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TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1920.

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DAY BY DAY.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

THE DAVIS CUP.

NO LAWS, HOWEVER 'STRING= So many residents of Hongkong ENT, CAN MAKE THE IDLE IN- being keen devotees of lawn DUSTRIOUS, THE THRIFTLESS tennis there is great interest PROVIDENT, OR THE DRUNKEN naturally being" taken in the SOBER-Sama! Smiles. progress of the play at Homa to

AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

Some remarkable stories of

there is lacking in him that spirit which we find in the best. chauffeurs in England. There the car is the chauffeur's god- dess, for he knows no other, He (BY "AJAX.")

can tell to an ounce how much The appointment of Sir Mat Petrol she will take to go from Darby Day successes reach hare thow Nathan to the Governor-

Land's End to John O'Groats, and from many unexpected quarters. ship of Queensland has pleased how many thousand miles can be A Chinese studens at Geners decide which country shall be A number of boats that anchor-as all immensely. When Sirot out of the tyre, and what hills University named Taing, who the holder for the year of the ed outside yesterday owing to the Matthew came here he soon can be climbed on "top" That navar saw a horse race, won £100 mach coveted Dasis Cup. By the bad weather came into port this arrived at the conclusion that spirit has not come to the Hang-on Spion Kop by employing a cable nows just to band England morning

Hongkong was not place that it og chauffeur. What else could simple Oriental method. is now ont of the running, though

was cracked up to be. He was a be expected? In many cases the wrote the names of all the Derbe not before her representa-

strenuous man-a man who becoolie of yesterday is the motor starters on slips of paper. and tives put up B fine ight. The apparatus of the now lieved at getting at the bottom of driver of to-day in Hongkong, backed the first that he picked To bave been drawn against light at Swashway Beacon things. The Public Health How many tales could be told of out of a hat. He looks on horsa America was no encouragement entrance to Wangmood went out Ordinance itself brought him a bow in the "witching hour of the racing as lottery, and intends and England has already lost of order last night. A fired light crop of worries, and on top night cars steal forth laden with employing the same mothod for by going down in three is now being exhibited tem-of that in 1906 the Obser- a band of coolies gathered from other races.

of her fre matches against porarily. that country-two singles and one doubles. It was in the doubles that England came

When the United States Ship- to a victory, Parke and pins Board's West Ira came into Kingscote losing to Tilden and port this morning from Manila Dre stowaways were found on Johnston in a match that went

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1920.

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let a typhoon swoop on the becoming motor drivers with the Colony as a wolf swoops on the least possible exertion-not At the Canadian Exhibition unsuspecting fold, and he WAS to say expense, the expense which opened at the Agricultural promptly plagued to wads in and being borne by the owner of the Hall, Islington, recently was a chart. The typhoon burst upon wipe the Obervatory off the motor car, who settles his much competition to select the most swollen tyre and gasolene bill at perfect fool. "The matter with ing having been issued from the many bent mudguards, leaking schame is reported to have said. two sets to one. The games work

Observatory until it was too late radiators and broken

"is their footwear and nor their glasses ont at 28 to 23-no great margin Owing to the Loongsang not to be of any practical use. Those could, like Hamlet's ghost, "a tale feet. I see no reason why w to win by.

would now having arrived this morning from who came to the city early in unfold". Yes, for ways that are should not find an English woman seem that the main Sght Manila, the Empress of Japan the morning saw the harbour, as dark commend me to a Chinese as the prizewinner."

