Watsons'
very Old liqueur
E.
SCOTCH WHISKY
distilled in SCOTLAND.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
The same high standard of quality still maintained.
Per case of 1 dozen $28
including duty.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
RICKSHA FARES.
There is one little revision in the trafic regulations which is of some interest to Kowloon people. Whether they were awATO of the fact or not, it is true that
MONDAY, MAY 3, 1920.
DAY BY DAY.'~ THE S.S. YAROSLAVL. WEEK-END CRIME.
RECALLED.
THEY ARE THE WEAKEST-MIND-| SOME BITTER MEMORIES ED AND THE HARDEST-HEARTED MEN THAT MOST LOVE VARIETY AND CHANGE.
Kowloon. The old tariff was five Rain fell on 16 days. cants for a quarter of an hour and fifteen cents for half an hour,
BAMƏ
in
↓ quarter
faras
of
•
Το
STABBINGS AND ROBRERIES,
EUROPEANA ROBRED.
was on board the Yaroslavl that morning.
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD, bundaran wis the from the Colons Mr. K. E. Greiz this beat, which is of less than indicated by a packet of peppar
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
TELEPHONE. 616..
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition, Western Union.
Office address: 11, Ice House Street.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 3, 19244
LABOUR PROFITEERS.
runs.
a30
The
labour.
from out
"BRITISH BONDS.
A NEW ISSUE.
We are informed by the Hong-
盈
OLD POST OFFICE BUILDING.
Considerable interest is being of the Old Post Office buildings. evinced inthe forthcoming auction
We learn that an advertisement
adivision.
An
will bet
It is expected that whatever the upset price is it will be exceeded, as the demand for the site is very keen.
avenged the comrade by
Parhapa there are not vary The Police were kept busy kong and Shanghai Banking many Hongkong people who during the past week-end in Corporation that they have The rainfall registered at the know that the very inaffensive dealing with an outbreak of recaired wire from thoir until now there has never been Hongkong Botanic Gardens looking steamer, lying at lawlessness, the chief feature of London office stating that a new a legal tan-oont riekaba fare in during April totalled 7.87 inches.chorage off the Naval Camber, is which was the large number issuə will be made, on and after the one and the same on which of robberies and stabbing 3rd. May, of 15-year Treasury over two dozen Hongkong men affrays. A Dumber of the Bonds at par, repayadis 1933 with *** be made a journey that they look victims
Ware removed to option to Treasury and holders cí is a blend of the finest Whiskies complets hour the Bishop and Mrs. Lanier will be back on as having been some the Government Civil Hospital repayment at par in any year after charge was twenty cents, with Institute on Wednesday, the 5th thing like nightmare one of whom has since succumbed |1924 on giving one year's notice,
*Yaroslavl " an additional cent for every sub-instant, between 4.30 and 6.30 mantion the name
Interest at minimum rate of 3 per to his injuries.
cont, with, up to 1923, addition of sequent bour. All this is changed p.m. to say farewell to their to them is to invite descriptions by the new regulations now issued, many friends.
that could not be found in a
1 per cent iï average rate for by which the
dictionary af the King's
were Two Europeans
the Treasury Billa above are applied to Kowloon as have
English.
victims in two cases of robbery, per cent and under $15 Mr. Joseph W. Taylor, af been officially fixed
if Of the men who want to Kirkee which resulted in the arrest of per cent, and per cant. the Mesars. Butterfield and Swire, lower levels of Hongkong far has
to train, over twenty eventually the perpetraters and their con- average rate for Treasury Bills bean appointed Hon.
First interest many years-ten minutes for Treasurer of St. John's Cathedral proceeded to the Balkans and it viction at the Police Court this 64g of over. Säve cenis,
payment 1st November at the in succession an hour for ten cents, half an Hogg, who is on leave.
to Mr. George they made the trip from Bombay Mrs. Elinor Reid, wiia of a rate of 7 per annum, larame hour for fifteen cents and an hour!
to Sue. They had travelled European dock employee, who Tax will probably be deducted at fior twenty cants, the charge fort
overnight from Kirkes and the lives at No. 37 Kennedy Road, the time of payment. every subsequent hour being the Korea Maru was Mr. J.
