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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

A COMING FIGHT.

MONDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 1920..

DAY BY DAY.

INDIFFERENCE ΤΟ PUBLIC In local boxing circles the news OPINION IS AN INDISPENSIBLE) that arrangements have been CONDITION TO WINNING IT.- made for a

contest between Mrs. Cecil Chesterton, "Sky" Kerrison and "Iron" Bux

has been received with much gratification. The date fred is

eagerly awaited.

Since

more

is being Bux

CURRENT

COIN.

(BY MERCATOR.")

The is пон bent on is

the

realisation of his out-..

community. A lot of support would be forthcoming if the right sort of publication were brought ont and the right type of man employed to compile it. The

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANI.

A well-known American who

Trade in the Colony is abomin-Chamber of Commerce forthaight- ably bad. Owing to the approach Frice Current serves no useful lives in London has receivad a let of the Chinese New Year there is purpose, as the Chamber admits ter from one of the sons of the late disposition on the part of the Could not something be done to that, with his two brothers, he the prices are not vary acurate. Theodore Roosevelt announcing Saturday's health return shows Chinese merchant to enter into bring out a weekly publication has embarked" the firs: Saturday in March. no cases of communicable disease.; any new transactions. All that If the Chamber of Commerce The young man makes no secret in business. and already

are not prepared to embark on a that cash is not so plentiful as it venture of this sort could they promised to be at one time. than Mr. Denman Fuller. the standing bills and converting

not support any private enterprise new Roosevelt venture is a cheap made organist of St. Johns Cathedral, bis cargo into cash. As a result, in the publication of such a week restaurant scheme to be known as

TAY fulfil is back again. He arrived on the in

commodities there an engagement here, but tey Empress of Russia.

are being offered stocks at a

ly commercial journal or induce the Paulisto Cafe Inc. The late

have uil fallen through

good discount for cash payment, some one to undertake it, assur. Mr. Roosevelt left an estate worth for one reason

The latter part of the Chineseing him of the Chamber's hack-about £200.000, but the greater or another.

ing.

part of it was bequeathed to the Quite recently. "however, Bux

Dear has been a particularly bad

girls, the Old Roman ex-President expressed & desire

one. There are so many contrib- a

maintaining that "a lad who

against

left

one

and

Influenza

Price 60 Cents per jar.

Special sprays for pose & "throat with,

spraying liquid.

nov

Hongkong.

effort has been induce him to

to

The Right Reverend Bishop Pozzoni left on Saturday for

days.

he will have his chance. Great interest will centre in the meeting of these two men. When be was in Hongkong, Bux A mission will be conducted by me youth, though the Redemptorist Fathers in the a fighter of distinct promise. Catholic Cathedral from Sunday, In Manila. he has done no February 29. till Sunday

who know Manila's sporting re- putation realise that he has been!

WAS 22

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD, of Scrapping" and these March it.

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All communications intended for publication should be address

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Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.

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up against good men. He has We learn that Setzeant Caygill been trained in a hard school, is going to take charge of the and we shall all be interested to! Yaumati station from the first of see how he has developed. He next month after 1 years in the remembers Kerrison of old, but, if Water Police. he does not already know it, hel will soon learn that the new Kerrison is not the old- he hesi

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conclusions with Kerrison, and visit to the New Territories, and ory causes. Business has not In a conversation that I had a could not make good with £4,000 expects to be away for about ten been good and the demand for few days ago with Mr. George to start with was'nt worth troubl--

Chinese products, owing to the Anderson, the American Consul- ing about." rising dollar, has made these pro- General, Mr. Anderson stressed ducts very expensive for foreign on the difficulty he experienced buyers. From the statistical view in collecting reliable figures of A writer in the January tum- point-and by that I mean the the movements of commodities ber of the Sunday At Home insists sterling value of the exports-it and quotations on which he could that every one should keep a ay not appear to be so bad a pin his faith. In the absence diary, even if he only enters a year, but certainly the movement of such facilities he has single lie a day. "A good and of the export of many of China's to go round, consult merchants great man whom the writer in- staple products has been slow and and thus glean the information terviewed

a little while ago Spasmodic.

