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PARASITIN

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

NOTES & COMMENTS.

Constitutional Reform.

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921.

DAY BY DAY.

THE BOOKSHELF.

DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL.

KILLS TICKS AND FLEAS ON DOGS AND CATS of the Hongkong Daily Press 18 MAKING PEOPLE THINK YOU with which Scott heads one of manifested in the scheme for the four new steamers for the Com-

This preparation is non-poisonous and harmless

to animals. It stimulates the growth of the

hair and fur and gives a fine gloss to the coat.

$1.00

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MORE BOATS COMING.

Four Steamers for J.C.J.L. Word has been received at the local offices of the- Java Obina Japan Line of the construction of pany's service on the China Coast and across the Pacião. Orders have been placed with a well- known firm of shipbuilders at Glasgow for the construction of two steamers of 15,000 tons oach, and the construction is already

IT IGN'T ENOUGH TO BE ALL (By "Librarian,”)

How the New Scheme Those of our readers wheRIGHT IN THIS WORLD; YOU'VE

Stands. should chance to be readers also GOT TO LOOK ALL RIGHT; BE TRACKING A FAMOUS QUOTATION.

CAUSE TWO-THIRDS OF SUCCESS Everybody remembers the lines Considerable interest is being must have noticed that Roderick ARE ALL RIGHT.-G. H. Lorimer the chapters of "Old Mortality." building and endowment of a Random of that journal treated

Sound, sound the clarion, fill new Diocesan Boys' School on

the fife

the Kowloon side. It has been To all the sensual world felt for a long time past that the

proclaim,

accommodation in Colne Road One crowded hour of glorious has been totally inadequate to

life

meet the needs of the school and Is worth an ago without a the Government has already well in hand. The other two intimated its willingness. to liners, which are of 13,000 tons

us yesterday morning to over three columns of comment based

on what had previously appeared reported yesterday, one of which There were two cases of plague in The Hongkong Telegraph. proved fatal. There was also one That's evidence that the non-fatal case of diphtheria- Telegraph is an interesting news Portuguese,

papor, anyhow.

All that was

said about the child "slavery"

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namo.

question can be left for another Another big property deal has As far as I remember, the take over the site and furnish } sach, are being built at the yards day, especially seeing that it been put through by the novel does not attribute the lines a larger site at Yaumati, close to of the Amsterdam Shipbuilding When completed mainly concerns what Mr. S.B.C. Humphreys Estate Company. Ato another hand, nor, I think, are the railway station. As a con- Company. Ross told us and not what we block of 26 houses at Portland inverted commas used, hence siderable expenditure would be two of these vessels will said ourselves. But on the Street Yaumati has been sold to readers have assumed the lines involved there has recently been be allotted to the Java-San subject of Constitutional Reform Chinese buyers by the Company. to bo Scott's. Even Lockhart formed a large and representative Francisco and coastwise run. It the verbose Roderick deserves a The price is said to be about ascribed them to his father-in-Committee to appeal for the has not been definitely known on little guidance. He tried to make $100,000.

Their origin has lately necessary funds, and a meeting what run the remaining two appear inconsistent on the

been discovered. They appeared of this Appeal Committee took liners will be put, but it is be- matter but didn't succeed bo-

in a weekly paper called "The place last evening under the lieved not improbable that they cause he had no straw with which The War Departinent vessel Bee," published before "Old chairmanship of the Bishop of will be operated for the benefit of to make such a kind of brick. "Hercules" was put up for auction Mortality." What Scott did was Victoria.

the China trade. Specially verso from D When we expressed a preference at the Royal Army Servico pier to rescue the

The present position of the designed for Eastern' trade con- a lengthy composition which, scheme is that (in addition to theditions, these liners will have a officials as opposed to govern-number of bids but those did not except for the lines quoted, is $284,865 which would be received limited accommodation for pas ment by inexperienced lay come up to the reserve sum, and un-noteworthy.

from the Government for the old songers, twolve being, the number representatives who could be it was decided to hold a re-sale

site and school and as a grant) of borthe provided for first-class "tagged" by this or that interest next Saturday.. Messrs. Hughes

$165,000 is required to be raised travellers. we didn't expect our officials to be and Hough are the auctioneers. likened to archangels. But we did assert, und still do assort, that those who are strongest in their

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. government by disinterested this morning. There were

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY, 20, 1921.

MODERN JAPAN.

To-morrow's Pictorial Page

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CANTON NEWS.

