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NOTES & COMMENTS.

THE WAR MEMORIAL.

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After having waited a considerable tirae, the public of Hongkong has now a very de- finite idea of what is going to be done with regard to Hongkong's War Memorial and we think that there will be nothing but general approval for the Committee's decision. In all our previous references to the subject we have strongly advocated the erection

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1920.

DAY

BY DAY.

A MAN THAT CAN DO WHAT HE IS TOLD TO DO, WITHOUT BEING TOLD HOW TO DO IT, HAS THE MAKINGS OF AN EXECUTIVE

A boy in the employ of Mr. E V. D. Parr, who was to-day charged at the Police Court with damaging flower pots, was fined

AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.

year.

(BY "AJAX”

TWO ROBBERIES

DARING AFFAIRS IN HONGKONG.

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph."}

BOXING DECISIONS.

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. to remark that it is undoubtedly for their sanitary appliances manners criticised, and it people verandah, from where she gave than halfpence.

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BIRTH.

SUTOR-On March 22nd.. at the French Convent Hospital One Causeway Bay, to Mr. and Mrs. Sutor, a son.

DEATH.

SUTOR.-On March 2k, at the French Conven: Hespital, Causeway Bay, the newly-born son of Mr. and Mrs. Sutor.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1920.

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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

Among current topics the

Two men have been arrested changeable weather we have by the Police in connection with recently been having has been a gang robbery carried out at No. loud in their denunciations of Sir, Those who have been so favourite, with the rest any 3, Fercival Street at 1.30 o'clock the verdict given by Mr. W. odds". The weather is always yesterday afternoon. On the pre- Logan in the recent boxing con- an interesting theme of converso-text that they had come to repair test, would do well to read what tion in these days of no excite the cubicles, these robbers, five in Mr. Eugene Corri, the well ment. We are hearing the hot number, induced the woman who known

referee. writes from of some simple, dignified and pany's receipts for the week end- our drapers and tailors provide at the time to open a door which verdict he gave in a contest The Hongkong Tramway Com- season, and the show windows of as the only inmate of the floor London en February 12, on the artistically expressive monumented March 20th. totalled $14,295 reminder that we shall soon have leads on to the staircase. One between Bandsman Dick Rice. rather. than one of those which is an increase of $350 to think of our summer garments. man produced a revolver, while and French boxer, Paul Journee, many utilitarian schemes that over the same week last year. It is qui e possible that the cold one of his fellows bound at the Holborn Stadium recently. have been put forward. To per-For the twelve weeks of the year, weather will remain with us and gagged the woman. The The match was petuate the memory of those the total takings are $171,233, little longer than usual as the other three men ransacked the between

to have been who fought and died in the Great which is a

the Frenchman and decrease of $938 season War we want something a little over the same period last year.

opened a bit late this place and stole jewellers to the Frank Ray.

total value of $130. A quantity Ray could not enter into the At the last moment removed from a scheme to save

bf clothing was also taken. other needed public expenditure.

match. Corri writes Messrs. C. E. Warren and

The robbers, however, had to And the day of a Chinese memor- Company

There are times when, if a man makes hurried retreat, on account Bandsman Dick Rice no great..

"They bit upon one(a substitute). ial arch is exceedingly apropos the property which

are opening out on be not sensitive, he has failed in of the alarm which was raised performer, but a man fairly form-

they had and we hope that that, too, will

the quality of manhood. The The woman, unnoticed by the idable in a rough and tumble. recently acquired in the be carried out. With regard to Avenida de Ribeiro. at Maceo.willing to have his doctrines or their work to pay any attention to all, and one out of which I true man should, of course. be robbers, who were too latent upon It was not a nice contest at the site and all the talkee-talkee They will construct show-rooms his politics or his faults or his her, had managed to get on to the as the referee, got more there has we the finest site that could have business when the contemplaced were wiser to laugh with them. unexpected interruption to their lookers. for Rice; the rest were should laugh at his foibles he the cry of "Save life!" This considerable section of the on- been chosen, but if the Com-water scheme is put into oper- It was not really the reviews work mittee had chosen anything loss

caused the robbers than the finest it would not have

that killed Keats, for he died of to make a precipitate retreat the result to be a draw, there pro-Journee, and when I declared interpreted the wishes of the

phthisis. but an article in the down the staircase, and ther was a show of disapproval. Of community as a whole. If our Billiard Championship between tened his death, whilst Tennyson

