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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WEDNESDAY: MAY

1920

DAY BY DAY.

AVİATIÓN NOTES.

THORNE'S OLD VAT NOTES & COMMENTS.

We

"No. 4"

SCOTCH WHISKY.

this

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No. 4 ever since.

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BIRTH

STARK-At Dundee, on the 13th inst. to Mr. and Mrs.

C. C. Stark, a son.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19. 1920.

REPARATIONS-AND MORE.

RENT CONTROL"

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NOTHING IS 30 MERCILESS AS OFFENDED PRIDE.

DEATH SENTENCE.

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ON GAOL BREAKER

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

To those who know Essex li im

[BY METEORITE"} In view of the high prevailing

One of the difficulties in arrang-At yesterday's Criminal the most Majuri DOW~to hear" rentals in Hongkong it is interest-

ing for the recent Avro Right Sessions, the case was concluded that Brightlingsen is one again ing to take note of what the

from Peking to Tientsin was the in which the third of the goal-roviding the bulk of the crew for authorities at Home, faced with Yesterday's health return a ke situation, are doing. The shows two fatal cases of plague fact that as Tientsin there is no breakers was charged with the Sir Thomas Lipton's now Amarica.

It was ob-murder of Warder Speed: Rent Restriction Act of 1919 and three non-fatal occurrences proper aerodrome.

Cup challanger. The quaint little expires on Josa 30th next, but of enteric, All were Chinese,

viously impossible to laave Peking

After the ovidence had been Esser haven's is essentally a the Government has pledged

on the off chance of seeing from aken 3r. Belilios addressed the home for yachtsmen and oysters the air some place that looked introduce B new itself

suitable for a landing, and it was jury on behalf of the prisoner. He-for at all times of the year the Rent Bill bɔfore that date. Recently a Committee has been the special dances being held at to

Those who intend to patronise necessary some days beforehand said it was useless to put the estuary is crowed with the maats {prisoner in the witness box sa ha of pleasure yachts, oystersmacks. rend representatives investigating the operation of the the Repulse Bay Hotel to-night. the Handley Page company down at the Magistrsey. The prisoner famous skippers have graduated of (could not say more than he said and many of yachting's most restrictive enactments passed

and. on Saturday and Monday to Tianisin and there make bad stated there that he merels from those waters. since the war, and its recom- next, will be glad to learn that the quiry and examination on the mandations, upon which the new Hongkong Hotel has arranged for spot of suitable landing places trouble was over.

jeams out of the prison after the Bill is to be based, have been special lafs cars to be run to the It will also be remembered that take any part in the assault.

Ho did not

Like the Foundling Hospital it- made public. It is now pro Peak on those nights. The car some months before the Italian

self—now faced with a serious posed to continue rant con-

will leave the lower terminus at airmen sat out on their Rome- After the summing up by the financial problem-its founder. trol for

further three

Tokyo fligh; they sent represents- Chief Justice the jury retired to Thomas Coram, was subject in years, daring which period in-

tives in advance to choose consider their verdict. They his old age to financial worries. creases in rent will be permitted

suitabla landing places. Ofcourse, were absent only ten minutes The embarrassed philanthropist upon a graduated scale, but these

With a criminal record that when aviation in the East is the and returned a verdict of guilty declared that as he had never are not to result in anything dated from the time when he was every day thing that it is in The Chief Justice asked- the wasted money in selk-indulgence, above a 40coot, advance oa pre-war rents. What is especial-16 years of age, a Chinese who the West, and regular scheduled prisoner if he had, anything to so he was not ashamed to confess ly important is the fact that no as arrested by the Police for services are operating between say and the latter replied in the his poverty. The State found him

The Chief Justice an annulty, of £161, which he increase is to be permitted on disobeying an order of banishment the principal cities, the provision negative. houses tot maintained in a pro- for ten years, which was passed of fited serodromes, adequately then assumed the Black Cap lived to enjoy for only two years, per state of repair. The operation on him last year, was at the Police equipped, will be a necessity; hut and pronounced

Court to-day sentenced to a year's it is a question whether the great death. of the Act ja по

le to extended to house rentals of hard-labour-with-four-bour cities that are to be almost par.....

