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DARK CLOTHES,
SATURDAY OCTOBER
1920
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1895.
FIVE YEARS AGO
BEGIN NOTHING UNTIL YOU HONGKONG TWENTY-| already we have the sarge suït HAVE CONSIDERED HOW IT IT TO back with us, though only the BE FINISHED, very chilly ones have had the courage to wear it. The steady monsoon now setting in from Excellency
OUR DAY
CANTON BRITISH RED CROSS SOWETY.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY
The growing band of amatene installing small receiving sala *I wireless experimentere who nee,
It is proclaimed by ardar af His (Compiled from the "Hongkong peal by the Joint Council of the above their dwellings will get:
the North hasbrought cooler days Council that Kobe is a place at the Governor-in- and mush cooler nights, and all which an infections or contagious Hongkong will soon be bringing disease prevails.
out the anits of last winter that baye been resping company with asphtha balls during the many The following additional firm months of summer. One of Hong-has been granted a licence to kong' best dressed mea was beard trade under the Non-Ferrous to remark the other evening: Metal Industry Ordinance, 1919 "Thank heavens, we shall soon be-Israel (Chins) Limited. {looking mare like Christians and
less like stawards.” We don's think that he meant stowards His Excellency the Governor couldn't bo Christians, though we has appointed Mr. K. H. Digby, havatravelled on some ships where M. B., B.S. (London), F. R. C. S. they have had ample provocation (England), to be a Member of the not to be. Men's fashions change Medical Board for a further term but little. tis true, but costs having of three years.
the hack are considered the thing. just now. Atleast we are told so
Telegraph" Kits for week- ending Oct. 23rd, 1893)
THE DOLLAR
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la response to the recent British Red Cross Society and quite a lot of news for nothing. Order of St. John of Jerusalem, if they keep their wars glued in -- Home as undernoted ---- sum of £800 136. Id, was remitted the receivers, remarks a Home contemporary. But there are some things they can pick up at definite times during the day- the weather reports sent out from the big European stations and the Greenwich mean-time sigual, which
radiated twics every day, st 10.30 10. and 10.30 p.m. This latter, by tha - way, is sent out from the Eifel Tower, Paris, and is primarily meant for ships at soa as a check on their chronometers. But among others who receive it is the Astronomer-Royal at Greenwich who recently erected a receiving installation in the Royal Obser vatory grounds mainly for the purpose of getting from Paris the time for the accuracy of which he is responsible.
Ablong LE NEW CITY SCHEME.
Alexander WA.. Oct. 19:b.—Mr. Li Sing's new Alanco D.A. city on the other side of the water, Alport CM. between Samanipo and Lai Chi Anderson J.H. Kok and wholly on Chinese ser- Batchelor RK. Įritory, is a noleworthy project and Bing FEX is deserving of rather more con- Black ED. sideration at the hands of our Bond H.H. rulers than it seems, so far, Boothby BTB to have obtained. Two hundred Brameld T. scres of ground levelled and Brazier HW. properly laid out, even allowing Brooke F.J. for street and lanes of dimensions Brown J.W. acceptable to European ideas, Browns H. D. New Kowloon Inland Lot 311, will permit of the erection of Bruce D.G. by the tailor who has just situato at Sham Shui Po, contain-saveral hundreds of Chinese Bulla J. A. astounded us with the charge being about 2,857 square feet, is to houses, and will afford cheap Camage J. E is going to make for a new suit. be sold by auction at the P. W. D. accommodation to many thou Cammiade E.G.W. Hats are noteworthy for their Offices on November 1st. The sands of Chinese.....Chard RJ. | wider brims—a fashion that has upsex price is $3,944. | been copied from our American friends. And hats will be just as
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December 11th 1920--The as their OWD,
PoliceDaily Farm Ice & of ing men's shops tha: hats of a after wake Singapore a regular would be easy to keep the place
Cold Storage Co. LA. port of call, and the as "Nanking" in order. Our Chinese friends ate Delton W. 31. being exhibited. Ambisions men will make Manila a port of call capable of carrying on such a Danenberg F.F.P. 5. Goreroment, but if the place is Davidson P.A.... 10. left to Mandarin rule, of the Deacon & Co. Ltd. The Gorerament Gazette gives The rate vf subscription 10 "Tha Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 fur, beautifully finished and in allotments to various Clubs for obedience to an arder and reopens Dorsabboy & Co S. 10. being asked. Made of real beaver full details of the schedules of diary type, the type that closes Barbert Dent & Co. 200 per annam. (Payable in Advance.)
