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Watson's

very Old liqueur

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SCOTCH WHISKY

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

A WORTHY APPEAL.

WEDNESD

-DAY BY DAY.

~~WHEN BUSINESS 19 GOOD, THAT It is quite appropriate that the IS THE ZIME TO FORCE IT, BE- nowly-formed Aero Club of Hong CAUSE IT WILL COME EASY; AND kong should take in hand the WHEN IT IS BAD, THAT IS THE matter of raising local sub- TIME TO FORCE IT, TOO, BECAUSE scriptions for the Royal Air WE WILL NEED THE ORDERS Force Memorial which is to com- G. H. Lorimer,

memorate the gallant achieve

in the Calong yesterday.

There was a clean bill of health

kmants of our airman in the Great War. When it is borne in mind that this movement, besides its parely commemorative aspect in the form of a tangible monument, "A N. sends us a further batob providing for the of literature for the troops. Many

The same high standard of quality duration of children of airmen thanks.

still maintained.

Per case of 1 dozen $28 including duty.

AVIATION NOTES.

[BY *METKORITE."}

-1403

CHINESE NAVAL OFFICER

AND HIS SWORD,

TO-DAY'S

ANY

The Royal Yacht Squ Fin the most exchatro ̋alul Ink the A Chinese naval sider whose world, and ranks

On Tuesday evening Captain Ricou complated his fight to Shanghai which he had com- menced from Macao on Sunday sword was taken from him by the point of was, for 13 wa morning. An account of his trip Police was most reluctant to ed in 1815 and received revealed that in the latter stage appear in the Court in connection admiralty warrant... It,in an of his flight which commenced with the chargs preferred against expensive club, too, for the from Foochow he had to encounter him of lacking permit from entrance foe is 100 guineas; bat rongh weather occasioned by the C.S.P. It was stated by it is the boast of the club that - strong N.E. wind and heavy rain. friend, who appeared as his wealth is no passport, and there When resuming the fight from deputy in the Court this morning, are, many amusing rates of the Focobow where he was

that the naval officer had proceed-unsuccessful efforts of the new pelled to make a stay overnighted to Canton to interview the rich of various periods to obtain on account of the tardy Naval Minister with the object of entry. It has a fius club house and assistance for officers, men

rival of fresh fual supplies, the getting from him a of letter expla- as Comes, and to be a member is and their dependants who are

Many of the Indian troops of weather took on an unfavourable nation to be presented to the Police to be something of a personago incapacitated, there need be no hesitation in recommending it the local Garrison will take part aspect, but flying at an attitude here, but as the mandarin in ques during the great racing weeks

worthy of every in the Bakar Id Feast, on Thurs of 200 feet the machine made good tion had proceeded to Foochow progress until the development of in the cruisar Halchee some delay

Few of the Army badges born possible support. There are [day next.

engine troubles compelled it to must ensue before the letter-was

daring the war have become many man in this Colony who

make a forced landing. This secured. served as airmen in the war,

on Monday His Worship remarked that he familiar. The look of the Welsh There will be another Organ mishap occurred and these, as well as the general Recital, with a popular program-morning, fow hours after the was inclined to discharge the Guards is an exception, and the community who know what a debt we owe to the Air Force, will me, in St. John's Cathedral on departure from Foochow, and the defendant as it was clear that he Machine Gun Corps device is no dangerous characaciar well known, but that of the Tank- Monday week, September 6th at seaplane came down near the was no doubt work their hardest so 9.15 am by Mr. Denman Fuller. Chusan Islands. At the mouth of but an officer in the Chinese Carps has practically disappeared the river at Chingai, the aviators Navy. He decided to remand the while the crossed shovel and rifle. be one worthy of the whole

were subjected to another spell of case, and was asked whether in of the Labour Corps is only The forms- occasionally_s000. Colony. Hers in Hongkong we

