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New Shipment of Lowney's Celebrated

American Chocolates.

On sale by

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

The Hongkong Dispensary.

Telephone 16.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

KOWLOON RENTS.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24. 1920.

DAY BY DAY.

IF YOU WISH TO REACH. THE

HIGHEST, BEGIN AT THE LOW- EST."-Syrus.

The Gazette contains intims-] tions of the Government's inten-" tion to resume 25 specified Survey:

District lots.

One wonders what the Govern. ment thinks of the housing pro- blem now that it has become pub- lic knowledge that there is to be an almost general increase in the rentals paid by residents in Kowloon. The high rents already' paid have been the subject of much comment, but with

Tenders are being asked for the other increase foreshadowed it erection of a public latrine at the would seam to be higt junction of Market Street and time that something officially Nathan Road, Yaumati. was done to counteract the

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189.5.

HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO.

(Compiled from the "Hongkong

Telegraph' files for week-... ending February, 1895.)

THE DOLLAR January 25th. The rate of the Dollar on demand to-day is 1s. 11-12d.

THE PLAGUE.

SIBERIAN REFUGEES.

HONG KONG GIFTS.

Very grateful thanks are extend-!

DARING THEFT.

SOLDIERS AND SAILOR CATCH THE THIEF,

A particularly daring case of ed by the collectors to the follow.theft WAS perpetrated by a ing, who have sent in clothes, and Chinese at Mr. Kelly Sayce's many miscellaneous articles of book-store last night. The subse- vale to refugees (--

Mrs Rodgers. 15, The Peak. Mr T. Wilgress, care of C.P.0.S. Ltd.

Mrs Johnson, 18, Nathan Road, January 31st. We have to ‡ Kowloon, 2 consignments,

Mrs Shenton, 168, The Peak, acknowledge the receipt of a

Miss Julah, The Den. Castle copy of a memorial which is now being signed by the landlords of Ra. Hongkong and will probably „Mrs Grimshaw, Quarry Bay,

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quent capture of the thief brought for the captors the thanks of the Magistrate at the Police Court this morning, when the thief was fconvicted and sentenced to three

months' hard labour.

It appears from what was said in the Court that the thief display. ed a remarkable interest in the books and pictures that were on

be forwarded To the Secret- Mr Moss. 4. Tregunter Manshow in the windows of the shop.

of State for the signs.

tendency of continual increase. His Excellency the Governor Is it always going to be talk and in Council has appointed Saturday, no action? For months past we the 21st February, 1920. to be have been promised relief in the fobserved as a General Holiday. way of more provision, but the Government hotel or flats seem His Excellency the Governor Ty every bit as far away. And with has appointed regard to the impending rise Robley Sayer to act as Deputy mail. of which Kowloon residents have Registrar and Appraiser. Supreme Dity Press erroniously alleges, is already on its way to Downing `now been notified there is Court, until further notice.

Street concluded with an appeal *** no explanation given as to why

For over an hour bis attention

Mr. Geoffrey Colonies by the next outgoing Mrs Pennedather, di, Observatory was concentrated on this and it

This memorial which the Villa. Kowloon.

30

Hon. Mr H. E. Pullock.....$250 Girls of the Belilius Girls' "School, per Bliss Clarke....... Miss E D. Warren. The

• Towers. Brandwood Bond A Friend

10

Mrs Pollock. Barrington, Peak. Mr H. Komior, Mrs Parves, 2. Torres Buildings. the increase is being made. Is Entries for the open Billiard for compensation for the serious Kowlo

Mr Witchell. King Edward it another of those economic" Championship of the Colony less the petitioners allege they

suffered through **The Hotel. rises or can it be explained satis- close on January 31st to Mr. have

Several parcel name in with [a factorily at all? The tendency R.H.B. Mitchell, Hof. Secretary arbitrary and illegal action of for the cost of living to rise in all of the Victoria Recreation Club the permanent committee of the name or address

Sanitary Board. The conclud- Donations of money Were directions is a really serious one

The total output of the Kailaning paragraph of the memorial crived as follows: Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which required and it is high time that something them to forward their names and addresses with communications was done to relieve the situa-Mining Administration's mines sets forth that to "the neglect of both. Was attribu-i addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but a anstion, at least as regards the very for the week ending 10th January the Government or the Sanitary

elementary provision of some amounted to 99, 234 tone and the board, or evidence of their bona fides..