required. Mr. Brett. the Com. lamented that until the last ten mercial Attache, also does not years of his busy and inter-sting The idiosyncrasies of the ex-

rely on the Prices, Current Re-life he had never kept a diary. change market, to which we were cumstances, the prices are sup-stronger ad brisker life if they

port. Under the present cir-"Most people would live regaled during the week, help to plied to the Chamber by certain would write their biography as make confusion worse confound firms, also the arrivals and stocks, they went along. It is good to improved beyond all recognition saloon, second-class and third possibly tend to help business. In and arrivals cannot be accurate ed in a day; if much, for encour

Besides full complements of the value of the dollar cannot imagination to see that the stocks what

Such rapid rises and falls in le does not require any stretch of set down in black and white we -have accomplish. sines pre-war days. We presume class passangers, the Empress of rising market every the same is true of Bux also, so Russia brought in 462 Chinesexously awaits to see how far the

one an- as they are secured from only agement; if little, for admonition. there is every promise of a really steerage passengers.

The diary will reveal our life to dollar will go. The importer with-

us. It will also cultivate the holds his hands in the hope that) the

memory, make us more

558- next day may witness We are living in Socialistic tematic, and strengthen our will may advantageously buy from the fever has caught the Govern- busy it will need all our deter- another advance. when he days. Socialism is spreading and power, for when we are tired or

and drops engineer a Feeling may witness the Government of volume." of topsy-turvydom, and as long Hongkong being run on Socialis- this state of affairs tic lines in the not distant future.

jong we, must The Indian Government has just Is the almost disused practice, And trade at a formulated a scheme wherby a of tattooing 10 be reviv-

considerable share of the profits ed?

The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36, fine contest. We hold na brief per annum. (Payable in Advance)

for either one or the other, but

Cal. T. A. Roberson returned) Russia. He has long beets on to the Colony by the Empress of

ed.

one source.

The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- we do hope that those who see tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a the fight will have a

men should. We say that bel The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressed! cause Bux has not always receiv- jactive service in connection with his bank. Tase quixotic jumps ment of India. Who knows, wemination to drag us to the little

full month.

is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies of a fair deal from some of the the Siberian campaign. delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies noisy followers of boxing here. He! sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. is a Hongkong hup, after allf and

Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.

Iwe can afford to forget un- Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a pleasantresses of the past. "Let fixed period will be continued until countermianded.

good sporting us give him a reception. And may the best man win.

The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be belivered to subscribers by the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd, Shameen, Canton who are cur agents there.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mrs. Woolley and family tender heartfelt thanks to all friends

recen: sad bereavement and for the beautiful Boral tokens sent.

"THE TIGER,"

"The total carpet of the Kullan continues Mining Administration's mines Pest to for the week ending 31st January. standstill. 1920, amounted to #8.436 tons and the sales during the period, to TION tons.

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greater

Are

We about

to

of the rice trade should go to the become even as the Lao Pong The situation bristles with diffi- inasmuch as it has hitherto no: the Lao Pong Kao (White Paunch general community. "It is novel Dam (Black Paunch Laos) and ualties. There is no knowing been attempted, at any rate in the Laos), the two section of the Laos how low or how high the doller East. will touch. China, which has all India.

