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NOTES & COMMENTS.

THE UNIVERSITY.

DAY BY DAY.

NOTHING IS WRITTEN, DONÈ OR The wise thing has been dans BROUGHT TO PERFECTION ALL [by the issuing of a' preliminary AT ONCE-Cicero. statement concerning the inveat- igations carried out by the Com- mission appointed to enquire into

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. melitniowy one) they have

ERATED WATER MANUFATURERS.

Telephone 436.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union. Office address: 11, Ice House Street.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1920.

GERMANY AND PEACE.

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CURRENT COIN.

CASE AGAINST W. G. HUMPHREYS AND CO.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY

The Inventions Commission

- has been baaring claims în 90 D-

(BY "MERCATOR.") The week has been uneventful] PLAINTIFF WITHDRAWS in many respects. Continued dis-

HIS CLAIM. order in South China and the un-

nection with the ballon apron eattled condition due both to

In the quit of HG. Best dafenon of London during the air the position and working of thelone case each of anterio (Indian) stable oredits have sarved to limit and Co., for the recovery of $750 taida. The representative of the

Saturday's healy return shows political disturbances and ungainat Messrs W. G. Humphreys Hongkong University. No better and of cerebrospinal fever (Chin- trade in many lines. The plec Honour Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, apron was put into use probably time could have been chosen than ese). The latter was fatal.

for wrongful dismissal, before His remarked that the first ballon Treasury, Mr. Trevor Watson, the eve of the opening of a DEN

goods trade is suffering from the r. Turner, for the plaintiff, in January, 1919, and the earliest session. There have been so

farmall in Canton, Foochow and many rumours in circulation

Swatow, and although Man-

informed the Court this morning date mentioned by any one of regarding the position of the Ganjoin will shortly proceed to been declining this has

We understand that Monsieur chester and Bradford prices have that since appearing before his the claimants was 1913. the authorities, the staff and Louis Gain will act as Manager orders. In rice there has beened to withdraw from the case, and Frime Alinistar, and the writer of University that it is only fair to France on leave and that 3. tempted the Chinese to place of that evidence the plaintiff wish in that year in a letter to the Lordship recently certain evidence first general idea. Mr. War The not had come to light and in face son said, WB5 pat forward present and prospective students

of Messrs. Brossard and hopin witnessed a firmer tone, ale to agree to judgment for the the letter was named as being that an authoritative report should be made public. For it is in his place.

baving hardened some twenty defendants with costs. only by frankness, in giving the

cents per picul. Few people

entitled to a consolation prize on actual facts, that wild imagin-

bafore my article in last week's I wish to point out that this is a suggestion as to "a mesh or Afr. Blake (for the defendants): the ground that in 1915 he made ation and unjust criticism can be brought to book. The general recital takes place to-night at

Mr. Denman Fuller's organ Cuba was buying in Hongkong. in no way a compromise.

Telegraph appeared knew that public and all interested in this 9.15 p.m., in St. John's Cathedral, fact

streamer of barbed wire sospand- and publication

The Paisne Judge At the ad from balloons." This and thin instimation are entitled to the and not on Monday next,

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hearing evidence was called and other points made before the the truth, and if they have not yet erroneously stated by a coalem his price. The rice market is Chinese rica dealer to put up

the case on both sides was closed Commision have the merit of de- been told all there is to tell (the porary. Ms. D. J. Brown is the steady, and there is still a small Subsequent to that defendants agraph which appeared in the and judgment was reserved finiteness. But so had a par- statement now made is described vocalist.