£105 in London. £90 in Scot Jane sod 7 elsewhere. This means a trebling of the limits of! the 1915 Rent Restriction Act.)

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stocks.

sentence of If the Lamb's Conduit fields in which Coram's hospital stands should now sell for a colossal tainly, the landing places for the

figure it will owe its good fortune" planes carrying out regular ser-

A week aND

reference was to the obstinary of that Lord vices ought not to be preparing. dangerous character was themselves for the time when made in these notes to the fact Salisbury, who, in 1740 insisted that a lot of superfluous aCIDA DX-' that British aircraft had establish- The Committee investigated arrested by the police yesterday, such services will be in operation.ed their present supremacy not tanding up to Gray's Inn-lane nomerous complaints from the and this morning brought before

by sensational lights, or by should be bought by Carara's occupiers of business premises the Magistrate and sentenced to

subsidized services, or diplomatic bankers. What then cost £7,000 regarding rent increases, but it term of nine months' hard

In the West, the provision of support or adventitious aids is now worth a million. was felt that the problem was too labour. The possession of a fully municipal aerodromes is now a of that kind, but by practical

revolver ** proved

Other countries It is possible that, many complicated for treatment under loaded

the restrictive measures applied against him. This was found on regular thing and municipal achievement.

Aerodromes are becoming are beginning to see the wisdom "literary men." to

As common

whom the

to houses a decision which bas his person by a constable who

municipal play of this policy. A note in the authorities of Southwark Cathe- aroused wurh dissatisfaction searched him outside the Stag rounds and baths. Thus, for Jupes Chraiche, of the 27th April dral appeal for funds to repair the amongst small traders, according La the Hame naders.

WHAT OF HONGKONG?

Hotel.

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Way

of

it will

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example, in England. the city of ways: "It is not surprising to monument of John Gower, have Shaffleld has provided a municipal bear that the Italian Minister for never heard of that poet. He was Mr. N. L. Smith, at the Police erodromeatCoal Aston, thorough- War has appointed a Commission & contemporary of Chaucer who Court this morning. fined a natively equipped for dealing with all to enquire into the organization referred to him in "Troilus and Creseide” as the "moral Gower.” seamstress $2 for aiding and matters of small repair, supplies of the Rome to Tokyo flight. When we read reports like abetting her child to beg near the and the like that are needed by It is now just upon three months Gower died in 1408, and a magni- these, of Government interference Carlton Hotel. It was fated the regular services and by the since. the first aeroplanes left ficent tomb with a recumbent to protect tenania, we begin to that although she pursued the independent airerafi, as they pass Rome, and so far they have got as egy, was erected over his grave It was remarked in the chapel of St John the wonder what there is that is either commendable kade of mending from one part of the country far as Canton.

to another. Other extraordinarily difficult or my clothes, her large earnings were

cilles concerning the flight to Australis Baptist, within the church of the terious about the situation is chiefly due to the use she made are making similar plans, and that, whilst it was undoubtedly a priory, now Southwark Cathedral. Hongkong to explain the reticence of her child in extracting elusive thus a chain of municipal aero- great feat, the journey could have The effigy rests its head upon a

local tiovernment in cents from pedestrians. - of the

dromes is being established that been done quite as quickly in a pile of three folio volumes, bis

facilitate will greatly

aerial fast steamer. The only remark principal works. Only one of taking similar measures. We have been told. until we are almost

transport, and that as a matter of that can be made on the Tokyo these. "Confessio Amantis," was provides tired of bearing it. that any

[fact will greatly encourage such fight is that the msits themselves in English, and it The ss. Dagmar, as she now transport. It is obvious that if each are no slower. The Gormir Gower's chief claim to reputation measure of rent control would

les in the Menam discourage building, and that the Bangkok, with her machinery

River of the firms desiring to establish Italia says that, apart from the as a post. He was not, like 2 transport service by air snail's pace of the affair. its Chaucer, a man of gebins, but be real solution of the problem is to

etc... was yesterday sold, by

will routes has to provide its OWD expense be found in the erection of more public auction by Lammert Bros. aerodrome.

