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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1921.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1921.

DAY BY DAY.

AVIATION NOTES.

(By "Meteorite.")

The Monthly Exhibition.

aircraft. The ways of the air HONGKONG ART CLUB. must be charted and marked just as the oceans have been, so that navigators may pilot their oraft in safety and comfort at high rates A marked point which makes of speed across the country in

It has been the custom in AND ALWAYS SUBORD- itself perceptible to those interest-either peace or war. This first former years for members of the TO THE SOUL...ed in the debate in Parliament route from Washington, DC, to Art Club to choose their own last week over the Air Estimates Dayton, Ohio, will provide a model medium for the particular picture which the development they were painting for exhibition. was the altered noto expressed in upon

expansion of other This year, however, new regula- At to-morrow's meeting of the the views of the Government on and

only the problem of Civil Aviation. As routes throughout the United tions have been made and the be based and it set subject for competition must Logislative Council the

entail has hitherto of the Government's will

of now be done in the given medium. business is the continued con-is generally known, the question States can

choice, been submerged to one of landing folds with all their On Tuesday night, at the monthly sideration of the Stamp Bill.

military consideration, and thus accessories such as radio direc-exhibition held at Mrs. G. B. L. Hartman, who was charged in their aim to carry out this part tion finding apparatus, radio com- Brown's house, this subject was with being drunk and incapable, of the national defoncos pro-munication, aerial light houses, "An illustrated quotation in With Black and White," and, as a in consequence of his failure to gramme, too little attention had hangars and such like.

of which they might well be ming 6-1, 6-2, proud. They succeeded in winning the Chater Cup at the

of

Yesterday's bealth return V. R. C. Regatta, the Cameron shows four fatal cases of small Cup at the Canton Regatta and pox, one fatal occurrence the Stockbrokers' Cup at their enteric and one non-fatal case of All the own Club event, and it has been cerebro-spinal fever, generally remarked that a better aufforers were Chinese. combination has not been seen here for a very long time past. Here is encouragement indeed. The Housing Tax.

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It is hardly necessary to say that Mrs. Humphreys had a duin ty little picture. It was called Columbine" and the verses attached were by Trevor Blake- more.

Miss Kirkpatrick contributed

The Revival of Rowing. LIFE WAS INTENDED TO BE SO ADJUSTED THAT THE BODY One of the features of the SHOULD BE THE SERVANT OF THE closing winter season regarding' local sport has been the great SOUL, INATE revival of interest shown in row-

Holland. ing-a sport that is apt, un- fortunately, to be a little over- looked in the matter of publicity. Elsewhere in to-day's issue we are onabled to give a description of the rowing which took place at Saturday's regatta of the Royal Hongkonk Yacht Club together with some general comments on the past season's ovents, and from that it will be roadily appreciated turn up in response to the charge, been paid to the civil issue, with proper estabished airways, trans-result, a number of very beauti that rowing is again taking its had his bail estreated by order of the result that the position has continental flying by day or nightful pictures were on view, imag- now been arrived at where the in good or bad weather willing the immortal words of such high place among the ports in the Magistrato this morning.

flimsily constructed organisations undoubtedly be safer than auto poets as Edgar Allan Poe, Trovor which residents of this Colony indulge. It is sport which

Amongst the passengers. leav- for the commercial operation of touring by road and, with the Blakemore and Tennyson. The entails strict training and muching to-day by the Dovanha were aeroplanes is threatened with a improvement in aircraft aerial prize went to Mr. Cole for a will surrass picture featuring the principal in practice, is of the healthiest Col. and Mrs. Young, Mrs. Be-total collapse in face of the com- transportation

Bafety Tennyson's "The Mermaid," nature and calls for endurancewen, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Lowe, petition of heavily subsidised in speed, comfort and

methods Other notable pictures in this and sportsmanship. Although Capt. and Mrs. Arthur and Mr. foreign companies. A year ago most of the modern

trasportation. Units of nection were Mrs. Briton's "Firet the past season bas-with its two and Mrs. W.M. Johnstono of we were in possession of an of

of theof May" (old Rhyme)... This local regattas and the one at Kowloon Docks.