"What is for the Cup will be between did not sail as advertised.

a perfect foot?" he was asked. America and Australasia, and it 3.s. Loongsang has passengers on junks, while

The usual, dolted with sampans and motorcar driver,

the river bosts:

A medium size five foot," he is interesting to recall ths: board for the Empress boat. I lay alongside the wharves, and the

replied, should measure it for the four years in which the arriving to-day the Empresa of at their buoys or alongside the of Australasia won it in 1914. held the event of the Loongsang not liners and warships were moored

The Chiness chauffeur's method inches round at the broadest part, war prevented international play, Japan will leave here to-morrow. Kowloon wharves. Suddenly the and dashes.

driving is in

and 58 inches at waist. The He puts his foot length will be in proportion." The Won it again last year..

typhoon gun roared, out its hard on the accellerator, makes Taist of the foot, it should be America held it in 1913 and the

ominous warning, and almost the car leap likes live thing. explained, is that part of the foot cup has not been in Britain's hands Five cement factories are soon simultaneously the storm broke. draws up with both breaks hard immediately below the instep since 1912. There have been to be established by Chinese mer-Junts and sampans were racing on six inches, and preferably two, where the perfect shoe should any laments that England-un-chants so that the natives will be as fast as human effort could drive takes the corners with a terrible grip the perfect foor The The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $30-has thus had to give pride of foreigners. These factories will Bay. It was a veritable case of opinion.

doubtedly the burge of lawn tennisbetter able to compete with them for the shelter at Causeway sweep that is what in Ah Ki's measurement over the highes per annum. (Payable in Advance)

constitutea correct part of the instep should be shi The rate per quarter and per niensem, proportional. Subscrip- place for so many years to other no doubt, be a boon to the poor every man for himself.

Every-driving. A proposal, I am told,! tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a

and bopes

who could be employed 23 thing that lay between the was put forward sometime ago to hill month.

entertained that 1920 would labourers. It is thought that the distressed craft and the haven at Set all drivers 10 pass a A Government official who is The "Hongkong Telegraph "is delivered free when the addressee witness the winning back of the Government too, will be bene- Causeway Bay was relentlessly mechanical test. but the idea

conversant with the agricultural is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies opby. But once again we have filled, since it will be able to ent

did would either delivered at their residences without any extra charge.

position in its relation to food bad to give way to better men obtain a good revenue through be On copies

WAS allowed not only in the master of this cup/ the taxes received from the selves in the attempt. Like mechanical test for all drivers we will be a surplus from the last

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te drift. sant by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.

says: While the wheat acreage the absence of such but also in the honours of lawn

factories.-Canton Tins. Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.

is much less than last year, there a defeated and demoralised army Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a world champion, either lady pr tennis as a whole. Britain has no

they swept before the gals re-see the repair shops filled to over-home-grown wheat crop, but no fixed period will be continued until countermanded.

vers exciting gardless of anything but their dowing every day, and owners of one seems to know quite whas it The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will been, although Britishers did finish in

result Teunis League own safety. The

was cas suffering consequently. Ab will amount to. So uncertain is belivered to subscribers by the Dairy Farm Company. Ltd. rounds of the recent competitions. Cricket Club and the t....derless and absolutely beyond Pays ali repair bills. Then why the Government Wheat Commis- figure prominently in the closing match between the Hongkong terrible. Battered hulks, rud-Ki does not worry: his master the position that the members of Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.

Whether Australasia will be on Saturday. So even was the control, were dashed against theory? "Old car no proper cansion can give no offelal figures able to hold its end up against the play that the teams reached 49 sea wall and smashed to match catchee new car"- that is the and are no: prepared to commit wonderful play of the Americans games all, and the match was wood. The bigger vessels slo spirit that animates him through themselves to any specific estim remains to be seen. The lesson in thus decided on the very last fared badly. The British sloop out his engagement. Still, I beat all this is that sport brings out and game, which was

won or the Phoenix was driven ashore and the Automobile Association bas as a whole. What makes the out- ates regarding the wheat situation develops the spirit of give-and-Cricket Clab. The teams agreed wrecked a

this matter in hand. the Fonde, a

look the more serious for us, and take and can be made a valuable beforehand that this match should French destroyer. In that typ international eszet.

permanently so, is the fact that count as two matches, it being hoon, it will be remebered, the

Those who did not see

many Oriental countries are be THE NORTHERN SITUATION. -

impossible to play home-and then Bishop of Victoria lost his!

coming regular wheat consumers away ties within the limits of life.

