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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1920.

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NOTES & COMMENTS.

TENNIS LEAGUES.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST

DAY BY DAY.

TRUE DIGNITY. IS ALWAYS Excepting for the customary/SIMPLE- AND PERHAPS TRUE matches between the Champions GENIUS, OF THE HIGHEST CLASS and "The Rest" of each Division,

interest in Hongkong League AT LEAST, IS ALWAYS HUMBLE.

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CRUELTY TO SERVANTS.

MISTRESS FINED $300.

AVIATION NOTES.

[BY "METEORITE")

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,

If any proof is required as to The race for, the Wingfield Before Mr N. L. Smith at the the fact that aviation under Sculls, which was revived this Magistracy yesterday afternoon a favourable circumstances can be year, is one of the most import tannis has come to an end for

Chinese woman living at No made to yiekt handsome profits ant events in the amateur rowing another year. The Chinese Re-

Gage Street, was charged with as for its operators, it will have been world, but has hitherto attrrated creation Club has again won, the

Owing to thera being

saulting ber two servant girls, the tangibly furnished in the report singularly little public attention. honours in the First Division, quorum of members present, the elder of whom is fifteen years of of the United States Postmaster These sculls were presented_in General which, in the form of a brief 1830 to the best amataur sculler after coming perilously near to Sanitary Board meeting called losing whilst the Civil Service for yesterday afternoon could not Mr Leo d'Almads, appeared for the shows that during the past year prepared to row on August 10-

Mr F. C. Jenkin, instructed by messagecabled through by Reuter, on the Thames, provided be was are deserved Champions in the be held.

defence and pleaded not guilty. American airpostmen Second Division. It has been a

carried every year at half-flood tide from mast interesting season, though

Before the prosecution called 538,734 lbs. of mail over a mile-Westminster to Putney against Many altor the small number of fixtures in the

evidence Mr Jenkin sail his delence age of 495,584, and that a saving all challengers.

been affected A special meeting of theas to the burns on the elder girl bas latter Division (each team had

over the ations have since been made in to only play six matches) hardly Sanitary Board is to be held to would be that his client was mere-ordinary carriage by train of the conditions of the race, which gave bad beginners a chance of morrow for the purpose of con-ly carrying out an ordinary custom early £12,600. The amount of is now open to all British amateur recovery, Still that could possidering certain applications held among the Chinese of attempting time and money saved justifies an scollar, confers on the winner be avoided. as one team which lover from yesterday's meeting, atto cure a large number of boils the extension of the services that are the championship of the Thamer, originally entered for this which there was no quorum,

Division went into the "A" Class whilst another dropped out altogether. It may interest local tennis players to know that they

rather different basis what.

"Religion."—We advise yon to

girl was sudering from by the now in operation. Yankee "pash" and is usually rowed about mid- process of burning. Tefendant is nothing if it is not remarkabla July from Putney to Mortlake. might have exceeded what for the far-reaching results it To the trophy founded by the reasonably necessary for that pur-aime at, and a striking instance late Mr. Wingfield there bas have a League in Shanghai, but lay your complaint before the pose and on that basis cals was she is given in the report just cabled been added during recent years prepared to plead guilty. He Mr through that the much-bruited Achampionship badge," which management of the Theatre and Jenkin) understood that the Cap New York San Francisco serial is really a small replica of the that the matches are played on the Police authorites, by whom taim Superintendent of Police and mail service has now come into Diamond Scalls at Henley, they are here. Judging from it will no doubt be considered Inspector Parist, who was in charge being. Three monoplanes con- reports of recent ties which we and most likely have the effect of the case, were prepared to ac-structed entirely of metal to en-

Lord Cozens-Hardy, is describ- of preventing the screening of have seen in the Northern papers.such pictures in future. Your rept such a ples if the maximum aure serviceability in the long tripled in one of his obituary notices a leam is composed of five pairs, letter is too personal for public these exeumstances the arrept. continental aerial mail, have left of his day upon the Bench. He fine of $20 were imposed. Under involved, carrying the firet transas having been the plainest maa each of which meets one opposing ation. pair, with whom it plays the

ance of the plea and the impesation New York for San Francisco to would not have attained this pre- best of five ordinary sets. The

of the fine his client was willing to out the permanent route for aminence in the days of Brong- match result appears to be décid-

pay adequate compensation to the the air mail, which will probably ham, who is lined in vitid ed, no; on the number of games Last week's health return children and was agreeable that begin in September.

fashion by John Lothrop Motley-- in one of his letters. "There

ICE CREAM & CUT FRUIT.