The vernacular papers still for continue to publish senseless

Mr. Carl Crow is certainly to

to defray the cost of the new ho complimented pani

the "Handbook for China," of which has been very wisely decided by Įbuilding. In addition to this it a third edition, revised through-libu Committee that the will contain the following out, has just been issued. Design school should start with an desire for an Unofficial Majority features-Portraits of President ed primarily for travellers, this and who are leading that move-

$100,000, so that the appeal tent are less ably fitted to govern Sun Yat-sen; Mre, Sun Yat-sen; compact and neatly-bound guide endowment fund of at

being now

made is than those who now have control Governor Chan King-ming: Mr of some 300 pages contains a of things. And we were at pains Lin Sun: The Hyder Brothers: quantity of information that will$265,000. It was stated last oven-rumours regarding Hongkong. to point out that in this Colony,) The U.A.C. team which won the doubtless be welcome to residents where there are so many conflict-relay race at the V.R.C. Sports; as well. Every phase of life is that about $18,000 bas al-They have now printed the report of a person recently returned ing interests both racial and The Moslem Basket Ball Club covered, including climato and ready been secured.

exchange, shopping that he had recently been absent the Hongkong Government is still His Lordship the Bishop stated from Hongkong to the effect that commercial, the delegation of winners of the Open Basket Ball clothing. power to non-official hunds would Competition: St. Joseph's Colleges, routes and fares, passport from the Colony for about six persisting in B proposal to open up grave dangers in the way Football Club, winners in the regulations, post-office arrange-weeks travelling through Shang-exchange

weight and measures, pidgin " English, Consulates, schools and colleges. He was Hongkong Customs Houses, and a number

and

It

Wei-hai-wei for The arrival în of Sir James in

We made Football League. ately free of now. no imputation on the honesty

of other things. There are concise particularly impressed with the Lockhart the other day

of value education the of these

he said to have been in connection sponsoring

Mr. 9. N. Ao Yung, a graduate descriptions of numerous cities felt that with regard movement, and when wo

to with that matter and the report are of the Columbia University, and in different parts of China, with

schema the present accused of despising those from at present Secretary to the Peace longer ones of Shanghai, Peking no use embarking on a small Peking Government has approved was even goes so far as to say that the whom we draw our support the Treaty Commission of the Foreign Canton, Macao, and this Colony. Is it not a case rather of the the other evening at the To Yuen says that it "is to-day without/revision but that it would be bet-to issue a mandate. accusation is manifestly unfair Office at Poking, gave a dinner Speaking of Victoria Mr. Crowne that would require frequent of the mattor, but has not dared The Provincial Treasurer is try. Body Press and those other testaurant at West Point, to doubt the most beautiful city in ter to go in for a comprehensive! champions of " reform "despising Professor John Dewey, who was the Far East:" The traveller is scheme like the one before them. ing bis hardest to sell provincial bonds. He has now issued invita- the Government by which they on a visit to the Colony together directed to China's many places That would allow of expansion. aro governed, and of being blindly with Mrs. Dewey and their of interest, and there are some Mr. A. G. Stephen to be Hon. Trea- the benevolent societies and com- The meeting appointed the Hon, tion cards to the members of all obsessed to secure a democratic daughter. Amongst these present attractive chapters upon the principle" without having given at the function were Mrs, and country's arts, as well as a sketch surer and the Rev. W. T. Feather-mercial guilds to attend a dinner thought to the consequences of Miss Dewey, Mr. T. Rowan, and of Chinese history and an outline one to be Hon. Secretary. An this evening (Friday.)

Executive Committee was also it? We expocted the taunt of

The Min Chi News Agency of a number of Chinose business-of its government since the Re- being servile, and so can pass on. inen, Professor John Dewey is public was proclaimed. A nom-appointed to consider the form a Canton reports that the British Consulate has addressed a letter What's Wrong Anyway? the welk known teacher of ber of maps and a capital index public appeal should take

to the Governor's Yamen protest- At a time when Japanes Crown Prince is Britain's

Readers will have enough at the University of Peking.

philosophy and social education add to the utility of the volume,

which is published by Mr. Carl debated. Admiral Sir H. Berkeleying against the flying of acro- guest and the question of the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese common ravee to know that!

Crow, Shanghai, at $4.

Milne, who commanded the planes over Shameen at a low which the British Treaty is about to come up for consideration, a work on when wo oppose the granting of

Mediterranean Fleet, gives his altitude the Eastern empire by a British official whose direct an unofficial majority for this In the fire which broke out a In the late nineties Mr. E. F. own account of the episode in Consulate considers is in violation Colony we do so because we few days ago at the Namchow Benson delighted novel-readers

The Flight of the Goeben and of cortain aerial rules. During experience of the country dates back to the transition day realise the dangers of it-and for Company's factory in Kwei Lam with Dode. Perhaps he shock the Breslau" (Nash, 6s: net), and the last few days, several new makes its appearance with a certain fitness. The Meljino other reason. We ask any Street, the tenents of an adjoining ed a few, for Dodo was too wilful traverses some of the statements machines were being tried in era dates from 1868, and its beginning marks a definite impartial reader to accompany house had permission of the for words. The concluding lines or implications presented in the exhibition flights over the city. turning point towards Western ideas. Sir Ernest Satow's as through the whole gamut Police to remove their belong-of the first Dodo novel return Admiralty's "Official History." These machines will probably be personal experiences go back to the half dozen years of public administration in inge. Before doing so, the master upon one almost word for word. He lays stress upon the eircumst- used in the coming campaign

Colony and preceding the Emperor Meiji's accession. hence he is able this

compare of the shop on the ground floor When her finer calls to see her, ance of an erroneous telegram against the Kwangsi militarists.

