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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1920.

KING COAL.

the effects of a miners' swike.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

SIR MATTHEW NATHAN,

DAY BY DAY....

JUSTICE 19 TRUCH IN ACTION. Admirers of Sir Matthaw Dismelt. Nathan-and there are many in |Hongkong-bave followed with deep interest his career since he sive up the Governorship of this Colony to go to Natal. That was i only just thirteen years ago, but

in that period Sir Matthew has had a most varied career, having held no fewer than five different positions, not counting his em ployment on London defences in The owners of three ser boats were charged this morning the year 1915. The greater part of before Commander C. W. Beck that time has been spent in the with, RN, Marine Magistrate. Old Country, but now our former for failing to renew their licences Governor goes to one of our great from April 1st last. They were self-governing Dominions on sp-|fined $20 each. pointment as Governor of Queens- land. As Governor of Hongkong,

KOWLOON NOTES.

TORRID TOPICS.

GODOWN THEFTS.

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(BY "TONY.") League tennis again suffered last week-end, owing to the wet¦ FERSPIRATION AND A SUNSET. On the authority of Mr. J. One fatal case of plague was weather, which made the fulfil- Ninety-one in the shade in this Summers of the Kowloon

victim ment of fixtures impossible, humid atmosphere! notified yesterday, the

As you Godowns, pilfering has been During the mid-week, Criswelter in the office chair your rampant in the godowns for some being a Chinese,

Service managed to play off their thoughts turn eagerly to long ice time. This morning the No. 1 of We see amongst the Birthday tie with the United Services and drinks and bathing parties. The lighter was brought up before. Honours the name of Surgeon wan easily, thus securing the sad mind dwells affectionately on Mt. Hutchison on the charge Rear Admiral George A. Dreaper, Division Championship. To mor polar expeditions and apprecia-that he pilfered 1,666 lbs. of who received the CB, decoration. row, they are due to play their lively On the frasan stares scrap iron and a large quantity final fixture, against R.C.C., and gratuitously delivered by haughty of rubber from consignment will make every effort to preserve dames, which at other times are that he was asked to transport their nabroken series of victories thought so irritating. The poor from the as. Eastern Trader. Another match down for decision old tody, overtared by the A watchman of the godowns is that of Wigwam v. Craigan sorrid weather, replies" with said that on Wednesday evening former's courts at 5 p.m. gower, which begins oo the prickly heat, which torments he was on duty on the lighter of lite * thousand greenhead the defendant which was lying ants. At last the office is alongside the Eastern Trader. all the cargo bad Although their ground is not left to the tender mercies of the Aftar Before Mr. S. L. Smith, this situated on the Kowloon side, the number one boy and in turn to been discharged, he suspected Sir Matthew Nathan was, by morning, a Chinese woman was Civil Service is this year really a the night watchman. You board that

lying on the lighter general consent, regarded as a charged with ill-treating two Kowloon team, since four of the tram car for North Point and was

tha perspiringly climb the steep stairs and he made a search, and found great success. His administra. children in Gage Street The six players tion was characterised by practi- children became very ill and peninsula. The team has done to the deck to find every seat scrap iron and rubber on both cal progress in many directions, were taken to the Hospital, Mr. remarkably well in the League, occupied by Chinese. So you the aft and fore holds, The Na Leo d'Almada appeared for and, as the best all-round com-stand the whole way to the beach. man was arrested and taken to and he left the Colony much to

the defence. The caID was bination in the 2nd Division, Allah be praised! Here at last the Police Station.