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as in Hongkong, but on the shows eight cases of eaterie (four they would be looked after here- number of matches (not sets) woo. intall, of which three were after by the Pe Leung Kuk. While the British businessmen certainly never was R great That is rather a cumbersome British, one Polish and the rest I his Worship approved of the Colony fume and fret overstatesman and author," wrote method for League games, and Chinese; three fatal cases of of the suggestion the children the non-arrival of the mails that Motley in 1858, "who so irresis- we think the Hongkong idea far plague (all Cainese) and one fatal would receive compensation surb have been held up by the dispute libly suggests the man who does better. Five separate matches of accurrence of cerebro-spinal as they might otherwise not get. over costa between the Canadian the comic business at a small five sets each makes long lever (a Chinesel, There were

Mr Smith remarked that the Government and the C. P. O. S. theatre as Brougham. You are afternoon, besides occupying five also three Chinese deaths from charge was serious.

their American prototypes can compelled to laugh when you courts all the time. Here in influenza.

M Jenkin agreed but he merely now indulge in pleasant anticip 100 bim 85 much 23 at Hongkong only three courts are

mentioned the above facts to hisations of the big saving of time Keeley or Warren. Yet there engaged, and the play is varied

Warship.

that will be effected in the car.is absolutely nothing comic in his for each pair by the fact that they

Mr Smith said he wanted to bearriage of their mails when they mind. On the contrary, he is Yesterday afternoon H. E. Sir all meet three different couples.

Reginald Stabbs and Lady Stubbs,

are dispatched from New York always sarnest, vigorous, and im accompanied by Mrs. Gompert intendent of the Government Civil route. A local resident with deep his nose.

Dr. Y. X. To. assistant Super-over the transcontinental serial|pressive; but there is no resisting, It is not merely the visited the Tong Wah Hospital Hospital, stated that the elder girl appreciation of the time saving configuration of that wonderful They were welcomed by the Hon. We notice in the Shanghai Mr. Lan Chu-pak, the Hon. Mr. had a contused wound on the left possibilities of the plane, suggests feature which surprises me, but papers a report of a number of Ho Fook, the Hon. Mr. E. Ride of her head, and a lacerated an aerial service between Sing-its mobility. It has the litbeness prosecutions of vendors of fruit Hallifax and the Directors, and "und on the left cheek, near the apore and Hongkong as the sold and almost the length of the and ice cream. Two fruiterers were conducted round all the. Her chest and the upper tion for the Home mail relapses, elephant's proboscis, and I have were fined $3 each for selling cowards of the Hospital.

part of the abdomen were covered [It is left to future pioneers to take no doub; he can pick up pins and with brusses and buras. melons. There were the typically

There up the suggestion. which is scratch his back with it as easily Chinese excuses, of course, one

were many bruises on both arme, worthy of notice from the fact 5s he could take a pinch of snuff. man saying that a melon hed

from the shoulders to the hands. that it is proposed by the Home He is always twisting it about in fallen to the ground, damaging it,

The report of a serious armed The leis elbow joint was badky Postal authorities to send Far quite a fabulous manner.” robbery and attempted murder bruised and swollen. The right Eastero so he had to cut the fruit to save has been received by the Police groin was bruised and there were aeroplane to Marseilles where mail. overland by the rest of it. The other said a

from Wong Nai Woo. Four men several small wounds on the left they will be received by the Blue

Whatever may be the views of Housing seems almost an eternal topis in Hongkong, burcustomer insisted

buying broke into a matshed in the loin. part of a melon. although a very great deal has been written about it there is still only