great did good service in establishing a stopping that at each

off-standard "of literary be ΠΟΙ

language houses. The need oí moze on the stractions of Mesars place, the actual expenses of set by any economic benefits that which at the end of the 14th houses is admitted. but if

Sde, rent restriction is foolish Thorsen, and Case watch services will be so high as result. So that was the object of century took the place of the Apart from the question of national boundaries there is nothing policy in Hongkong, then $10,000. The vessel hal been dry-number of private aerodromes How it was to achieve this is a

to be almost prohibitive, and the the fight to promote basiness middle English dialect. that is so important a part of any Treaty of Peace as reparations.it must be just as foolish at Home-docked in Bangkok after having will necessarily be small, thus mystery. Did the organisers be- They stand in relation to Peace Treaties as damages do in a law It is evident that the control sunk in the Gulf of Siam. She is greatly limiting the services. Itlieve that the Japanese Govern- knows what is the Third" or Some people may be curious to smit and it is only natural that a very great deal of consideration of rentrat Home must have been 1,45 IDs groes, 2 tons net and has frequently been pointed oat meat would buy at a high “Moscow International" which. should be given them. Ever since Germany signed the Treaty to the general benefit of the

that when competing railway price the machines won out the T.L.P at their Glasgow Con- of Versailles there has been discussion on this matter, and a great community: otherwise, it would 1,500 tons deadweight capacity. deal of ambiguity. Germany demanded to know how much it wisest ood te proposed to continue.

Icompanies have to provide their by this long flight? Or was it ference, decided not to affiliate OWD terminsiy in the rear simply. To be as advertisement] with. it came into existence on that she would have to pay and until the Allies were pretty sure the policy for a further three. In connection with the pass cities the expense is enormous. for

SV.A aeroplanes at March 2, 1919, at Moscow, and is, ("! that Germany intended to carry out certain very important prelim yeats. What the authorities inaries they thought it was better out to fix the amount. But, bere appear to think is that to be undertaken by the Admiral necessarily be in

enger-carrying business shortly

terminala these 2.3

most Government expense? Possibly, of course, a Bolshevist organisa- the most since there has been a rather in- tion. The main plank in ita according to the very lengthy cable, which Reuter supplied yesterday, there are only two methods. Line with the aid, of several big convenient spots, which messe dignant danist that the aviators platform is that the hour of the it appears that an important Anglo-French conference has been separate and distinct of coping

It basos struggle" batween proleta- held on this matter, out of which has come a general agreement with this high-rent problem.S. Shipping Board vessels. Mr. that they must be where the price are using something else

McCarthy, passenger agent for of land is the highest and in certainly not proved a good tarist and bourgeoisie, as express- an agreement that marks a further stage in the business of clearing control or more building. It

the Admiral Lipe for China, bas up the post-war problems.

apparently has never occurred to arrived in Hongkong from Shang-ways have frequently co-operated simply to boost the Italian-1843, has arrived. The working consequence even compating rail-advertisement. If the ideas ised by the Communist manifesto What seems to us the most important part of it all, is that a them that both could be operated hai where he has established his in the protision of terminals. Japanese entente, of which we classes all over the world sre definite sum is going to be fixed, experts from France and England at the same time. That is what headquarters. The service, it is Whilst there would be consider bare heard so much lately, Mis invited to "seire bold of economic being charged to investigate the question. A minimum will be is being done in Britain at the understood, will be started fromable dificulties in the way of Miors Tamaki seems to have life, even though it be disorganis fixed, and in fixing that minimum regard will be paid to Germany's moment. The conditions at capacity to pay. It has been realised that it would be worse than Home are just what they are Seattle, with Hongkong as he municipal provision of railway done a great deal more in thated and destroyed, in order to

terminus in the Oriens. Mr. terminals. except where the line." useless to demand a

which would cripple Sam

our late out

ensure its being rebuilt on a here. Then why not

| Socialist basis." This body claims earmy, robbing her of ability to pay. The method of payment apply the same remedies? The McCarthy returned to Shangba railways are state-owned, there are practically до difficulties is also to be determined and the question of division among Government's action in dictating yesterday by the Venezuela.

