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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1921.

CHINA'S FAMINE.

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NOTES & COMMENTS.

Points of the Census.

Preparations for the Census which is to be taken next month at Home and in other parts of the Empire are well in hand. There! is always an interest in seeing! what developments have occurred

TUESDAY MARCH 22, 1921.

DAY BY DAY.

"IF THE OBJECT OF LIFE 18 HAP- PINESS, THEN THE INSANE ARE PERHAPS THE HAPPIEST OF BE- NG8."Dr. Samuel A. Tannen- baum.

Mra, W. C. D. Turner left

in thesocial condition of the people yesterday by the 8.8. Quelimane. during the ton years interval

between each enumeration, and:

Mr. and Mrs. L. N. this time there will be a special departed by the Siberia interest because of the widespread yesterday. changes wrought by the war The Home schedule is to be avery elaborate form this time. One of

Loofe Maru

AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.

(By "Ajax.")

The most refreshing news of the week was that conveyed in the speech of the Chairman of the Hongkong Hotel Company that very soon the Hotel Com- pany will embark on a new and important enterprise, namely the erection of a hotel in Kowloon. There can be no two opinions that such a venture will be an instantaneous sucosas, and that! it will receive all the support of the Hongkong Government. In:

We hear that the Hon. Mr. fact, I am told that the Govern- the new features is that persons H. E. Pollock, K. C., has been ment is prepared to assist have to indicate a divorce where appointed an Unofficial membert to the beat of its power. anything of the sort has occurred. of the Executive Council.

The site that the Hôtel Company This innovation is due to the

is desirous of secuting is, I hear, recent remarkable increase in the!

Next week the feast of Catholic directly opposite the railway number of divorces and the Press Day will take place at the station, close to the Post Office at necessity for arriving at exact Cathedral of the Immaculate Kowloon, and negotiations for figures. Another new feature Conception, when the preacher securing it

are already far particulars as to where people will be a Portuguese Father from advanced. The price of the land

work" as well as information the Jesuit Mission of Shiuhing.

will be about four dollars a-equare. as to where they "live"-is the

foot, the area being between 70,000 outcome of the acute housing

and 80,000 square feet. It does Bostock's Cirous at Kowloon | not need problem, the idea being to obtain

much imagination exsot knowledge as to how the last night again proved to be a to realise that with land so cheap tide flows between the people's great attraction. There was a and hotel accommodation com- homes and their places of busi- large crowd in the big tent, the manding auch high prices the nose. A third new new question audience being vociferous in its new hotel will become a very is designed to ascertain the busi- bestowal of applause on the valuable asset, eclipsing anything

Company ness in which a man is engaged, many remarkable turas given by that the as well as bis occupation. That the astistes and animals. It is a tempted. is to say, if he is a drayman it happy show and one well worth will not be sufficient for him the trouble of a visit.

merely to state that he is a dray- man he must state whether

Asphyxiation.

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MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,

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KOWLOON STATION ELECTRIC CLOCK.

A Remarkable Apparatus.

The four dials aro 8 feet in

THE ORATORIO.

Good Friday at the Cathedral.

these occasions is always large, scat-holders are requested to kindly be in their places not later than 9 p.m.

The electric clock which has On Good Friday evening. A great deal of money has been sunk in the Repulse Bay venture, been installed in the tower of Kow- Harvey Gaul's short Oratorio "By he is a brewer's drayman, duction of "Coming Down

The Banverd Company's pro- and with the many improvements loon Railway Station was launch- Faith Alone" and selections from at that are continually being con- ad upon its career at 3 o'clock the "Elijah will be given in St. shipper's, or an iron-founder's, the Theatre Royal last night was sidered necessary it will still yesterday afternoon, and a Prese John's Cathedral by a chorus of In 1911 the form had to be filled immensely enjoyed, being gen- involve much expense for the inspection of the apparatus was nearly one hundred voices, at up in rospect of all persons sleep-erally voted as one of the Com-Company. The Repulse Bay Hotel held thie morning under the guid-9,15. These yearly performances ing on the premises at the date pany's biggest successes. To-is serving a useful purpose, and itance of Mr. Geo. A: Walker, the of Oratorio were instituted by Mr. of the Census, so that any person night another favourite, "Plume is principally due to the enterprise Traffic Superintendent, Mr. H. Denman Fuller some fourteen not wishing to disclose age, for for Picking," will be staged. The of Mr. J. H. Taggart that such a Winslow, the Manager, and Mr. years ago and have beon continu BROWN.-At the Peak Hospital on March 21st. Frederick instance, could presumably avoid public will be interested to hear delightful spot has been opened Robert Baker, Engineer of theed without a break ever since. William Brown, lato 2nd Engineer ss. "Kaifong, Chins Naviga-giving a return by stopping out that owing to the big success up to us. It is said that nothing Kowloon-Canton Railway, like- The soloists in the Gaul work will tion Co. Ltd. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.00 p.m. till after midnight. This time already attained the Company succeeds more than success, and wise Mr. T. F. Claxton, Director of be Mr. G. H. Piercy, Mr. Howard Tuesday 22nd inst.