Both legs, from the hips to Funnel or the P. and O. bosts the War Office on the subject, $0 rillage, and beld up the Lccupant the feet. were DD option for another little point that we would like to bring to better public there was

badly wounded whichever vessel happens to be one Irish regiment had its pipers who was compelled to hand over especially the outer side of the left there. A scheme for the con- in 1917. This was a battalion of notice. Perhaps the best way of doing it is to tell a story of facts, him but to slice it up. In February of this year a certain tenant in Kowloon was paying harm of selling sliced melon was the key of his box The alarm thigh and knee. The whole back nection of Egypt and India by an London Irish who formed part of

which he raised led to his being was covered with bruises.

a Territorial division in Palestine. for bis 1st $110 inclusive. That was the limit of his monthlysumably the idea is that disease who inflicted numerous superfici-bad bruises of various sizes all over mittee on Civil Aviation

no: explained in Court: pre-stabbed by one of the robbers, De. To aid that the other girlsideration by the Advisory Com- Just before our second dissetrons obligation, the landlord paying taxes. In March, the year's lease)

attack on Gaza & concert was expired and, in granting a new lease, the landlord informed the might be spread by flies settlingal wounds on various parts of his the body. There were po burne en stretch of the imagination is organised by the camp command- tebant that the rental would be $120 exclusive of taxes.

on the juicy portions." In the As most

needed to realise that with thesean of Dir-el-Belah, which was people are aware, the assessment taxes here are 13 per cent. of the cases against ice cream vendors person. The escape was effected her.

unmolested, and on the arrival Mr Smith To your opinion various sections, an All Red" then our advanced base on the net rental, so the landlord, instead of getting for himself 697.30 as it was stated that some of the of the Police, the injured man were the children illtreated in route could be established which coast within sight of Gezs. The

stuff found was unfr for human -ha-dia when the inclusive rent of $319 was charged, pocketed thri total $130. saddling the tenant with the rates in addition. The consumption. it being further as removed to the Government such a zer a to cause the would produce beneficial results principal feature of the concert

Civil Hospital.

unnecessary suffering and to be for the business of the Colony. was the performance of the landlord's monthly gain was therefore, $22.70. Apart altogether from explained that at the price it was.

London Irish pipers. The Irish injurious to their healib? what may thus be considered a pretty good increase for the tenant sold it could not possibly be pure,

pipes differ materially from the D: To: No. to bear, the tenant has now been further penalised because of the re- whilst so far from sterilising

Lieutenants Masiero and Far-more familiar Scottish form of Josei Francisco da Roza. & Mr Smith: All the injuries are assessment which came into force as from July 1. The tenant, their freezers and other imple

arrived here curabl: None of them can be per memorable Rome Tokyo flight, their use was part of the policy rario. who completed the the instrument, and a revival of when first asked to pay $120, had to pay $12.70 as well in taxes,ments, the offenders were often Portuguese who because the assessment was still on the old figure of $97.30, but now found cleaning" these things yesterday from Australia by the mapest-Yes.

their of the Gaelic League in its early. with dirty tags. We wonder Victoria, he Gods that he has pay $15.50 in taxes Itbis being 13 per cent. of

Mr Jenkin: Did you find say will shortly raturu capacious

informed non-political dags. These London new net rental of $120), or a total monthly sum of $135.50. Thus it whether a keen eye is kept on Pocket book stolen by a thief trace of boils on the elder girl-pasive land. I am

by the local Italian Irish pipers gave a most artistic · will be seen that in something less than six months his rent charges this type of vendor here in Hong-whom he suspected was a Chinese No.

If you examize ber now you will Consul that they will proceed and enjoyable performance, which have increased by roughly 3 per cent. When the Government kong We can't recall any pro-employed as a coolie on one of told the public a little while back that it did not consider the secutions for offences of this kind, the boarding house launches. The find boils on her?--She might have direct to Singapore from Shang-was thoroughly appreciated by on the trip home. The the experts present. Even to an question of rent increases warranted any interference. did it knot though there must be any amount charge was brought against this oils now, but when examined bai

Colony is thus deprived of untrained ear there was a differ- of cases like this? There is nothing bypothetical about the case of impure ice cream hawked about man at the Police Court this ber she had Gode. given above; it is something that has actually happened.

