reply to the When first

Again the

The only case of communicablaot much that is local. We are bankrupt, a native of Macau, ugual query, “Ara you there ?**

now getting well on into Decem-named Carlos Henriques Chavas, he nodded assent. disease notified yesterday was ber and I hear that most of the one fatal occurence of enteric- local musical shops are getting Chief Justice (Sir William Rees again, and each time the boy gare was severely censored by the question came and again and yet fever, the victim being a Chinese busy with the approach of Christ Davies, E. C.), at the Bankruptcy the answering nod. When the

mss. The holiday season is al-Court this morning. The

question came for the fifth time, Colonial Secretariatways associated with home music

Addressing the man, the Chief however, the boy, losing his tem- advises us that the quarantine-in fact no party is considered it seemed to be precipitating, but restrictions declared by Hong- complete without it. There is a Justice said that the Official pes, roared through the transmit s reading of the German reply to the Allied Note would seem to

kong against arrivals from great demand for gramaphones Receiver had very rightly thought ter: "Man are pe blin? I've

report instruments that are by no means it his duty to

that been noddin's me heid aff for the show that Germany is more in-Saigon have been withdrawn.

so unmusical as when they were be (the bankrupt) had been last hàlfoor.” chined to carry out what is

first put on the market. All that incurring further debts since be- required of her. It is The Misses Woods again one heard then was

ing adjudicated a bankrupt. It Mr. T. F. Plowisan, who Kas very obvious that things are not appeared at the Hongkong Hotel tinny screeching, but like appeared that the original debts just died, played a joke on the satisfactory, however, and it is tea dansant last evening Tables everything else these instruments totalled $1,069 and that in 1911 public when he entitled his re- just as well that the Allies should had been nicely arranged in the have been very greatly improved Receiving Order was made.miniscences "A Showman's insist that they are, before the centre of the room and every one and from a really good-class re-In 1918, the bankrupt undertook Memories." The average reader ratification. However much it was occupied. In fact. the cord and instrument one can to pay to the Official Receiver thought it would prove to be the may be desirable to be strict there attendance was bigger than ever obtain some wonderful results. $5 per month for the benefit of autobiography of a circus man- should be ao vexatious over-step-before. The whole evening was In the matter of records. Hong-the creditors. He had only paidager! But it was in reality the ping in the way of Allied demands.

a big success, and the Misses kong people are well catered for, some $85, after considerable pres-brightly written recollections of We are as keen as any to make Woods were in really brilliant the extensive libraries of the big sure, sad he bad now been the great agricultural shows of sure that Germany will not be in form.

shops containing records of every borrowing further monies from which Mr. Plowman was the a position to repeat her crime of

kind.

money lenders.

A number of indefatigable secretary. He had 1914 but we recognise, too, that

actions were now being brought the instinct of the journalist in Germany must be given a chance

against him,

selecting interesting topics, and. to resuscitate so that she will be

Debtor said he did not know the volume, we remember, was able to fulfill the obligations that

this.

very readable. have been imposed upon her

The Official Receiver (Mr. J. obligations heavy, but justly so. Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which required The question of maintaining them to forward their names and addresses with communications order in Germany itself must addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but a ans have been of no little difficulty and we bare sympathy for the All communications intended for publication should be address-political elements trying to bring ed to the Editor.

order and stability out of the chaos. Whilst there has to be no creation of another big Ger- man Army there must be adequate

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policing, and it is on the question of what size this force shall be that the dispute has arisen. The latest Allied Note should be sufficient to indicate a firmness that will check a breach of the Treaty. If it does not, then the expect, for they have been given some very plain indications." THE LONG DISTANCE FLIGHT.

Germans know full well what to

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At the Bankruptcy Court this morning H. I. Xavier, who bas been a bankrupt ever since 1912, should have appeared to support an application he has made for his discharge. The Official Re-opportunity of hearing the band

There are not many cases in ciever has no objection to the of the Wiltshire Regiment for D. Lloyd) said that one judgment

the applicant the first time in public. I. was for $100 had been secured against stage history, we imagine, in which a father has been greatly ought to have appeared. The not present myself but I heard debtor.

impressed by the acting of his Chief Justice said that he must from some friends who went that His Lordship:-Surely you

son. Sir Henry Irving did not do so at the next Bankruptcy the soldiers gave a really fine know whether there are any juce think his sons great actors, and Court.

programme, their playing beingments against you or not? "You

we doubt whether Edmund Ken of quite a fine order. I do hope have receieved a solicitor's letter would have been

Among the that we shall be able to hear them for the payment of a draper's enthusiastic admirers of Charles European lads" passenger, Fan A motor car, in which was a

more in public soon. The band bill. I see your salary is $150 a Kean. There is a case more of the Sociedade Philarmonica month and you have a wife and recent of a father and son who were very good friends-except into, a small boy on the Praya.