gambling houses to-day in Diepecker L. C........ 5. The rate per quarter and pet mensem, proportional Subscrip- every way a masterpiece, the basporting purposes in respect of them the day after in consideratDrummond P.
millionaire. Bat $45 brings home Park and Sookuppoo Recreation the new city will in time became Ferris H. J. would grace the head, of
Worgneicboog. Queen's. King'sion of a "squeeze", then we fear Eager 0. carting bump. Newspaper men its value with a rather discon Grounds.
a source of grave danger to the Forbes D.... and so it is not worrying us any. Cannot afford them, anyhow,
Colony and be the continual cause Fourd of trouble and annoyance.
Goa K.... We will struggle to keep respect-
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Halloms. H. W... present its own little problems.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DCTOBER 16, 1920.
HELP FOR THE CHINESE.
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THE VOLUNTEER SCOTTISH.
Oct. 19th-It is a reproach to
Mr. C. T. Surridge, Acting Agent of the China Mail Steam» ship Co. has received cable com- munication from his principals us and to our Chinese Govern Hamet A. H. in San Francisco regarding ment that it has been left to Hannibal & Co. change of schedules for the vessels Chinese enterprise to establish of the China Mail Steamship sach & suburb to our City. Company Ld., as follows:-
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OFFICAL LANDING THIS MORNING.
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W. A. All The appeal of Mr. G. M. Young
that land on the opposite side of
Harrison J. B. Herb F. C. the Harbour ought to bave Hill S at Thursday's meeting of the St. Andrew's Society on behalf of the A highway robbery was report-
been long ago by purchase Hogg A.T. Volunteer Defence Corps shoulded as taking place in Tytam Bay have been got for & mere song, in European bands. It could have a good result Personally, yesterday. At the bridge, & we think it a most happy sugges- Chinese living at Stanley Village and there were times when the Holland T.
Canton authorities would have Hotson A.... tion that the Scottish Company was held up by two zobbers, one of the Corps should be made the of whom pointed a revolver at raised Do objection. It
15 Hudson W. 5. centre of all Scottish sport. The bim while the other extracted different now. There is no enter James Hiss a result would be to unify Scotsmen money and valuables from his prise, no push in the Colony, no Jameson Dr. A. B. 10. even still further, to encourage person to the extent of $6.30. The men with new ideas and themeson J enlistmeat in a Corps that is robbers then decamped.
power to make these ideas live Jardine Matheson badly in need of further support,
We go on year after year in the
& Co. Ltd. and to provide an incentive to
old groove, imports and exports, Johnston T. B....
100. At to-morrow's Pontifical Mass opium, cotton and grey shirtings, Kavarana B. F. Britishere other than Scottish to join up and not be beaten gaites.m.) at the Catholic Cathedral sod year by year the profits on Kavarna H.S. so easily. The ChairmAD VERY, the Ayris and Gloria will be from these branches of business are Kennedy 3. rightly pointed out that the Mitterer's Missa Ss. Nominis passing more completely into
ecessary number of drills is Jesu" and the Credo from Perosi's Chinese hands.
Miss Pontifcalis." The music) only tea and that the annual Camp can be done in two week-of the Sanctus and Agnue Dei bas With the meetings in New York of leading banking representa ends. These facts ought to be been specially composed by Fr. A. tives of Britain, America France and Japan is arrange the terms more widely known and there Riganti. At the evening celebra- upon which financial assistance shall be rendered to China, the should be a larger number of mentions the Tantum Ergo and the Consortium begins to assume tangible shape. For the time being.ban has so far been seen ready Deum will be sung by the the group will be confined to these four Powers, but that they do to come forward and render this whole congregation. not seek a monopoly is shown by the fact that the Consortium will rather nominal service to the
Nelson R. T. consider applications for membership from banking interests of other Colons. It is through the realm
Newman A. L. nationalities. The main point is that Chine, through her own fault. of sport that a better appeal the Police from Sai Lan Tio, at Commander of the 16th Naval Nixon F.A.
