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PARASITIN

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$1.00 per

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THURSDAY, MAY 26. 1921.

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

DAY BY DAY.

THE CHINA SQUADRON.

The Question of its Base.

The Bubble Bursts.

because the

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. satisfaction falt, makes us think a 35, Peel Street.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

Death.

is little to be gained by raking A Chinose female, aged eight over the whole ground of the years, tell yesterday from the controversy again and we do not second floor of G Caroline Street, intend doing so. But the scares Wanchai, into the backyard and and rumours that have now been] laid to rest serve

was instantly killed. to point GOW-At Scotstoun, Glasgow, on 13th May, Ian David, infant out the danger of alwayą)

surrounding official doings with Trade Commissioner E.S. Little! mystery. Wo are not inclined to and Mrs. Little left for Shanghai think that the blame for that by the Empress of Asia to-day, lies on the Govern- Mr. Little expressed satisfaction does at the result of his mission here.

son of David Gow.

The Hongkong Telegraph

ORGAN RECITAL.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

The tremendously high price of

+

It is an

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

ed the

&

WAS

YOU MAY FOOL ALL THE

European Lady Attacked. So the big Canton bubble of PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME, AND KILLS TICKS AND FLEAS ON DOGS AND CATS indignation has burat and instead TIME, BUT YOU CANNOT FOOL ALL urged by some of the leading make shift with old ones, and SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE For some time past it has been new goodn has forced people to

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at of thinking our Governor &

the Magistracy this afternoon scheming intriguer the people of THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME-naval authorities that the head-uch old things must be kept

the сале Abraham Lincoln,

came up quarters of the China Squadron tidy and whole, states a writer in hearing in

for Canton, according to the Canton

should

which vernacular papers, are ready to

be transferred from a Home journal. Now industries

young Chinese was charged with high- praise him for some of his past) Mr. W. A. Donaldson was a to the present nothing definite the War. Advertisements may be

Hongkong to Singapore, but up in repairing have arisen since way robbery with violence. actions. When on Saturday last passenger for Shanghai by the has eventuated

Miss Margaret Sorby, the wo appealed to the Hongkong Empress of Asis leaving this nection.

in that con-seen from firme which make a

complainant, in evidence stated Government to set the Can morning,

We learn that this matter will and overcoats. On the face of it,

speciality of turning men's suits that on the 9th May last she was tonese minds at rest by

form part of the general question this seems an impossible job, for

walking in Queen's Gardens the simple procedure of an L. W. Hartman was yesterday of Imperial Defence which is to either the buttons and button-

towards Conduit Road official statement we did so removed from the Macaosteamer, be considered by the Imperial holes must all be reversed, or

when the defendant, whom sho position was Sui An, suffering from the effects Conference due to be held this they will surely show, But no.

had for Kome time noticed gotting to something approaching of morphia.

walking bebind year in London and that upon The button-holes and the slit of up suddenly a serious stage, and it was thore-

her, came and fore with relief that we later:

the decisione reached at that the breast pocket are woven up.

made. anatch at her learned that His Excellency had

The skeleton of a Chinese child Conference will rest the fate of The work is done by girls who watch. The watch was detached gold wrist communicated with the British was found yesterday on the hill Hongkong as a naval base.

side at the rear of Hok Yuen Consul-General at Canton in-

In local naval circles, it is ex- the colours of the stuffs. So well twisting it and breaking the use fine thread exactly matching from her arm by the defendant structing him to put the Canton Village, Kowloon city."

pected that whatever decisions do they do their work that, even ribbon with which the watch Government at

are come to the Hongkong naval with a strong magnifying glass, was secured. €280. The

The readiness with which the Canton,

yards and depots will be retained it is difficult to discover the truck her

defendant A Chinese male child was ad- for the carrying out of repairs original position of the woven-up authorities accepted that assur-mitted into the Tung Wah Hos-much in the same way as at button-hole.