Proceeding, his Lordship told when then they appeared on the near the Westera Market at 10.30s also at the fete. I wonder children depending on you. a.m. to-day. It appears that the this orchestra is going to give

a concert this year?

Our the debtor that if people obtained same stage-and some of the boy ran across the road to avoid Portuguese friends have given us the benefits of the Bankruptcy most successful of actors have the car, but was knocked down and sustained injuries to the foot.me good concerts in the past Court they rendered themselves fought hard against filial deter to the laws of mination to take the boards. On These were not serious, though and one this winter would be amenable

the Colony. and that

it the other side there are several the boy suffered considerably

cases of actresses from shock. A ricksha was

was an offence for an undis- well known requisitioned and the boy was With regard to the band of the charged bankrupt to obtain credit taking the keenest interest in the taken up to the Police Station.

without disclosing the fact that stage fortunes of their daughters. Wiltshires, a friend has asked me he was a bankrupt If debtor whether it would be possible for continued to pursue that course Mr. Churchill: "does not think the tand to give public concerts,

Not content

very welcome.

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asHe invented the Tank""; and it

Ltd. Australia is now rearing com-

The Bight from London

"A certain ricksha coolic was pletion so far as one competitor last night greatly worried by the say in the Botanical Gardens, of borrowing, the Court would it is possible to say of any man, is concerned. Lieut. Ross Smith evil pranks of a particularly play because he thought that as the have to deal with him has made a wonderful flight, andful youth. What the youth did band was a military one it would authorised, namely prosecute him will be interesting to see whether for an offence under the Ordin- the Commissioners find that. it would indeed be ironical if he was to get behind the ricksba and ot be allowed to do so. In years ance. It appeared that debtor was eleven men, or any number of the were to fail now that he has got drag the wheels.

past military bands have very wholly indiferent to the laws of eleven. invented it. Modern con- practically within sight of his with this, he followed the poor often given public concerts and the Colony, but if any further ivaners are apt to be complex goal. Until to-day there coolie when the latter attempted see no reason why the Wiltshires debts were incurred the Court and when many cooks make the had been EQ

should not follow suit when the would have to see what course it broth it is hard to say which news of to escape from his attentions M. Poulet lately a competitor and shetched of the "sweat-weather becomes appropriate. would take. You understand was responsible for a particular who seemed to be going so well cloth"

Just because the band is military You may go." from bis shoulders,

spoonful In = striking until he reached,, India. Four The victim was saved from fur-is no bar to ite giving public con-

and unexpected passage Mr. other competitors are on their thers annoyances by the arrival certs, though it has of course a Way, Some having just left of a policeman who took the prior duty in attending to the London, and with so many men playful youth into custody, and wants of the regiment. It is a OFFICER'S attempting the flight it can safely had him charged at the Police usual courtesy for the Command- be predicted that there will be Court this morning. A fine ofing Officer and other officers to success. It is a marvellous $3, or five days' was the punish-sive permission. change in conditions as compared ment inflicted by the Magistrate. to the days before the war. We seem to be accepting this flight

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1919.

NOT A FREE TRADER.

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DEATH.

FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY.

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Bernard Shaw draws his own moral from this inevitable ambiguity in modern produc- on "If God takes the dread- nought in one hand and a steel pen in the other, and asks Job who made them, and to whom I have seen

some Manila

they should belong by maker's According to one of yesterday's telegrams. Mr. Lloyd George as nothing very extraordinary.

The funeral of the late Captain right, Job must scratch his puzzl- Seventy-five gross reels of cot-papers this week and they contain declares that he is a Free Trader. Unfortunately, the cable does and the progress of aviation is on ton valued at $1.100 were stolen some very eulogistic accounts of Weymark, of the Chinese Laboured head with a potsherd and be not give us any information which enables us to see how the example of how quickly we from a shop at No 2, Connaugh the work of the Russian Opera Corps, which took place this morn dumb, unless, indeed, it strikes Premier proved his assertion. The message is palpably a very assimilate new ideas and incor- Road. The theft was, discovered Company which is due to paying at Happy Valley was attended him that God is the ultimate much summarised version of his speech, which is rather a pity, for porate them into daily life. One to be committed by a boy em-Hongkong a visit in the first month by a large number of military men maser, and that all we have a it would be extremely interesting to learn how Mr. Llord George, wonders how long it will be before ployed at the shop, who said that of the New York. They produce representing the various units in right to do with products is to now well entangled with the Tariff Reformers' policy, is able to pose we shall have our own aeroclane he had sold the cotton to procure a very wide range of operas. I am the Colony. There were present feed bis 18 as the Free Trader which he once undoubtedly was. The mere state-service between here and Manila, medicine, as he was sick. When hoping that the Company is for Lieut. Col. R. M. Croase. Capt. Wilcox (representing Major With the best of motives, the Premier joined Shanghai, Singapore or Indo-charged before Mr. R. O. Hutch-tunate enough to have its own General Ventris), Major Whitfield library which has not a single. rment is not sufficient.