Last year, it appears, of French Indo-China, who are so Captain G. A. More of the along been a heavy purchaser of part of the surplus of Burma sence or absence of elaborately

absorbed the

differentiated because of the pre For the ex-Premier of France, China Navigation Company's The white metal, is to-day content rice available for for the many expressions of sympathy extended to them in their at his time of life, to embark on vessel Luchow, reports that in with her stocks of that stuff. and India directoà

export, and tattooed, patterns covering their an extensive tour. which is to latitude 11.09 W.. long 108.59 E. presumaby the drop in the value balance to countries having a knees? Or is the rise in the cost mach of the bodies from the waist to the include India and possibly Japan. he passed a driking buoy. is indicative of the wonderful checkered white and Black with of the silver may be due to the large Indian population. The of clothing going to lead some of vitality of the man. M. Clemen-red bass, and marked 3.

falling off in the demand framovernment of India considered us to discard our outer garments is CMU

China. I expect that the weekly that the interests of these con- and, like the jinriksha men in the On eighty of years

report of that world-famous firm sumers outweighed the claims Far East. to camonfage age. Jet that the journey

Over 80,000 cases of arrack Samuel, Montagu and Co. will make abnormal profits which

brokers, Messrs of the

Barma producer to hodies by tracing weird patterns has now embarked. The wore damaged by fire which shed some light on this. The the Control prices were applied needles? I ask these questions and on our skins with tattooing world now knows how, in the broke out yesterday in a godown hour of France's darkest trial, at Yaumati where they were

money market in Shanghai is 10 all exports reported to be much easier and when the enemy was ruthlessly stored. The fire which had secur with cheaper money we should wear the situation is different as thoroughfare of Manchester a whether writes a corresponden:) because in India .or abroad. This I see that in a much-frequented invading the country. "The Tiger" ed a good hold before the arrival see a drop in the exchange. In India's requirements are likely to took the reins of government of the Fira Brigade, Was

tattoo artist has hung out his and held them until the fee was eventually put out after damage reverse, and there is little pros- part of the rice surplus of Burma shop with patterns of the wonder- Hongkong, conditions are just the be much smaller and the greater sign and filled the window of his vanquished, having the final sat-to the extent of $150.000 had been pect of any immediate amelio-will go to foreign countries. Lord/ful things with which he is pre-

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1920.

THE SILVER SHORTAGE,

الانجاز می آیم

On

he

isfaction of bluntly telling the caused. German delegates the nature of

the punishment which the Allies had agreed to inflict. During his

Reuter has supplied us with meagre details as to the measure which the Chancellor of the Exchequer propose to introduce in the House of Commons on the standard of silver eninage in the United Kingdom and other parts of the Empire. Whether this statement made by Mr. Chamberlain has in any way caused silver to slump will not years of office. M. Clemenceau | SILK INDUSTRY'S be known until Renor wires us the resume of the weekly silver displayed qualities of real states- the report of Messrs. Samusi, Montagu and Co. We are inclined to the manship and by his energy and view that this intimation by Mr. Chamberlain has caused surprise determination and infective in the silver merket, and produced that weekness in the tone which ¦ optimism did much to maintain is reflected by the lower rate. How.mucheredience can be afriched to Frances maule._____throngh the report that the Mond Company is in receipt of a large contract trying times. He was the man at the Board of Trade recently a

FUTURE.

COMPLAINTS OF UNFAIR COMPETITION.

Auckled Guides received

of

bullion

our

ration in the way of cheaper Chelmsford the Viceroy, speaking pared to adorn cur outer cuticles. money, A lot of cash is locked up at the Conference of the India As the designs run into the hun- in goods and when these are sold Chambers of Commerce, held in reds, one has plenty of choice. there is every prospect of seeing Calcutte, speaking on this sub-t may be, of course. that this the market inundated with cash. ject, said. "It will be necessary

"pioneer of modern tattooing" is Accomodation at present is very for us to keep down internal prices merely trying to exploits practice difficult to obtain. The interest in the interests of our consumers, which, after having largely fallen.. demanded is preposterous.

while

into disuse except among our at the same time

sailors and soldiers, has renewed clearly desirable

SPPTS

from the Home Government for the supply of nickel to the Mint is for the time in France. just asdeputation from the Joint In-with the establishment of the the rice that we sell to them. It/our navel and military autho-

operates."