The semi-final of the Colony's Quarterly embittered and has escaped. gratitude is sincere we can well Mr. S. Gray and Mr. S. K. Kwok, himself did not appreciate candid the robbers have been arrested an experience of forty years, was course, I stuck to my guns. .I Later reports state that two of hold that my decision based upon afford to give the best. There is only one point that we wish to played last evening, was a finely treatment, and shrank from the and that all the stolen articles a good one. It has long occurred

contested game. It was for 750 public like a timid animal. When have been recovered. emphasise. It was stated that up and Mr. Gray did the expected one regrets that many people are local artists as well as the very winning. cthough it was a sensitive and suggest they should has been arrested in the Westera time has come when, unless the to me that betting has bred It appears that a third man impossible partisanship, and the best at Home would be given a good fight. He ran out when his carry a braver front he must not district at a house in Belchers gambling clement is cut out of chance of submitting designs, but opponent stood at 654. Gray be understood as passing indirect) Street. why cannot the Commitee con- who played a very

The Police have boxing, the sport will be seriously.. fine the competition to local men

Callous-suspicions that the dagger which hurt. praise on callousness. only? Surely, we have enough but at the interval there was sitiveness, and it is not by any for the robbery

game held the lead throughout ness is the other extreme cf sen- was found on him was used artistic talent without going

"I grant that the best of re- to England or anywhere else. 20 in the game, the score means an admirable quality. It Street. For the purpose of ident-

Percival ferees make mistakes, but such being 320-300. Afterwards Gray may save some people from suffer-ification this prisoner was re- towards

15 now the attitude shown has only to look at

them put on a 50, 35 and 24 but Kwoking, it also incapacitates them for manded by Mr. R. O. Hutchison at who of the

by designs

people that fought well and a: 600 Gray was empathy. We are not apt to re-the Police Court to-day, on the have been imported for our publie still only 20 ahead.

Daly see in the buildings to feel that it would strongly, however, to win by 96. My remarks on the demands of donald.

He finished spect people who feel nothing application of Inspector Mac that their position is becoming game the opportunity to speculate, have been better to have tried Gray meets Yvanovich" in the the Marine Officers' Guild and little nearer honic. This is

almost impossible. final of 1,000 up to-morrow. local memorial to perpetuate

All that Mr. Corri writes above the Engineers' Guild last week! About half-an-hour after the sounds as if much of it might be local memory, and as local money

got between the junks and brought Lu Ka-sau was to-day charged. forth a reply from a correspond-another one

occurrence of this will be spent, let us have a local

robbery applied to some so-called-boxing expression.

was very daringly"fans" in Hongkong. In Shanghai they at the instance of Inspectorent, who is apparently hurt at the carried out by a farther gang

Yours etc. have confined matters to local Brown. before Mr N. L. Smith unbiassed opinion that I express-at

with the

Bowen Road. Six designers, but there should be so

commission of

P. B. T. aed, and suggests that I may in all made their number

appearance of lercencies from probability be acting for the Ship that part of the road in

Hongkong, March 23, 1920, need to quote any precedent for such a request. All that we wish

two houses

at Cooke Street. owner's Association In the vicinity of the filter beds. Three to see now is the necessary money,

It was Iated articles were prosperous period of the war, the Chinese women were the victims the early opening of a competition

stolen from the verandahs engineers and officers did not of the robbers. They were forced for designs and then a reasonably by the thief, who climbed the think it to bring forward their to give up their money

scaffolding which had prompt execution of the work.