the questions must be answered has decided to play nightly at the in this instance Mr. Taggart has the Royal Observatory, were also Freeborn, and Mr. A. F. Glanville, in respect of every resident, but a Theatre Royal for the rest of the gone from success to success, present. The mechanism proved those in the "Elijah" selec concession is made in the shape week.

I. Perkins, carrying everything before him. to be of a highly interesting tions, Mrs. T. of a special form for those who

Goldsmith and Mr. There is no knowing where his character-elaborate in detail, Mrs. do not wish other accupants of

Howard Freeborn, who will It certainly yet simple in principle. the house to know of personal In connection with the discovery enterprise will end.

The clock was supplied by sing respectively," rest in the matters. The notice in which we of a dagger concealed under a bed does not appear as if he has road of this concession takes it mattress at No. 5. Sai Yuon reached the pinnacle of his am-Messrs. Gont & Co, Ltd. of Lord," "Woe to them," and "If.

The bitions yet.

Leicester, England, makers of with all your hearts." for granted that only one sex Street, four Chinese wore arrested

the largest electric clock in the doublo quartet, "For He shall desires privacy, as it statos that by the West Point Police in a

world (viz-the clock over the give," and the quartet, ."Cast ary occupant not wishing others raid yesterday, and were duly to know her" affairs can obtain charged before Mr. G.N. Ormetised its intention of putting up and was erected by Mr. Baker, Perkins, Mr. J. W. White, Mr. When the Government adver- Royal Liver Building, Liverpool), thy burden," will be sung by Mrs. Kew, Mrs. Goldsmith, Mrs. the aforesaid form.

at the Police Court this the old Post Office site as one Engineer of the Kowloon-Canton H. Freeborn, Mr. G. H. Piercy morning. One of the prisoners, complete lot there was a four Railway. who confessed to being the that some syndicate, American

and Mr. W. J. Haggar, the The United States, which principal tenant of the place, was or otherwise, might. purchase it

the quartet "Come everyone that added capital punishment to the sentenced to three months' hard for an up-to-date betel and this diameter. The clock is connected thirsteth" by Mre. Drew, Mrs. numerous uses of electricity, is labour and the other three men, probably served as a damper on sories with the existing system Goldsmith, Mr. H. G. Anniss and

being any to try another method of applying who are suspected of

scheme aiming at the of pulagnetic electric impulse Mr. G. H. Piercy. Mr. Denman There's a problem that compels attention contained in the last penalty of the law. It is sasociated with him in nefarious erection of a hotel in Kowloon, clocks which are fixed in the Fuller will play the inspired etation concourse and in all Good Friday Music" from the fact that whilst millions of Chinese are suffering from often supposed that the electric- undertakings, were given one for it was felt that should a hotel

offices. go up on the old Post Office site

Wagner's wonderful work starvation, Chinese produce is being lauded in America chair is the device employed in month each.

the Hongkong Hotel Company All the clocks, including the "Parsifal ". and sold for less than American produce. Let us take two the States generally. In reality.

it is only New York and a few Most of us are familiar with tho would not be justified in embark- turret clock, are controlled by a

The collection will be in aid of. parallel paragraplis that we noticed quite recently in another States that use it, the ma-story of the ungracious mother-ing on a venture in Kowloon, transinitter, or master clock,

the Cathedral Organ Fund, for American newspaper. The first read:-- Chinese eggs are jority still employing the halter. in-law who somehow always All these fears have now been which in turn is automatically which the sum of $700 is still being dumped on the American market, millions of pounds, Sumo years ago a proposal was manages to impress her strong silenced by the declared inten-regulated by hourly signale from needed. As the attendance on forcing a break in prices to the lowest February quotations mooted for an automatic ap- personality on the happy, or un- tion of the Government to offer the Royal Observatory.