Mr. Clarence Smith, manager to reproduce the atmosphere of the leading-up period with the administration of any of the building coquested the he hears this from the immobile sent out by the Admiralty of the

municipally governed community Police to examine the effects of butler:

outbreak of hostilitics with of the Shameen branch of the Sir Ernest, the future Ambassador, had not at that time they know. There is room for bie fokis which were in baskets.

the Asia Banking Corporation has, "Her Serene Highness left for Austria, which affected advanced beyond the rank of interpreter, but the linguistic improvement and criticism in in the basket of one of the foki's Paris this morning.

whale of my dispositions, with says the Canton Times, baen attainments that qualified him for that post likewise some respects-we shall have to was found the inside machinery Thus does the lover learn that the result that the pursuit of the transferred to the Hongkong qualified him to make a special study of the country's be in heaven before we find a of a clock and also some blankets, his betrothed has eloped with a German vessels was checked for branch of the same banking house

place where there isn't. But we the property of his master. Asked Russian Prince. Some twenty twenty-four hours." conditions.

are a little tired of reading noth- this morning at the Magistracy years later, by which time the

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Between Ourselves

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By Robt. MacWhirter.

In the latter half of last century an upheaval took ing else but condemnation and by Mr. One why he stole those little lassie, had grown up, Mr. place in Japan which may be ranked with the most far-acrimonious fault-finding. Take goods, he replied that he was Benson Kave us "Dodo's reaching revolutions in the history of the world. During our Police, our Sanitary Depart-hard up and was desirous of Daughter. Now we have a third the 250 years of their rule the Shoguns had prevented any ment, our Imports and Exports, returning to his home. He could novel of the Series, Dudo our Harbour Office, our Public have got the necessary cash by Wonders" Hutchmson, 88 6.) current of Western thought from penetrating into the works the whole outfit, lock, selling these articles. He was It is Dodo again, to the very life! country of the gods." In the backwater thus formed they stock and barrel, and you will find given twenty days' hard labour. and plenty of it-Dodo with her

The Ferries are that crowded clashed me down on the spot and had succeeded in preserving au archaic political system afficiency and honesty. Visitors

parts of speech in no way im-nowadays that it's no' possible to it raining like anything which depended for its existence on continued stagnation pay us tribute where residents

paired, the same agreeable rattle wale a place like you used to be So when diplomats and sailors came from the West. Raancial policy and development croase lately in the volume of Dode with her looks untouched, Forry I was unfortunate enough conversation of certain people

On matters of pay no head.

There has been a marked in-with the same hidden depths.able to. The other day on the Somebody has said that the bringing new thought into the self-isolated State, it took we would rather trust to the emigration traffic from Ilongkong her spirits as ever, but softened to find myself behind only a few years to reach a transformation which changed system that has brought us so far to the Netherlands East Indies, by motherhood (a charmingly mutton dressed up as lamb and twiddling the thumbs. Certain some was merely a nervous habit like the most conservative of Eastern States into a on the road than to the trial where the extensive exploitation drawn phase, this), made wiser, the chatter o' them was enough ly lots of us have had occasion progressive Power able to hold a position of equality of one

Home of tin and oil Lines, and sugar even sadder, by the years of war to put an Acousticon ont of at one time or other to wish that been 80 openly abused, and coffee plantations has created and with her old court round her, business. amongst the great civilised nations of the world.

little more was known about Hongkong is peculiarly circum-an unprecedentedly big demand

talking as a symptom, so that Writing of the inertin which prevailed during the long stanced in its make up and its for Chinese labourers, It has been more or less the same, For those feudal regime of the Shoguns when the nominal rulers, like successful administration calls found necessary for the purposes is twice as good as a work of im-sausages

· of clef "Ail I said was: You had the right people might be induced

for breakfast so I to take the cure. the degenerate descendants of Charlemagne, had sunk to for an impartiality and judicial of recruitment of the coolies bere, agination, it will be intriguing thought you wouldn't want But if anyone were to suggest the state of puppets, the author says: Japan resembled detachment that we could scarcely to come into an arrangement with and pleasant to identify Mro. sausages again for supper-and to a babbling friend that he or the sleeping beauty in the wood, and the guardians of the hope to find outside an official the local branches of the Java Arbuthnot and the very, very he took hold of that tin of salmon she should see a doctor, I doubt China Japan Line, Netherlands superior "Lord Cookham." Nadine (and you know what a price it not but that a new enemy would public safety had a task not more onerous than that of

East Indies Bank, the Holland and young David also have their is

now) and actually. *. be added to the list, while it is waving a fan to keep the flies from disturbing the prin-Windy Talk.