Quaints" during their flying visitbo never ate The news of

to the Colony missed a very real Failure of rice crops has been the the fighting the season.

it before. in North China would seem

treat. These people are No. main reason, and the indications to show Tuan Chi-jui is no

Sir Matthew Nathan, when be artistes, well-known as Home, are that, having once acquired going to have the easy task that ber of bad coins, of which he was to do a good deal of "overtime"

For the transference of a C was Governor of Hongkong, had and they are to open a season at the taste for wheat, they will go was at one time predicted for in possession, a Chinese on Sun- The cause of that was not so December. It was like old times

the London Coliseum next on consuming it. Jurymen summoned to the Criminal Sessions yesterday were

him, and it might just be that day went to a stall at the Saikok much the fact that the work was

official, who was so stub

to have R. B. Salisbury and subject to a deal of delay and annoyance through the fact that bornly insistent on the punish-market and profered one of them there to be done but that Sir Dorothy James with us agaio. because of a bit of bungling by the Police officials, the prisonement of one of his personal pagment of a quantity of Matthew had had the misfortune Best Scovell, the delightful whose venerable figure is missing Bishop Tuttle. of St. Louis, who were to be tried in the Puisne Judge's Court were not present when the time for the opening of the Cour: arrived. All the jurors sponsible for precipitating his enemies and who was mainly re

he had ordered. Three to see it. Other Governors before tenor, is no stranger bere, either. from this year's assembly of the times be took ou: one of summoned for the Sessions bad gathered in the Chief Justice's!

him passed it by. They knew He

be remembered Lambeth Conference, must now Court, and the arrangement was that when the balloting here was/country into another civil was each time the hawker, with growleres that would shut ther1915-then under the stage pime the world. Yet he is only 83 the counterfeit coins, and

things had to be doce, bui baving as being with The Quaints in be the doyen of all the Bishops in completed, the jarymien nos required in that Court were to proceed autocratic action. I would seemEventually, when suspicion had Promptly closed them tight when-of E. Lane Mott. Like the Chief-no great age for a Bishop, ing suspicion. handed it back. when the time came, no prisoners had made their appearance, and three seperate armies operating STOWD to certainty, the man was tha: looked like hard work. Sir of duty during the war, and as a of

ever they came near anything Quaint, he responded to the call but too great an age to permit thus it was that the Second Court's business had to be postponed agains: him and that he fears arrested and handed over to the Matthew Nathan, having been soldier, of course, he bad to use this time.

his crossing the Atlantic patil the afternoon. Now when a man receives a juror's summons being attacked on three sides. It Police. It was disclosed that at cast in a different mould, opened his correct name, which he has episcopate of

He completes an he likes to know as soon as possible whether his services will be is not possible for us to get a purchase, he had a number shut them, and he had to take up on the stage. I hope that when in May 1867, when just over 20 58 years this required. But in this instance. after wasting a deal of time in the clear idea of the pros and cons of good copper cents in his pocket the burden. Sir Matthew believed the Company returns it will play years of age. Dr. Daniel Tuttle, bis his eyes when others would have now decided to retain even when month, having been consecrated, morning, the jurymen had to return again ister in the day before of the dispute that has led to this which were sufficient to pay for in being on hand all the time, and every night to packed houses, who, as presiding Bishop" of being able to learn if they were needed. Mr. Justice Wood nightly renewal of fighting, but made a public statement on the matter, showing that the fault was

the price of the fish. This fact not with the law officers of the Crown but with the Police Depart tealing what we have we have conclusively proved his cupidity apparently the only thing he which is only what it deserves. the American Episcopal Church, . men: Somebody must have been remiss in his duties that such a

been forced to the judgment and Mr. R. O. Hutchison, at the possessed of the power to be in regretted was that he was not

is virtually the Protestant Pri- thing could happen, for surely it is fairly general knowledge nothing more nor less than a man him to three months hard labour. some time. It is a fraism that what a delightful surprise "The Anglican Conference of 1903, and

that thia Tuso Chi-jui 15 amongst the Police when the Sessions come along that the prison who wanted all his own way, was

mate of the United States, cama Police Court today, sentenced about six places at one and the Talking of matters theatrical, over to England for the Fan- are required before business can begin. Whoever was at fault in intolerant of any other opinion this instance now knows that he caused considerable annoyance 19 and hastened to use the military