Awaiting the next hearing it was necessary Mr. John J. Cunningham, Vice-inactivity whilst suffered none of those hardships Consul for the United States, is supply of fuel. Further engine for the naval officer to appear intion of the Corps of Signals out of the signal units of the Royal of the war which fell to the lot of leaving to-morrow by the Em-troubles occurred on the resump-person. so many of our kith and kin in press of Russia for the States. tion of the Bight, and it was not Apparently the defendant had Egineers will add an interesting the Homeland, and that is an Mr. Cunningham will not retam until Tuesday avening that no wish to face the Magisteral badge to the collection. It is to additional reason why we should to Hongkong and his future plass Woosung was sighted, and a trip music, and thinking of saving consist of a figure of Mercury, give aid to this Fund, as an ex-are indefoise.

which was calculated to take only him from the trouble of a per-symbolical of the work of the

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A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. that Hongkong's contribution may

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1920.

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

California alone i: is estimated

that there ATC

100,000

pression of our thankfulness st

the immunity from danger which

ten hours, completed.

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we enjoyed throughout the whole We hear that the following:

In the absence of established course of the grim struggle. True, officers of the Hongkong-Singa- the high cost of living has hit us pore, R.G.A. qualified in arrangements, this first flight as it has everybody else, but in a Colloquial Hindustani at a recent from Macao to Shanghai was not G. D. the success it was intended to be; place where money is so freely examination: - Cept. spent on non-essentials as it is Meredith, M.C. Lieut. T. H. For, but Mr. Ricou is confident in his

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socal appearaces in the Court, His Worship decided to discharge his deputy there and thap, and the sword be ordered that

returned.

this Colony there should Lieut A. R. Mockridge, and ability to complete the flight STORM WARNINGS. be no difficulty in raising a really Lieut. E LE Davies.

fine amount. It all comes dowɑj

to a matter of organisation. If]

Canton pazsesses

within a day, and to give another demonstration of this view bei intends to take to Shangbai more shortly four more machines which

the Aero Club pushes this move-Į ment, it will succeed. So we members of the old Parliament will leave Macao in pairs. With trust it will take the task up with than any other province. More the experinace secured in these enthusiasm. We shall be most than two hundred of them are fights, the route from Macao to happy to give the use of our still here, although it is under-Shangbai will bave been surveyed, columns to the furtherance of the stood that a number of them and a service organized to meet Jund, and any subscriptions sent recently departed from Canton whatever business there may be us will be gladly acknowledged because their salaries bave not for the Company.

been paid since July.-Canton forwarded to the right

Times.

and quarter.

MOTOR BUSES.

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A Chinese coolie

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ANOTHER STATION

new branch. bensath the

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"Ghosts not ruinded in the |least," says one of the "House Wanted" advertisements; and it would be interesting to know how far the famine in masonry has reacted on psychical research.

| A man hard put to it may well consent to share a roof with a ghost rather than have no roof at AIL Just as under suäcient economic pressure waste land comes gradually into cobivation, and Engineering as follows:— 30 we must presume that the It is proposed to establish some same argument will persuade- additional aids to navigation on tenants into the most spectre-

NEEDED.

"G.S.B." writes to Skipping

the China Coast.

There is

installation at

The

ridden of mangiona.- It is an odd This may be an opportune coincidence that while the war moment to suggest one that has resulted in a great revival of The connection of Shanghai would be of great value to both spiritualism, it seems to bare and Hankow by seaplanes carry-coast and ocean shipping and one added nothing to the belief tu The general balance sheet and ing mail and passengers forms the cost of which would not be ghosts. In looking over the Shanghai Pront and Loss Account of the one of the objects of his visit to prohibitive. One of the most important questions that affects the future