the Colony, to say nothing of cut morning. and, in bis evidence. 1- burning by wick or by paper a the opportunity of welcoming once in tone from the Scottish It will be conceded by all who can read this story without Masfruit. These hawkers do a roar-Roza said that the prisoner show-usual process among Chinese for these intrepid aviators who, it pipes, but on that occasion it that the landlords who make their tenants responsible for rates and

ing trade amongst schoolboys ed a marked anxiety over his jerag boils?-Xof particularly for is stated, will essay another was difficult to appreciate the Sight from Rome to Tokyo via niceties of sound, as the pipes on boils "but for some kinds of in- སྐཟུར at the same time increase their own net receipts are letting in their here. Wouldn't it be in the public luggage.

launch to dammation

the Atlantic, over America, and had to compete with the roar of tepants for the burden of increased assessment. We have to admit sell occasionally, especially in another, the pocket book was

interest to analyse the stuff they transfer from that the Government's procedure of raising revenue by the present the hot season!

Is it customary among Chinese across the Pacific. The machines the surf on the beach and the extracted from his hip pocket. doctor doctors not educated they will use will be of 2,200 booming of heavy artillery in the method of assessment is one that creates a broad and generally equitable basis of taxation, because the burden is thus distributed

No eridence was forthcoming to abroad to apply this process.p. show that the prisoner had been Yes.

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over the entire population, but we cannot help having the know-THE PREMIER AND IRELAND. ledge also that when rents are raised the Government stands to

actually seen to steal the pocket If this process was applied there These loog-distance flights. The statement that Sir George gaio greater revenus. It is to the Government's direct benefit to

There appears to be a little rift book, which had not been recover-would be burns such as those you carried out as they are under Lloyd. Governor of Bombay, has see rents raised, although we do not wish to impute that that is the in the Coalition late, judging by ed and the case was accordingly saw on the elder girl-Not to such conditions that come with pioneer gone to Ootacamund in order to Government's desire. But facts are what they are, and have to be message to hand yesterday.

Some of the burna are undertakinga, are terribly ex-undergo a course of treatment looked at accordingly. When the landlord in the case quoted above The Premier

fresh. They are two or three days pensive. The Rome-Tokyo fight owing to his having been in is apparently

Fold. raised his own receipts be also raised the Government's revenue, suspected by some of his Unionist

cost £480,000, and there has been contact with a case of rabies will and the tenent has bad to bear both increases. The principle of colleagues of secret intrigue with

Venus Model." with The wound on the head of the great deal of criticism in the recall to recollection the tragic sssessment is good but in this case it is operating as a penalty solely the Sing Feiners, though to all Mabel Normand in the title role, older child was not necessarily the Rome prese over the expenditure, death of a great Governor General which, it is said, bas accomplish before the research of Pasteur had on the non-property owning class. At Home the fixing of rates is outward appearances he is sternly is another Goldwyn production result of ill-treatment-No

Was it the principal injury-led practically nothing. Until provided a remedy for persons.. an annual matter, whereas here the 13 per cent. is now a fixed setting his face against the which the Coronet now has on

Thes wound op the conditions LIS made charge, no matter what the Government's financial needs may be, demand for a Republic. In other show. It is a delightful charac-o

more who had been exposed to the risk According to the estimate of expenditure, a Home County words, these Unionists accuse terization of the versatile per-tight groin was equally serious, but favourable for aviation, such of this disease. This fourth Duke Council

Borough Council will fix the

the well-known it was also not necessarily the re-heavy operation costs are only of Richmond-who as Colonel rate charges Mr. Lloyd George of being double-sonality

to be expected.

Leanor, before he succeeded to at so much in the for the year, basing that rate on the then faced an allegation which has actress whose work in this pro-sait of ill-treatment.

If the elder girl fell from the known assessable value of the district it controls. Our Government been made against "the Welsh duction stamps her as a convinc-

the dukedom, stiained notoriety collects 13 per cent, every year on a rapidly rising assessable value, wizard" more than once.