admirable chain of workshops and the National Guard

and ink picture Canton-boon productive of much

commanding a production which organized reserve will be placed little pen better rowing than has been soon

The Chinese visitore from the should have placed us in the at strategie points along these of a hawthorn tree, with a girl first-rate air air waye which will be open standing by, made one feel that. for many years, there is still room for a great many of the Colony's Straits concluded their games position of young men to take a more active with the Hongkong Chinese yes-power or at least have placed under proper federal restriction "Spring is here," one could receive all the and one's thoughts flew back to interest in it. The facilities are terday at the C.R.C., when us beyond the fear of any threat to the commercial aviators who scent the fragrance of the may,

The doubles match was played, Ng from a foreign quarter; and what will thereby good, without question.

than that the organised work. This airway is the

Miss Bioukova illustrated Ed record of the Royal Hongkong Sze-kwong and W. Lock Wei beat is the actual situation to-day? benefits and conveniences of such the Old Country.

majority of the workshops had first unit of thousands of airwaya gar Allan Poe's Annibell Lee, & CÔ, LID, Yacht Club's senior four is one Cheah Kong-lgo and Chung Ah-Nothing less

closed down, the production is that will be developed throughout and Mr. Trambitzky's Poe's "The boautiful brought down to a standstill, the United States, and, as chosen, Colosseum" was a

which wore it is extremely well suited be-

picture. of the many variable already in operation forced to cause suspend their services and foreign conditions of both atmosphore companies subsidised by their and topograph encountered in its

take course. respective Governments, their place, profiting by the ex- perience for which our companies, The Army Air Service is gladly Many time-expired men from against enormous difficulties and the China Squadron left to-day with heavy expenditure, had in the giving such information and co- by the Devants. These included course of their work accumulated, operation as is possible to all who an amusing cartoon called "The Commander F. W. Bennett. of And who was responsible for all are interesting themselves in the Bank Crash," the quotation being The letter which we to-day H.M.S. Hawkins, Commander these? The reply was only too development of this route, such from Omar Khayan:-"I came For the first time since 1914 the British Goverunchi

Owing to the goneral excellenco has brought in a Budget templating an expenditure of publish from "Hard Hit" in McCowen, of H.M.S. Alacrity; obvious. It is that the companies as Chambers of Commerce, Clubs like the water and like the wind

tions. Boy Scouts of America less than ten figures, the estimated disbursements being regard to the proposed additional several officers and a big batch of concerned were given a lone and civic or fraternal organiza- I go."

taxes on house property echoes amon, together with the Rov. J.D. hand with which to overcome| put at £974.000.000. Even so, this is just about five times feeling which is no doubt widely Pin, chaplain of H.M.S. Haw. vast odds, and the on us to pay who are within the limits of the of the black and white work, the

That statement does provalent though not loudlykins.

very heavily for the experiment. generation which will be first coloured drawings took, for once, unsubsidised, and the highest Budget of pre-war days.

unassist coguizant of the "age of the air" somewhat secondary place. not sound so bail when the change in money values is voiced. It would seem, as he

Some light injuries were ed in the competition against are receiving the fundamental There were, however, a good

compunies. foreign

For the training in the assistance which number of exhibits, remembered. A perceptible tendeney downward has suggests, that the large interests, occurred this year, but even now the ratio is approximately who have their own organisations sustained by the victim in re

to work for them, have all the traffic accident yesterday, re- Government, their military policy they are giving to this great. which were several sketchos by first tree with splashes of pink flowers that of 1914 instead of being five times. Another factor whereas the average resident has Government Civil Hospital. In that, on the recoil, has paralysed ment of this airway also puts the Botanical Gardens, and a fir as 5 to 2; hence the present Budget is relatively just double["say" in the Council Chamber.sulting in her removal to the has proved a regular boomarang, national project. The establish- Miss Bowen, whose fountain in to be remembered is that the country must be prepared for no-one to speak on his behalf. endeavouring to alight from a all the aviation industry of the into operation for the

