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CANTON MUDDLING.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5. 1920,
DAY BY DAY
:
NO AMOUNT OF PAY EVER
Things are in a pretty mass MADE A GOOD SOLDIER, A GOOD: Baancially in the adjacent pro- TEACHER, A GOOD ARTIST ON A Įvinca of Kwangtung. According 000D WORKMAN.—Rustin.
to a statement issued by the Bureau of Finance in Canton.
that Canton paper, in reporting
OVNI-TUD
with unrequiredd soldiers, mostly
The same high standard of quality Province, has been
still maintained.
Per case of 1 dozen $28 including duty.
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THE LIFT BOYs.
NEW LOT UNSATISFACTORY,
DEMOLISHED STOVE.
CINEMA PROPRIETOR'S
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As one who is in close touch with schemes for making the The summonses taken out by In the Summary Court this Colony the centre for commercial Mr. M. S Northcote against morning, Mr. Justice J. R. Wood aviation of the Far East, I was twenty-six lift-operators who are heard an action brought by Mr. the unpaid duas to the naval and A telegram has been received particularly pleased to note that now on strike, pn the ground that B. H. Ray, the proprietor of the military forces for last year total locally stating that a steamboat in his election address in con- they left the Land Investment Coronet Theatre, against Bon no less a sum than $24,000,0001|has been sunk in the Bangkok neation with the vacant seat on and Agency Company without Ton, tailors, for the recovery of That's a nice situation for one Bar channel.
the Legislative Council, Mr. notice, will be heard at the $100, being damages done to the Province, isn't it? We notice
A. R. Lowe promises, if returned. Magistracy on Friday.
basamant of the Theatre by the to endeavour to secure attention, The new batch of substitutes/employees of the defendants. the fact, heads the information Yesterday the dag at the in addition to other matters, to the recruited by the Company are Mr. J. H. Gardiner appeared "The Curse of Militarism."Swedish Consulate was flying construction of an aerodrome not giving a very satisfactory for the plaintiff and Mr. E. And well it might. Kwangtung, half-mast because of the death of and seaplane harbour which are account of their ability to manage | Davidson for she defendants, like many another Chinese the Crown Princess of Sweden. a necessity in view of present the lifts. One often has either to Mr. Ray examined, said that developments in mechanica! By-elimb into or jump out of the he was the proprietor of the fiog. He points out that Canton lifts in consequence of the failure Coronet Theatre, which extended of the bandit class, whom the Mr. Gunnar Ludin, Vice Con-is forging ahead in this respect of the substitutes to bring the from Wyndhara Street ta suthorities would be afraid to dis-sul for Swedan, is at present at the and lays stress on the importance elevators on a level with the D'Aguilar Stret. In February band even if they felt like doing Peak Hospital. He was operated of having Hongkong on the particular floor that one las", he negotiated with Yee so, for fear that the latting loose on the 26th April for appendicitis aerial mail ronla In this wishes them
звор at Sang Tat for iba lease of the of huge bodies of uncontrolled and is doing well. He will not be respect, if in no other. Doubtless they will improve with basement and he accepted the ruffians would spell a period of at the Consulat for some time,
deserves hearty support practice, but apparently not so lease from 1st March. He unrivalled looting and general
which if it succeeds in getting in the case of a certain new gpers- found the employees of Bon Ton criminality. But wo fear that
him elected will result in a tor in Prince's Building wholin the basament on 1st even the inclination to disband H.E the Governor of Hong-resumption of the question raised after a few minutes' experiment-March and had difficulty in shese men does not exist, for the kong accompanied by Lady by Mr. Pallock which apparently ing yesterday afternoon, evan- getting in. He eventually in China rests with the individual Macao on Friday last, making bole-the provision of aerial litt right on its cable coil, and few weeks. Do the 19th March, or organisation commanding most the trip on H.M.S. Fame. The transport for the Colony. Mr. then gave up the attempt with when he went in, he found the troops. The so-called Canton Militat was official in character, Lowe is an ardent advocate of an expression of extreme disgust store broken. There was a kit- ary Government was formed, as and the party was entertained to aviation, and in the late war be we understand it, both to fight luncheon at Government House presented an aeroplane to the militarism and to give an example
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1920.