enquiry from Havana, which is have taken out a summons for

"Manchester Guardian" London leave to call further evidence in Correspondence on August 12- at least been given the main

likely to materialise. discoveries made by the Com-

the casa and that Summons 1908. mission and

The boatman of a licenced boat

was heard in chambers and the the principal recommendations

The metals market is also | plaintiff's was this morning fined $15 by quiet, and there is nothing much oppose it. It appears from the

solicitor did which that Commander C. W. Beckwith, to report. No business has been summons that the nature of the artillery officer as writing to our

not Commission has made. That the RS Marine Magistrate, for done during the week. Stocks in evidence which was proposed to London correspondent in regard The paragraph quotes a retired inances of the Univerity have breach of the condition of his the hands of dealers are fairly be called was shown in the to serial defences thus: "They got into rather a bad way is water boat licence by obtaining heavy in many classes of iron afidavit and after considering will be the simples: thing imagin shown by the big dofcits disclosed, water from a place other than the and steel goods, especially in that affidavit the plaintiff tookable. Just have stationary bal bat on the point as to how this bas Government works, namely, Gin wire nails, steel bars and crap the course that he has adopted. toons supporting a large-meshed come about and whether it could Drinkers Bay. have been avoided nothing is as

materials Prices, on the whole, Judgment will be entered for the net. No airship could get through ye: said. There is, however, an

have remained steady. inferential reproach in the deci

The defendants with costs, excluding that. One might be going at the Japanese have been refraining costs of Saturday. sion which has been come to The Fushimi Maru, which came from offering any

rate of 80 miles an hour, but it "that the institution should at in this morning from Seattle, to the merchants bere, and for

would be entagled and brought once be placed on a business brought 222 bags of mails. Only this

foodstuffs, and though to ground in no time. A keep European countries have gust-for footing." The presumption is 12 bags of mails are indicated to prices on the old plane. that it has not been so based in have been dispatched from Van-quicksilver there has been a high prices for wheat, production engines beating the wind

In anteed their farmers extremely the air,

airship lighter than with 20-horse-power the past, and that is borne out by couver on the 29th July, whilst drop, the rate to-day being about has fallen far short of require-wby, on a still day a man with a the figures given..

the remainder include consigo $155 per picul. ments from Seattle, Manila and Home state that the quotation in raises 320 million bushels, pro- Second as the great airship of Advices from ments. France, which normally fishing-rod would haul in Kulli THE FUTURE.

Australia. These last were tran-London has also declined to £18 dured but 168 million bushels in that day] as easily as he can bas} shipped at Manila, and form quite 58. per flask, which is about $16 1919. Italy with a guarrantee of to bank a swimmer in Lambeth a large consignment.

per pical The market for steel £1 per bushel produced but 160 Baths. It Nulli Secundus went and iron goods is practically million bushels as demoralised. This time of the normal output of 220 million fisherman in one of these station- against within a salmon-cast of a good The Kwangtung Shut Yeh Pan, Fear is usually quies for metal bushels. itself. After all, it is the future Chinese daily newspaper, has merchants, and business is not held

The greatest wheat ary balloons Sulli Secundus that matters, and so long as the been ordered by the Military expected to revive until after the plains of South Russia-yields in minutes." The officer who wrote of the world-the great would be A prisoner in ten means taken to safeguard it and Governor at Canton to suspend Festival of the Bean Cakes, which normal times about one-fifth of those words, thirteen years ago, to fall the aspirations of the Uni-its publication for six days, the falls at the end of September the world's wheat supply some is still energetically interested in versity's founders are adequate paper having published the state. The enquiry from Java Sing- 800 million bushels., What has aviation.

But in view of the exhaustive enquiries which have been made and of the future policy laid down in this preliminary report we can afford to let the past take care of

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fear of the institution's drifting flict between some administrative died of. substantiating my ex- the past two years has been situation which all troops and the enemy. also known pressed belief that these centres shrouded in mystery. but there its well-wishers would deplores the "people's arms," in Shun-are now in receipt of heavy can be little doubt that the social they were all carried, might have The freight of mascots which, if In this regard we are glad tak. Mo Cheng-chang. com-

stocks both of iron and steel and industrial unrest caused by sunk Sir Thomas Lipton's chal- to note zhai We, of the Allies, are not always inclined to give Germany the have been placed high. Not only force in Shuntak, a son of Tuchun and from America.