landing fields for purpose of former soft and harmonious, the a number of years to face heavy curges resulting from the Goodness knows that rents are traincar whilst it was still in country, and consequently, a vital time the new system of marking on a grussy slope were good-the identification in aerial navigation. latter bold and decisive. There tenants from July 1st war, especially for pensions. It may further be noted that atrociously high at present; yet mation, the female Chineso con part in the national defences.

As the first trail of the west, was an interesting sketch of the first Chiounin Temple Gate at Kyoto the Budget, if the figures be not swollen by supplementary threatened with an additional back, a cut being inflicted on the

Now the news have just come the first steamship, the caustic soven por cent. in taxes, unless estimates-which would be sure to encounter

going against their previous events are historical high water flowers by Mrs. C. B. Brown, and criticism-represents an appreciable saving upon last year's in the meantime the Government back of her head, which rendered through that the Government locomotive, the other similar by Mrs. Marshal Wood, a vase of policy, has decided to subsidise in marke, just so will this start in by Mr. Bion a glorious sunset expenditure of £1,418 plus stondry additional votes of can be induced to find some other

means of raising the money. Tho Lam Loong was charged before the case of the two principal the creation of America's first with the. Lan-tau poak standing in the comparison, and it well be the greater if thetion and the Kowloon Residents Court this morning, for that he of £75, for each flight, provided the reflected glory of the event and, beneath the gloom below, substantial total. There is an element of encouragement Constitutional Reform Associa Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Police Cross-Channel services, a sum airway go down, in history, and out against a background of gold, estimated revenue of £1,058,000,000 be realised, after Association are both supposed to

who assista glittering sea reflecting the glory firm viz, the Hongkong Tailoring 825,000 to each firm. The offer every individual abandoning E. P.D. and imposing no fresh taxation. look after the interests of the being a member of a partnership that the total did not exceed will be the heritage of each and junks making for harbour en a There is also this redeeming feature, that the Budget of public: then why do they not ge Company, of D'Aguilar Street, comes at an urgent time when manually, financially or otherwise above. This was the best picturo 1920-21 was framed at a time when the wave of industrial Everybody complains at the did on the 24th January last the Handley Page Company had in this installation or who was in oil Mr. Bion has exhibited prosperity was still prevailing, and that the national prospect of having to pay heavier ombezzle the sum of $72.30, and suspended its services across the even present at the ceremony, this year, and the members show- finances weathered the storm of the industrial depression, rentale still: but there has been fail to return the sum of $185 Channel, and in the case of the thereby lending approval and accentuated by industrial disputes, that overtook the no solid, organised expression of collected in Tants, for which he other company at a critical period moral support.

opinion on the subject. A public being themanager of the Company, of its servicos. While the tardi- country in the course of the period.

The trend in national finance. we may say then, is in meeting called by these two held a power of attorney from ness of the offer is to be deplored, Associations working in concert another complainant. It was ex- some little gratification may be the right direction, but the question remains whether the would no doubt fill the theatre plained that the defendant, with derived from the realisation of the another man, held the power of general desire, as indicative of the economics are anything like commensurate with the needs and let the Government know attorney in conjuction, but that broader lines on which official The aftermath of a time of terrific expenditure is eminently how keenly public opinion feels he kept back a sum of $185 at the minds run. In any case, it is an occasion for retrenchment, the more so when the after-on the matter.

for others. Bail in the sum of fight their own battles as best math synchronises with a period of commercial stagnation arranged? Or must householders same time that he gave receipts better late now than never. Unfortunately, a post-war period is only too likely to be they can, without assistance from $300 was allowed to the defen- dant, the case being ordered to attended with responsibilities not favourable to economy, these bodies?

be heard next Wednesday. The question thus resolves itself into one of whether the! Government has effected all the economies practicable at the Germany's Evasions.

moment.