BOOSTING THINGS BRITISH.
to the North of the way a Govern- meat should be run. It has failed
G. A. Hyder, the Queen's
Ision at the Front.
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miserably in both regards. It has College runner, yesterday pursued Once in that coveted seat on perpetuated militarism and made and caught a thief who had pick-the Legislative Council. Mr. Lowe
it is faced with an adverse balance
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News has reached us that the
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London and Peking, ria Egypt. Bombay, and Hongkong. The flight between London and Peking it is estimated, will take four days
GODOWN THEFT.
chan attached to the premises. He inspected the kitchen on 1st March. He said a representative of Boo Ton asked him to remove everybody. The represen- tative asked him to Yee Sang Some two months ago a daring Fat Plaintiff calls agreed
Was
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Mr. Davidson-You sugges! that the Bon Ton people did this with malice, although you were generous enough to give them the use of the kitchen?—Yes. They have done damage to other parts of the premises. They have paid damages already.
a sorry job of governing. Whereed the parse of another Chinese will be able to bring the master gang of thieves broke into the that has all the many gone? Tho in Des Voeux Road. The thief to the immediate attention of Yuen Shing Fat's godown people could remain on for a Government, of its officials, was to-day senteured to three the Government and incidentally at No 33 Praya. Kennedy fortnight without payment of rent. handled the ordinary revenues months hard labour at the Felice prove himself of valuable as Town, and stole over 10 boxes There were no keys, and access besides much money from illegal Court after proof had been pro-sistance to the embryo Aero Club of nutmegs, valued at $6,000. had to be obtained through the exactions and wrongful diversion duced to show that he was an in its quest for a landing place, Entry was effected through the Bon Too shop Plaintiff took of Customs and Salt sarpluses ex-convict.
without which no Aero Club is roof, which they broke through, possession on 19th March, and in Yet on the Army and Navy alone
worthy of the name.
and, sawing through the rafters, going in be found that the bi
Thera was demolished. of $24,000,000! No wonder that
they were able to get within store Two Chinese were arrested the Government has "bust up."
And if the Aero Club ever teach of the store of nutmegs was a particular Chinese super- following investigations into a comes into being it will be all The theft
carried out stition with regard to the demoli PERPETUAL YOUTH.
case by the Wanchai Police, and due to
it the band of aviators undetected, and
not tion of the kitchen. Almost every pictorial paper were to-day charged before the who with Captain T. Arilor are until later that
Mr. Davidson-I must object we pick up just now has a Magistrate with being members engaged in securing membership 50 on the
the to that remark going in. I do photograph of a New Yorker of the Triad Society. The case for the Club. They have for their thieves who, however, made to know whether Mr. Ray is We were more than a little interested in the cable which came named Bober: G. Laws, who was remanded at the request of guidance the rules of the New their escape in spite of the an expert on Chinese superstition. to band yesterday dealing with the Report that has been issued by though years of age, says he Inspector Kent, who said he York and Shanghai Aero Clubs, fusilade he maintained at them The Puisar Judge (to M.. the Committee appointed by the Foreign Office to consider mean feels like a youth of 22, oxing to wanted to get expert evidence and every effort will be made with a revolver.
The watch Gardiner):-You are not claim- by which to foster a greater spirit of solidarity among British con his diet of "monkey glands in for a conviction of the prisoner. towards establishing the Club on which the Police kept ing damage on that point?
Mr. Gardiner Oh no. munities in foreign cor tries and to make British ideals more Capsules. In this connection we
a sound financial basis.
subsequent to this incident a few generally known and appreciated by foreign nations. because it is
have been reading of a movement'
days ago resulted in the tracing off Continuing, Mr. Ray said the a matter that has a very direct bearing on our function as a British initiated by the New York State
Rumour has it that the recent the boat which the thieves used smaller store was smashed as loot. Well It would cost $30 to re- Dewspaper. Boiled down, the Report soells "propaganda. for. Medical Society urging Govern-18.8. Nile bound for America, left
the to big deal transacted br
their
be place the stoves. He wrote a believed h apart from some little items of particularisation, the whole object is tent control of the sale of inter. Honolulu on March 25th, but Handles Page and other interests A Chinese to further British interests and prestige in the world of though: as stitial glands and other prepar- when some eight hundred miles well as in the world of commerce. There is suggested that British ations for restoring youth. All out on April 1st she turned back in the purchase of the British the ringleader in the attempt letter to Bon Ton drawing their Government's surplus of aircraft, was arrested, and today at the attention to the damage. He schools should be established wherever possible, that Chambers of this raises the question whether and again made the port, owing to has resulted in the project of Police Court was put on his trial had paid reas for the whole Commerce and patriotic societies be formed where they do not the buman race would lose or engine trouble. A passenger
Some month. already exist and that all possible encouragemen: be given to the gain if it could aboish old age, aboard her, writing on April 5th. forming an Anglo-Chinese Avis-before the Magistrate. British film industry and also the Boy Scout and Girl Guide move Perpetual youth doesn't mean a stated that the vessel was expect-
tion Company operating a com-$100 worth of the nutmegs have ments. In short, support and increase the influence of everything perpetually renewed mentality, ed to resume her trip to the States mercial and mail line between been recovered. British with the object of removing a great deal of the mistrust and That is impossible. It means that that night. misunderstanding that sometimes seem to prevail. There can only those who by chance happen to be be approval on the part of Britishers for such an object, but as our alive when perpetual youth own sphere as a newspaper is touched upon we should like to free 5omes, will possess the earth in We are pleased to be able to ourselves of a thought that has been with us for a long time and perpetuity. Human mentality is state that substantial support to and eight hours.
Mr. Davidson: Do you know only awaited suitable opportunity to express.
bound up with human experi- the idea of boxing classes for the The Report is not in favour of subsidising British newspapers, ences.
who put that stove in?—No. Future actions are large students of Queen's College has It must have been a bitter
I take that you will not although it recognises that "the latter, well-managed, may do much conditioned by past exper- come from His Excellency the experience for Lt. Masiero that
dispute tha: Bon Top good." There is no newspaper in Hongkong that wants to be subentes.
put experiences Governor in the form of 12 pairs: this stage of the fight when
in the stove 2-1 took the pre- sidised and there is not one of them that has not done a very great men have the more are their of gloves which he has presented he is within comfortable distance
There have been received this mises on March 1st. deal of good work, especially during the war, with never one little actions conditioned. Ther be to the College. Under the tuition of his goal, his machine should bit of recognition. They have been content to carry on the good work come conservative in old age not of Kid Marriot, it is hoped that suffer a crash when making week the recommendations of the Mr. Davidson:-It is my duty Canton last Secretary of State for the Colonies to put in my case. One part of without any fee or reward, and are not grumbling on that account. because they are old, but because boxing will gain many adherents. the start from After all, it has only been a matter of duty. But perhaps there are they have learned caution and and that before long there will Wednesday, and be irretrievably on the report of the Commission the case is that Bon Ton had put
A itee
which that eaquired into Civil Service in that stove and I take it that not many people in Hongkong who realise that we here bere (the timidity from the bard knocks be an inter-School Boxing Com. [destroyed.
stood unperceived in the line salaries.
you do not deny it ?-1 do not "main centre of British influence in the Far East) a Publicity Bureau, and difficulties of the past. But, petition.
of flight W33 the cause and we maintain that the object of such should be the furtherance of the world goes forward, never-
The recommendations are of a know. British ideals as well as the festering of British commercial expan born, not prejudiced by past, theless, because new babies are,
the disaster. I: was complex nature, and deal with The Puisne Judge:-The stove Recently a Chinese' was sion. Frankly, we are not satañed with what that Bureau is doing.
de-truck by the aeroplane which pay. pensions. promotions. is not loose but fixed to the and we think that its present method of activity is not cat-experiences. As they grow up.ported from the Colony after he was then at flying speed after furlough, etc. as applying to building?
Mr. Davidson-There was a culated to be productive of the best results. For example, we under they mentally rejuvenate the had served his prison term for having risen from the ground. individual cases.
No statement can be published certain amount of iron work in stand that a part of the duties of the Bureau is to distribute news earth. They encounter experi- cutting and wounding a com-The collision dislocated the motor
stove, His banishment term which dropped out. In spite of until the recommendations for all the
and that and articles to varions vernacular newspapers in South China, andares fresh and unhampered by patriot. whilst this may be productive of some good it would be interesting depressing recollections. There was ten years. but being a man the unmanageable condition of the Departments are carefully put in by Boo Ton?--Yes, to know how any obviously supplied British articles are viewed by 2re no cautious remories who could not bear to be away the machine, due to a broken pro-analysed. the Chinese. Suddenly, eag. a Chinese paper begins to boost issue warnings about the conse from the Colony so long. be pellor. Lt. Masiero, with great all things British, but the very nature of such
quences of failure.
returned by the next bost, and adroitness, managed to land his An act cannot fail to
Arolas the suspicions of the
was recognised and arrested shattered machine in a rice fiel man in the IT WOULDN'T DO. street who guesses that there is some consideration at the
the Police yesterday. To-day the in the vicinity, thus saving his We are back of it all. But
really not greatly Magistrate gave him another six own life and that of Maretto, the not miad if the papers enamoured of this one would
monker months in prison. treated with the privileges that the Bureau gives them did stick to gland business. Most of us)
mechanic.
STORY OF HIS CAPTURE. helping matters along for us, but cases have come to our notice in would no doubt like to postpone which papers which have been given these privileges have published old age and senility and to retain
Masiero's new plans formed in' The convict arrested sub vers anti-British articles in their columns. One openly accused the our vitality as long as humaniziravening a boclock a embrace a voyaga by steamar to fing the Goal was to dar charged At the Chinese Y. M. C. A. to consequence of this mishap now sequent to the recent outbreak British of neglect in India and later said in a reprinted article that possible, but, with the mixture of very interesting event will take Shanghai where he will secure before the 31agistrate, and his Britons were responsible for the cold-blooded massacre of some joy and sorrow of which life is place consisting of an exhibition another machine, and resume the case is proceeding trondreds of natives To all outward appearances this very clever composed, we doubt whether any game of Basket Ball between the flight from Canton. journal continues to receive benefits in the way of free cables etc.. body really wants to go on living team of the American Athletic
One account of his arrest states that it did before, whilst British papers in
that be fled to Swatow and Mr. Ray-It is not outside. a British Colony of for ever. It wouldn't do, either. Club and a team drawn from the
Chinese there enlisted in the
The Puisne Jodga :-You say cosmopolitan population receive nothing at all. Surely, a fine The stimulating viewpoint of remainder of the League. At the Farraria, who started at the way of offsetting any anti-British stuff of this kind is not by pamper-captive to progress. If old age the Governor will present the Foochow the same day, but on discovered and he was arrested Street
authorities of that port Queen's Road as leased to Ban more fortugate. He reached ing up the native Press but by the establishment of good vernacular were to vanish, virgin mentality shield to the winners of the
resulted in his identity being Ton and not part of D'Aguilar papers in the larger cities, ably run and controlled by Britishers. would gn, too.
We are not on the look out for jobs ourselves as we have enough first effects of perpetual youth Club.