Mr. Sommars said that on the the regret of every section of remanded, and the question of thoroughly deserves the cham- you will be able to cool off. You

hurry into your one-piece bathing 6th the defendant's lighter was it. Amongst the most prominent bail deferred pending the report pionship honours.

suit and eagerly splash into the used, and from that day till of his works here was the in-of the medical authorities.

inviting sea. Faugh! It's as the 14th regularly by the auguration of the Kowloon-Can-

It was a pity that the Taikoo tepid as the afternoon cup of tea Kowloon Godown Co. On the ton Railway, whilst he also did Last evening a most enjoyable Kowloon B. G. C. bowls match which the coalie brings you from 6th, the defendant was sent to a great deal for the Colony by entertainment, including a Chin- could not be played last week, the cafe. Later the evening take delivery of the cargo from This deep interest in typhoonese play, was given at St. Paul's as a fine tussle was promised cools a little. You sit on the the Essern Tradar. It was seargo precautions. bis care for the College, when occasion was taken When it became too late to let beach and think reminiscantly of of scrap iron and various stað. Colony's water supplies and his to present Mr. Wong Shui-pun, a the players know, the greens other days: the surfing at sunuy On the 14th he was went to tha enthusiasm in the cause of volun-teacher at the College, with a were found to be playable. Still, Manly, the delightful mixed bath-Chins Navigation's godowns West Point. After the teering. When be left Hongkong.travelling trunk. Mr. Wong is the teams will be able now to gating at Havre, the cool dip in the at

had he was the recipient of addresses abortly to leave for England to in a little more practice before blue sea at Folkestone, and the watchman

grimwonderful bathing days at Cape find

the 03 from the civil servants, the secure further training Certi- meeting.

ficites were also presented to struggle when it does coma off. Town. The light fades, and the lighter. witness personally general public, and the Chinese fourteen graduates and prizes to To-morrow both Kowloon teams sun throws a glorious rosy hue inspected the lighter and found community 28 well 28 the winners in the Chinese class65. are at home, the E. C. C. to on the water: a jonk passing 392 lbs of scrap iron and 15 lbs. Japanese residents of Hongkong.

Taikoo, and the Bowling Green through it looks ruddy and al- of rubber. He discharged the duties of his A well-dressed Chinese lad Club to Civil Service. These most beautiful. The tints slowly The defendant was sentenced to office here with honesty of was charged this morning, be should be games worth watching. change to abades of delicate go three months tard labour. purpose and marked thorough-fore Mr. N. L. Smith, with trying

and the sea is the colour of ness, added TO which be to obtain $065 by false pretences. The officials of the K.C.C. will polished pewter. The daylight is displayed a charm of person-Mr. Hall appeared for the pro- probably spend to-night "jossing Hongkong sunset and drink in its before they'd be like you poor fish

nearly past. As you watch the ality which made him popular secution and Mr. Davidson for the Clerk of the Weather, for, beauties, your thoughts of other who fall for the prize bunch like everywhere. His talents as an the defence. It is alleged that assured kindly treatment by the days go scurrying back to the potato bug to a Hayseed. administrator have been lying the lad went to his Chinese elements, nothing will be missing recesses of your memory. There rather dormant since he has friends and promised to get them to make to-morrow night's open-are worse places than Hongkong dinkum, you'll do me, Cobber. The Sydney Larrikio:-Square Peru. He was air concert a huge success. A been in the Old Country, but he paid $665 two months ago to really bright and novel entertain- A STORM IN A JOURN - LISTIC

It's got me beat to see a lot of will now have a new aspect of secure nine such passports, and meat is promised; and to stroll

blokes like you squinted at by a TEACUP. Imperial life to handle, and his as he did not deliver them to his about on the cool grounds of the

lot of flaming King pins and A few days ago the usual Janes friends in Hongkong will wish friends he was tackled by them. Club or settle down in the comfy brightness of

Cripes, it's enough to And he told them that he had chairs to be provided should be firmament was darkened by a

newspaper send a bloke on the shioker. spent the money. The case was far more congenial way of forgett squall. A black cloud moving You ain't at a lot of mugs. The Cockney:-Gor Blimey. jadjourned.

ing the beat than lolling about on from the direction of Queen's Srike me pink if I'd stand being the verandah after dinner.

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him well in the task.

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The squall bad equality of men. Here is little parable which, if thoughtful y | considered, may have a "bearingTM on the answer as to the practi- cability of Socialism :---

COFFEE.