THE OLD COUNTRY'S BUDGET.

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buey on such a subject as this?)

Can't it be

Almost every day we are in

corned was precipitated on her

her unconscious.

LOCAL WEDDING.

Neville-Cooper.

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aviation centre

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FATHERS.

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ed their good judgment in award- ing it the prize for the open sub- ject.

The exhibition illustrated the versatility of local artists.

TERCENTENARY OF PILGRIM

The central feature in the that historic boulder may appear stage properties." celebration this summer at Ply- as one of the month Mass., of the tercentenary The waters of the Bay on which of the landing of the Pilgirm the Mayflower sailed from the Fathers will be a pageant, to be Cape Cod anchorage, to the spot divided into seven episodes. To here where the landing was made

The decision to make Egypt an

no doubt obtain the best effects, it has will serve as background, and guided by a recognition of the been decided to hold the ovents Cole's. Hill, where many of the strategic impt "tance which it at night. The performances are Pilgrims lived, died and were to be given in the immedite burled, with the waterfront, will will assume with the "All-Rod route

(England to Gibraltar, vicinity of Plymouth Rock, and form a natural amphitheatre.

Malta, Egypt, Mesopotamia India and the Far East) on the one hand and the Cairo-Capo and Australian airlines on the

Departments except the Ministry of Pensions have now forthcoming from the German Cooper, daughter

Germany's continual and Mrs. Archibald Cooper, of of a sum of $167,000 for air

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Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

In the third post-war Budget the fighting receipt of cabies telling how Services still absorb some 200 millions. Under the prevail-Germany is failing to discharge ing conditions we not think any case lies against the Govern-her obligations under the repara- ment of excessive expenditure upon the Navy, and as things tions, and we were not a little. stand only the Army seems to offer much scope for retrench- pleased to learn yesterday that

Britain has decided to sup- At the Union Church this other. It is gratifying therefore ment, though the estimates for the Air Force might show a juster allocation as between military and commercial port France in her measures morning, the Rev. Mr. J. Kirk to note the attention the Govern against Germany if there is no Maconachie officiating, the wed- ment has given to this arrange- aviation. In regard to the Civil Estimates all the war-time immediate satisfactory proposal ding took place of Miss Hilda May ment, and which has found

I see from the local papers After more than a year of per- of Mr. expression so far in the allocation that Hongkong Scotsmen have fervid, mushy, sentimental pro- been thanked by Edward P. for paganda the methode of adver- been closed down, and one can but echo the hope expressed side.

evasion of a direct answer, her Luton, England, and Mr. Frank services in Egypt.

assistance given towards the tisement have been exhausted by a publicist at home that these are not being perpetuated repeated failures to deliver what Cyril Neville, of the Public Works

furtherance of the scheme for and not more than one-fourth under another name, their remaining work having been she promised and her general Department, a son of Mr. and Mr. C. E. W. Ricou male one the erection of the Scottish of the required sum bas, been transferred to the permanent Departinents. Not long ago display of almost insolent indiffer- Mrs. Alfred Neville, resident in of his periodical flying visits National War Memorial. If my raised. The Colonies have even it was stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that there ence have been tolerated far too be same town,

Our French allies have

to Hongkong during the dourse Home paper is to be trusted and been rakod wi' a small tooth The bride, who was attired in a were nearly 100,000 more employed in Government offices long.

his second childhood, that's likely feeling is in the subscription list than at the date of the Armistice, but that they were all takon a very hard-headed. view charming white dress, was given of last week. He used one of his Lord Rosebery's no' already in comb. The test of the nation's to be the last they'll hear of the and the figures speak for them- of this question all along the way away by Mr. Colin Sara, of the smaller Curtisses for the flight. needed. This is surely a matter not only for surprise but and, in the light of these later Public Works Department. She

matter for a very long time to selves. The only national thing for investigation. If the assertion is correct. the Pre-day happenings, one cannot help was attended by Miss Sara us Appropriate exercises income.

about this memorial is the objec- mier's flourish in August 1919, when be instructed heads of thinking that if Great Britain had bridesmaid. The best man was nection with the opening of the I heard quite a lot about this tion to it. I don't wonder at it.