eite in various lota. No winding whatever is re- since before the war." The second read: The Rev. parates, the floor of which would happy, winner of her daughter's the

collapse as the condemned walk- affections. In China, however, It is hardly necessary to quired. At each half-minute the Francis Griffith missionary at Anping, China, says: od upon it, but this was rejected the mother-in-law has, by a pro-recall Mr. Severn's ambitious master clock transmits an im- The soup kitchen is closed. Nothing stands between on the ground that it would coas of traditional observances, scheme for a hotel in Kowloon pulse from a battery, which gives countless thousands of human beings and starvation. practically be making the in-succorded in establishing for her-suitable for married couples and the pendulum sufficient impetus There are no leaves on the trees and no weeds left for food, dividual commit suicide. The self a strong position in the house-bachelors. It would have been to maintain its swing and at the before novel for the Goverment to go in same time advances all clocks in The doomed throng daily at my door, prostrating themselves State of Nevada, appropriat hold, witness

ing an idea practised at Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Police for hotel-keeping, and it is well the circuit half a minute, in the frozen snow; but there is no food for them."

feline Casual warde, has Court this morning. Ah Sing that the enterprise should have

Whilst the transmitter actually What an opportunity for the political satirist! From adopted a lethal chamber, the had the bad jose to grievously been left to a private organis-drives all other clocks, it only

A protty Chinese wedding was he asphyxiated while offend his mother-in-law. Be-ation. a country in which starvation and death are rife there is prisoner

controle the turret clook. This celebrated at St. Paul's Church being sent foodstuffs and human sustenance that can be sleeping. Doubtless the intention cause he quarrelled with her

clock is driven by a waiting yesterday afternoon, when Dr. the It is pleasing to note that the train" movement. The "power Chan Wai Cheong, a local medical sold cheaper than the produce of other countries. And the is to use the most humane way daughter in regard to

of carrying out the sentence. It despositions of some eggs for a explanation? Just the same old sud story that China is so is a little doubtful whether this wedding feast, his mother-in-law one in every sense of the term. movement is

a modern factor" of the "waiting train new hotel will be

practitioner, recently graduated an electrically- from the Hongkong University, much in the mire of mismanagement that the welfare of will be the result. The sentence considered herself deeply wrong In Shanghai and

most large driven pendulum (termed & was married to Miss Kwok Yee her millions of people is made secondary to the personal is to be carried out without the ed, and would not be satisified towns in Europe and America motor pendulum), the function of Hing, a teacher of the St. Paul's machinations of her so-called politicians. It's all a matter prisoner knowing it," says the with the ample apology he the bathrooms in hotels are which is not to keep time, Girls' School. The ceremony.

to drive, by means of of social economics-the non-application of them, and the report, because he is to be placed humbly tendered until he had attached to the rooms, and it is but

was performed by the, Rev. in a cell which in reality is the gone down on his knees, placed interesting to learn that this will a pawl, Â. ratchet wheel, Archdeacon Barnett, assisted by drifting way our Chinese friends have of doing things, lethal chamber. How this is to a cup of tea in her hands, as a be so in the new hotel.

tooth by tooth, at each the Rev. Li Kau Yan. The bride The poverty of the people, due to lack of provision be disguised to the prisoner does peace offering, and performed

vibration; the ratchet whoei, in was attended by the Misses Chan against contingencies, is the curse that is resting most not appear, and, whatever com- three

turn, by means of worm gearing, and Beatrice Lam as bridesmaids, There is no truth in the state-driving the hands of the clock, while the Rev. Mr. Tap, of St. necessities to live, the peoples have no adequate means of which would hardly be conducive Ah Sing's mother-in-law gracious, building a hotel on the land that simple

Paul's Church, acted as

"best device, re-energised harnessing the great forces of nature, and politicians to sleep. The result might not ly decided to revert to the former they have just purchased from by an electro-magnet when its

Following the ceremony a re- are content to exploit, rather than assist. When things go inconceivably be a demonstration decision she had raads of charging the Hongkong Land Investment osciliations fall below a

ception was held at the King out of the ordinary, when seasons are bad or rains are of how long a man can go without her son-in-law in the Police Company. Most of the tenants determined are and automatio: Edward Hotel, the bride, accom heavy, there comes swift disaster, against which the workers sleep, just as the hunger strikes Court. It transpired that Ah in that building have four years' ally produces additional driving panied by the groom, being con have no provision. And the food that has been previously showed the amazing periods Sing had badly committed him-leases, and until these leases power when such is required veyed there in the picturesque

self by giving his mother-in law expire it would be childish to to

meet the resistance red chair usually seen in uativa produced and sent to the coast has gone beyond recall poople can go without food.

a punch in the eye, before the contemplate grandiose schemes given to the hands by adverse wedding processions: A large apology and kowtow Besides, it is not so easy to build weather conditions. The gear number of friends were present because the personal exchequers are negligible. It New Billiards Champion.

