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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1921.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Bandopak
Venereal Disease.
to
about. The European community
nocent. Basiles, it is arguable whether the risk of contracting
But
DAY BY DAY.
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THURSDAY: JANUARY 6, 1921.
ROSEMARY AND RUE. JUNK TURNS TURTLE.
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
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The well-known musical com-
lines
Naddia
and the Wonderful Lamp," and concerns a private in the Army, played by Mr. Henson, who is the owner of a tunic that has a mysterious buttoa sewn on to it. The rubbing of the button brings him many curious adventures, but he al-
end learns the lesson that it is
·
Mr. Jenne Collings kept his
The
THE SCIENCE OF LIFE CON-
Three Lives Lost.
British films are undoubtedly SISTS IN SEIZING EVERY CHANCE
The spell of stormy weather growing is popularity, and all Wo were glad to learn yester-THAT PRESENTS ITSELF-Joseph |
experienced during the last few over the country managers who day that the visit of the Eastern Conrod,
That really axcollent sugdaya caused an accident to ajare showing the latest piotures | Commission' of the National
geation-the reduction of arma-jcargo junk plying between points report good business. Several Council for Combating Veneral Commander Beckwith, the
ments-pul to Japan sad on the coast. It is reported that British pictures have been seen in Disease is going to be marked by Harbour Master, goes on leave America by England's most on the 4th instant, whilst Edinburgh lately, and one, a the holding of public lectures, by the Empress of Russia on the brilliant men, should show the going to Kuia, Cheung Chow racing story, was an excellent details of which will be found in
10th instant.
with eleven world who really desires pesco;laland,
picula example of the level which has our advertising columns. At one
or if there is still a country of firewood A3 cargo, and been attained by British pro- time it seemed likely that nothing
The Chinese merchants are foolish enough to emulate the eight passengers, including three ducers. Alf's Bulton,” which more than invitation gatherings would be held-a policy which, in entertaining Hon. Mr. W. Chathambitions of ill-fated Germany women, the junk encountered entered the field early in spite of in view of the widely social am C.M.G. Director of Public The nation that refuses to enter strong wind which caught her block-booking, has been booked in Works, who is retiring, to dinner tain this ideal, for which the broadside, and caused her to turn 350 London theatres alone. nature of the work, would, we
world bas hungered so long, will turtle. About three quarters of Throughout the country over 1200 think, have been shortsighted on 18:h inst.
inevitably be suspect and branded, an hour afterwards, a nabing theatres have taken the picture. Too long has there been a squeam.
From Messrs. J. M. da Rocha
junk came along and picked up Wathering Heights," the excel- in reference ishness
this
THE CARDS ON THE TABLE. Now that the British Govern the survivors, who were clinging tant film version of Emily Bronte's matter. It must be its nature, and Co., wo have received a wall always remain delicate, but it calendar issued by the British mant has come out into the open on to the upturned boat. Two novel, is being shown in $16 must be brought into the light of Dominions General Insurance Co. and candidly admits the necessity passengers were discovered to be theatres; the Ideal production of serious public consideration if an Ltd., for which they ate agents. for reprisals, we know exactly missing, and, in spite of a long Bleak House," with Miss Con how we stand. Most people will search which a Police launch stance Collier, has been booked improvement is ever to be brought
not by 752 theatres before its release: His Excellency the Governor, agree that no other course was subsequently made, were
Beyond the Dreams of of this Colony can well Lady Stubbs and party will be left to the authorities, and that found. One of the survivors, all and afford to be enlightened on present
the opening per-reprisals are the only effective of whom were brought into the Avarice," has 764 bookings.