All communications intended for publication should be address-where to live. We have been sales during the period, to 105. utable the serious effects of the Introduction of bubonic plague pegging away at this matter for 206 tons,

from the mainland of China. The ed to the Editor.

longer than is complimentary to the Colony; how

more The following additional firms. Tekgraph's opinion on this subject we going to have have been granted licences to is too well-known to need rei- times are occasion to refer to it? There trade under the Non-Ferrous teration here suffice it to say that all is well that ends well." and The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip. is the oft-repeated story of "beat- Metal Industry Ordinance, 1919:

-Takisada & Co., Yee Tai Hong. if there is no recurrence here of tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for aing a dead horse" and to urge

the deadly pest this year, the the Government to start doing and Man Loong. full month.

owners of houses closed during! The "Hongkong Telegraph is delivered free when the addressee something with regard to hous-

To-night the Hongkong St. last year's epidemic and the is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies | ing in Kowloon seems to be as delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies futile as the process indicated in Andrew's Society will celebrate public at large may be thankful

the quotation.

the anniversary of the birth of that the unwelcome visitor has sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarteris charged for postage.

Robert Burns by holding a mem-been got rid of so expeditiously Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.

bers dinner at the Hongkong and so cheaply. Hotel at 7.45 pm.

Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager,

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Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

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

Office address: 11. Ice House Street.

many

America seems to be enjoying

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the complete incoming of Pro-

His Excellency the Governor, Ltd..bibition, at least the religious

section of the community does. Sir Reginald Edward Subs judging from the description .C.M.G. has kindly consented which Reuter's Washington corto distribute the prizes at Queen's respondent has sent out. To hold College

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[17] Saturday,

BILL LIKES IT!

was not until Mr. Sayce had gone Away for dinner. be- tween 7 and 8 o'clock, that the thief showed his real intentions.

respectively A. E. Drew and E. Hescooks.

The thief who "pleaded not guilty, declared that it was a case of mistaken identity.

Madame Guivenil who looked after the shop in the absence of Mr. Sayce, was attending to several European customers, when the thief came in and, suatching from the desk a card- board box which contained 3 sum of over $16, bolted from the shop. With very praiseworthy promptitude one of the customers. a ship's cook of H.M.S. Hawkins, Damed John Harris, gave chase, and eventually caught the thief after She had run a great distance, and

handed him over to a constable. The garmants, etc., sent is are of

In the chase, Harris was ac- most excellent quality, and ne

eient to ill two large esscompanied by two privates of the Wiltshire Regiment, whose names pairs of new surks kritted by the ladies of Quarry Bay are included

With the splen lid sum of $300, large consignment of thick jerseys During the pursuit, the wily. and a collen underwear for worm theif had managed to bide the and children is being laught and cash-box in a pile of rubbish in ent off at one, also setting-cotton. Wardley Street, but it was Feb. 2nd. It will doubtless in-nevilles, pins, etc., as we are tudi eventually discovered by Harris, terest many of our friends of the that there are workroo German Club to learn that the women who can work, bata English, Madame Guivenil gave In a mixture of French and favourite lotion in the Imperisi ark of material.

her evidence before Mr. N.. L. Palace at Potsdam is encumber punch. It was introduced into mind how little. The winter will was also given by John Harris Please keep on sepiing, never Smith. Corroborative evidence 14th Germany by Emperor Bill who soon beaver, but there are some and one of the privates. a funeral on a supposed "John February, at 11 a.m.