fature ideals mander of the administrative goods from the United Kingdom the civil war and the revolution longer this year is yet another credit that is due to her for baring played the straight game in the are the present Faculties to be Mu, took exception to the report

have made production to fall far symptom of the extraordinary recent and still existing situation arising out of the Russo-Polish maintained, but a higher standard and complained to the Military

short of the pre-war stand growth of this superstition. war. We have been inclined to look upon her with a certain amount is to be aimed at, and an early Govenor. The Chang Yuen Pao, hoogs, known AJ

Some of the big Chinese rice ards. Canada and Argen-Never was there, spparently, so of distrust, and this was, perhaps, inevitable owing to her close and wide expansion of its activi- recently suspended, has been per-

materially widespread a craving for mascota. proximity with these warring nations. But the statement of Herties is urged. with certain specific mitted to resume publication.

The war made them von Simons, the Foreign Minister, made before the Foreign Affairs recommendations for the accom-

good few not being able to though India will probably have universal. The devotion of the Committee, must have shown to all thinking men and women that plishment of this purpose. In-

honour their commitments. The surplus daring the coming har-stage to mascots has long been Germany had tempting inducements held out to ber to abandon her cidentally, these resolves dispose

bar suffered heavy losses west, it will all be required for known; and more recently they attitude of neutrality. On the one hard she has been urged to of several unfounded

through the failure of foreign Eastern consumption, to make up have invaded the playing field. collaborate with the Bolsheviks agains: the Western Powers and bich have been in circulation for

MISHAPS-they contracted to purchase, and

arms to take delivery of the rice for the shortage of the rice crop. Mlle. Lenglen confesses to ber thus break the bonds of the Versailles Treaty. It takes but little some time past. We commend the

reliance upon them. Vardon and imagination to realise that-if-Germany had cared she could thus Commissioners for the breadth of

although they had a few months have created a position of extreme gravity for the Allies positionision they have displayed in mak-

ago succeeded in weathering the the present position of the world's be, not many county cricketers It will therefore be seen that other great golfers have used

them. and there amounting to a renewal of the late war on a scale almost as titanic.ing these proposals and for their a number of casualty patients for them to shoulder, and it is importing nations the greatest this year who have not some

During the past two days quite storm the losses were too much wheat supply is such as to cause Germany rejected that course efter mature consideration. It determination to see to it that the bave been admitted into the Gor-whispered that a couple of them concern, and any surplus which sort of charm in their pockets would have proved a desperate and hopeless adventure, but it would Coiversity have proved, also, a distraction for the Allies that defeated Germany rightful position as

shall осетру its ernment Civil Hospital

will declare themselves bankrupt. Australia may have will be wel-hen they go out to bat, while in might have revelled in. Her mind, fall of the heavy demands she is centre of British educational in his admission, succumbed to the fellow. He does not believe in est, of course, no definite forecast Pin their faith to an ancient cap the main On Saturday Chinese. after John Chiraman is a philosophic comed. As to the coming hare.very sport there are some who now facing, wight easily have dictated that serious course of action. Huence in the Far East. If the effects of arsenic poisoning. And she has been courted. too, by the other side; has been the University is worth maintaining

throwing away good money after can be made as to the turn-out Bridge-players are well known recipient of proposals that she should make common cause with and it assuredly is then its

or some other article of equipment. bad. If he finds that his debtor but it is quite certain that for their attachment to mascots. the Allies against Russia. Such proposals must have been far more standard should never be allowed received treatment at the institu- pay him, he will not often harass been planted in response to the when women are playing, to see A female on the same day on the rocks and is unable to exceptionally large area has been It is quite common, especially attractive, for her acceptance would inevitably have been followed to decline. Its possibilities are tion subsequent to a fall from him or put him in Court. He Government',' by concessions under the Treaty. Her Foreign Minister decided rester and richer now than ever the car was in motion.