A man of cultore and re- Gnement brought up by a gentle mother in

a gentle family, was wrecked `on Mogely island in the South- ern Pacific. With him were three others, a young woman of his own class and two sailors. The latter were of the lower classes illiterate and ill-brød. Gradually, through his superior intelligence, the cultured msa assumed the leadership of the little party, and for a while si} was well There was plenty of nature's own food on the island; and with little work

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One of yesterday's cables stated that a grave situation had arisen

A Japanese was charged this |

Street. A low growl of thunder messed abaht like a lot of puppy at Spa by reason of the unsatis morning at the Magistracy, before factory attitude of the Germans. R. O. Hutchison. with being identity of the Black Cats who Another cloud

Much mystery surrounds the accompanied a flash of lightning. dogs. It's enuf to give a bloke

acudded along the orl overs. When Reuter sends us cables dealing with such moatters us on the coal question. Although drunk and disorderly last night are to appear in to-morrow's al swiftly. More thunder. More

A PARABLE. new demand by the Home coal miners it is a little hard for us out the Allies have very materially as Waachsi. Inspector Kent told fregeo concert. Who are they lightning. A few drops of here to guage the true significance. Thus it was that a few days reduced

We hear and read rather much of of the Magistrate that he was talk what are they? Whence do they rain fell. The clouds passed on Socialism. Bolshevism and other ago, when we received such news, we were apt to dismiss it with the Peace Treaty so far as the ing to a friend last nigh: outside come? What will they do? Well, with a final rumble. The ann the thought that it was only another demand by labour that would) amount of coal to be delivered is the No. 2 Police Station, when if you really want to know, I can i came out and shone in blue skies/cults with ideals concerning the

fizzle out" or at leas: be modified when the true position of the concerned, the German delegates the Japanese came up and bump tell you how to find oat-go and once more. industry came to be known. Whether the demand is ressonable or no talk about the difficulty ofed against his friend, and knocked them!" not we still have our doubts, but the matter on which we have no securing the owners and miners' him over. The Japanese insisted doubt at all is the very serious importance of the coal industry in consent and make an offer con on "coming on" three times, and relation to the well-being of the country. Britain's trade. the run-siderably below the Allied re eventually he was taken IC What am I going to say abont My favourite beverage-coffee ning of public services.--in fact the welfare of the whole community (quirements, even this being con- the charge room, but stuggled the heat? Words fail me: I feel that incomparable, stimulating is dependent on a steady and ample supply of coal, and our hope ditional upon the possibility of violently. Four men were re like the parson who foozled beverage the fragrant breakfast is that it will be a very long day before the country is made to suffer improving the feeding and hous-quired to put him into the cell golf -tongue-tied. If it's botter cup-has been forbidden me by

ing of the workers. The Pre-He was fined $5.

in the next world than it's been the doctor. Woe unto me.. For 1 may not be generally known that one of the most serious sident of the Spa Conference

day and night during the past that is a calamity indeed. At factors in the present outlook for Britain's foreign trade is the coal has frankly told the Germans

the time of my sentence. I read shortage. The importance of coal exports to British commerce is that the Allies

In spite of the fact that a week, then it must be "some be Cannot

place, believe me. But cheer up in the morning paper a statement with this much greater than appears upon the surface. The value of the coal content

of Chinese defendant brought up exports in themselves is far from being the only consideration. In going on, and there is something this morning before Mr. R. O. we're getting through the sum- by a medical specialist that coffee for obstructing the mer, even if the summer is also is remarkably bad for the nerves. the ordinary way British exports consis: mainly of manufactured to the point implied in the sum Hutchison