on the shoulder with a boat's rowlock before tak- ance and the publicity given by pital yesterday suffering from present. The change from Hong-

ing to bis heals. He was pursued the Chinese press to the general plague. The child was living at kong to Singapore or Penang

by the witness down Robinson An airman has invented an caught by three soldiers who Road into Glenealy where he was little more of them all. There

would be a matter affecting aerial grain sower. thing else. administration more than any aeroplane which will sow grain as subsequently recovered the watch it passes over a field, planting a

from the roadway where it was row thirty-six feet wide at each dropped by the defendant in the passage. A system of perforated streas of the chase, notal tubes, laid parallel at short in Conduit Road at the time, de-

Mrs. J. Stephens, who intervals, extends from front to back of the lower wings,

posed to being Air

witness The next Organ Recital will pressure aboots the seed from the of the take place in St. John's Cathedral tubes with sufficient force to bury made an attempt to seize the chase, and inform- on Monday next at 9-15 p.m. it at the right depth in loose soil. defendant, but the latter proved Court that she when in addition to some of the At the end of each wing-tip a tube to be too strong for her. He brake pieces included in the last pro-sends down a thin line of lime to away and ran down Robinson gramme Rheinberger's "Vision" to mark the planted area. Flying Road. and a remarkable tone picture at forty miles an hour, 640 acres "The Garden of Iram" by an can be planted in six hours. To defendant was committed for trial Other evidence having been led American composer, R.S. Stough- plant the same acreage in the ton, will be played. Mrs. A. M. ordinary way

at the next Criminal Session. A farmer would Bowes-Smith will sing "Jeru-have to work twenty-two and a salen" by Mendelssohn and the half ten-hour days. Or to do the magnificent number "Ye who job in one day thirty-eight men now sorrow" out of the "Be-would have to work together, BRITISH-BUILT ITALIAN LINER. A statement before us, from an American souve, says Peking at a rather biased angle, charged with cruelty to fowls.

werequiem" by Brahms, which, we The cost of teains for such whole- The new Itali..n liner Giulio beliove has never been sung hero sale sowing, and of the wear and Cesare is said to be the largest that last year 64 per cent. of the world's oil cane from to connect that mystery to some- A European sergeant said he before. It will be remembered tear on thirty-eight drille, would and finest vessel built on the wells in the United States. We have seen the proportion thing inimical to its interests arrested the second and third that the singing of this Requiem be a very big item compared with British North-East Coast with put still higher, but the figure quoted is sufficiently eloquent busybodies who laid this trail of Star Ferry wharf while they were held at home during the war was consumed by the

While we realise that it was defendants who were near tle at a National Memorial Service the nine gallons of petrol an hour the exception of the Mauretania. of American predominance. Probably the higher figure foolish rumours, we also think going on board the forry. In two the cause of a great deal of dis- Moreover, one aeroplane grained on her steam trails.

aoroplane. A speed of 1911⁄2 knots was obtain- we had in mind includes American interests in other parts that the Government should not crates were about 175 chicken sension; the beauty of the music sower could serve a whole district. of the globe where the Octopus, otherwise the Staudard have laid itself open to suspicion whose legs were Oil Corporation, has spread its tentacles. The commodity there has best no official ex- Two of the chicken died, while remains

protruding however over-ruled the objec-| by studied silence. Even yat through the holes in the crates. tions raised and the work A swift descent by the police on is one of great and growing importance. Before the war

. monument of a house in Kensington recently glycerine (for blowing sales), trip- the British Admiralty began the use of oil, and on Tuesday Phat are Peking visit. many of them were badly injured. Brahms' undoubted genius, The led to the breaking up of a group wires, wire-cutters, oxyacetyleno

it was purely departmental, it was announced in Parliament that the Fleet would soon we have good grounds for beliey-purchased three crates of chicken in aid of the Organ Fund for had been aroused in the CI.D. opening doors which are locked The first detendant said he collection at this Itecital will be of clever criminals. Suspicion blowpipers, keyhole-pliers for consist entirely of oil laurning vessels. In addition to ing. But why can't the Govern- from the Western market, but the which $100 or thereabouts is now that a burglar implement factory on the inside, evon gas-pistols, supply installations around the cost of Britain, special ment openly say so?