Among those who left -day train went right alongside the related that on Saturday morning twenty cents. That is a very en Riad, Manager of the Taikoo embarkation numbered nearly son in Wood Road, when a robber steamer. The troops awaiting she was walking with her little sible revision, for we have never been able to understand why there Dockyard. During his absence 2,000 and they were all put aboard whose dangerous disposition was
will ber Acting Dockyard 5,000 tons gross tariff as between Hongkong and.
A little bistory which was later discovered by the Kowloon. In actual practice, ofį
Manager.
of the boat will be of interest Police in his pocket, came up course, there never has been, for
bere. She 133 built in from behind and snatched her the average resident has always
According to Religions -- Patria 1592 at Dumbarton to the order handbag. He ran off and the paid the same whether he bapp the latest missionary who arrived of the Russian Government and violant tug he gave jerked open ened to be on this side of the har- few months ago from Italy to was designed for the conveyance, the bag with the result that a bour or the other. Incidentally, the Apostolic Vicariate of Hong-among other things, of political pocket book containing a $10 bill. the five-centcharge is very seldom kang, is a maestro of organ prisoners to Siberia. The old and also a number of coins of the sala will appear in the local observed, excepting for the briefest This is a great acquisition for strong guard rooms are still on dropped
to papers within the next few days. it We don't know anybody this Colony and he will be able to board. Soon after the Russian be
ground. Mrs. Raid's The plot of ground, we under- who is in the habit of timing the conduct, together with Mr. Oscar collapse in the present war, the attention was engaged in picking stand, will be divided into four coolies and paying five cents for Baptista, the sacred music in the boat was taken over by the British this up, and for this reason she lots, not equal but according to ja ten-minute ride, and we don't great religious festivals.
when she put into one of our porta, did not notice that har cries for what seems to be the best sub- wantto,either. The individual who
and it was thought that she assistance had brought on the division. would object to paying ten cents
Engineer - Commander A. J. would do for trooping if properly scene & Chinese constable who The whole area will be divided for a ten-minute ride (although Butler has been appointed to the fitted up But after s fair overhauled and arrested the thief up irrespective of the present that is twice the legal fare) depot ship Tamar, Hongkong, for amount of work had been done The packet of pepper wAA uught to be compelled to change service as Assistant Engineer to she was condemned as being un-serians item in the avid-
price upset places with the coolie and see how the Chief Engineer at Hongkong fit for the carrying of white troops ence against the thief who fixed, and this, we bear, will he or she would like it. All the Dockyard. Commander Butler and did a lot of work between
Was to-day sentenced at the
be in the neighbourhood of same, there are goolies who make joined up a 30 engine-room Cape Town and France in cerry-Police Court to a year's bard endless bother if paid five cents subaltern in 1992, and reached ing African Labour Corps men labour with 12 strokes of the 50 to $55 a square feet, for a one-minute jaunt. Such as his present rank in July, 1913. How she came to be in Bombay birch. these deserve prosecution.
He was engineer-commandor of was never explained to the writer. A Frenchman. Dr. Kam- the destroyer Lance, when the but it was a fact that her engines enietsky, had his fountain pen TRAFFIC CONTROL.
war broke out, and saw much were OUT of order. that her Looking through the new traffic service with that ship,
refrigerator was not working. patched from his pocket whilst regulations in their entirety, they
that her decks had never been he was proceeding along Queen's Road Central Yesterday in strike us as being well thought; The following additions to the cleaned for months, and that she out, though there may be one or sad of the Dairy Farm Ice and was in as filthy and as unservice company with his wife. Their pointed to the theory that the appearance, as being tourista, action of the coolis in arresting two points regarding which im-Cold Storage Co., Ltd., arrived able condition as anyone could
was an encouragement to the thief ons of the robbers bad draw!! Why British troops provement will be made as the yesterday by the s.3. Empress of imagine. result of experience. What we Russia-Mr. W. J. E. Mackenzie, were put aboard her at Bombay who bolted off after the commis upon himself the attention of
sion of the robbery, but before he the gang who could never understand, are glad to think is that a serious veterinary surgeon (accompanied oCE
had run a great distance, be, was arrest of their effort is now being made to desihy Mrs. Mackenzie), Mr. J. D. and the Embarkation Officer.
Ба murder the The wounds which with our many traffic problems. Thomson, assistant in the Secret-whoever that gentleman might caught by a stout lakong into attempting The Colony is getting bigger and ary's Office and Mr. J. C. Troup, have been, bad things said re-hose arms he blindly blundered. coolie. A few days ago we were prompted to examine tute superficial busier every day, so that regula- (assistant in the butchery depart-garding him that might well have The thief had had a previous the coolic received are not con- conviction.and he to-day met with sidered grave, and be stated that ly the question as to whether Labour was fitted to govern and pointed tions which met the case a ment. Mr. A. Macfarlane also made his ears burn. There was his just punishment in being be would be able to identify his out the great necessity that existed for Labour as a party to make
Jaw years
would be arrived recently to relieve Mr. never a fan, the awnings were all more widely known its intentions in regard to the matter of general totally inadequate to-day. The Taylor as engineer in charge of too small and only partially/Sentenced to three monthe' hard assistants.
The mator driver's wounds foreign policy. Since that time we have been led to wonder still authorities realise this. and the Company's ice plant. Mr. covered the deck space.
were not serious and the medical further whether in another very important respect Labour represents from what we have been able to Taylor leaves shortly for home men had not been on board a day a policy that is would be wise to support. With the pet word ascertain the control to be ex-with Mrs. Taylor and on his re- before they were covered in filth
Their action being attributed Serdict is that he will be able to leave Hospital on the 15th instant profiteering" ringing in almost everyone's ears there is a strong ercised in future will be stricter turn Mr. Macfarlane will be picked up from whatever they
over-indulgente in to give evidence in the trial of tendency to focus all thought on such & matter to capitalists and than it ever has been. Specially transferred to Canton to take touched on board. Down below, fear. A namber of seamen the two robbers, who were to-day merchants, but if one takes a little closer look at things it will be trained man will be deputed to charge of the new ice factory in holds that were to be of
the transport Amer.ka remanded by the Magistrate. seen that profiteering exists among the rank and file of labour as see that regulations are obeyed. which the Company is erecting used a dining rooms, there indulged in free fight in well. How often was it during the late war that a national emer-The coming of the motor-car has on Shameen.
was not room to bang ham-Anton Street, Wanchai, last night.
Another high way robbery was. kendy was mercilessly exploited by Labour in order to force conces added to the problem, and whilst
mocks for more than a third six of them were arrested by carried out by a gang of six men have proved opportunists, then labourites base proved themselves no obstacles in the way of motoring, shown in she Coronet a picture totally inadequate ventilation to the Wanchai Station. Here & locality near the Ming Yoen
A very striking example of what is hinted at above is provided evers day, it is only right and standard of all D. W. Griffeths an
which is growing in popularity which is of that general excellent stay in the place meant endants further disturbance was created Gardens on Friday night. The by what was recently being attempted in Australis: a country that proper that every
Donator Turkish bath in one of the seaman, named robbers were armed with knives This precaution productions
is "The poisoned atmosphere. has been under the rule of a Labour Government for longer than should be taken to protect the Crimson Gardenis." an
A. E. Davis, who, not having and bamboo poles, with the adapt- On the evening of embark been allowed bail.
aid of which they compelled the most people think healthy. In any attempt to reduce working public from the dangers of reck- ation of Rex Beach's delightful stion, the best moved out into the the
coolies to surrender their slender hours one must start from the basis that the only legitimate was is less drivins. The identification novel, which has been shown to harbour and it was there that she clampured against the action of stock of mansy. The headligh to stimulate production so that when all necessities have been of cars is an important matter capacity houses since its firs: by for a whole week, under a the Police in putting him in a of a car lighting up the locality provided. leisure may be indulged in. Until there are sufficient in this connection. and
scared the robbers, who mada while cell. sun on appearance on Friday. A story swelterica Indian
His entreaties meeting necessities there must still be maintained the maximum possible bis pois! the Police are brimful of adventures and attempts wern made by the with no result, be started on an production. That appears to us to be the only sane attitude. But anxious to assist motorists. There delightful love incidents, it is sure engineers on board to get the assault on the furniture of the In a third robbery, carried out the five-day week movement now in progress among builders in are now being made at the Kowto appeal to the public taste. The engines and refrigerator. in cell, and did not leave off till ate house at Pokfulam Road one Australia seems to depend on a completely contrary reason. It has originated not out of a flood of production bat out of a decrease of a material which will not rust Moore, as the hero. turas the pounds of fresh
Hundreds of he had secured the right of of the robbers, in endeavouring to loon Docks special number plates original way in which Owen working order.
meat that admission to bail. The Inspector escape by climbing down a waler The men who want to cut out Saturday are moved by the fact that and of a design which conforms table on his enemies when in a had been loaded to fast agreed to the demand, and the pipe which he had previously labour is scarce and that therefore they can demand higher to legal requirements. These will dangerous corner, is
treat, the journey had to be jettisoned American doled out a. 35 bili, negotiated to effect entry into the prices and shorter hours. "The community must have houses," be obtainable later from the Police What his method is, we will in the first three days, and with U.S. currency. This was the premises, fell into the backyard therefore, say a number of men in, the building trades, "ther at a very reasonable rate, and it leave the reader to find out when the coming and going of every last that was seen of him or his and was killed. Previous to this shall have them only on our terms, and among these weis sincerely to be boped that be goes to see the picture. demand the re-day week. There is a shortage of labour: let motorists will fall in with this
tide, big joints of diseased meat fellows. They kept away from he had succeeded in passing a were to be seen passing scd re-the Police Court to-day, and the number of articles stolen from us ask more for it and give less for it." Yet these same men arrangement for the sake of condemn the profiteer, and demand that the Government shall uniformity, which is an important day at the Police Court fined medical officer refused to be re money
A smuggler of opium was to passing the ship. The ship's order for confiscation of the bail the house to a confederate who
made W&N
by the was not arrested. Near whera hunt him down and punish him. The manufacturer or shopkeeper point. The whole traffic re- 550), or three fonths hard sponsible for the health of the Magistrate. (Mr. R.A, Butchison.) the robber dropped, was found a who treats the necessity of the public as bis opportunity and adds gulations, we understand, have labour. He was arrested on the men on board (at least so it was exorbitant profits is a profiteer. But does he differ in any essential been based on the latest rules in Canton wharf, with the nine taels rumoured from the Orderly Room) respect from those who demand exorbitant wages or a working force at Home, and they bear of the drug tied to his legs. The but the men continued to live Two Chinese were arrested time reduced to an absurd extent The impulse is the same, an evidence of joordinate selfisbnese that takes no thought for fair play between adapted to suit local needs.
being reasonably usual excuse to the effect that he among the dirt that abounded following their implication in an
OTHER STABBING AFTRATI. buyer and seller, but is out to spateb every advantage from the
was given the stuff to carry was everywhere until the O. C. of armed attack and robbery of a
There was a serious affray be- buyer's dire need. There are trades wherein a short working time SUGGESTIONS.