As you are aware, faw ships are The operation for appendicitis friendly relations between the United States and Japan is that of Municipal Gazette, some corres-Netherlands Trading Society to Shanghai, and before leaving that

pondence relating to the in-31st December, 1919, show that port on his return to Macao, to at present fitted with wireless, so performed on an engineer of the Japanese immigration into America. It might with propriety be also said that this question largely governs the future peace of the guration of a motor bus service the net profits amount to 17,813,- superintend the dispatch of seven that the weather signals issued American liner St Paul, while for the Northern Settlement 695.51.(£1.433,475), out of which, machines for this line, he will by Siccawei, etc., pass over the the ship was travelling at 16 Orient and it is a question that is recognised by the two nations caught our eye. It seems that & after providing for the Statutory proceed on the immediate orgain heads, as it were, of navigators concerned as being extremely delicate and difficult. We in Hong- Mr. Chen, acting on behalf of the Reserve to the extent of 2.752-sation of the service. With this

knots an hour, is not a unique kong are apt to think little about it, but a short consideration of the Chinese Motor Bus Co., Ltd., 139.10 (£330,228), a dividend of number of machines it is hoped Hongkong and Getzlaff, where. The captain of a merchant vessel no place between |instance of skilful surgery ni sek. problem would materially assist us in soy endeavour we might whose directors it appears are in 16 per cent. has been declared.

that a regular daily service will make to appraise the stability of the existing peace. The Japanese

on the usual track of shipping, tells us that while transporting be maintained between these two claim a right for their nationals to enter America to indulge in Hongkong, sought rights for the

important cities of China, and one may receive a storm warning. troops in the first Australian con- agricultural pursuits. whereas Americans are inclined to reseprice with eight vehicles, bus running of a fifteen-minute sex-

This could be remedied by voy from Albany to Suez, in the this that the results derived from it Was this invasion, mainly on economic grounds, but also partly on racial in consequence of the Snancial morning fined $25 by Mr. N. Lwill prove to be of great value to establishing a repeating station early days of the late war, an grooods.

on Chapel Island or Dodd Island operation for appendicitis was A special Committee composed of American Congressmen has the idea has been for the moment 26,000 Macao lottery

demands made by the Council Smith for being in possession of business men.

tickets.

or preferably both. Chapel 1-performed upon one of the "Dig- land is 19 miles and Dodd Island gers" by the ship's doctor. recently sat to enquire into the question, California, as the State dropped, though the Company Evidence was given by a Chinese Motor trouble which resulted 24 miles from Amez. most vitally concerned, having protested against the growing indox expressed itself willing to further constable to the effect that be

Amoy is hospital accommodation being of Japanese. It is interesting to study some of the facts that have consider the matter if the terms arrested the man in the street in a crash brought about the served by cable from Hongkong unsuitable, the operation was All that is performed on the ssioon table, been brought out, the most important of which is perhaps that the could be made more reasonable yesterday with the tickets con- death of Lieutenant Maxwell who and Shanghai

19 A small wire-and quite successfully. The ship Japanese population in the United States to-day is 150,000. In looking through the conditions/cealed round the sides of five is the first victim in the Philip-required

Amoy was steaming ten knots against Japanese, or au increase of 111 per cent. during the pas; ten warewn we fatterreted in the other. The topmost one, for the accident. The occurrence

laid down we gathered that there baskets placed one inside the vines lelands to a fatal seroplane less

was and another on Chapel and Dodd the S.W. monsoon in the Indian years. The high birth rate among the Japanese is causing this project and that certain stipula purpose of camouflage, was left on Thursday last, when the Islands, the symbols hoisted by Ocean. figure to grow appreciably every year. The increase in the acreage tions were laid down for sharing empty, but this did not deceive machine was making a flight at day and, if possible, night signals of farm lande occupied by Japanese has been 412.9 per cent.

Camp Stoisenberg.

arranged. Chapel and Dodd Among women journalists it during the past ten years and the value of the crops raised has financial obligations with the constable.