American airway were business when I was home last Most folks in Scotland shrink Departments to reduce staff's drastically, becomes ridiculous.stown a similarly stern front, this Mr. Archibald Roberts, of the first

on Saturday, Feb. voar and let me tell ye that this from the very idea of turning There is ground for assuming that not only need but question of the payment of re- Public Works Department. Mr. hold

parations would have been settled Chapman presided at the organ. This event will mark an epoch idea of turning Edinburgh Castle an ancient national shrine into room for further economy remains though it is only too plain long ago. We have been content The reception was held at the in the development of aeronaut into a sort of public museum iena a memorial of the recent war. that for many years to come, and even with relief by way to show sympathy-sympathy residence of Mr. Sara, at No. 6 since it is the initial step by ony means as popular in Scot- There has never been that active oland as lots would lead ye to enthusiasm which ought to per- of reparations, Budgets must continue to be on a heavy which has been mistaken for Now Black, Wong Nei Choong. establishing the scale. Interest on debt alone consumes a great deal more weakness, Mr. Lloyd George has There were numerous presents airways which will eventual believe. Lord Rosebery has vade such a movement. What's than the whole Budget for the last pre-war year, and here promised that if further coercive received by the couple from their extend all over the United State been against it from the very more forebye, folks are getting

measures are found to be peces many friends. The honeymoon

beginning and between you and fed up wi' war memorials and the Government has done well in clearing off a substantialleary they will be communicated ie being spent in Macao.

The first American Airw me the Duke of Atholl and his they do not wish to be reminded sum of both internal and foreign debt, besides seeking to to the House of Commons before

extends from Washington, D. 200 brosey Hielan'ers are very of the nightmare of years.

small beer compared to the Laird fund the floating debt. On the other side, it has to be any action is taken, though we

to Dayton, Ohio passing througe Dalmeny when it comes to a temper and noted that the Government has been very greatly assisted think of the average banded to the American repre- Moundsville, West Virginia an in this by the windfall from the advantageous disposal of patience

man at Home has been sufficient-sentative, but we venture to think Columbus, Ohio, and its establis batter of anteing up to make a surplus war stores. It is not a small thing that, alone of ly tried to make that procedure that a great deal more would ment will prove a vital mile ston mason's backyard of the old

Castle.. been accomplished. If in the progress and developmer Apart from that though, there's the European countries engaged in the war, Britain has nothing more than a matter of have made her Budget balance. To do this has meant a strain form. Germany must be con- Germany had handed those offers of both commercial and militan getting away from the fact scribe for any such purpose. apon industry, which has been enormously relieved by the vinced that the Allies are in to the Allied Reparations Com-aeronautica. abolition of E. P. D. Allowance must be made for a transi.arnest and that they have made mission for it is with that body alr routes throughout the couar Memorial movement is a are to-day, can it be wondered

just claims which they are deter-backed by their respective try are an absolute necesalty tion period, but, with the war further receding, the nation mined to have met. One of the Governments--that the last word the system of national defer has a right to expect that the next Budget will show lator messages received states lies. And that last word should and is as important as

[dovelopmental ˆwork that now German offers have been be said as soon se possible, appreciably larger reductions.

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Another potent cause of failure. perhaps the strongest of all those that might well be called subsidiary is the impoverish ment of the very class which has always been most ready to sub-

the Scottish National Taking things at:Home as they

are. Ye might as well set at if they have energy or spirit the K.R.A. to gather money loft for anything which is of

for Town Hall in Kowloon, no immediato necomsity?