a fram at Whitty Street whils:. that that course was also impossible, and he has given it forth that before. And it is cause for the

appeal. no Power at war with Soviet Russia need count on Germany's utmost satisfaction that

action The volume of the crop depends curious assortment of little support. The statements that Germany has concluded a secret whose advice has been gought are wounds in the head caused re- fellow to seek the refuge of the next

Two Chinese suffering from good, and may lead the other prevailing during this month and once familiar mascots have gone be fruitful of any largely on the weather conditions articles on the table. Certsin agreement with either Russia or Poland, are, he says. absolutely unanimous in that view. We pectively by a hammer and a Bankruptcy

out of fashion. Nosesfaring man false. All the negotiations with Poland for the purpose of settling ish the University a

Ordinance. Ee. bright sharp instrument, were also ad-therefore, prefers that his debtor frontier questions have been public, but, hitherto quite fruitless.future, with an

to-day would go up to thirty ever-growing mitted to hospital. The assailant should continue to go on and do and have been buoyed by the went wretchedly cheap at David And there is a complaint that because of these false statements a sphere of real usefulness."

People who hold rubber abares valued caul-which, by the by, guineas for the onco bighly- considerable amount of ill-feeling has been generated.

of one of them bas since been business, hoping that one day recent rise in the price of rabber Copperfield's christening. It takes a lot to convince some people that a late enemy can be

THE KAWNGTUNG UNREST.

arrested by the Police.

when he makes money be may will be interested to read this in any way bonest and we, ourselves, are none too prope to look for good, honest intentions in anything that Germany does. Such is criticism of China, a Canton con- the Hospital by the Police. He magnanimous the Chinese rice to shareholders sometimes) even the last rampart of the old

In recent comments on foreign boy 17 years of age, was sent to rice debacle we have seen how Optimism costs nothing (except Yesterday another Chinese, a realise his claim. In the recent from & Singapore contemporary. human nature. Being human, we cannot at will dissbuse our minds temporary bas been

Goodwood as a race meeting is of the falsity and duplicity of Germans of the old regime, and there special stress on the point that at Peel Street in an endeavour to declared his readiness to take an attractive form of mental dis-Nowadays we hear a good deal laying fell from an upper floor of a house merchant has been. He had though it has been described as aristocratic flavour of the sport. a tendency to discredit any proposal or action that comes from the present unrest in Kwangtung evade arrest for a certain offence. one-third of his claim in casb, to ease. Therefore, these remarks more of this Iste enemy of ours. But that distrust and scepticism has to

has not affected foreign trade. be lived down, or else we shall find ourselves living in a world with That that is hardly the case is

take another third in promissory of a Singapore paper should give hooligans whose occupation is

the "operations" of " an unhealable cleavage among the more civilised nations. And if Proved by a glance at the latest

cotes payable within three years, such and to surrender the balance. Germany has done anything since the armistice helpful to the sport on imports issued by the

shareholders food Arealisation of better confidence she has certainly done nothing Commerce. In regard to the piece

for summed up vaguely but sufficient thought. We have noted," ly in "going racing" than of Hongkong General Chamber of greater or more valuable than her present stand to remain a neutral.

says this paper, Stocks of flour in the Colony course of rubber prices with some and their nobles.

the recent racing sa "the sport of kings”---- In appraising the value of that stand we have to look s: what would goods trade there is no attempt Thave been the position of affairs if she had gone another way: political troubles for the present

are practically at the same level misgivings. Having regard to balance is much more important A big bank made to blame Europe would have been embroiled in a war far greater than that

the internal

as last montb. From present in-the present value of money, than an ancient lineage in the dications it seem certain that sevenly which we now see being waged, is with the Allies, Germany state of the market, though an ad-