Mr. Ray:-I do not agree. For, one of the League The American Athletic account of the extremely bad and eventually handed over to the
Mr. Davidson: The defendants The public are invited to weather was unable to leave that fact, that so tar as publicity and propaganda goes in this area there The Malthusian law of overpopuwill commence promptly at six
agreed with Yee Sang Fat to is needed a greater degree of study of right methods and wiselation would soon work to keep o'clock.
remain for three weeks, and they paid rent to Yee Sang Fat for 22 spending.
down the number of inhabitants
days. Educationally, Hongkong, with its University, offers Chinese competing for the earth's limited students a fine education, clase study of British methods and ideals food supply. Civilisation would;
by the citizens of Shanghai. The Paris, March 24.-The world's Plainti: Yes I know that and familiarity with British machinery. In that respect at least be dominated by people physically
airmen were entertained by the speed "record" for a motor-bost. They thanked me for the use of Hongkong is well off. Commercially Hongkong is all right too from in their prime, but terribly old in
Aero Club and will probably leave which was crested on Lake the kitchen. to-morrow for Tsingtao which is George, in the United States, in the British standpoint, but it would cer ainly be a great deal better experience of life. There would!
The hearing has been adjourned if British merchants unbended a little and took a few tips from be no source for renewing mental
the next stage in the light to 1918, was besten during a semi-sine die. Tokyo. The first serial mail in official test held yesterday on the rivals and allowed themselves a little freer intimacy with native energy. New ideas might gradu-
China was merchants and dealers. Unquestionably the finest advertisementially become extinct.
brought by Ibis Seine, alongside the Ilede la Jatte, for a man is how he acte towards others, and we can well afford a would be gravely endangereti.
The following is notified for in-machine from Canton.
which lies between Paris and crossed the Atlantic, The formation of all members :- little searching of beart on this matter. Men are judged by what
Saint Cloud. Five hundred metres designer considers his success they do not so much by what they say. Our business relations
On the dates set apart for Bai-DEATH AT A MASONIC MEETING. were covered with the aid of a largely due to his having been should be made much more cordial than they have been. And on
Joting for Officers etc., the aftent- After being voted a jewel for slight current in little less able to disprove the tenets of the question of solidarity among British communities one could about 12.000 women employed on those who were not members of Rigden. Worshipful Master of was
On August 1. 1914. there wereation of the New Membersie. (all his services in the chair, Mr.than 15 seconds. This time science by inventing a propeller wax sarcastically eloquen: regarding Hongkong's social pettinesses. the railway, and on November 11, the Hongkong Defence Corps on Lewises Lodge of Freemasons, keepers. The boat holding this tions a minute in water without checked by three time capable of making 3,000 revolu When we began this article we did not intend to disparage Britons 1918, about 60,000, states Mr. on 23rd December. 1919) will also Ramsgate, collapsed and died in honour was built on the glider creating a vacuum. and things British because we see no cause to; as such we can very Neal in recent Parliamentary be carried out. rightfully hold our heads high. But there is plenty of room for Debates. The approximate num-
the Templa recently. A pioneer principle by Descujols, and is is only 1 ton 13emt, and 52lb. in" improvement and if we take a look at ourselves first and put right ber at the end of last Jaunary on these dates
Members are asked to attend of the Volunteer movement, Mr. equipped with
Rigdon what is wrong, there, we shall go a long way towards making propa was 30,000. -ganda-&- superfluity.
possible.
Ramsgate engineer.
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Mr. Davidson (to the Paisne Judge):--I contend that the fire- place is a tenant's fixture, which can be removed. That is a minor point, which I am dealing with first.
Mr. Davidson (to the plaintif) : You will see on this plan in the angle of the building that there is a regular yard.
The Judge (to Mr. Davidson):
Loutside the premises leased to tha.... plaintiff,?
our case is that this kitchen is
example of propaganda control. It seems to us that the only youth is the world's chief in-close of the match His Excellenersame time with Masiero, was Army. Information sent to the that this kitchen is part of 34
work to do now). In other directions, ton, we could point to the would be to check the birthrate. attend, especially ladies. Play/Port until Sunday. The fight custody of the Hongkong Police.}
Progress
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