A robbery has been reported to Rear-Admiral Casey Morgan,
Nestle & Anglo is in dire financial straits, that she cannot carry on even the weak might be made. If to belong to Autac in the New Territories. District and second in command
Swiss Milk Co. 50. and inefficient administration now exercised without outside belp, and the Corps carried with it certain On Thursday at 1 a.m. five men to Admiray Greaves, arrived in that foreign bankers are willing to assist her, provided terms sports facilities or even gave a armed with choppers entered one the Colony yesterday afternoon Pari K. S.
... 100. Nowers W.A satisfactory to both parties can be arranged. And in this connec-man tion, of course, the proper use of the foods secured is a point particular game among some medicine deal and
a chance of playing his of the houses occupied by a aboard the torpedo-boat-destroyer
[Peacock C. E. of supreme importance. Er insisting on assurances and some really good men, then we ought thorough overhaul of the valu panied by the US. gunboat Poboomall Bros... 20.
mande a Hart The destroyer was accom- Pegge W.0. of control in this regard. foreign baking groups to see a fairly big influx of nezables of the premises. They stole Helens.
Pepperell E. are not only looking after their own interests, which is prudents members. If the Scottish Com-property to the value of 550 and but at the same time they are serving China also, for without control pans can be made strong in sport
The official landing took place Powell A.L over expenditure it would be better for the Chinese were they never there is no reason why the other money to the extent of $20 before at 10.30 this morning at Blata Quin A. E to receive a cent of foreign mones.
making their departure. Companies could not follow suit.
Pier. The Admiral accompanied Read W. This question of combined foreign financial aid to China has Friedly rivalry is one of the
by the Acting American Consul
Reid C..... been deliberated upon for very many months now, and at last Enest things that could be infused
Reid EU.... mailers are approaching & head. The Diplomatic Body in Peking into such a body and
Mr. Leighton Hope was met by a Mr. Henry Hobden, who dur-guard of honour drawn from an Rockley F. has been in constant touch with the Chinese Government on the optimistic enough to hope that Far Eastern section of the For- McGrath, A.D.C. to H.E. the dick P. W.
we are ing the war was in charge of the Indian Regiment, and by Captain Rolfe C. H. subject, and a few weeks ago it caused to be forwarded to the Mr. Young's very Government the documents oatlining the terms upon which the suggestion will have the desired with overseas trade, is about to conveyed
thoughtful eign Office Department dealing Govemot. The party was then Saudemas H.H.. foreign bankers were prepared to finance China through the medium result.
Shaw G. pay a visit to China on behalf of Government House when they the Federation of British In-were received by His Excellency Smith H. E Sly E. A.. Smeeden J. dustries. He will generally study After the visit to Government} the position and make any special House, the Rear-Admiral pro- foreiga Powers have been officially concerned in the project The | TORTURES FOR BEALITY. meetings now being held in New York are to consider the whols realm of the general requirements of Chine, from currency reform, free from these who call them Habden knows China, as he was paid a call on His Excellency Whilst Hongkong is fortunatelyquiries that members of the ceeded to the Headquarters of Federation DAT desire. Mr. the Chios Command, where he railway development and the projected Hu Kuang scheme to the selves beauty specialists" the formerly stationed disbandment of suldiery. But of even greater importance is the ladies of New York bave been when in the Eastern Extensio::
in Chefoo Major General Ventris. question of the degree of supervision to be exercised by the Con- taken to task a little lately by one Telegraph Company, and he has of round
It is stated that after the official sortium representatives of the proceeds of the proposed loan, whitstof
the well-known. American kept his band in since then in the Morgan will proceed to Canton.
calls Rear-Admiral| the matter of stipulations regarding political stability required papers for giving support to people work of the Overseas Depari before the loans are granted is likely to prove rether a difficult who live by bolstering up the issus, if we are to judge by the constantly-changing complexion ofanity of the already fair sex. the Governments both in North and South Chins.
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Since Miss Daisy Ashford set the fashion with her now-famous The Young Visiter" thern hea been a veritable epidemic of javanila composers, the public being gravely informed that cartain novels, plays, and poems are the unassisted. work of children scarcely out of the nursary. The latest announce- ment refers to ** a book written unaided. by & girl be- tween six and seven years of age. It is"The Diary of Opal White- ley." and tells of the child- author's life in an Oregon lumber- camp, and her love rand appreciation of nature. These young aspirants are fortunate in their literary sponsora. Sir James Barrie contributed a fore-ward to Miss Ashford's tale, and the Hule student of Nature who now offers her views to the reading public bas secured Viscount. Grey of Fallodon as her impresszio.