Station, the very serious menace to public formance of Chefalo and Palermo means of bringing about the ears Cheungchow Police health that exists because of at the Theatre Royal on Saturday of the imported assassins collapsed after landing. Being
hornets' nest of angry Irishmen some sixty years of age. bis edy comedian, Mr. Leslie Heason, venereal disease, and wo true; evening.
who see before them an unending powers of enduranca- were not who has appeared several times that the lectures will be well attended by those who have an Subscriptions from local Scots-vists of punishment for crime, equal to the exposure he had to in Edinburgh, plays the leading consequence undergo, and he died shortly part in "All's Button." Hep interest in questions affecting men towards the Scottish Nation- and who will in public welfare. Let it be under-al War Memorial amounted to refuse any longer to permit afterwards, after attempta had worth's recent production. It is stood that there are two schools $4,209.82 and a demand draft for foreiga influence or interference. been ineffectually made to resa comedy drams on the same
the tore him to consciousness. Amazing
of Sinn Fein are His Grace the Duke of Atholl. sympathisers of opinion as to how this problem 2006.11.1 has been forwarded to it
UNDER THE TABLE. should to tackled. There
and those who claim that prevention Chairman of the Memorial Com-murderers hotly resent reprisals
little! yet 535 is better than cure, whilst there mittes.
indeed in condamnation of the
New Year Visitor All cominunications intended for publication should to address those who find that this
medical question gets entangled | The Food Relief Association at horrid massacres of the police
Sentenced. ad to the Elitor.
in moral issues. The National Canton is providing hot soup for and military. They apparently
Wong Wing-tsun, who had Council believe in the early the poor on the streets during the believe that one side must be shot
The com-in cold blood without retaliation. Appeared before the Magistrate The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36|treatment of the disease after it present cold spell.
has appeared, whilst the Society mittee has appropriated $500 for That is, of course, against reason during the course of the last few mains himself, and in the per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
other and human nature. No man, in days on the charge of entering the best thing to be: Supporting purpose. Several The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-for the Prevention of Venereal the
Disease urges the adoption of charitable institutions are doing spite of religious teachings, will his late master's house at No. 35 Mr. Henson in the cast are Mr. tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for al
prophylacnes. 1: would be the same.
oTer the other cheek when be bas Morrison Hill Road, for an un-Joba M'Andrews, as his mate. Full month.
been struck. And it is reasonable lawful purpose on New Year's
and Miss Alma Taylor as Liz, tho wicked in ang case. saya
Eve, and was subseqently remand- the National Council, to In our report of the K. C. C. to suppose that policemen and
is an extraordinary example of recommend the us of pro-golf section meeting, which soldiers are human beings also, ed to given him an opportunity of superior East End girl. The film delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies whglacties, because that might appears on another page, the land being man they return blow (proving his bona fides, was to-day (;he ease with which the screen encourage immorality. The moral names of D. J. Mackenzie and for blow. The British Government again brought before His Wor-can make fantasy seem reason- more than lenient, ship, when sentence was passed. able, and many tricks of cinem argument would have moteJ. H. Kynoch have been in-bas
Sergent Kelly I have taken tography have been employed to weight were it only the sinners advertently omitted from the and there is no question that
him round to his own employers-obtain effects. He was dismissed two years ago who suffer; but in point of fact the first round draw for the Mead it has done all that is human-) Is possible to arrive at 20 Ltd.ansequences reach also the in-Shield Competition.
amicable settlement with Ireland from the French Bank as being Three hundred and fry sea.short of separation. And that, as no good at all. Previous to that, the disease is really the deterrent men, comprising the paid-of crew Lloyd George said, will never be he worked for the French Consul, interest in politics practically to when I last saw him (9859 a cor- that moralists make it out to be of the Carlisle which has been while Eagland can resist. Now who got rid of him. The French the end of his long life. But
Consul will repatriate him. that reprisals are We believe that education can recommissioned for service on
officially Mr. Orme-You don't know respondent of the London Erering N's) it was not politics we and will do a great deal and that the China Station, are leaving for acknowledged, British and Irish
talked about, but on how to foll the public provision of medical Home by the Bremen. A number alike understand the situation, anything about him?
burglars! We were talking in treatment will considerably lessen of the new crew have arrived, andIf the latter persist in supporting the consequences of infection. others are expected by the trans- the gunmen then they must bexorship.