and been claims for higher salaries. If they jewellery, which amounted to a erected there for the effecting of had I am certain that the owners sum of $185. Two coolies, living in the world of letter has passed A gentle and charming figure. THE FEAR OF PUBLICITY

repairs to the buildings. His would have responded gladly in a matshed near by, came up in away in Howard Sturgis, who has Some people seem to have a that between the years 1917 and that I have expressed in these tance uttered

record with the Police revealed I have no axe to grind. The views response to the cries for assis died, aged 64. His story "Tim," very curious idea of the serious 1919 he spent the greater part columns are

by the women. when it appeared in 1891, aroused or otherwise of writing to of his time in prison, serving dues not worry me whether they track of the robbers as

my own, and it They blundered right into the much interest, for it had the the public press, and as typical terms for chefts. of the fear with which they view possession of dangerous weapons. am not actuated by any animes and both were stabbed.

burglary, are shared by others or not. I were endeavouring to get away, other story. "Beichamber," found

they stamp of reality about it. An

Despite, the oft-expressed hope that the late war would be

the matter we will give

When many appreciators, but Mr. struggle to kill the spirit of naval and military aggressionant so extract from a covering letter sent. Six months hard labour was ity whatever against the China the Police reached the place the Sturgis was not eager for the prevent future conflicts, we are constantly seeing references to the us by a correspondent, who re by the Magistrate this morning. piece of the Shipowners Associ-escape. The injured mer. were never exhausted the mine of his the punishment inflicted on him Coast men. I am not the mouth-robbers had made good their role of a popular novelist, and necessity of larger and more powerful navies being owned by the cently, wrote anonymously Great Powers. Recent utterances by Mr. Walter Long and also by on the shipping arbitration

ation, nor have I the honour of removed to the Gaverament inventiveness. He had a delight- the U. S. Navy Secretary show that in both Britain and the United forwarding the enclosed discretionary power) there is not list of friends or acquaintances. question. The letter stated:

numbering any shipowner in my Civil Hospital. States there is an official determination to maintain naval power to a pitch which is at least on the safe eido. Mr. Long. however, in for publication, might I ask a very great deal to be said for Will "Shell Back" pat that in remarking on the fact that the only Navy approximating cars, did you, if and when you publish it, the anonymous writer. By far his pipe and smoke it? well to declare that the idea of competition in armaments is a to destroy it when copied. If the great majority of newspaper repugant one a statement that was cheered by the House of any of the owners got hold of writing, both correspondence and Marie Tempest has been a joy in other countries there are idols that najestic entity in praise of I might as well leave general matter. is anonymous to our jadel minds since she of the stage who are also idolised which Sir Rober: Peel once kept Commons. It is also intersting, in this connection, to recall that my name,

What is the pound sterling- recently Mr. Franklin Roosevelt the Assistant Secretary of the lina, for all the chance I should and the value of the public opened at the Theatre Royal, and by the masses. U.S. Navy, stated that if the United States is to continus with have of ever getting a job. The press has suffered in consequence. has brought us up-to-date with a

the House 6 Commons spell- competitive naval building, "we must have a Navy equal to that of China Coast owner to-day is In matters editorial it is a bang. Some of our amateurs

bound for a full hour, though now any other nation." Japan appears to be of the same mind, and not what the Home owner was little different, though not agreat may be splendid, but me for

Few persons in Hongkong, sadly fallen from its high estate ? for a moment will Britain concede pride of place and power to any

fifteen years ago-a little tin deal. The newspaper itself takes Marie. The frocks or gowns or expect know that Mr. Wilfrid Sterling, as some fervid patriots nation. Even if the two-Power" standard he modified, most in his own estimation, and on a personality and so complete creations that Marie has been Cotton, the manager of the Marie will grieve to know, has been Britons will insist that the Empire should possess an unquestionable will cheerfully damn anyone anonymity is lost. The principle wearing has been much com- Tempest Company, is the husband derived from Easterling, a name superiority in sea power. But while the Briton, the American, and who disputes his godhead." We of free speech is essentially mented upon in ladies' circles. of Ada Reeves, the well-known for the Hanseatic merchants. the Japanese would all be justified in providing for their national are not going to comment personal, and if any safety, and consequently would each be morally entitled to an

man has It is rarely that we in Hongkong Australian and English actor. But the pound was originally an ON owners or anything of anything to say worth saying he are favoured with a visit by stars remembered, she created a mild-5,760 grains of a standard of ago, it will be actual pound weight in silver adequate amount of sea-power, it does not follow that they should that kind. They may or may should

not object to saying of the type of Marie Tempest. endorse the revival of the competitive armament system for which describes them as. That part ofl" Pro. Patria" or "Vox Populi Marie visits these shores, it is against the Bandman Company was

not be what our correspondent it openly. When we see When a star of the excellence of sensation in winning her suit fineness Exed at 925 in 1,000,-and coined into 240 pence. The other day we came across a comment on this naval question the statement has no present saying something the weight but natural that the touring com-

Over a long period the standard which is worth recalling for its sanity of outlook. It was argued hinterest for us; the arbitration of the statement is lost pany should levy an additional

was maintained, but it fell griev. the writer that as national power is a relative question, the common proceedings are, we understand, in the obscurity of the tax owing to the high salaries paki sense way of dealing with armaments would be for the Great still in progress and we can all author, whereas if Mr. So-and-So to the members. Although this Mr. Humphreys has told us that and by 1551 it had fallen as low

What causes rents to go up ously under the early Tudors, „ Powers to agree on a basis of specific strength, both by land and sea. 4fford to wait for the result. But had said the same thing one is conceded, some consider that high cost of materials for building as 250. Nine years afterwards If the nations are again to create vast ravies and to organise armies the fear of the correspondent is a would have had a personality to the charges are too high. This is and the determination of the Elizabeth undertook its reinstate on the grand scale, some part of the benefit or lesson of the great little interesting because it affects identify with the statement and a matter of opinion, and although landlord to be no longer satisfied ment, a matter indeed weighty war will be lost, and in fact the conditions will be created which the principle of free speech and one's estimate of its worth would I am prepared to admit that the with a return of seven per cent, and would make a new world-war most feasible. It is obvious, also, the position of ourselves as re- be increased or decreased pro- charge of $3 for a seat in the pit on his outlay are the principal

great," Bays Camden, which neither Edward VI that no agreement about armaments can be reached except on a gards our function of providing portionately. But unfortunately is rather exorbitant, the manage-reasons for the increased rentals could nor Mary duret attempt." basis of international morality, and the first axiom of the code should 2 daily public forum for it is not always advisable to say ment of the Company do not in Kowloon. It would be neces-Elizabeth proceeded on generous be the acceptance of the principle of non-aggression upon the political,;

the ventilation of and what one thinks. In the long consider so. This does not give sary to know what causes the lines. She called in theold money. territorial, or internal economic rights of other nations. If the victory every view point. Free speech run; in the ultimate interests the small man an opportunity of Humphreys Estate Company to and every person was given the of the Allies has assured freedom for the world, the rights of a free can be denied to none, not in this of truth and advancement it seeing Marie. In these days of make periodical rises in the nominal value of the Ease coin nation should include that of non-exploitation by political contracts that free speech ronders the as a general rule, circumscribed convert their savings into ster- not the high cost of building State bearing the loss. Thus the year of grace 1920. True it is might be but one's vision is, high exchange, people prefer to rentals of its fats." It is certainly in the new good coinage, the commercial or industrial concession, or financial penetration. The lesson that the nations must learn is that sincere goodwill towards speaker liable to the consequences by present personal advantage.ling, and this, I am sure, accounts materials, not is it extensive coinage of England was reio- each other is not only the most pleasant but also the most profitable of his action, but by long establish- We all have to live, but some are for the lack of packed houses repairs, nor is it that the Company stated, and since English silver course in the long run. The old delusion of predatory man was ed precedent he can very effective- not above making it fairly hard during the Tempest season. is getting an insufficient return was better and purer than that of that the stranger beyond the gates was necessarily an enemy to be 15. though anonymously, make for others, if anything clashes

on capital. Then what is it other nations it was necessary to robbed, or even murdered, and that ancient tribal instinct has use of the daily press. That with their personal view and