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The working man at Home has been receiving some straight talk from the Rev. Brace Cornford, vicar of St. Matthew's, Southsea, who says: "The gadiş throughout the entire country. the so called working-man, ap pears to bare completely lost his head and bis mission The testimony from every quarter is the same. He is only usually prepared to give about three hour work for eight bours' Day He i Ditem rapidly developing into a, low, con- temptible shirker. Now the British. working-man has just one single thing to offer to s country and to his God-work. He has celther wit, education, culture, manners, experience, leadership, corporais sense, un- selfishness, nor, speaking col. fectively, ADY of the great qualities that go to make a COO monwealth. At the present moment, well paid and with the
the corporate tyranny of vast trade univas et bis back, he is learning the foolish trick of pre- tanding to govern the nation. The porter and the miners, with countless others, are becoming no longer a public service, but s public danger. The reverend critic is nothing if not candid.
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At the famous English race course at Newmarket, bookmak ers are forbidden to erect stands or display boards, and when Bir John Lavery, R.A., went there to sketch the course for a projected Ipicture, and set up his easel, a policemsa told him to "get out of fit." The distinguished artfor attempted to point out that this was an easel and not a 'stand, and the policeman asked him whose permission he had. The artist said he was Lord Derby's guest, and therefore needed no written permit. The policeman looked down 00 the artist, with an indulgent smile, "Same old Jamn!" be asid. "I've board B. all before. Come! Hop it!" And the artist had to obey. Another accademician discovered a beauti·! fal cottage far from the road. "I'll paint it," he said. For ad hour he worked undisturbed and then a fierce looking man with # dog appeared and asked him what he was doing. The painter said he wished to make a picture-of the cottage. The man was furious and ordered him to clear out I've the greatest difficulty in keeping off collage-hunting fiends as it is," he said, “ and now you € 4-1/4= £378.3/2 are going to advertise me and I aball have to barriosds_myvell against intruders wanting to per- chase a house 1: don't want to sell
Of peculiar interest to us here is the question of granting part they who suffer for beauty's sake of the loan proceeds to South China. At the time of writing we do are neither to be pitied, dor cen- such martyrdom is a new thing, not know the decision of the banking delegates on this point, but it sured, nor laughed at. It is time for the sex. On the contrary, the must be obvious that financial aid to Canton from a Consortium for a few friendly words. Consi-suffering fise been going on such as this would be tantamount to recognition of the South China der the girl who visits the beauty through many centuries. As far Government. And if recognition is accorded, there will be little doctor to have her eyebrows back as 1810, Isaac DTrasli,
It is notified in the Gazette watson C. E. hope, we fear, of an early union of the whole country under one placked. One by one the hairs writing on "Female Beauty sad that the regulations roade by the Williams T central Government. We see that the surpluses of the Salt Gabelle are pulled out until the eyebrows Omament," said. "In China the Governor-in-Council and Customs duties are to be pledged as guarantee for the repay-are reduced to the fineness of a girls are continually plucking 20th, under Section 6 of the Dogs Woodburn R.8.
Bay Wilson A..... ment of the proposed losus. These sources are already standing pencil mark, in accordance with their eyebrows that they may be Ordinance. have been repealed. security for other foreign obligations, though their earnings are so the prevailing fashion. Esch pull thin and long." Aad in ancient
These regulations provided large that they can easily stand further hypothecation. But it is at each tiny hair bas a torture all Persis, where the aquiline nose that, except with the permission worb while pointing out that so far as the salt revenues of the its own, but beauty doctors report was fashionable, girls who were of the Colonial Veterinary 8ux- South go, these are not remitted, as they should be, to Peking, that never is a cry of pain heard. born with straight noses would gean, the removal of any dog though the Central Government meets the obligations to forsign Agony suffered for beauty's sake bave them broken in order to give from any one district of the Tenders for the whole country. In point of fact, there are many is pleasure for these pretty mar- them a hump! Among the Colony to another was prohibited; anomalies existing in regard to the handling of the Customs and tyrs who put to shame those ancient Peruvians it was the and that no dogs brought from the bait revenues in the Boath, and whatever the result of the pre-men who agonize when custom of the women to wear in China abould be permitted to land sent deliberations in New York be on other paints, we do hope that they must wait ten minutes their nose rings proportioned, faid the Colony without the can antlers in this respect will be placed on far more regular and for their turn in a barber shop. thickness by the rank of their sent of the Colonial Veterinary
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