The Hou. Treasurer of the Alice Australia will have a fair crop of pound would have been a fair the "ducal meeting" is something to eighty cents per modern annals of the press. Bat would have been an encouragement to a massed attack upon Russia, verse effect has been felt from this Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals wheat from the 1920-1921 harvest. price four or five years ago. For more than a mere reference to the involving the overrunning of that coactry; and in with Russia it cause, whilst the paltry business begs to acknowledge with thanks An active campaign has been in the meantime the cost of fact that Goodwood is a busines would have been a long and bitter struggle against two disappointed being done in cotton yarn is the following donations to the funds conducted by the various State labour, and the cost of super-proposition from which the Dukes contributed more than her mere pacificism; she has steadied Europe. however, it is definitely declared Ho Pik Shan By remaining pentral Germany has so far as metals are concerned, Tee Yam Chi

partly attributed to the unrest,

of the Hospitals:—

Governmenta and Departments vision, not to mention all the of Richmond draw a considerable And her sole gain is the privilege of being left alone to work out her that the trouble in the neighbour-Li Wing Kwon

of Agriculture throughout the odds and ends of stores that revenue, for it is emphatically own reconstruction-and, at the same time, comply with the terms ing Provinces is putting a stop Yung Taz Ming

$100 Commonwealth, with the object are required on an estate for field true that at Goodwood the first 1000 of inducing growers to increase work, for upkeep of buildings, for half of the old saying about Of Versailles.

100 their production of wheat. This making of roads and the like hare equality on the turf and under t We hold no particular brief for Germany, though we are quite to the movement of cargo. These Wong Yiu Tung

100 appeal has been made because gone up enormously. An estate lacks precision. The real people." prepared to be told that it seems as though we do. But we do hold are hard facta from business Yuen Hong Kin

100 the Commonwealth Government which is making ten conte clear at Goodwood are those who stay brief for those men (irrespective of race) who are trying to get ources, and it is obvious that Lo Cho Shan

100 recognises that the world next over all-in coet is doing exceed with the Duke and pass ducally his sorry old world of ours back to a peaceable condition by means trade situation will grow worse Leung Yan Po... peaceful action. We all want peace, but some want to go to war rather than better. And bad Li Yau Chus

comes the Lo Chap Shan..

100 year will be very short of wheat, ingly well, and there are a good from Goodwood House to the; Cand great demands will be made many, we suspect, that can Goodwood House stand; then get it: they want to be down with this and down with that, little trade hits the Chinese as much Lo Si Hoi

50 on Australia's exportable surplus.jscarcely show a profit margin at follow long series of gradations. ising that war breeds war Germany is firma on the path of

50 In normal times Europe produces sil. Naturally, when prices are It is to be within the pale to stay Santrality just now and we bope that nothing will induce her to China become really settled?

as the foreigner. When will Chan Harr

50 balf the world's wheat supply, low there is a tendency on the at one or other of the great ve it. Some day the world will be back to the conditions of

50 and consumes the surplus of the part of the individual estate to houses within easy reach of the Made that preceded 1914, and the aim of all should be to help the

50 rest of the world. The normal recover by large output. The course-Petworth and so on; not proach of that day. One of the preliminary requisites is the Tablishment of sympathetic relations and even friendships with

50 production of Europe is two profit on a thousand pounds at Squite the rose but very near it. AMERICAN ACTOR DEAD,

25 billion bushels, and it cannot be cents is the same sa the profit on Goodwood is the most beautiful ixte enemies. Otherwise, we shall wait for peace for ever,

10 expected that production will be 500 pounds at 10 cents, and so recs-course in the world it is Serefore, when we see & praiseworthy act of discretion such as Connecticut, announces the death A message from New London,

restored to normal for at least there is BT1 referred to above, let us not be overslow to acknowledge it of James O'Neil, a well-known

inclination to also the operace course on which, reciation is the begetter of many deeper foolings,

And desperate peoples.

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ALICE MEMORIAL

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Ms Wing Chan ̧.* ̈* Wong Kwok Shoea Chau Pek Chuen... Thos. W. Simmons and Co. Harold Seth... Himly and Co.

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