in the

Of course, without ready-pro- to bave affiliated organizations in municipal the Allies in accordance with certain inter-Allied agreements the standard of rents of the pew reached will also come within the purview of those who have flats being erected in Kowloon

provision of aerodromes, which vided aerodromes such as are every country. In Great Britain of advocated in the first part of these they are the British Socialist would _AS _amatter tearcbagal with this important task if on these matters there has nor discouraged the Hum is a speedy agreement then a very long way will have been gone phress Estate Company from

fact attract considerable trade to Notes, it is impossible to carry party formerly the Social Do towards the final disposal of one of the greatest problems, involving | huilding. Is it reasonable. there-

the city, and ought to be a profit out long distance flights that shall mocraticFederation), the Worker's as it does the continuance of amicable relations between the allus-fore, to think that the application

able undertaking, for the regular set the record for speed, either Socialist Federation, the Socialist Of vital interest in the Allied creditors, among whom stands the of the same standart to all house!

MANSLAUGHTER CASE.

customers would use the acrod-from Rome to Tokyo, from Crick-Labour party of Scotland, the United States of America an easy first, is the decision that payment property would have any more

romes on contract payments, and wood to Canberra, or from Kobe South Wales Socialis: party, and of Allied debts will proceed at the same rate as payments are made disastrous results? Profiteers The Chief Justice presided the irregular visiting aircraft to Kamchatka; but that is not important fraction of the Inde by Germany. If Germans pars nothing for two years, then the here base things all their own again to-day over the Criminal would pay according to a fixed the main point that the Jupan pendent Labour party.

Sessions.

scale, probably based on freight-Chronicle is making.

Iwill be curians to see whether. Max Yuk Sau was 31taigned age or lifting capacity, just as

+xhe-establishment-in-fzaneenofi for manslaughter on June 18th ships pay canal tolls by tonnage

An appeal to the residents of Ministry of Sport will wake, Roy creditor nations of the world. It means that every country for the FRYATT MEMORIAL.--

of displacement. last year.

Hongkong for subscriptions to echoes on this side of the Channel, own sake, is forced to help Germany to regain her economic In the latest number of the.

wards the erection of a mont-romarken Homepaper. Obviously :- stability; it means that the questions of peace time adjustmentlphin (the journal of the Im-panelled-Messrs. T. G. Stokes,

The following jury were am

meat to the memory of the the opportunity would cómmend have been brought down to a very wholesome practicality. The perial Merchant Service Guild). Ram. T. Ramsay, (foreman) T.

in France, Italy and the United late svistor, Jales Vedrines has itself to our bureaucrats, actual whole world of nations is so mixed up with war-time borrowings we potice a number of subscrip Mosul. W: Ross. H. R., Sequeira countries, the value of state, or well-known in Europe as being a great many more salaries, 19

States, as well as in some other been received. Vedrines was and potential, for it would mean) 30006- and lendings that scarcely a nation is exempted from the operation tions from the Far East towards F. R. da Silva. of the decision, and it will tend towards a uñiñcation of effort to get the Captain Fryatt Memorial

municipal aerodromes as a means one of the principal pioneers of chance for yet another Under things straight more, perhaps, than anything else could have done. Fand. These include £1,000 from | The prisoner pleaded not guilty of fostering commercial aviation aviation. He had in 1916 formed Secretary to ake out the salary The words of the message are worth quoting on this point: The Mackenzie and Co., of Shanghai; The Attorney-General, Mr. J. has been folly recognized the project of a world tour in of his office by newspaper at- two Governments therefore are of the opinion that in order to solve £516 10s. 7d. from the Yokohama H. Kemp, K.C., in outlining the and