We are told, as a curiosity, of a hands with the Unionists for the more successful prosecution of the Chica Judging by the rate son this morning, the boy ex-orchestra, for the orchestral part

It is in Belgrade, the war. That he did magnificent work for the Empire-work the things are going at present, it pressed his intention of making of an opera is the very basis on (C.O. H.K.S.B. R.G.A.); Lt.-Colbook. importance of which it would be impossible to over-estimäte-only should

C.B. Crisp, D.P.M.S., Col. Hum-capital of Serbia. One's first idea Dot be so over long. Food by instalments the loss he which all the rest depends. the most ungracious would deny. But, the war over, he has retain. Singapore and Shanghai have had inflicted on the firm. He had

phreys, Major Leslie Smith, Lieut. would naturally be that this ed his association with those who were formerly his political seen their aeroplanes. but Hong-a brother who would help him in

F.H. Thomas, Lieut Libby, Lient. tragic state of affairs was due to. enemies, and has, there can be no shadow of doubt, very consider-kong seems to be doing nothing at the indemnification. The brother children's entertainment at the teith, Burrell, and Archer, eud either carried off or destroyed all One of the features of the Bygate, Captains Murray, Monthe Austrians and that they ably modified his views on the fiscal question, bringing them into all in that direction. Are we in question appeared to be very Kowloon British School last week several officers of the Labour the books. But this is not so. The line with Tariff Reform ideals.

waiting for someone to bring unwilling to be made the scape-was, I hear, the singing of Mrs. Corps. If M. Lloyd George believes that he can best serve the county them to us, or are there any local goat for his relative's evil doing O. A. Brawn, the wife of a well-

library was formed by the Ser- by keeping the Coalition alive, and by doing all in his power to pre-interests keen enough to secure for Inspector Brazit stated that krown Kowloon resident. Mrs. with, a Union Jack, rested on owned forty thousand volumes. The coffin, which was draped bian government and at one time vent a return to party politics, we must give him the credit of being some?

he refused to refund the money Bra, my informant says, has the usual gun carriage, drawn Unhappily they made it a lending sincere in his convictions: Even if he thinks that a personal sacrifice of long-held opinions on the tariff question is preferable to THE BOLSHEVIKS.

every fine voice indeed-in fact by a detachment of men from the library and apparently the Ser- a break-up of the Coalition, we must praise him for putting his

it constitutes a valuable addition Manchester

Regt. and was bians are as bad, or in fact worse One can find encouragement in country before his political leanings. But all this admitted, he the reports of the interview than they expected when they Mrs. Brawn, when a Home,

The Police caught bigger game to the vocal talents of the Colony, followed by R.A.M.C men. than the ordinary borrower of cannot complain if those who do not see eye to eye with him draw between Mr. O'Grady and M. raided an opium divan at No. assisted

At the graveside, in the Protest-books. A lent book is a lost book attention to his change of attitude. Every man is entitled to change Litvinoff, for it is just possible 3, Sam Ka Lane.

in the well-known

ant Cemetery, Captain Bundle, as almost everybody knows from bis views. Such a step is often a sign of sagacity and progress, that this meeting of British and Grant, who conducted the raid am hoping that we shall soon the last rites. At the conclusion, tion of forty thousand books Inspector Chapell concerts in London, and I the Army chaplain, conducted experience. Still, that a collec. We have seen many examples of that in British political Russian representatives will received quite a surprise when he have an opportunity of hearing history. But any statesman who obviously changes his opinions eventuate in

steadily a salute was,fred over the grave, and then seeks to pretend that he has not, at once discredits himself. Bolsheviks.

peace with the found that one of the habitues of this lady at some public concert.and the "Last Post" sounded by irremediably melted away is a And that, we fear, is what Mr. Lloyd George is doing. We could well primarily arranged to see if an C603. The defendant who was is very keen on promoting a con..