and

the

Q

medical

I: is a long lane which to obtain from our foreign con- its yogue during the war. It is, knows no turning. Probably sumers a fair market price for by the way, only forty years since merely a speculation. We are soleinnly told by the Nufhaul Nes Lloyd George was in our own dustrial Council for the Silk that the Government has been driven to this step by the ever-rising beloved country. price of silver and that "it will be sometime before the change earned a rest from the stern calls ed important questions affecting intend opening

He has well industry, with whom he discuss seven banks that are reported is conceivable that these two rities ceased to mark deserters. branches objects might be obtained simply and men of bad character by of durs, and we know that he will the future of the industry in in Hongkong in the near future by the limitation of exports, but tattooing "D." or "B.C." ir big The soring price of silver has baffled many economists and be warmly received wherever he Great Britain.

stringencies in the local market if such a limitation proved effec-letters upon their bodies. hampered trade considerably. Whatever the intention of the goes. We can only hope that he Chancellor of the Exchequer, we cannot see how he can reduce the will come this way. If he does, headed by Mr. W. Bromfield, M. nsitutions to cater to the trade the large difference between these by an article in the Lancet dis- The deputation, which Was

will not be so pronounced, as tive in keeping down internal! there will be so many banking prices the exporters would pocket fineness of the currency without affecting exchange. Although the Hongkong may be counted upon P. for Leck, and included Mr. J.

A large question is prompted question of coinage is a nation's private business. modern conditions to give him such a welcome as F. Farrell (Great Yarmouth of the Colony, and afford facili- and world prices, and would thus cussing a recent address to the of finance are such as to make, the interest of different peopleyoeval, will honour both him and this president of the Council) ties to the merchants. Hongkong reap the whole of the profits Congress of American Physicians The price of silver is now left practically without regulation and | British Colony as well.

Messrs. J. Wheeldon and J. needs more banks. Some mer- which would otherwise be dis-and Surgeons. Can free from the manipulation by Governments. The position is

Downes (of Macclesfield), pointed chants hold the view that with tributed between the cultivators. science trace the becoming rather serious. What we requife is not a high exchange|

more deadly out the number of workers in the the establishment of so many the dealers, the millers, the ship-epidemics which periodically rate of exchange rather than a low rate, but some system in which CHINESE AND EDUCATION. fluctuations in exchange should be neither great nor frequent, and

various other sweep the globe to their source, silk industry in this country had banks in our midst there would pers, and If the experience of Queen's fallen from 150,723 in 1851 to 1 certainly do not think so. There The Government of India have wreak evil on a large scale? A not be enough business for all. interests concerned in the trade. and tackle them before they shall oscillate round a fixed point. In this respect we have so far College reflects general tenden- 30,520 in 1907. They laid stress will be ample for all. lost rather than gained. The question of the future of silver cies, it would appear that the on the fact that the industry was barks there are in a country, considerable share of these profits Dr Flexner, suggests that this The more felt it incumbent to intercept a prominent American physician, possesses not merely a speculative but an eminently practical Chinese are taking more and the most skilful of all in the the greater are the chances of a for the benefit of the general com- should be accomplished, in part interest to the whole world. Many hold the view that, however dis more to education in, to use the textile trades and urged it was a tasteful to the majority of men, and however unwilling we may words of the Headmaster, the pity that, whereas the number of

trade expansion.

munity. The scheme of control at least. He takes the case of be to undertake reforms which affect the standard of value, best sense of the term. Mr.workers in Great Britain was:

this year has been formulated the eradication of disease in the perpetually recurring evils flowing from a fluctuating silver Tanner says that whereas

with the three-fold object of, fir-yellow fever. Medical science market cannot and should not he endured for ever and that sooner few years ago there was a gen-ufactured silk articles from other publishes fortnightly

afalling, the imports of man- The Chamber of Commerce stly, preventing an undue rise scotched yellow fever in its en- or later a final solution of the problem must be found. So far we cral tendency by pupils to take countries were so considerable. Current.

a Prices in internal prices; secondly,demic home before it became have not been able to discover any permanent remedy for the evils up the Commercial course rather