His Worship (to the defendant): Mr. Collines's drawing-room, and he was telling me how a burglar We also
the consequenes. believe that port Himalaya
-If people go into bouses in the who had entered the house bad FOREIGN IRISH. preventive measures aro
middle of the night, and get There is something sinister and under the dining room table, they shillings' worth of booty.
gone away with only A few necessity whilst the general code The .s. Shinfoo arrived bere
private motality is what it is. yesterday with eighteen seamen strange abou: the name of De will have to take the risk. War-time experience certainly who were rescued from a water- Valera Were hia Ame
To the interpreter his Worship man entered through the French showed that prevention was forged junk on the 2nd instant. O'Hagan or Murphy one could said: Tell him I understand he window, but found he could get
his claims to more effective than pure, was south of Shanghai. Rough we understand
is going to be sent back by the to further than the first room. Ireland. cheaper and easier to ensure, her was reported by these men, rulership in
French Conspi to Haiphong. In The door of the room was locked, Private morality is an individual wha will be sent back North as apparently there is a splash that case he will get a shorter
was Mr. Collings'a We notice that the question of reform of the Legislative; the disease is a public soon as the Harbour Master has of the Latin paintpot in his make
one. We are looking forward to made the
in every lock at night, and not Council has been brought to the fore in Singapore, but with very illuminating lectures.
necessary arrange up, even though he may have sentence than he would if we practice to have the Key turned
were likely to bave him here. I been born in Ireland. One could will sentence him to one month merely to fasten only the outer disappointing results so far as public interest in the issue is con
as easily imagine a man named
doors. There was thus no open cerned. At a public meeting held to discuss the matter no fewer An Unobtrusive Office.
door for the burglar; if he wanted There is no truth in the Peking Smith as President of the French than eighteen questions were drawn up, and later a ballot was held. which was open to the pallir. These queries were of a wide range. The Prestient of the United press reports that Dr. Sun Yat-Republic or Flannigan the Em-lot of these poor wretches in such to go through the whole ground dealing with such points as to whether any alteration in the presentates, whoever happens to be the sen is trying to sell the island of peror of Japan. There is some-unhappy places, you think to floor apartments he would have system of vernment is desirable: whether the Government should holder of that high office for the Hainan to Japanese, says the thing radically wrong. For there yourself if you are a thoughtful to force his way through. Which
Timea
passionately man, "There, but for the grace of would mean work and increasing The leading are retain an official majority: whether the unofficials should be nom time being. is as well known as | Cunton insted or elected; whether representation should be by communities, the British Sovereign, and is one Cantonese are paying no atten- Patriotic people then the Irish, God, goes Toor or Adversarius risk of detection. Mr. Collings
ia Are we suficiently friends by territorial areas or by publie bodies or associations: whether of the most powerful individuals tion to such a desperate lie being and they are usually ever ready or any other more fortunate in-pointed out that some of his community representation should be based on numbers or property in the universe, but the Vice-apread by request of the Peking to resent a foreign man or name.dividual." There is no doubt that this Dei grateful? and whether the right to a rice in any election should be confined President is hardly any better Government and the Kwangi Valera has bid for power through to British subjects. These were some of the points upon which the known than a parish councillor militarists.
political intrigue and has risen A few miles by train from public were asked to ballot. The Victoria Theatre was open all day Even among Americans he seems
Mr. George Gray. the famous to notoriety on the waves of re- Kowloon is a charming little for voting, but up to noon only twelve votes had been recorded, to be held in small esteem, and
With the object of "taking whilst when the balloting was closed only 18 persons had express the office is positively shunned by billiard player, is to play several bellion. There has been far too place--Sha-tin. Few European
doubt stock" of the economic resources to power and rulership on the because there 278 ed their views, these comprising 100 Europeans and Eurasians, 14 ambitions public men as signifying matches during his stay in the much of foreign elements rising people stop there,
hoof the former German sphere in British Indians, E2 Chinese and three Malays. Five thousand forms relegation to obscurity. This was Colony. On Saturday at 8 pm..
stepping stones of war and golf links or hotels or Buy New Guinea, for which Australia had been printed in English, Chinese and Malay for the use of the the reason given by Theodore the Chinese Club, he will pr trouble. Nations now will, no of the conventional means of has been given the mandate, the
Roosevelt for declining to be a bably be matched against Mt,| voters, and of these 4.552 were set usedd!