China Trading Company and, as not improbable counterparts in

more than likely that the ques cess's slumbers. Then came the prince, in the person of Our contemporary can indulge the usual passport regulations life. Dodo herself remains just- << the representatives of the great commercial Powers of the in whatever flights of oratory it have been waived for the benefitifiably the centre, too naively de- unpick that old voile costume and be raised.

..so I.think I eball tion of the critic's sanity would wishes, and the advocates of an of the coolies, no difficulty has lighted with the position to al-turn it, and dye the stuff a desper West, and woke Japan from her dreams."

Yet the day may come when Commodore Perry rendered a memorable service to principles and of the democratis a steady flow of emigration traffic is the one perhaps universal fail-coloured lace and a few buttons to wasting twenty minutes of your unofficial majority can prate of been encountered in maintaining isnate anyone. After all, vanity pink, and get some cinnamon- the gossip who has been guilty of Japan as well as to the West when he presented listing influence of a franchise, but to the Dutch colony. The nun- ing of the human race; and match and out it out like Gladys precious time on reminiscence or ultimatum to the Shogunate. Reluctantly as Japan had the public of this Colony has ber of emigrants leaving here by frank, half-rueful vanity, united aid her royal blue with short rumour will voluntarily go and opened her gates, the process of transformation advanced a right to be shown by argument the J.C.J.L.'s steamer is over to a devastating candour as to sleeves, and use the piers of put herself in the hands of the amazingly once her eyes also had been thoroughly opened just in what particular it would 1,000 every month. The mai- one's own deficiencies, is positive-satin off the hat I bought at doctor for it. On his accession in 1868 the Emperor Meiji promulgated change. We are all for the better to the East coast of Sumatra self, as Dodo-showman, has lost member) for the waist and loop was reading in the

stand to benefit by the desired ority of the coolics now proceedly endearing. Mr. Benson him-

circle.

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"Post".

Just the other day Janet

about a wee girl being cured after is bound to be a pleasant thought,

talking oven on for more than a to all but the very dour and

for all that he did was to push the 1st Young Lady: "I can't re- week at a time. The doctor, it harshly critical, that years do not member what it was called, but seems, was a savee kind of bird

spinal cord into place.

As I see it though, the difficulty now, with the yappers will be ta get them to see that it is time they had their vertebra attended.

the Five Articles of Oath declaring that "public matters expression of public opinion where labourers are in great de-little of his pristine sparkle. It shall be decided by public assembly," although, owing to and for that reason would have mand. dissensions, it was not until 1890 that a Parliament the present number of non. as it exists to-day was inaugurated. Nine years later the publicly elected everyone of the Government pandering to necessarily dull merriment and Im sure you'd like it. It is about

Chinese unofficial members cessation of extra-territoriality marked a red-letter event them. If it is just the vote that them. We know of none that are dim brilliancy. in Japanese history, How the commerce and the Navy is wanted we are with the inimical to the Colony's welfare

a girl who married a naval officer of Nippon have placed her in the position of one of the

and lost her baby and wandered every time, but if it or that conflict in any way with The escape of the German about for years.* world's great powers has become a commonplace. Just

power they are just and clonu administration.

2nd Young Lady: "Perhaps now Japan, following a period of phenomenal prosperity, ask where it is they hope to do wise and show us how they are through the Dardanelles in the it was The Wandering Jow

a right to Let our "reformers" prove other warships Goeben and Breslau finds herself confronted with something in the nature of better than is being done now going to transform us into & early days of August, 1914, bad, 1st. Young Lady: "No, I don't an economic crisis, besides political troubles not a few. and what guarantee can they positive "El Dorado" of perfection as everyone knows, a momentous think that's right. How silly of The ensuing years may prove uncommonly trying. but. Bivu that it will be done as dis- and we will gladly listen. But effect upon the balance of forces me to forget the title." are not likely to be beyond the capacity of a race that has interestedly or as well. People before we give up the solid values in the Near East, and the respon evinced uncommon aptitude.

are fond of hinting at the present we have, we want something more sibility for that misfortune to the existence of interests" and of than windy talk about principles. Allied cause has been much rude. I said Man Man' and he blithering.

reformers" is executive seeking we have

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insulting to tell them that they

have a kink in their spinal cord,

as it would be to suggost in ony

and the coolie was so other way that they're are