Possibly & desire to survived so that it energises a line of conduct in international privilége we have always given selfishness.

make issue enactments against traffick- The fear of con-1 The business side of the theatre money as quickly as possible ating in the coin or melting it down, politics that would not be condoned for a moment in the internal and are still prepared to give, sequences has deterred many a is the one that appeals least of the expense of the tenant who just as similar enactments ere law of any decent nation.

provided in every case we have a man from doing and saying what all to the average man, yet cannot get flats easily, which fact enforced now in respect of the The best grounded modern economic theory agrate substantially personal knowledge of the source he know would be better it is perhaps the most im-obliges him to pay what is de-sovereign, Another coinage with the injunction "Love your enemies," inasmuch as it insists from which the letter comes. said or done, and the world portant, for upon it depends manded. In Calcutta the jump in crisis came in 1695 owing to the that it is not profitable to have an enemy, because in economics the Such is essential, and the reasons in general is thereby a the very existence of playhouse rents is explained by the reported fact that all the new prosperity of the consumer is necessary in order that the producer too obvious to need reiterating. We ourselves, could have said are sound

for demanding that are almost loser by its own barshness, and actor. In no enterprise intention of H.R.H. the Prince of money went overseas where it shall be prosperous. The poverity of other nations is an injury to And there can be faith reposed things when we didn't, and so has business management more im lady, writing from there to me, bad old money stayed in Eng- finance and good of Wales to visit that city. A had a real value, and the clipped, ourselves, for they are thereby in a worse position to purchase our that we should never divulge the every other newspaper. goods. If by war, or by undue preparation for war, we thrust exces source of what we saw fit to use better than silence is a protected theatrical company.

But portant than in the conduct of a says."You have no idea how land, where it had a fictitious sive burdens upon them, we injure ourselves, If, for instance. There is no need for fear of any expression, and so it is, readers. who employs his brain as well gone up. This, it is stated, is be- until at last ho one knew what

An actor considerably house rents have value. Britain desires that a particular country should be a customer for

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ful personality, and American authors in particular will recall the kindly welcome that awaited has been placed on a pedestal them in his pleasant home. which is altogether oat of propor tion to his intrinsic merits. True.

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goods Britain can supply, she would wish that as small a proportionmen have learnt the art of keep-protection. It is a privilege that the part and to do justice to the Prince of Wales. Just imagine, one of

nervousness. Most newspaper that we are prepared to give that as his feeling to penetrate inte cause of the expected visit of the was the purchasing power of any

as possible of that country's wealth should be diverted to battleships

or military preparation; and similarly if that country wants to sell ing secrets.

commodities to Britain.it would want us to waste as little money WHAT WE LOSE. as possible on unnecessary things-that is to say, on things which

a dozen coins in his

the public press very rightly author dass undoubtedly a great house that was let for Rs. 50 has possession.. Locke and Montague bestows, and, as it is jealously deal to bring the work nearer the risen to Rs. 150, and I quite agrbe solved the problem anew, and in guarded, there need be no fear of masses. He is the interpreter with Capital, when it says: I 1816 the gold standard with the by agreement could be made unnecessary. There was never a time

But whilst that is so, and whilst any giving away of confidences. and he can be, like the sculptor, will be an act of charity if the gold, sovereign was enthroned. in the history of the world when such an agreement could be so

nothing exists that should deter As cur American friends would the medium between the written Government of India will ask the The word "pound" was retained, easily arranged; there is every reason, therefore, why the peoples of any man from writing to us what say, "Oysters have nothing, on word and life itself. But the actor Prince of Wales not to visit but it no longer has any actual the world'should strain every nerve to secure it.

he thinks (we have always a US."

in England, if not of all countries, India!'

relation to facts,