ilearned to like and make it months of bitter coll still to be got Barleycorn and to mock the

when on il visit to some through in the North. Christian rite of burial may be

A meeting of the Committee English officers recently. William The undersigned are glad to re of recently appoint I to enquire and makes the punch as follows: nice piece Very

berika drons of dothes and propaganda for

who report on the question of the He takes three bottles of good m those like such things, but for an development of the economic re-red wine and pours into a bowl Mrs N. 4 Stabb, St. John's Association to support the pro-scurces of the Colony will be which is kept cool. In this he Place, thunder: Road. mulgation of Prohibition in held in the Council Char ber oplaces a cucumber from which Mrs Moorhead), 1794, The Peats, Europe by the raising of a Monday, the 26th January, the rind has been removed and Mrs L. Danlar, 7. Queen's Car million dollars in missionary work 3 p.m.

allows it to become saturateddens with the wine. The cucumber Parcels may also las sent to the! outside world. For Americans His Excellency the Governor is then pressed out" and three Hena May Institute. Please to work for prohibition in America has appointed Mr.

Octavius glasses of maraschino are added. mark að parcels Siberian He is a matter with which no other Francis Luhatti to act as Assistant Sugar is not used in the punch. fugees, and port name and wiress nationals can be said to be Superintendent of Imports and Hongkong hur-tenders. please of sender. concerned, but when an Ameri- Exports and Government Opiuta can movement is taken into an- Monopoly Analyst, during the other country and prosecuted by absence of Mr. Harry Americans it is just as well to Taylor. point out thet hey risk whatever

of the leading Chinese merchants At the outbreak of the Great European War, the British | reception the people of the coun- The Sanitary Department hus of the Colony was held yesterday Merchant Flest carried one half of the overseas trade of the world, try concerned care to give them. issued a pamphlet in English and to frame a fresh petition to the Chinese dealing with cerebro-Government in reference to the Vessels owned by British shipping companies entering ports of the It may be a good thing for a British Isica carrier three-fourths of the imports and exports. At country to go "dry" and it may spinal meringitis, giving the necessity of extra and much that very critical period, if England had not been able to keep her not. but the fundamental thing to cause of the disease. factors in its needed Police protection during ships moving, or if she had not possessed the necessary tonnage, remember is that until the spread, symptoms and treatment. the Chinese New Year Festivities her industries would have been paralysed. and the inhabitants of demand for probibition is a free- Later we hope to give

Some and, in fact, throughout the the British Isles would very soon have been in a state of starvation. will expression of the majority of Nor could France have held out for very long. But such a calamity people within that country, any

His Excellency the Governur to civilisation did not take place. The British Merchant Service, legislation would be dangerously protected by the fighting Fleet, held the seas and, in spite of the premature. American prohibition has added the name of Sir Robert sink without trace" policy of Germany's leaders, continued lists may think they have an Ho Tung, Kt, to the list of mem- feed the civilian population of Great Britain, the Armies of England. inspired mission to fulfil in going bers of the Committee appointed France, Belgium and afterwards, to a very great extent, those of into other countries preaching to enquire and report on the America in addition, right up to the fateful hour on the 11th of the glad tidings" of no drinks question of the development of se duit, when Gierraang signed the recognition of her but it would be far better to let the economic resources of the

native missionaries of a country, Colony of Hongkong. Some idea of the magnitude of what the British Merchant Service do all the preaching they think

England

For selling whisky without undertook in the way of transport may be gathered from the official requisite. statistics. Over 23 million effectives and 314 million non-effectives sufficiently strong

temperance meals were transported, with a toss by enemy action of 4,394. The follow-movement ing figures are correct and show what the English Merchant Service reinforcement by foreigners. transported during the War:-193,000 prisoners, 24 million animals,

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1920.

BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPPING.

complete collapse.

them

is to invite the criticism of the

Great that

has

the men are now

extracts from it.

the

with

Alan

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THE ARMED ROBBERIES. January 28.--We hear that an

His Worship thanked the sailor and the two privates for the assistance they had rendered on behalf of the Police.

FOOTBALL.

UNITED SERVICES LEAGUE.

the Happy Valier. Military ground, the Ambrose "B"defeated Ma azion by

Yesterday

at

indignation meeting of a number HONGKONG TRADE. 7 goals to nil. In consequence of

winter.

NEW BOXING RULES ?

A LONDON. CONFERENCE.

New

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REPORT.