given, only in this case he troops put some of his own men motor-driver on Saturday. The was set upon at the
tween a number of P.W.D. Inso is justified on physiological grounds, and others wherein a five-day
gave it a more plausible flavour to work with bases and brooms. victim
and the employees of the Pesk week is possible because of quantity production by machinery: Bus nothing, but approval of the the perfectly benevolent mission tions were hardly bearable: the nearly cost his life. A wound Tramway Co. yesterday in
Whilst in the main we bave by adding that he was bere for At meal times down below condi-Praya East, and his resistance in the building trades neither of these factors operate. No building new regulations, there are two of ordering his son to Canton to food was often rank and uneatable) was inflicted on his chest by consequence of which two Chin. trade involves conditions of intense physiological strain or danger points to which we desire to refer worship at their ancestors graves and the experience of daily life one no building trade can operate with the economic efficiency of alive see that the length and Another Chinese was fined $750 on board was one that those who then attempted to escape. Two of reason for the. altay was not clothing factory. The five-day movement, therefore, has no other breadth
It took place in Keswick are taels, Revenue Inspector Lanni- likely to forget. Letters were responsible for one of the arrests Street and a luking was seriously loads gan stated in evidence at the written to friends protesting was a coolie, who, the next day, injured whilst endeavouring to carried thereon. The idea of Police Court to-day that against the conditions, but the was found lying in Jardine Street quell the riot. One of the patients Labour has long professed to be the party with no axe to grind restricting the length of these be arrested the man at the Douglas more outspoken of these were with stab-wounds inflicted on his fat the Hospital had four wounds excepting a sbare in the general benefits that would accrue from its vehicles is, no doubt, that traffic wharf in consequence of his never allowed to pass the Orderly person. The connection which this fon different parts of his body and
'democratic "rule. But we are far from convinced on that point shall not be obstructed by unduly suspicious behaviour in attempt-Room. The writer, in a long latter incident bore to the robbery his condition is critical. We know that there is a very great deal in the social system that lengthy trucks. But at presenting to beat a retreat when he letter, frankly stated that the needs alteration; that workers generally need to have a little more thought bestowed on their conditions and manner of living. Such considerable obstruction perceived the possibility of being very act of putting troops on things are patent to anyone who cares to look at everyday life. But does arise from the fact that searched by the Revenue Officers. board such a boat was criminal. the ropes by. which the
He knew it would never pass of When she did resume it was only those who were lucky enough-t ..... change has to be gradual and it has to be conducted by ines who trucks are drawn are often are determined to secure an equitable balance, leaning neither too
the ship, but he hoped it would at half speed. What with the ge pitches.
Three weeks after being put mach to the eide of the old vested interests nor to the dissatisfied themselves, so
much longer than the vehicles
sting the readers into making best, the bad conditions and food, workers. Labour is rampant on the one hand for more than cau feet of truck (the
etc., and the effects of mach aboard st. Bombay the ship that fourteen prohibited for use by motorists.some improvements.
extreme Indeed, it ought to be reserved After a week's delay in harbour, impatience, there was not a man raxched Saez and I was with. be given it and capital is niggardly. This question of adjustment legal limit) way, and often does, solely for pedestrian traffic. We the ship did eventually begin the on board who was not longing to relief that the men aboarl kit bags sal cannot be settled in a week or a year; it is all a matter of devel-result in thirty feat of obstruc-have spoken of this matter be-journey, but her spead was never set foot on shore, except perhaps shouldered opment in civilisation, in a general elevation of men's conceptions tion. Could not the length of fore. If Inspector Garrod will more than eight or nine knots, some of the crew who were squipment and left the host of their duties and responsibilities one towards another. If Labour the ropes be limited also? The spend a forenoon witnessing the and more often seven. Four days selling cups of alleged tes to the, for good. Readers can imagion: only cared to go slowly, to pursue a policy and tactics that justified other point concerns motor cars. hopeless muddle prevailing in out of port ons engine broke men at two annas per cup. The that those who made the trip have faith in its endeavours, then it would the most potential factor of We regret that the strip of Ice Broker's Alley, we think he down and eventually both were only consolation was that the gazed upon the Yaroslavl at her the fature. But whilst it is as bad in its practices as the people it House Street connecting Queen's will be condemns, it condemns itself and postpones the day of its own and Des Voeux Roads is not viewpoint.
converted to our stopped, so that the vessel drifted weather had kept fine, thus anchorage, here with very mixed
for practically twenty-four hours. permitting sleep on deck for faslinga greatness.
A DRUNKEN ERAWL.
►
sions that otherwise would never have been tolerated! If capitalists it would be wrong to pat ang There is at present being of those on board, and owing to a puce ofconstables, and brought an two ricksha coolies in a dark
leas 50.
of
B
23 in
case of his Fellows,
ARMED ROBBERIES.
their escape.
dagger which fitted into an emply shesth which was found tied to his waist.
of the men, who ess are now in Hospital. The
justification than that its supporters think they can force the public. soitely limited, as also
trucks BJC de- or three months', for baving 20 had to endure it will hardly be them were arrested. The person given.
If they can do so it follows, of course, that the cost of housing will go up and rents will increase.
the dimensions of the
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