Sir Matthew was the best Black Cats were to those who on that occasion preached at St. men who have business to look after and also caused the Puishe forces controlled by his friends in chun without a ticket, money or

Found in the train, from Sum- Governor we have ever had.

heard them at Kowloon on Satur-Paul's Cathedral. He is so in- Judge to cast reflections on the working of the Police Department. the hope that he would emerge as luggage. a Chinese was to-day

day! It isn't an easy matter to teresting personality, and his Jury service is one of these necessary things. Without it. the dictator of the country. We hope brought before Mr. S.L. Smith on

hold the attention of an audience presence at the Lambeth Con- law cannot be properly administered. It is on occasion annoying to see that effort fail and fail the charge of non-pagman; of bis persons have been aware of the clever folk kept everybody inter-been particularly acceptable at Latil a few weeks ago very few at an open-air show, but these ference this summer would have to business men to be called away from their offices to decide whether a man is or is not guilty of an offence alleged against him,quickly and we also hope to see fare. Lospector Moore stated existence in our midst of a Chinese ested the whole time. I under- this juncture in Anglo-American but if people want law and order maintained in the Colony, they whom Tuan is the leader) robbed by the prisoner

all reactionary militarists (of) that no attempt W39 made Young Women's Christian As-stand, "The Black Cats are relations. must help to see that justice is done. They have their part to play of their power to muclt the meat, and he had no reason to institution, and is now pressed concern, where they gained con- at conceal-sociation. It is quite a young known at Home as a professional just as the law officers of the Crown and the Police bare, Some Government of further funds. It dispute the statemen

praíse of the for better accommodation. Its derable times, in their irritation at being called for service, jurymen are apiis high time that China was prisoner that the train ran off present membership is about 160, engagements. The whirligigs of Without parallel in the history of

pavilion to overlook that aspect of affairs. Le: the juryman cultivate the ridded of the incubus of these with him whilst he was indulging and there is no doubt that the Fate have brought two or three the High Court of Justice. The habit of thinking that he is assisting to keep down crime; then per petty martinets. haps he will view the summons to serve in a rather different light.

in "forty winks" in one of the Association can do much good of them to Hongkong on military total number of legal cases of But whilst, rightly viewed. jury service is a privilege as well as a TURKEY SQUEALS.

carriages. Defendant told the along educational lines. There service, and with a few more every description down for hear rasponsibility, it goes without saying that it ought to be made as

Magistrate that out of a deep is an ever-increasing number of members recruited locally the ing at the Summer Sessions, little irksome as possible. No man who gives his service to the

Turkey does not seem to be sleep he was awakened to con- Chinese women and girls travell-combination has been re-formed, which bave opened, is 2,780, and Colony in this was ought to be kept waiting about the Court longer taking to the Treaty very kindis.sciousness to find himself in ing alone through the Colony, and Lena" and "Tedo" are really no fewer than 1,576 of these (or than is absolutely necessary. If he is wanted, then let the arrange is all she knows bow.