Master Tommy Newman, as the were made, and 48 a cona hotel there, for it would mean ratio is such that the minute to pay their respects to the couple. can be truly said that the problem is not so much a greater production of food in the world, as it is a more equitable new billiards champion is some sequence had to undergo further that during the time the structure hand is driven through distribution of the "power to buy," without which is called in allusion to the days tribulation at the Police Court was going up, Wiseman's would minute space on the dials in when he was juvenile champion, to-day when the old lady recited have to be accommodated else approximately 27 seconds. The individuals starve and famines sweep over countries, has well trounced the other in public her son's misdemeanour where, and such accommodation pawl of the motor pendulum is And so long as there is the indifference to the lot of Thomas of the green cloth to before she asked the Magistrate is not 0637 to secure. then automatically lifted out of China's millions shown at present by the men of their own wit, Reece. This is only what to dismiss the charge. Mr. R. E. The Company succeeded in engagement with the ratohet race who have succeeded in gaining seats of power, so long though still a fine player, has the case being a purely family cheap rate, the purchase price motor pendulum maintains its was to be expected, as Reece, Lindsell observed, in effect, that securing the land at a rather wheel, so that, although the will there be recurrences of the tragic happening of to-day passed his meridian, albeit, with affair could be settled by working out at $38 per square action, the hands remain Other peoples may subscribe to Famine Relief Funds and the aid of a moderate start, he diplomacy. He dismissed the foot, help alleviate the stricken state of these innocent people, beat his old opponent, Inman, case, as asked for, but, at best, that is a palliative-a needed palliative, it is earlier in the season. On this true. China's sorrows emanate froin her own inability to showing there would have been

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heavily on this wonderful country. Toiling for the bure partment he was placed in, he process of subjugation being

would know what awaited him, thua effectively achieved- ment that Wiseman's intend The motor pendulum is, by a

a tight tussle or two if Iaman!

said

FOOTBALL.

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stationery for two or three seconds, looked by the warm gear. A current impulse from the transmitter, dead on the half- minute, (which at the same time advances

other. clocks) releases the pawl and the bands

man.

LOCAL WEDDING.

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SINGAPORE'S RESPONSE TO

ZIONIST MISSION. `

Mr. Israel Cohen, missionary of the Executive of the Worl Zionist organisation, has DI“ perienced a most successful cam paign in Singapore and Java. In Singapore alone he collected over $5,000.

by its own weight and strikes the

Illumination is controlled by an

govern herself. That's just the simple truth, and the and Smith had entered for the played through the preliminary Booner that is realised by her budding politicians the better championship, which makes heats until Inman broke away chance will they have of succeeding where their forebears their abstention the more regret last year. While Newman be

In the match, United v. South are driven forward for another bell." have failed. Well thought-out social legislation is what table. The contention that the cones the title-holder, we are

holder ought not to have to defend left in doubt as to the test China to be played to-morrow at half minute on the dials. China needs most, yet it is the hardest thing to give her. bis title in the preliminary heats player, as Smith defeated the 5.15 p.m. on the South China The striking mechanism is automatto switch with special

by 80 electric gear, which automaticall The Sons of Han are still the easy-going, fatalistic kind has precedents for and against it. now champion in last year's com- ground, the following will re-operated they were centuries ago, but if they are ever going to By analogy with the Amateur petition, and Inman also had a present the United:-). Beach; motor, which is also under the changes the time of #witob "make good" and stand as equals in the world of men Championship, which is promoted win over him. Doubtless chal. J. Leonard, D. D. Urquhart; P. control of the transmitter. A ing on and off to suit the gradual

by the motor change of the seasons. they need to assimilate a few more modern ideas--social by the same budy, Inman and lenges will be Aying around, if Brown, A, R. Simmons, J. Baker: cam rotated and political. Not until then will poverty, famines andSmith have logle on their side they have not been already, no J. Kent, E. Fincher, . T. operates a fever, which in torn- The Illumination arrangements In the professional competition, before long we may know to May, Ch. H. Blake and C. by means of a wire connection aro expected to be completed. I

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lifts & drop hammer, which failu:) a fow dayn however, the holder has always whom to sward the palm.

foods pass away.