These prices, the ebtaining a fair price for our ex-epidemic. Naturally the question which day by day and year by year press themselves upon our than the Fall" course lead the industry to-day, the deputa-quirers, are not quite reliable. the general community a share in on

The most vital factors effecting Chamber has declared to en-ports; and, thirdly, securing to arises out-of-a-discussion attention. The reported intention of Mr. Chamberlian to introduce ing up to Matriculation and the tion urged, were rates of exchange Surely, the Chamber could do the profits of the trade. I hope it disease a Bill in the House of Commons for reducing the standard of silver University. to-day the reverse is enabling British markets to buy something to improve things will be recognised as equitable in not be similarly dealt with these lines whether A

like influenza could' coinage is a mere palliative and the patient may any day be called the case. That would seem to cheaper from Italy than in the It is a matter of the greatest its broad principles. upon to choose between a difficult operation or a life long disease. show that there is a growing home market and the serious regret, that in such an important moving pretty fast in the East? hopeful that on this point the We are at birth so to speak. And it is In enconomics or politics, the principle that should not be lost sight appreciation of the advantages competition by Japan on account port merchants should be made are 'nt we? of is that reforms should be built on sure foundations as also that of a really all-round education of the low price of labour in that to grope in the dark for reliable

doctors disagree. The problem they should take note of the existing foundations. Any reform of high standard. Did proposal should be such as is productive of as little dislocation educational system do nothing was now sending to us very large positively a scandal that this our country. Japan, it was stated, statistics and quotations. It is

is to locato a definite endemic home at all for influenza. Dr as possible. Further, in trade economy or Government policy the but qualify the distant future should not be of academic value. There should be for clerkships and

students quantities of crepe de Chine, state of affairs should be allowed SIR DENISON ROSS.

Flexner is pretty dogmatic in no dislocation of trade. We trust that Mr. Chamberlain will take flment of the ordinary routine of silk articles which were formerly be done to supply something the ful-striped spun shirting, and other to continue. Cannot something

insisting that this disease took its origin in a region near the these points into consideration when making the reform,

The Manchester Chamber of Commerce, it will be remembered, fail. That is not "education" after British position

business, it would lamentaby produced by Great Britain. The more up-to-date, reliable

Russian border of Turkestan; in November last year passed a resolution urging the Government, all, though many a teacher seems satisfactory as regarded orders, mercantile firme that would gladly

to-day was useful? There are

and spread along the trade in view of the abnormally high cost of silver and the shortage of to think it is. The love of learn-but the deputation fock a long-support

routes. He is emphatic that the endemic focus" of influenza is. copper coins, to withdraw from circulation all coins of higher value ing is a great thing to encourage range view and claimed equal purporting to give in a concise 2 weekly publication

somewhere on the eastern border than the florin, employing, if necessary, five shilling notes to in a student; it leads to true opportunities with other coun- and accurate manner the happen- augment the reduced numbers of silver coins remaining in circul-development. So we are glad to tries,

message dated of Russia, and bokis strongly the ation and to use nickel instead of silver for all new coins hereafter see that the tendency at least in

ings in the commercial world of February 9th, from London, view that medical science now The President of the Board of the werk, the chief feature of the S

possesses the resources to clear required to represent values between a penny and a shilling, this College is for the students to Trade received the deputation week's markets, the arrivals of Obviously Mr. Chamberlain intends adopting the latter part of the aim high and not to be content sympathetic ally, and at the close the

Sir Denison Ross informs up a region which "by its in- Manchester Chamber of Commerce's suggestion. But, according to with a mere smattering of bus- of the proceedings, which were modities, the exports, and other fected the offer of the Vice- every twenty-five or thirty years

various important

Renter that he has definitely re-accessibilty and its neglect has Reuter, he intends to go a step further and apply the change to iness principles. Such a develop private, prumised to give the commercial items that would be Chancellorship other parts of the Empire. In the absence of details, it is difficult ment is a most hopeful sign.

of Hongkong originated waves ot.. disesse of value to the commercial University. to criticise this intended reform.

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