Islands suggest themselves as may be doubted whether any grown from $6.335856 in 1909 to $67.145.730 in 1919. In some of the charges were proposed to be another Company, whilst heavy

One of the most hopeful signs being most suitable for this pur-surpassed Harriet Martineso, richest countries in the State, Japanese occupy a total acreage of made on the applicants with R.O. Hutchison this morning increasing absurdity of the objec-

A case was beard before Mr.of the times for aircraft is the pose for the following reasons with her leaders and her phitnary from 50 to 75 per cent. of the total irrigated area. These facts have regard to road reconstruction and against two Chinese who were tons that are brought against it, distance from Hongkong, 270 and when an obituary notice was & (1) They are a considerable notices and so forth, in the days caused considerable apprehension among western Americans, who, rightly or wrongly, feel that it is only a matter of time before maintenance, the former totalling arrested by Sergeant Alexander and against every improvement 290 miles.

Tls. 25,000 and the latter working Clark in a visit he made yesterday that is suggested or discovered,

serious undertaking. But might American agriculturists will be ousted from this region by a people

(2) They are near the track not a word be put in for the cent per bus mile. at one of the prisoners' house at This who can live cheaper and who can, therefore, compete with a dis-t at one

The Council

been tinct advantage. The reason California and other Pacific Cosatto limit fares to a maximum of ten Western Street. Evidence was new wing developed by Mr.

particularly of ocean steamers and right in clergy in this matter of output? also proposed at No. 4 Leong Yee Fong, in the noticeable in connection with the the track of coasters.

Mr. Justice Mauls once had a States want immigration bars to restrict further influx of Japanese cents per mile. In view of the given to the effect that has been fairly well summarised as follows before the Congressional probability of a motor bus service of

(3) There are no outlying dan-case of a man charged with mu- ода Handley Page. Here is a revolu-geza; ships can close them without|der. The local clergyman Committee referred to above:-"The Japanese are unassimilable for Kowloon in the not far distant cocaine customer of the other sounds more like a bit of Mr.

tbe defendants WES B tion in aircraft construction that risk.

testified that the accused had- because of racial, religious and traditional incompatibility with future, these details are of some who was seen to inject with the Kipling's With the Nigh: Mail" and commodious outer harbour of churchgoer until recently, where- (4) They lie close to the safe been a good man and a zealous, against which the whites cannot and will not compete. Practically what to the point to see how they into his thigh. His Worship soberest of fact. Just because it local knowledge and where the lion that the clergyman had Americans. The Japanese standard of labour and living is one local interest, and it will be some-aid of a syringe a dose of the drug than sober fact, yet it is the very Amoy, to eater which requires no apon Maule elicited the inform every Japanese farmer's wife toils in the field with him from sunrise compare eventually with the suggested that as the Police had is such sober fact, it has critics, largest ship can obtain shelter. to sunset. Evasion by Japanese of every restriction thus far made terms of any local concession no charge of possession to bring some of whom are practically

preached a sermon at least thrice against entry and operation of farm lands in the richest sections of which may be granted. It is against the customer, he could be suggesting that the new develop cargo through encountering a solamely made a calculation. California. Practices sponsored by the Japanese Government not news to us that we have the discharged and used as a witness ment should be kept in cold typhoon and on the other band

The cost of damage to ship and week for 34 years. Manle contemplated by Americans in forming the Gentlemen's Agree directors of a Chinese Motor Bus for the Crown in the case against

five thousand three hundred ment, such as the importation of Picture Brides and the adoption Company in Hongkong. In view the principal offender. This was dermaulics suggests that the of ships taking shelter unneces- derously. "Don't you think the storage. A correspondent of the expense entailed by the delay and four sermons,” he said, pon. and importation of children from Japan by Japanese in this country of their non-success in Shanghai done, and a conviction having new development should be taken arily, would be substantially prisoner may have left off coming Insistence by the Japanese Government that its male nationals, no we wonder whether they are been proved, the man was sent patriation proceedings, between the age of 15 and 17, owe military matter where bora, except under cumbersome and difficult ex-likely to interest themselves intenced to a fine of $500, or three up by the Government and kept reduced by the establishment of to bear you because he wanted a

change 7 allegiance to the Emperor and are subject to his call." Japan, on Kowloon?

months.