The fortnightly Price Current and Market Report, published by the Hongkong General Chamber

of Commerce, states:

"

the Carlisle's early departure from Hongkong, efforts are being made o complete her fixtures and the following is the United Service League Progamme for this week:--

A PECULIAR DISEASE.

A peculiar disease that is still

Monday. Carlisle v. 2ad Wilt- shire Regt., kick-off 4 p.m., Navy. ground. Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy Wednesday. 2nd Wilts E Cotton Goods. During the in- Tamar, kick-off 4 p.m. Navy terval the Manchester market has ground. Ambrose "A" Alacrity, again strengthened and both kick-of 4 p.m., Military ground prices and deliveries renderi Thursday.-Carlisio v. Ambrose simultaneous business im-"B." kick-off 4 p.m. Navy ground. Following the Carpenter-Beckett Chinese are anxious buyers of Kick-off 4 p.m. Navy Ground. York, December 4- practicable for the most part. The Saturday. Tamary. Marazion: contest in London to-night for certain cloths fearing still higher The Hawkins football team, the European heavyweight cham- pionship there was a meeting in but Importers generally are not Straits recently, having arrived rates may be demanded later on which has done so well in the London according to private without needing keeper was to-day fined $100.vices received here. of the keen on selling anything but spot in Fort are entering the Hong-

Evidence WAS

or cargo actually shipped. The kong Shield Competition. This leading representative of Ameri- effect

last cotton quotation was 29.65. will further increase the interest man was seen serving a number to consider a new set of ring can, and European boxing bodies

Raw Cotton.-Values are pract- in the Competition, as their ship 48 million tons of British military stores, 512,000 vehicles, 5 million THE RAILWAYMEN. tons of Allied stores, 60 thousand million tons of oil and fuel. To One cannot read the speeches of Europeans in bis restaurant

regulations to supersede the ically unaltered and nominal possesses the crack team of the England was conveyed from abroad in British bottoms 130 thousand of Mr. J. H. Thomas, the leader a bottle of whiskey. for Marquis of Queensberry rules quotations are:-Indian grades China Fleet. million tons of foodstuffs and other materials. Then there was the of the railwaymen at Home, and which he was paid $3.

which for decades have governed $44 56. Chinese grades $48/60 transport of the American Army. All the world, Germany included, Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister

bouts in all parts of the world, per pical. It is notified that, in pursuance Admiral Sins has put Great for Transport, without realising of Rule 25 of the Rules made by Paul Rousseau, president of the amount of business was transect looked on in aniazement at this feat.

The meeting was attended by Cotton Yarn.--A moderate Britain's share on record thus: "Americans," he said, "seemed to that the Government has regard it as a miracle that their Navy had transported to Europe in given way to the railwaymen the Governor in Council under French Federation of Boxing; A. ed. Values ruled easier, parti- a few months a million and a half troops and had protected | to a. very great extent and. sections 3 and 4 of the Importation F. Bettinson of the National cularly as regards the higher confined chiefly to certain river

the D3

way. Americans did

do that. no

in and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, Britain did. She brought two-thirds of them and escorted half." an economic position of con- all import licences which have Sporting Club; Eugene Corri, the counte. Quotations are:-No. 10. valleys of Japan, but suggests Since the signing of the Armistice the greater part of America's siderable security. The figures been granted under the provisions French promoter, and other pro at 16s at $280,325. No. 208. at a wide-spread epidemic, has been famous referee: Victor Bryer, the $220/250. No. 12s at $232/270. No. possibilities of breaking loose as fighting forces have been returned to the U.S.A. by American ships. quoted by Sir Auckland Geddes of the said rules are revoked from minent boxing authorities. At $320,350. Arrivals 9,000 bales, a subject of recent investigation. We have dealt so far with past achievements, but what about pre-reveal that the cost of industrial the 24th day of January, 1920, the meeting a representative of Sales 4,000 bales. Shipments nil. It is known as "tsutsugamushi,"

The leeway lost during the war, owing to the enemy submarine considerabic, but there is cause