In fact she is kicking against& place where he know ments be such that he can discharge his duty without delay and Allies have stood unmistakably be eternally grateful to the at best are not suitable places Let's hope they give us more the lowly number of 381 crass for no there is no accommodation out-quite clever, whilst the others all 56 per cent) are divorce cases. But the friends or relatives and he would side of the Chinese hotels, which have claims to considerable skill. The figures look even not be compelled to waste valuable time doing nothing. In this firm, as can be seen by the text

startling when compared with connection, the procedure followed here in Hongkong is capable of of their reply to Tarkey's latest would help him to return there. Institute fulfils the need for Earowy don't they "log up" as The popularity of divorce has

"Great Man if his worship for women. The Helens May satertainments in the future. But

the similar Sessions of 1914. improvement, as we shall show in a moment or two, and we hope Note. When they point out that The prisoner was successful in pean women, and it is hoped that per black cats-tails, ears, whis- that sufficient notice will be taken of these remarks in the proper Turkey, by her intervention, pro-his petition. He was remanded some generous Christian Chineseters and all? The effect would be thus increased more than four quarter to bring about a much-needed reform.

The custom at the local Criminal Sessions is, before any of the longed the conflict for two years, for a period of 24 hours while will provide some such accom- much more striking, and think of fold in six years! And without waiting jurors are called, first to disp se of cases in which prisoners and caused the loss of millions of Police benevolence would be modation for the young Chinese the fun they could create in such the aid of Divorce Reform Acts, plead guilty. If there are, say, two or three such cases, the facts millions of money they only state passage beck.

lives and the spending of exerted towards getting him a

too. A great change, too, has have to be briefly stated and judgment passed, all of which takes up the bars truth-though it is a

come over the attitude of public deal of time, during which the waiting jurymen sit impatiently truth that must ever be a black

opinion towards divorced persons. twiddling their thombs and wondering when they may get to know

One remembers very well the if they are needed. This contrasts with the practice at Home, mark in Turkey's history. The

LONDON SUPERSITIONS.

fory of the Victorian daya against where all undefended and guilty" cases are left over to be dealt recalling of the many atrocities sented to leave Constantinople Nellie Elliott was appointed two

men like Dilke and Parnell It with at the end of the list, the consequence being much saving of committed by the Turks as untouched, save to make the years ago by the National Com sermon at St. Paul's recently England is becoming increas

Dean Inge in his morning doesn't necessarily follow that * time not only to jurymen but to lawyers and others attending the unfitness to rule over other people No-one can really blame Turkey Secretary to help forward the and superstitios. One cannot use the current word. Nothing le evidence of Turkey's general Straits of international character. mittee of the Y.W.CA. as Foreign ridiculed some popular fancies ingly immoral or non-moral, to Court At yesterday's Sessions, although the Court opened at 10 o'clock, it was well past 10.30 before any business transpired in only-a-just-reminder of the feet for trying to get all she can, but plans for a Chinese T.W.C.A. in Live in London," he said.with more irritating to a Scot in Eng which jurymen were concerned. And we have known occasions that by allowing Turkey to one must not be inclined to Hongkong.

out observing the extraordinary land than the priestly pictures of When even more time than this has been needlessly wasted. It is retain Constantinople the Allies accept too implicitly all she Annoying enough for a big proportion of the jurors to be summoned ments in plenty could be found advised in liberal proportions for

bave been quite lenient. Argu-whines

prevalence of childish super- the terrible evils that will follow about. Medicine is

stitions about numbers, days of if the English Divorce Laws are to Court and then not be wanted at all. But that is inevitable. It to justify European Powers insist- chronic cases, and Turkey has one that has been before the not the kind of person to send Scots laws of divorce; for that's The question of chauffeurs is the week, and so forth. God is asimilated to the more human Mahundred times worse for both the wanted and the unwanted intymen to be kept hanging about while "guilty" cases are disposing that Turkey should be ejected such a malady that she needs a public ere now, and this much is some dire calamity for dining one all-divorce reform here means. d of. It should be an easy matter to readjust things so as to avoid from Europe once and for all, but purging. To cut down the certainly true, that while "John of 13, or for walking under a But the divorce boom is another uch a possibility. We hope that will be done before another religious feelings they have con- cure.

in consideration of strong medivine would be to deuy Chinaman can drive a car, sud ladder, or for getting married in pointer of the great enrgingster

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