And it's It has much the same effect on articles whose bulk, in proportion to their value, is small compared moning of the Allied military pavement, in Queen's Road. only getting through us. with that of the food and raw materials that constitute the greater leaders to the Conference. When had a stove on the pavement strange how soon we forget per- them as a cockroach on a banana, part of our imports. Accordingly, our shipping would normally it cordes to talking about the ready to be delivered to Gorem spiration, prickly beat. Using or fantan on your money at have only a small portion of its space occupied on the outward carrying out of the Treaty, the ment House, he was fined $2.cockroaches, squitoes, and all the Macao. As I finished my breakfast voyage, with the natural result of high freights to make the two Germans appear to be very sane. The defendant's story did not cut rest of it. Wait till winter comes with one more cup of the forbidden voyages profitable. At this point our coal exports come to the reasonable-minded people. They any ice with the Magistrate. round-then you'll be able to joke drink, I thought what a tremend- rescue, by helping to fill our outward-going vessels, with the result are very glib with their promises. Asked Mr. Hutchison of Inspect about the discomforts of the sous lot of coffee must be consum- of lower freight charges and consequer cheapening of food for our though. When the time for doing orKent "Anything known about er. Tisn't much of a joke now.ed in Hongkong.

though: is it?

WILT THOU? consumers and raw materials for our manufacturers. But the short- anything comes, they wriggle and him?," to which the reply was- age that has recently come about in the coal output bas fallen temporise and evade the points "He has, not been fined since

What an example the Wilts. I've heard many people enquir-Regiment have shown our local mainly upon the export trade Sir Leo Chiozza Money has co-at issue. But the patience of the October last year." Appatently puted that in the aggregate the exports of coal coke and manufactur-Allies has its limits, and Germany he has become good since ing what it is that is being con-people by their commemoration ed foel have fallen from 97,718,000 tons in 1913 to 50,457.000 tons in will soon learn that she cannot Government House has been structed off the foreshore nesrof the Battle of Trones Wood.)

giving him orders for making the railway station. Well, it's They have not forgotten deeds 1919. In April of this year our coal exports fell to 1,996,000 tons, as trifle with her victors. compared with 2,563,000 tons in April. 1919, and 6,831,000 tons in

concrete pier, which is being buds that bave made history. Bravo] to accommodate junks discharg-Wilts! There April 1913. Moreover, the coal that is now being sold is admitted WORK FOR THE LEAGUE.

are BO Wonts to be much inferior in quality to what was produced before It is a most gratifying sign of This morning, a Chinese was ing cargo for railway tranship among you. the war. Every householder knows how great this deterioration has the times that the Council of the brought up before Mr. R. O.ment. The need of such a place been in domestic coal, and the fall in the power value of industrial League of Nations is taking up Hutchison and charged with false has long been felt, and now the WINSTON AND THE DIGGER. coal is estimated officially at no less than 20 per cent. Unless, there the dispute between Finland and pretences. The prosecuting in railway has decided to get on Early in 1917, I was passing fore, the outpat can be largely and speedily increased the choice Sweden regarding the sovereignty spector said that the complainant with the work. But when are we the entrance to the House seems to lie between a cutting down of the supply for use at Home of the Aaland Islands, and that was a merchant in Des Voeux to get a newer and better public of Commons,

од Winston with disastrous results upon industrial efficiency and a still the Swedish and Finnish repre- Road. Yesterday morning a pier? Search me!

Churchill, partly

Bük and 'further curtailment of coal experts. The shortage at Home is so sentatives have promised that no registered letter was received

hatted, walked leisurely acutely felt that various Chambers of Commerce sad similar bodies action shall be taken meantime to from Canton, informing bim that

That's all for this week. It's through the gates. A policemen have been passing resolutions urging that the Government should aggravate the situation. If the a man called Lung Sing would been hard work churning out saluted hiru. There was nothing further restrict or even altogether prohibit the exportation of coal League can straighten out this call for payment of $500 against these few lines. Wonder how remarkable about that. But I was a policy which, in the long run, would no less gravely imperil the difficult problem, it will not only goods already delivered to the those newspaper chaps manage struck dumb with astonishment country's economic prosperity. Never before was the supremacy of be a feather in its cap, but it will complainant. As a matter of fact, to keep on scribbling week in when I saw an Australian soldier King Coal" in the industrial world so clearly evident. Fortunate-show the way to the settlement the firm had to pay the person and weak out, summer and come to the salute, Even Winston is the latest returns shows welcome signs of an upward tendency of other thorny issues. The League that wrote the letter $2,000, and winter? Confound the prickly could scarcely appreciate the in the coal output, encouraging the hope that, after all, no such has been subjected to a deal of on the appearance of the defend heat! Another mosquito bite, fact for a moment, for he desperate choice of alternatives. may be necessary. For the week scorn and ridicule by the incurable ant, who said he was Lung Sing,