But those with so Commonwealth Government has It is a matter for Leung Kan-kong, ex-champion And even though Da
louger tolerate foreign rulers. pleasure. The above is suffernt to show that there is a deplorable lack candidate.
Valera aesthetic turn of mind, who love decided to send a scientific ex- some surprise that the depuzpship of the Cotone, on Wednesday, at of the civic spiri; in Singapore, much more so, we should imagine ihall be little regarded. for the Engingers' Institute. be will realised his ambition (which is ex- the beauties of nature, may, on a pedition to carry out a thorough than in Hongkong. If there had been balloting on such issues inį
tremely unlikely) be would no sunny afternoon, snatch a picnic exploration of the territory. The this Colang, we do not for a moment doubt that the number of while it is true that, once elected, meet Mr. W. Brown and give doubt have to give place to some tea and a few hours of unalloyed expedition will be composed of voters would be cons. lerable, for within the past few years the the Vice-President tends to fall short lecture; on the lith instant body more Irish. Fisherty sounds pleasure. The mountain slopes six members, including a geolo- local public has taken a far kener interest Public affairs than completely into the background, he will plar Mr. T. B. Golding at ever in its history, Incidentally, we cannot welp thinking that this the position carries succession to the V.R.C, where, on the 13th, much better than De Valera any-yield wonderful hidden retreats gist, an expert in marice products, how and Irishmen think of loveliness. Creeks gurgles hydrographer, a forestry expert, Singapore method of setting to know what the public wants is a Presidenes in the event of the he will be opposed by Mr. P. A wonderful lot of names in spite of through the undergrowth making and a man experienced in the distinct improvement on the procedure followed in Hongkong, evani death of the major office-holder. Yvanovich, the champion of the the famous Shakespearian quota-music against aged rocks. management of plantations and, though there was such a poor response down south. At the public point of fact, this was how Colony,
tion: "What's in a name?" Rambling vines with leaves the the employment of native labour. meeting at which the Hongkong Constitutional Reform As- Roosevelt, after being induced to
If they ask ye what your name colour of blood trail across the Special attention will be devoted sociation's demands were decided upon, there was a deal of con-reconsider bis decision regarding
is, tell om it's Molloy; little winding paths that pierce to a search for minerals. It is fusion caused over the submitting of amendment after amendment, the Vice-Presidency, succeeded to al unobtrusiveness of the Vice-
For all the names wid an Eng-the hills. Occasionally one has believed that oil exists in the ter- of Presidency He speaks little, and Had there been straight ballotting on the various proposals, con-
lish sound are no damned to manoeuvre to avoid contact ritory, and there are expectations fined, say, to the Sanitary Board electorate, a much better idea was in like manner that Chester when he had to speak during the
good, me bhoy.
with coolie
carrying of the discovery of gold. The would have been gained as to the feeling of the public. However, Arthur became President on election campaign he candidly
But if yez ever go abroad into bundles of sweat-smelling grass, expedition will also investigate the recommendations are now at the Colonial Office, where the the assination of Garfield. proclaimed himself the President's
a foreign cloime, Johnson after Lincoln's echo. The cyale may here fad a
or to dodge a black ebow dog developments which have been appear almost to have been overlooked, and we may hope one of
reason for Senator Harding's And have to make some now with hair bristling and teeth due to German enterprise,. these days to know precisely what concessions the Imperial tragia end. Mr. Marshall, the pre-readiness to admit his colleagu
friends, sure," choose the bared at the night of strangers. and report
the authorities are prepared to make in response to the local demand gent holder of the subordinate to the inner councils of State.