that the his aeroplane for the purposes ticles in the modern fashion,....... the economic difficulties which are gravely weighing upon the and Tokyo branch of the case, said the prisoner was principal cities of China, sucb of propaganda, but, met bis and sufficiency of patron- world and to wark the definite beginning of an ers of peace, it is Society of St. George: £122 159. charged with manslaughter, in as Tientsin, Shanghai, Hankow. death in an accident before he age. But, on the other side, important to reach a settlement which will embrace the whole body from the Shanghai staff of the Jane of last year. Shortly before Foochow, Canton, Chungking and could put his scheme into ex-the idea would not be well re- of international liabilities which were left as a legacy of the war Asiatic Petroleum Company: £120 that time the prisoner was in the Mukden and also Hongkong, ecution. The committee formed ceived by a country that has seen and which will, at the same time, ensure a parallel liquidation of from Messrs. Deacon and Co. habit of frequenting Jardine's began to ask themselves whether for receiving donations for the quite enough new · Kinistries the inter-Allied war debt and the reparation debts of the Central Canton; and £75 from British Wharf at West Point and he they would not advantage them-erection of the monument, has the setablished istely. It might also Empires.**

residents in Canton. What is also used to sleep there. The selves by devoting adequate atten- support of the French ministers be feared with reason that the One could go on to review other small details in the arrange particularly gratifying to note is deceased lived with his wife option and fonds to this matters. ment, but the main points having been touched upon there has been that a sum of £654 4. 2d. has the first floor at 318, Queen's sufficient to show that yesterday's news was indeed of considerable been received from the Hong-Road West, and at about 7 p.m.

For passenger services it would countries. It smport. A very pleasing circumstance of the arrangement is that kong branch of the Ministering on June 18th a man came to that "it was concluded so quickly and in such a friendly spirit. A little Children's League,

the place and said he was assaulted of course be necessary to provide intention of bringing in funds called Ministerial golf. The nearest while ago we were all talking about an Anglo-French difference, but Build expresses its gratitude for and accused of stealing shoes intermediate serodromes. Thus, for this monument and also approach we have had to any

of the sort hitherto bow great the friendship between the two countries resily is bas such splendid and tangible The deceased went downstairs, for a passenger service between for the support and education thing now been amply-demonstrated. This problem of reparations was assistance. All the money re- and his wife would tell the jury Peting and Shangbai, a distance of the four little children was the Master of the Buck- one of the thorniest and it has been gone through without friction or ceived from this latter source is, that she saw the prisoner down of practically 800 miles, two in- of the late M. Vedrines that hounds, an office sometimes filled a hitch. Reuter told us that France stands to get very valuable we see, being set apart for the stairs under the verandab, and termediate aerodromes would be Poulet started on his adventurous by noble lords whose hunting was benefits at British expense, but the latter is making concessions benefit of children only, in scher husband there talking with required, and it is an open ques- serial trip to Australis. All most safely accomplished on foot, which she regards 29 right and just to France. With that view cordance with the wishes of the the prisoner. Climately the tion whether the provincial subscriptions from local residents and of which a certain. Lord there will be very general agreement here, because it was during donors. The Fund is still doing deceased and the prisoner quar-anthorities at each place should should be addressed thus: Le Stanley of Alder oy, speaking in- the dark days of the waf, when well-high everything seemed splendid work, but there is still rolled. She went back again and provide these aerodromes or the Tresorier, Comite de Souscription advertently to two former holders. swamped by the weight of aggressich, that the indomitable spirit of need for further donations, and she heard that deceased was Government itself provide them su Monument a la Mem ire de of the position, remarked, “Hank France was the centre of a determination that eventually won its we can commend the object as stabbed. The prisoner bad for its own services, making a l'Aviator Jules Vedrines, No. 7 is just the sort of damned look way through to wictory. We can afford to be a little generous now being one well worthy of support escaped.

charge for theit, use, by DOD Jace de la Bastille, Paris IVal who would do very well for una that the then nightmare has been changed into a victorious peace.] and assistance.

The case is proceeding.

Government conserna.

})France.)

Mastership of the Buckleandik

Allies will pay nothing also. "II Germany has to be given, say fest s years in which to pay, then the Allies will take as lung.

imagine that this decision will cause a little excitement in the

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and

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

it is time

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and other Goverment officials, appointment of Minister might go and the appeal is meeting with a to s politican whose knowledge ready reponse in the Allied of sport was confined to a little of with the that curious game' which may be

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