Soling interpreter of bumorous cockloft on a wooden stool or some)-

by challenging and fighting the logs could she have. and one can be forgiven wondering at what point the Government comes talk of the possibility of "a situations. With one exception, wooden

Duke of York, a prince of the will consider the advisability of reducing its percentage. Landlorda grave split." At the time of the story is well-framed and it sustained some of the injuries? beaten her with little or no justifi- blood was Lord Lieutenant of cation. One day defendant told her Ireland from 1807 till 1813 with will possibly continue to extract increasing net rentals and tenanta writing, no news has come to reveals the cleverness of Miss Yes. A number of them.

The injuries on "the elder girl to go up to the cockloft to get a lamp, Sir Arthur Wellesley (the Duke will have to continue paying increased taxes. And meanwhile the hand as to how the Premier Normand as the girl of brains Government gives assurances that it is watching matters, but withal has dealt with his accusers at the whose design of a stunning bath-other than the principal ones are and because she could not reach it, of Wellington) as Chief Secretary gete more money. Quite a pretty circle, with the tenants of the promised debate on the Irishing suit saves her employer, a such as might have been got in the she pressed her down, put a stool for part of the time. He was Colony in the middle doing all the paying.

question. But we can foresee that man with oldfashioned business ordinary course of daily existence over her peek, sad broke her head afterwards Ambassador at Bros with a piece of firewood which she sels when his Duchess gave the Does not all this show that it is high time the Government Mr. Lloyd George will get out of ideas, from raio. The exception-Tea, Some of the minor ones.

The injuries on the other girl then used to beat ber all over the celebrated ball on the eve of the took some definite stand in favour of householders? It would seers the hole all right. He knows how mentioned was in the depicting that there is needed a complete revision of the whole system. Could to handle the House of Commons, of the employer as suffering from were not so severe ?-No. except body. When defendant wanted to Battle of Waterloo, which one of bind her she ran into the street and his daughters, Lady Louisa Tighe, it not be made compulsory for landlords to charge inclusive rentals, and what he doesn't know about a great shock when orders came those on the loin.

Her injuries were not necessarily the Police arrived. The other who lived till 1900, witnessed as a⠀ so that tenants would be guarded against such happenings as told righteous indignation isn't worth rushing in for the aforesaid bath- above? Householders would then know the limit of their monthly knowing. We can imagine him ing costume. This really is the result of in-treatment?-No. servant girl was also very often little child and used graphically

Inspector Davitt stated that be beaten..

to describe. The Duka :1818 obligation and landlords would have to pay the increased assess going down to the House and stretch on one's credulity. Never-

la imposing a fine of $500 Mr became Governor General of ment charges if they raised their rents. So much has been written getting off one of those character-theless, there is much in the had a witness who could testify to about the housing question that it is almost anathema to theistically Lloyd-Georgian speeches, picture to a make an instant the fact that defendant beat the Smith asked sub-inspector Wills Canada, where he died in the fol majority of folk. They are tired of talking about it and seem to ending in a peroration calculated appeal to the humour of the girls two or three days before she if it was not the procedure that lowing year from the enactsofo adopt the attitude that "nothing matters, anyhow," But it does to melt the hardest hearts. Then audience. There was a constant was brought to the Police Station, half of the fine was to go to the Po a bite from a for All the prườn

This man, however, proved to be Leung Kuk for the upkeep of the censors in the daksdom of the e matter, and the Government ought to recognise that fact. Some of we may bear of another Lloyd ripple of merriment last night our local societies must be of the bybernating species; they have a George "triumph" and the game jat the Coronet when the useless witness for the prosecn children: E

present Duke are buried in Chichis Sub-Inspector Wills said that outer Cathedral: with £50/60 flatter of energy, chat away full of self-importance and then creep wil go on aa metrily as ever. But picture was released. A success-tion. back into silence. Are we pegging away at a foriom hope 7A one day the storm will really ful run for it is thus assured. It The elder servant girl then gave that was a matter to be dealt with exception of the fourth Dhan times it seems so, and yet hope springs eternal. For heaven's burst. Then it will be Good-byee, is announced that the films will be her story in Leary She told the by the Secretary for Chinese dicas pack salesman poveza saka lat', soe something DONE.

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