With reference to the recent the army, navy and civilian board Unsold Stock 4,000 hales and is transmitted by the |"akumushi," an insect parasite of certain field mice. It is a fever 280 vessels of 733,207 tons gross were launched by the shipbuilding smoother running of the railways port of foreign dyestuffs Club of New York submitted the quiry exists and moderate orders Rocky Mountain spotted levers. campaign, is fast being made up. In the first six months of 1919, for hope in the fact that the notification prohibiting the im-cf boxing control of American Bargains 18,000 bales.

and the international Sporting Woollens. An all-round en strikingly similar to typhus and yards of Great Britain and, concurrently with this. the Admiralty that should result from

the notificed

that dyes actually draft of the new code to be known are being booked. released a number of merchant vessels which had been taken over settlement will bring with shipped before the 5th December, as the International Boxing

The investigators have learned as auxiliary cruisers, mine sweepers, etc. These ships go straight it

Metals. Prices very firm from that its chief occurrence is in the compensating efficiency 1919, or which will be actually Rules. Private advices indicate to the yards, are reconditioned for "Trade" warfare and returned in

country's transport shipped from the country of that the new regulations found England but very little business months of June to October, which to their private owners. Moreover, 183 vessels of 659,800 tons were facilities. Mr. Thomas made export before the 5th April, 1920. in the U.K. up to 782 vessels of 216 million tons gross. These show terruption and it is thereby made prior to 5th December, 1919, will as the rules of the International strikes and supplies locally are when the peasant victime of the begun in the June quarter, bringing the amount of new construction bis speech amid considerable in in execution of orders placed favour and probably will be adopt-done. Deliveries from America is the time of development of the ed after some minor alterations are delayed owing to the recent insect carriers, and the season a very marked increase on last year's figures and with the release apparent that the extreme sec- be allowed to be imported.

Boxing Federation for the control becoming scarcer. Small business disease are brought into contact of the ring contests throughout has been done in nails and bars with the mice. The mortality, for quick delivery; parcels evi-though very variable sometimes the world. Britain is not only holding her own in the production of new The very straight talking that such a statement is based. If all The proposed weight classes dently bought some time ago. exceeds 50 per cent. tonnage, butás ahead of any other country. Moreover, owing to Mr. Thomas indulged in should demands of Trades Unions are to will include: Flyweight,

112 Business generally quiet.

existing conditions, bites by the the labour editions in England, the cost of production is cheaper have a beneficial effect on these be absolutely unalterable, why pounds; bantamweight, 118 Flour Market Report-Stock insects cannot be wholly avoided, than in the U. 6. A. which is Britain's runner-up in the shipbuilding people, as should also Sir Auck- bargain at all? Matters will simply pounds; featherweight 126 About 250.000 sacks. Quotations and cutting out the bitten part race. In September last, one-third of the world's tonnage under land Geddes statement that develop into a social war. The pounds; lightweight, 135 pounds; American Patent, $3.70 per does not prevent the spread of construction was Eritish, and if the output keeps on increasing at rejection of the Government's process of adjustment must never welterweight, 147 pounds; sack: American Cut off, $3.38 per the virus, while such remedies as the present rate, it is possible to predict that we shall very soon terms would have struck the give place to the process of force. middleweight, 160 pounds; heavy sack; American Straight, $3.38 iodine, mercury, arsenic, quinine Eee England owning, as she did before the war, almost one-half the severest blow possible at the And this is a principle that work-weight, 175 pounds and over. per sack: Shanghai Flour 2nd, and dyes have proven ineffective. shipping of the entire globe. Britain promises to become, as she principles of collective bargain-ers and Trades Unions generally Under the new rules all weights $3.60 per sack: Australian No. 1. The only hope of stamping out was before, the world's carrier by sea, and the Red Ensign of the ing with the Trades Unions. One would do well to assimilate once will be made eight hours before $3.36 per sack; Australian No. 2, the disease seems to rest in the Mercantile Marine will float in the breezes of every ocean.!

can easily see the point on which land for all.

the men enter the ring.

$3.20 per sack.

La extermination of the field mice

sent and future developments of the British Mercantile Marine? peace" to the country is pretty

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the

of men from the Army and Navy by demobilisation, the construction tion of the workers are in na

of merchant shipping in the British Isles will go on increasing.

way pleased with the settlement.

Under