too! Boy-one place whisky hesitated before he responded. I ending April 24 the total coal output rose to 4,986,666 tons, which is pessimists of many countries, but which the Police afterwards found soda; plenty colo! Oo! That's bare wondered since if he was the best figure for any week in the last twelve months. This, there can be no disputing the out was not his came, the com- saved my life! however, is still far short of the national requirements, for we need point that if world peace is to be plainant's suspicions were nearly 6,000,000 tons a week to give us back our pre-war standard established we must have some arcused and he sent for the of production.

auch international body as this Police. The bill form appeared to Possibly the situation may be alleviated by the discovery of to deal with difficult questions as be genuine, and was probably: methods of utilizing the mountains of waste coal dust that have they arise. All the signatories of picked up in Canton, but the been accumulating at all the collieries.. There has lately been the Versailles Peace Treaty signature was forged. The In- reported an invention which promises to make allcoal dust, anthra-(which means the principalspector informed Mr. Hutchison

The French Cabinet has ap cite waste, all kinds of peat and lignite and, indeed, any waste product countries of Europe, and Japan as that he (the Magistrate) could proved the text of a Bill which having calorific value into an admirable coal substitute for domestic well) have subscribed to the not try the case, as it was over authorises civil servants to form or industrial purposes. The new product is called "laminated coal League ideal. If they are true $50 in value. Mr. Hutchison-said" professional groups with ex- because it is manufactured by building up the block by successive to their word, they can maintain the charge sheet mentioned tensive civil rights, but the ex- layers, thus imitating the natural process of coal formation. It is world concord; and when we see "false pretence", but it appeared istence of associations in the form anticipated that this "laminated coal which, it is claimed, has cases like that of the Aaland Is-to him that it was really forgery. of trades unions or the adhesion an even greater heat value than natural coal-can be produced so lands being taken up, we feel At any rate he would have, to of such civil servants' associations as to be placed on the market at 10 shillings a ton less than ordinary hopeful for the eventual success look up the Ordinance. The case to the General Confederation of coal and still allow a handsome profit to the collieries.

of the movement.

was adjourned.

Labour will be prohibited.

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COLLOQUIAL COMMENTS UN

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SOCIAL DISTINCTIONS OUT EAST. (By Natives of New York, Sydney and London.)

The New Yorker:—You sure have got some bouebrads in this little old city. I guess there'd be something doing in New York

do, the castaways grow sleek and well- nourished. Time passed, and they dis- carded the

ragged garments of civilisation and made their clothes from the skins of animals. Beards grew on the men, and their bodies became pigmented through the Sun and weather. Long acquired manners dropped from them 2.9 primitive nature asserted itself. Then the two sailors cast cast covetous ayes the woman, and госте and more they eyed each other and the cultured man with a suspicion of sinister designs. One day one

of the sailors met the woman alone and endeavoured to em- brace her. The other sailor, who bad planned to, claim ber for himself, came along at that moment and attacked the other with bestial rage and jealousy. From a distance the cultured man, who had anticipated this, watched the stronger man kill the other with his hands. For many days he had surreptitious- ly sharpened their only knife on a stone, for he was the cook to the little community, and he had waited patiently for whas he knew was inevitable. With the stealth of a wild animal he crept behind the victor, who was about to claim his prize, and pinnged the knife into his. back. Then the man of culture and intelligence kept, the woman for himself. And went to him willingly,

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