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secret, so that it may give the these stations. British Government the advant- age to the air when the next war comes along. As the editor of

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the other hand, has maintained the attitude that it is a slight to her ANTI-PUSSYFOOT PLAY:

Dr. Josiah Oldfield's theory," national dignity to deny her nationals the free entry that is accord- ed to peoples of other nationality. It certainly is a big question and "I never know a teetotaller who

{based on suicide statistics, that one that will come on for decision in the near future. Although at was any dd good. In these Then the troubles begin. They deronautics points out, the sog- absolished altogether, and by the happiest age of woman is present the matter is looked upon as being governed by economics words the seafaring hero of an all become peevish and irritable. gestion is one that ought not to those who for reasons of their after 35, does not seem to take rather than by racial prejudices, it is asserted that in California anti-Prohibitionist play. "Such a They take drugs and pills for be entertained for a moment. The own are bitterly opposed to serial sufficient account of the disting

The boy value of such a device can only race antipathy is steadily coming to the fore as the peaceful Nice Young Man," sums up the their stomach's sake. penetration becomes more pronounced.

introduction of improve-the desire for death. "The rela- ripe experience of a long life and buys a motor bike with the money be fully tested by actual employ-vigation. These people resent tion between unhappiness and This problem of the competition between western and eastern brave one spent in distant ports. he saves, and one day smashes ment in everyday aviation. Its meats to the object of their dis- tionship of the two emotions peoples is by no means new. The British had the point to settle in It is a propagandist play designed into a stone wall. Then horrors application to any type of machine like, just as extreme temperance varies greatly from decide to connection with South Africa and, in a lesser regree, in connection to drown the Pussyfoot people in on borror's beed accumulate. The would almost certainly require people oppose any movement decade of the Individual ile,

and having for its object the George Eliot thought that with Australis. White men in Africs complained that they could mockery and make them for nice young man never pays any recalculation of stresses, not compete with Orientals because their standards of living were ever hold their peace; and rent, lies in a most accomplished possibly a redistribution of them. improvement of the public sorrows of childhood were different; the cost of the Easterner's sustenance and comforts was it is

fashion, sells the family rubbishy The pilots, too, would need to be house, the elimination of the gio most tragic of all. enjoying BOW great run in London. The story furniture, steals a prize compeli- accustomed to the new develop palaces, and any reform that child, baying do lawer. Americans are taking up the stand that in their own country is of a happy fireside clime, of its tioncoupon which bad won £1,000, ment. Morectar, experiments would reduce the evils of trinkophy or they have a right to expect protection from a people with a lower ruin by going dry and of its makes love to the daughter and in all countries are seeking im without abolishing alcoholic to perc standard of life, who are driving them from the soil. We can timely redemption by s kindly forces himself into her bedroom provements in wing-form, and it beverages. It behovas the friends sympathize very keenly with that attitude because it is analogous to what would exist if there were a Chinese invasion into England, and knight arrant by the name of Sir in the middle of the night! This would be very foolish to assume of villou, Aeronautics

labour would be to be prepared 4 British agriculturists were forced off the land. It might be argued to the cost of living, the family and of the dry experiment unavailing. Even were that so, sort of

John Walker. Owing to the rise is the end of the nice young man that all that to exclude Asiatics from western countries is to accentuate, an

are obliged to take in a lodger, They return to their gin and however, it is almost certain that

insular nationalism and to cast a slur, but, as economics still govern such a nice young man. Hence whisky and port and Bass, and the secret would look out. the conditions of life they have to be taken into account and even the idea for the original title of Bre happy ever after. The more)

made the decisive factor. We think that in the particular case of the play. He doesn't drink, he apparently is that if you don't Americs and Japan there is a great opportunity for Japan to show doesn't smoke, he doesn't, bet, lake to drink you will take to quarter grasp of essentials and be content to let slide any imagined slight and he persuades them all to go something pre often and lower-paid workers than her own we think we know dry by showing them what drin

If the position ware reversed—if Japan were suffering an invasion

how she would act

lot of

paign: