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NOTES & COMMENTS.
WHERE'S MY SEAT?
Many complaints have been voiced during the past week concerning the annoyance which has been caused to patrons of the Russian Opera Company through people coming in late and disturb ing everybody in their efforts to find their seats in the Dress Circle. It appears to be a regulat habit with some" folk to arrive at the
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16. 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
Two fatal cases of diphtheria (both Chinese)
were notified yesterday.
WITH THE
| Theatre just after a play or opera
Billiard players are reminded has commenced; the idea of that the annual open Billiard getting there five or ten minutes | Championship of the Colony, before the advertised time, ap-under the auspices of the V.R.C.. parently never occurs to them. To will be held shortly. such, it is evidently a joy to be
seen, of men" in their endeavours
-to
CORRESPONDENCE.
To The Editor of the Hongbang Telegraph"]
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KOWLOON NOTES.
(BY "THE FERRYMAN.")
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
From a child's essay on the Let's lead off this week with a subject of the police "A Police- "grouse." On Wednesday, the man is a man who goes about the great majority of Kowloon re-
streets stopping killing, murder- sidents were denied the joy of ing, and profiteering." On the whole our streets are tolerably their morning dip. There was no water available for baths. One free from killing and murdering. man I know bad an appointment It is devoutly to be hoped that on the Hongkong side at 9.30, when the police really get into. but he telephoned and put it off their stride they will be equally because he couldn't get his cus-successful with the allied offence. tomary bath and was determined to remain in bed till he could.
the He was the exception. Less lucky individuals had to go to office unwashed.
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Sir.-The lack of some forigner THE MAN WHO MAKES HIS in charge of seating people at the HAVE NO Theatre Royal was well illustrated OWN BED SHOULD
MAT-at "Rigoletto," on January 13th, QUARREL
when two gentlemen in company TRESS."
with two ladies arrived holding tickets for seats 11. 12. 13 and 14. first row of dress circle, and Words found same occupied. wero sent to the occupants
A lady described as by one of the Chinese boys and a foreigner returned stating that
official medium of the London they had booked four seats which
Psychological Society" has had been taken by Government
publicly demonstrated her powers of fire handling, which she ascribes Officials, and, therefore, ther took these seats and refused to The whole trouble was caused to being controlled in her trances After some by a mess-up in the P.W.D. by the spirit of a Parsee fire- surrender them. conversation they finally agreed arrangements. This Department worshipper. Chabert, the Fire to vacate the seats at the end of bad notised that in consequence | King, who was a popular favourite the first act if the rightful parties of certain work on the new maics, in London close on a century ago, would take some seats elsewhere the water supply would be cut used to perform more dificult off from 9 p.m. on Tuesday until feats than clutching a burning log, 6 o'clock next morning. Actually, yet he never claimed any assist. it was nearer 11 am. than 6 am. ance from the world of spirits. when the water did come on. He used to rub a red-hot shovel on his face and head, and allow any- one in the audience to step on the platform and drop molten sesling- wax, on the Fire King's tongue and hands.. He would take a
to discover their allotted places. A Home paper. commenting on the It is quite bad enough to the splendid response to arrive late. it is a thousand King's appeal to employ disabled cre-te ex-Service men, says, despite a times Worse general distraction by wander severely restricted shoulder. a ing aimlessly around the circle, man at Ipswich has been accept- followed by an excited Chinese ed for the Hongkong Police at the attendant. That is the sort of usual rates of pay. thing that has been taking place night after night during the pres-) ent opera season, and people
who have the common-sense to
attendant, are about sick of the
Pictures of the Cadet Corps in camp at Lowu, the lounge of the Repulse Bay Hotel. Queen's College masters and pupils' tan nis teams and Sky Kerrison (the well-known Hongkong boxer) will be included in our Pictorial plement to-morrow.
until that time.
They finally found four seats in the back row, but the parties occupying the seats in question arbitrarily held same and would not surrender them. It was im- possible to find any foreigner in charge to enforce the vacating of the seats, and such a haphazard, Supanbusinesslike way of seating people at the principal theatre of the city, depending entirely upon the presumption that all who attend are gentlemen and ladies. and would not take anything that does not belong to them, will not stand the test in Hongkong in any other city, and it is about time for the management to have someone in charge who may see to it that such things do not occur again.
arrive early and to be able to find their seats without the necessity of being piloted thereto by an experience. One night it became impossible for many people to follow
because the opera of a ruining argument which!
Luk. Chin-cheong and Wong ensued between two groups of people who were squabbling over Ching-ting. Chinese delegates to the possession of seats which aris, are arriving in the Colony The TM. C. A. will to-day. both claimed to be theirs. Even-
entertain them this evening tually it turned out that
whilst a tea party will be given party had brought the
at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday by tickets, having left those for this the Chinese General Chamber of particular night at home!
Commerce. COLOSSAL IGNORANCE.
one
Wrong
But what is altogether beyond our comprehension is the thick-
15th, by Rev. H. Copley Moyle, M. A., Arthur Murdoch to Mildred headedness of some people wher public garden inside the city a
Mary Hayman.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1920.
WAR CRIMINALS.
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it comes to finding our "where Their reservations really are Presumably these folk study the plan before they decide on their tickets: yet they arrive at the Theatre with the haziest possible notions on the point. They do no: even know, many of them, what row their seat is in. As the front row seats are all "A" and the
Construction work on the first
Canton was started on January 10. and a gang of coolies are at work daily in levelling the ground. after which pavilions, theatres. and amusement houses will be constructed. It is expected that the garden will be open within six months.
A highway robbery was per-
taken away from him. The coolie had a sum of $1.50 in the purse. which it is very likely he will never see again, as the robbers' effected their escape.
A fine of $1.50 was inflicted on
others follow in alphabetical petrated in Morrison Hill Gap at order, we fail to see that there 1.30 a.m. to-day. A ricksha coolie should be any mysters to be was proceeding along that place solved. Evidently some of these with his vehicle when two men folk need to learn their A.B.C.
came down a hill and seized hold lessons all over again of him. They requested the price Even in semi-darkness, it ought of a tea, and as it was refused to be possible to locate the cor-them. his purse was
forcibly Now that the Peace Treaty is a thing of fact and not rect row, at any rate. But we matter of discussion there has of necessity to be a little change of have seen people, wrongfully sit attitude towards Germany. She is no longer an enemy, butis a country ting in "B" seats, get up and go to the "E" row when the right- with whom we are at peace--and an honourable peace. There are, of course, many conditions under the Peace Treaty for Germany to ful claimants come along. How comply with, and these were very clearly summarised in a telegram ever they made the original mis- to hand yesterday morning. Among the more interesting of the take we cannot imagine. Some conditions was one which stated that within one month from the confusion is possibly created by date of the handing over of the ratification Germany will have to the present system of numbering deliver up to the Allies the war criminals asked for, and it is already tickets, by which each row has apparent that on this question the very greatest of care will have to the same numerals though the be exercised. News has also come to hand that a conference has letter used is different. What we taken place among the Allied representatives dealing with this would suggest is that all this be matter, the framing of a list of war criminals whose surrender will altered. Let the left hand block he demanded occupying their attention. Reuter very rightly tells be all "A's", the middle all us that the subject is a difficult one owing to the necessity of sifting" 3's" and the left hand all "C's" conflicting evidence and it is delirate, because no loophole must be Then have the seats numbered in given Germany to complain of injustice.
rotation, beginning with the first "A" and ending with the last C." no number being repeated. The letter on the ticket would then indicate the particular block, and there would be no confusion over duplicate numbers. Could not some such arrange- ment as this be devised?
CANTON'S NEEDS.
No-one is more desirous than we are in wishing to see those men who were guilty of the bringing about of the war and those many others who were responsible for the atrocities that marked its progress brought to justice. A precedent is needed to establish the principle that any one person or group of persons having control in any cost or State who bring about wars and their attendant.sacrifices purely for aggrandisement and the acquisition of power will always have to answer to the rest of the world for such a crime. If international justice and fair dealing will not be voluntarily conformed to, then it has to be enforced, and one of the finest ways of enforcing it is to make all transgression attended by. a personal retribution. In the case of Germany and the late war to be the favourite occupation of there has been a mass of evidence to show that certain individuals Chinese
The search for funds appears
authorities
Yours etc. THEATRE-GOER.
Hongkong. Jan 15, 1920.
CHURCH WORK AND THE HIGH
DOLLAR.
Sir. Permit one through the hospitality of your columns to acknowledge receipt of the fol- lowing in response to the appeal for special collections on Sunday les: un behalf of that part of the Church's work which depends upon sterling grants and is now seriously jeopardised by loss on exchange:
St. John's Cathedral. per Mr. G. Hogg, Treasurer
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Precisely who's to blame, I don't know. But it may interest the proper authorities to know that even Kowloon people like a daily bath. Why, some of them even shave once week! They're rapidly becoming a civilised community.
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Their newly-found civic con- sciousness is based on this latter fact. By the way. don't forget the inaugural meeting of the Kowloon Residents' Association instant. Kowloon is expected to at the City Hall on the 20th
make a brave show that night
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Kowloon is soon to lose a popular resident in Dr. Lindsay Woods, who is shortly going to Shanghai for good. I hear that he is going into partnership with Dr. Jackson, Jr.. in the Northern Settlement. We all wish him
success and happiness, D
raw leg of mution into an oven hested to 220 degrees, remain in- side until the joint was cooked, then carve it into slices, which were distributed among the spec- tators.
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Amid the many disheartening features of the present financial situation some welcome if unex-
amazing prosperity of the Monu- pected relief is furnished by the
ment, which seems at present to be bringing in quite a respectable. revenue to the Corporation of the City of London. Apparently our prolonged war-training has pro- duced among many visitors to London the courage needed to ascend the 345 steps. Pope's tali bully" that "lifts its head and lies the accusation is no longer true-has not al- ways borne 90 cheering Dr. Lindsay Woods has been
a reputation, It was once the prominently associated with the
most favoured "jump off" for sporting life of the Celony. suicides in London. next to especially lawn tennis, having Southwark Bridge.. It was for been Hon Secretary of the League this reason that the top was for many years and displaying crowned with an unsightly cage. an enthusiasm which has been a Dickens, in" Martis Chuzzlewit, distinct factor in maintaining interest in this organisation. I am glad to see that he is being
represents the custodian of the Monument "the lonely creatüre who holds himself aloof from all
$ 2,193.73 succeeded in this position mankind in that pillar as a
another Kowloonite. Mr. A. O,
Brawn. What they do
"without Kowinon ?
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On the plot of ground. adjacent the Kowloon Post Office
misanthrope who laughs secretly when visitors pay their sixpences for the ascent, and says to him- self: "They don't know what s many steps it is. It's worth twice. the money to stop below."
St. Andrew's, Kowlcon, per Mr. N. L. Rail- ton. Treasurer, in- cluding $300 sent
2,201.50 1. 1. 20. Special donation $250.
#50, $5, $5....
310.00 there is a Water Police boundary
stone
the right in
centre Total received by the Hongkong of a well-wom path. At night this stone is hidden by the shadow cast by a tree standing recently their special
between it and a street are light and it is a source of distinct canger to people using the path. Can't it be removed?
have es are to
a Chinese recently arrived from Church Missionary Association, America who was arrested yester$4.705.23 The Chinese Church day at the Hau Tak wharf for being in possession of a revolver collections on the first Sunday and five rounds of ammunition. after Chinese New Year. I tender For a similar offence, another my heartfelt thanks to all con- Chinese, who had one revolver tributors. Such a generous re and 47 rounds of ammunition, sponse and splendid extra gift was fined $450. He is stated to will wipe out many adverse have come from Sydney. About balances, and greatly cheers both 650 rounds of ammunition, which European and Chinese workers. were cleverly concealed in the sides of a box, formed the case against another Chinese, who had to pay a fine of 8400.
the at
and cliques have deliberately conspired and worked for years past moment. The Central Government has to sue before it can get to give Germany a superiority in armed strength by which she is moving heaven and earth in an could emerge out of a conflict dominatingly triumphant-in effort to get hold of cash, and the position to dictate to and exploit the countries she had subjugated. same may be said of most of the In her attempt to do that many of her officials threw to the winds provincial Governments
also.
Yours etc.
G. H. VICTORIA HONGKONG. Hongkong, 15th January, 1920.
OPERA SEASON..
FINE PERFORMANCE OF
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It is often said that women are poor hands at biograph. and the
published personal sketch of Matilda Betham-
Edwards helps to confirm this saying. When the widow of a deceased celebrity writes his "life" or edits his "diery" shes They're getting. un with the usually makes a hash of the job,
of a erection of the new Fire Station, and there is at least one instance the first signs of the superstrucdocuments so as to give readers widow tampering with tire now appearing. I rather pity the poor Kowloon Post-The publication in 1900 of some a false impression of her husband. master when this building is up of the Michelet manuscripts his private residence at the back of the Post Office will then be a led to the discovery that the stored in the Carnavalet Museum very dull and dim place to live in.version of the historian's journal
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The crowded state of the night given to the world by Mme. Michelet in 1888 had been ferries lately has demonstrated
considerably doctored before how musically-inclined Kowloon
publication. This discovery people are. The Portuguese, provoked a furious outburst community
bave especially
on the part of M. Lucien liberally patronised the Russian Descaves. "French contemporary Opera Company.
literature," he wrote, "abounda in widows comfortably installed
Another success was achieved by the Grand Russian Opera Company in "Tosca." A packed house heard the piece last night at the Theatre Royal and those Company may shortly build a cheese which they scoop out to the
I hear that the Dairy Farm in their husband's work as in a
the whole code of humane dealing and have branded themselves Yesterday we printed a paragraph Mr. L. Longinotto, Assistant present were treated to an ample new shop in Kowloon, with resid-rind. It is their means of live-
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There was recently a great stir in Shanghai regarding the threat of Chinese not to pay their rates, and whilst Hongkong a free from any such question it often happens that the Govern-
payment. It will be a costly delay in the case of a Chinese named Sin Kap-san, for at the Summary Court this morning. before Mr. Justice Gompertz, criminals by studied crimes against every known decency. And it showing that Canton Government
demonstration of the high ential quarters above. It is said lihood, an occupation for their Solicitor, obtained а
that a site at the corner of Nathan old age. It would be far better is only right and proper that the Allies, whe sacrificed so much to agents are lin Hongkong seeking Crown Bave the world from the hideous domination of a mailed fist, should to raise A million and a half judgment against him for the operatic skill of the Company.
The period of the story is 1800 and Feking Roads (a part of the for them, and for us, if they did demand the attendance of these men before a tribunal in order that dollars and are applying to sum of 35 cents. The issue of
Here Flora Tosca is put by Victoria View) will be secured for up manuscripts. In preference meet punishments should be awarded. But there has to be caution various foreign firme for the the writ cost a fee of $1.50 and and the scene is laid in Rome. Chinese garden at the back, of crochet work instead of patching
evil circumstanees into the this purpose. No doubt a hand-to such a woman es and restraint a cool and judicial attitude brought to bear. Nothing money. We fear that their hopes the bailiff's fee, for service
$1.00. Instead of paying the would-be more disastrous to the newly-formed peace than that are doomed to disappointment, in
position of shielding her lover, some structure, suited to the im-Michelet, erudite and self-willed, Germany should have cause to nurse an injustice. We have won view of Canton's failure to pay original 35 cents." the Chinese Cavaradossi, a painter, from the portance of the site, will be how much sooner would I, for my the war; have staved off the threatened serfdcm; and have witnessed off past mortgages. In any case. But perhaps it will be a case of a rival for her head, Scarpia,
concerned will have to pay $2.85.
evil machinations of a disappoint- erected.
part, choose you, ye wives a change in the personnel of Germany's administrators that promises this Canton Government is very
obscure, ignorant, and devout A complete change of attitude too. We have entered on an era of insecurely situated, Correctly "good money after bad."
the Chief of Police. Scarpia bas, It is now possible for residents widows truly loyal who preserve peace and the sooner that formal peace develops into a more speaking, it is an illegal creation.
got her lover into his power and when crossing the harbour to get your precious heritage intact, friendly relationship the better will it be for the whole world.
whilst its personnel has a habit Vanity is one of the weaknesses he tells her that she must accept a good sight of three of the new and do not thins it necessary, The work of those responsible for framing the list of war crimin-of changing like the colours of of a certain Chinese amah in the bic or see her lover executed. submarines lying alongside the after preforming the toilet of the als is by no means an easy one. These high judicial personalities the chameleon. Any person or employ of the Hongkong Hotel Distracted she yields, and a mock parent ship outside the naval dry dead for burial, to put through a from each Allied country occupy very much the same position as a firm lending money to this self- Company. A boy yesterday execution is planned by Scarpia, | dock. People are wondering similar process the manuscripts Grand Jury at assize. The whole of the evidence has to be sorted created body would do well to left a razor behind in one of the who also writes out the warrant whether the public will be given which you send to a publisher." end tested, there has to be guarded against the working off of take every conceivable precau- bathrooms, and during his for the painter's release, As he a chance of looking over these On behalf of widows, however, it personal spites, and it will have to be a clear case of & true tion before parting with any absence the umah seized the gives it to Tosca, she stabs fim modern submersibles one of these may be urged that Mrs. Creight bill before they can reasonably ask for the delivers of any late money. To do otherwise would opportunity of improving her and runs to her lover with the days. They ought certainly to be on's Life and Letters of Mandell enemy person. The relationship of many countries hangs on the be to display sheer business looks. which were not at all warrant. The mock execution thrown open for public inspection. Creighton and Lady Burne- manner in which the work is carried out, for if by any chance there ineptitude and carelessness. charming, by he use of the razor. takes place as planned but through
Jones'e "Memorials of Barne- is at any time the slightest savouring of the Allies playing the
When the "boy" returned to the Scarpia's treachery it turns out In the passionate passages Jones" rank among the very best rart of bullies there will naturally be aroused just as much indig-
bathroom, the razor had dis to be a real one, and the painter with which the piece abounds, her of twentieth-century biographies. rant opposition as there was when Germany played the bully in 1914.
eppeared. It was later found in is killed. Tosca, on making this beautiful soprano voice rose to Moreover, a widower was respon- We are notʻasking for a display of squeamish sentimentality such as
the possession of the woman and discovery, utters a despairing cry perfection. As Cavaradossi, the sible for the dreariest life of a one often sees when there is an unpleasant duty to perform, but we do
author ever written. London-England is a country he was arrested. This morning and throws herself from the painter, Mr. Preobrajensky also great" most heartily support the plea that there should be manifested of houses of brick and stone. But at the Police Court, before Mr. castle walls to avoid aziest for most ably rendered his part. His Anyone driven by the centenary throughout the whole of the proceedings against war criminals an
such houses cannot be built L. Smith, the amah was the murder of Scarpia.
tebor voice is of fine quality. Mr. celebrations to read the work intense spirit of fair-play, an entire absence of lingering batred, quickly enough or cheaply enough charged, with the theft of the
Miss Gusieva as Tosca had a Bochloff, who had the part of referred to must agree with the and just a little of the magnanimity that so well befits a conqueror. to meet the present house short- razor, and she explained that she difficult part to perform but she "Scarpia, "has a fine baritone critic who says: The Life of Strange as it now sounds, Germany is a friendly power at least age. So wooden houses had con took it to shave her face. His filled it with such excellence as voice which he used to great George Eliot by her husband has
he has that status and whilst she is in-duty bound to carry out crete houses are being built, and Worship thought that she had no to win for her the hearty apprecia-effect...
done more than anything else to her part of the recently-made Treaty there is left no reason why the people are leaming to like intention of committing a theft tion of the audience. Her acting The well-known opera "Faust" | obscure the ray of a great novel- the animus born of war cannot be buried with the past.
them.
and ordered her discharge.40 and singing were beyond criticism, will be presented to-night
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