The meeting was the den was a Chinese constable, I am also told that Mrs. Brawn five buglers from the Wiltshire little startling. We are told that understand and appreciate the Premier's stand if he came forward interchange of prisoners could not supposed by his superiore to be at cert-one that would include Battalion,

finally nothing but the catalogue Vand the librarian remained. and openly declared that he had been convinced by events and be negotiated and from out of it the time on duty, had evidently some Chamber music. It would circumstances of the error of his ways and had decided to embrace havecome informal talks of peace. prepared himself for a good pull

Under the circumstances the He puzzles us when he subscribes to the Tariff The latest wire to hand states at the pipe, for he had divested Tariff Reform.

be an appreciated treat.

announcement the the library Reform programme, including the imposition of protective duties, that M. Litvinoff has reiterated himself of his uniform and equip-

is closed and the librarian and then asserts that he is still a Free Trader. It is true, as he the Bolsheviks, desire for peacement. These being indiscreetly

presumably dispensed with, cap- says, that Free Trade is inseparable from "the question of dumping and has circularised the Allied placed at some distance away from

not justly be denounced as harsh decision. So is any other fiscal policy, in the sense that dumping, whether legations at Stockholm offering him, he had no time to put them on harmful or not, has a direct bearing on the fiscal policy of any it. When people talk of a desire before the raiding party entered. country on which it is practised. But when Mr. Lloyd George for peace it is a healthy sign, but Charged before Mr. R. accepts the principle of protective duties as a means of combating it is the question of the conditions Hutchison this morning, dumping. he ceases to be a Free Trader, surely. When, in that would govern that pecce that lukong had nothing to say in ex- Aug last, the Premier introduced the Goverment's new trade causes all the trouble. There is tenuation of his condust, and he policy, he had much to say about this question of dumping, laying no intention of Russia departing was fined $20, or six weeks hard special emphasis on the "unfairness" of it. His arguments at that from the Soviet system, says labour in default. time reminded us very much of the familier contentions of the Litvinoff, but if matters went no Tariff Reformers; indeed, they were practically on all fours there farther than that, surely

would be all right. What is

with.

The case was remanded.

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Speaking of singing, I have enme across some very interesting opinions as regards the wonderful talent of the late Madame Patti.

Madema Patti once gave Mr. Labouchere an explanation of her

OLD ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.

CONVERSION TO RESIDENTIAL FLATS.

Accommodation

far

should

have

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and

Mr. Robert Donald made his debut in London journalism on nine the still scintillating Star when

popularity as a public singer. families will be available when it first shot into the evening sky. The two chief points that the the siterations which are being So in taking over the Globe the made were: "I always try to carried out on the big building other day he not only returned to look nice," and "I always sing formerly occuied by St. Joseph's earth, so to speak, but to his what my audience likes." The

spirit which prompted this ex- College are completed. The build- first love evening journalism. planation would itself account for ing is the property of the Italian All his contempories will wish Now, it is not a question with which we are concerned at the exercising the minds of states govern the world, then British a good deal. Patti certainly had a

Mission, and Bishop Pozzoni has him joy on this auspicious moment whether dumping is or is not injurious to the country upon men of other countries is the workmen, French workmen, and winning manner and personality, commissioned Messrs. Brossard occasion, and with good hope of which it is practised. But when the leader of a Government declared intention of

the the workinen of every nation are and it helped her to retain public and Mopin to effect the necessary seeing their wish fulfilled, for he proposes to overcome what he considers the evils of the practice by Bolsheviks to spead disaffection going to proceed about it in their favour when her vocal power was alterations and repaire which will has had long years of experience. instituting protective measures, he forfaits the right to be regarded throughout the ranks of workers own waya way that must of on the wane. But she also was a transform it into a number of in every branch of four- 232 Free Trader. The Government proposals, as outlined by the the wide world over, to organise accessity be marked with sobriety great singer, with, in her heyday, residential flats.

nalism, and all that he has put Premier in August last, included the giving of power to the Board social revolutions, to utterly cast instead of with violence, in short, & divine voice, a true artistic

The Christian Brothers have his hand. to has prospered i of Trade to safeguard certain "key" industries by prohibiting the down the existing order of society by evolution instead of revolution. instinct, and a perfect style. She found more suitable quarters for The Oldest Evening Newspaper imports of competing manufactures except on Licences. That is and to construct a Utopian sort If one could remove the fear of and Sims Reeves were memorable their College in the old German though it has ceased to boast of Protection, thinly disguised though it may be. And so we say that of world in which everything violence that the Bolsheviks examples of the charm which a Club building. A few classes are that distinction, has seen many Mr. Lloyd George, as the confessed disciple of that policy, is no will be of a low mediocrity. The bring, there, might very easily be great singer may retain by mere for the present still being convicissitudes in its venerable Free Trader. He may like to consider himself as such. But the world doesn't want that and it arranged a peace. This present force of style and manner long ducted in the small house opposite career, Competitors have lot facts are against him. He is the head of a Tariff Reform Govern won't take it from the Bolshevike, strife is one of the most-to-be-after the voice itself has lost its the main building at Robinson only multiplied, ment The Free Traders are in the opposite camp.

If the workers are going to regretted aftermaths of the war, supreme quality.

Road.

desperately.

but hustled