Modest flowNIS adora English every toime.
grassy general value of the territory. for a more representative form of government. 11
places and delicately nod their Purely exploring work will not history, because Japanese Commercial Policy If the Hongkong Constitutional Reform Association had its
Negotiations are proceeding, itį A bitterly cold late afternoon, sweet heads beside pots that con- be neglected, and it is intended way, the official majority would be abolished, whilst some fortunate the Vice-President is chairman of individuals would be able to rate for the return of at least three the Senate, in which capacity it is reported, between Japan and Pedestrians snuggle deeper into tain the remains of long-forgotten to take soundings in various devolved прод Mr. Marshall Italy regarding & commercial thick overcoats; the tops of the buman beings. One looks down rivers with a view to determining candidates whereas others would only have one vole. We think.
is trama are nearly deserted. Fires upon the blue sea, shallow and the extent to which they are however, that by this time it is realised that there is small hope of sign the resolution declaring convention. Great reserve
Germany. upon
The being shown, but it is understood blaze cheerfully in the homes and still as if tired from its long tide navigable. In the exploring. an unofficial majority on the Council: indeed, we do not believe the
the hills. The sun work the expedition will not be general public wants it. On the other point, it would be far more Vice-President-elect Governor that the convention will make clubs, and fortunate well-nourish-through
the clearing-house fored people merely look apon the gleams on rocky crags, while in alone in the territory. Another in accord with popular wishes, in the event of the elective system Coolidge, bas been invited by Italy
actively Japanese products destined for winter season as a tonic and the distance tinted hills make a expedition is being organized being adopted to the exclusion of the nominative principle, if all the Senator Harding to
handling the Europe, Зарад reciprocating pick-me-up which will belp them glorious background for Sha-tin's privately in Papua (British New unofficials were chosen by the public electorate, and none by participate in particular bodies. On the general principle of constitutional problems which the new Ad-with shipping facilities, which to raeet more cheerfully the en- loveliness, Dancing there is and Gaines) for work in the former reform, the case would best be met in Hongkong, as in Singapore, ministration will have to face, and the large increase in her tonnage ervating summer that is coming. plenty, but only the kind German zone. This will be under by following the advice of a writer to one of the papers in the latter of course, the prospective Vice- would probably enable her to do For that is all it means to some that the wavelets of streams and the leadership of Mr. A. Pearson port, who says that "any changes to be made must be very fully resident bas dutifully signified profitably. At the same time there of us. At the corner of Garden stretches of water make, set to Chinnery, an officer of the Papuan service, who has been loaned by and carefully considered, and naturally and wisely, under the
The new President is considerable talk of a Japano Road coolies hugged themselves nature's own music.
associates his German
But you who prefer to spend the Government for that purpose. specifically
trade, rapprochement. and shivered in their thin cotton peculiar circumstances of the case, being a most important outpost junior with himself in respon- These steps might suggest that the garments A number
of bright and sunny holidays in Mr. Chinnery has already done of the British Empire, the Government will retain full power to
and children lounges or in the cinemas to the useful exploring work in New guide the policy of the colony, whether by an official majority or by munication to the Vice-President herself against a rift in the Anglo- carrying baskets of soil, pattered freshness and quiet of retreats Guinse, Last March, while on
sibility, having addressed a com- Eastern empire desires to fortify Chinese women the veto of the Governor
So long as the Empire lasts, aud
A beggar, as such as this would be well-advised leave in this country, he lectured that will be as long as the colonies are run for the benefit of the in which he speaks of the tasks Japanese treaty. The idea is along the road. people as now, there must be steady growth of sound policy which which "we "have to shoulder. On more or less superficial. General nearly naked as it is possible to not to go to Sha-lio. It is a place before the Royal Geographical is the greatest security, and which will best be served under the the other hand, Governor Coolidge indications are that Japan is be, showed his sores and whined only for searchers after asture's Society, and he has been awarded search-light of public opinion expressed and carried out in the open appears to be precisely the type simply studying her interests for cumshaw. As you ruminate on treasures; and that would bare by the Society its Cuthbert Peek
grant, the vagaries of fate that cast the you stiff. of man to fit in with the tradition-like other nations. in cocalitutional ways,"
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