second defendant packed them in only needed to clear off the entire was at work there. The raid was

which would render the victim stations are being planned for Port Said, this Colony, and

two crates only. The second debt owing, Since Mr. Denman carried out by a large force of unconscious for upwards of an and was fined $25 or three weeks. Cathedral he has been instrument-pletely successful. A search of esting discovery was a small in defendant admitted responsibility, Fuller became Organist of the plainclothes men. It was com hour. But by far the most inter- The others were discharge. al in raising approximately $20,000 the house itself revealed an up- atrament connected to an equally for the Organ Fund and it is to-date plant suitable for the small battery, and resembling a hoped this Recital will remove manufacture of burglars' imple- portable telephone. Inquiry the small deficit.

ments. An unusual featuro was showed that it was a specially a tailor's shop, which specialised invented microphone for intensify- in the making of suits with coun- ing the sound made by the falling the tools without bulging. Tools the knob on a combination safe. ningly-contrived pockets to take of the tumblers when revolving of all descriptions were found-The nearly imperceptible sound silk ladders (which were made to of the tumblers falling into the mies, skeleton keys, brace and magnified into a veritable clang wear under the waistcoat), jem- release groove in the safe was bits, containers for carrying nitro-, by this instrument.

JIONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1921.

OIL COMPETITION.

as

Oll

very

mystery ment на moch as it

others. who. ut the outset of the Governor's visit to the north, began asking questions and making conjec. tures. Au air of mystery was manufactured before there were grounds for it and it was a some- 175 Chicken in Two Crates. what simple matter for Our

CRUELTY CASE.

Canton friends, who must neces- Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this sarily view any dealings with morning, three Chinese

northern province

under the

A few months ago, however, it

Law

"silk,"

a

GERMAN TRADE IN SHANGHAI.

TRENCHES BEFORE THE COURT AGAIN

were

Authorities

WAS

Between

Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

a number of other places. Possessing such an over-Ulster's "Uncrowned King." whelming share of the world's supplies, it might have For some time it was thought been supposed that Uncle Sam would have felt on pretty that Sir Edward Carson, so con- good terms with himself. There is a fly in the ointment. apicuously identified with Ulster, though, for the US Geological Survey states that the would be the first Premier of the American wells are being used up at a rapid pace. This Government of Ireland (Home no doubt goes a long way towards accounting for Washing Rule) Act just coming into fóree. ton's anxiety over Mesopotamia and Djambi,

It is a little entertaining to note that in the statement was intimated that Sir Edward's Activity Among the Old Firms above referred to the Home Government's oil policy is transferred to Sir James Craig. leadership of Ulster was to be described as being marked by

Further interesting information customary British The nows just received marke the with reference to the activity of Sequel to Closure by Chinese foresight. It has long been the custom for critics in the close of the ex-First Lord of the German merchants in Shanghai Old Country to contrast the authorities handling of Admiralty's appearance in the is given in an article in the

Proceedings by M. Goldman commercial problems with the alert and efficient methods character. of statesman, as Sir "Sinwap." According to this against C. S. Maitland were be- of the United States and, before the war, Germany. Here is career at the Bar has been with Germany has not yet been Shanghai on the 19th inst. before Edward now joins the judiciary, journal, the commercial treaty gun in H. M. Supreme Court at we have an American publicist bolding Britain up as an romarkable in more than one re- drafted, but German merchants hia Honour Judge example of prescience!

Skinner The American grievance over spect. Reaching the "inner Bar" in Shanghai are very active and Turner. Plaintiff's claim Mesopotamia is that, while Britain says any

one canin 1889 as a member of the Irish their former commercial standing for the return of a deposit of prospect for oil there, Britain has claims staked out. This Bar and in 1894 as a member of is gradually being restored. Al-$3,000 paid to defend at under refers to the British Petroleum Co's. holdings from a one of the surviving "Q.Ca." (He made a rule tha: all German ex-lease dated September 30, 1920, word "fiddle" when I'm talking must have had no loose notione the English Bar, Sir Edward is though the Allied nations have the terms of an agreement for a Turkish syndicate, which obtained them before the war was only thirty-five when first ports must pay an export duty made

Janet says I shouldna' use the of the opinion that Strad himself Apparently America is disposed to question these holdings, attaining

between defendant as about Elman. Considering I about an eight hour day or else The attitude of the British Government, as we understand circumstance, especially at that value, the quantity of indigo, respect of premises No. 1 Jukong plate doesna' lie under his ladie

notable amounting to one-tenth of their lessor and plaintiff as lessee in don't know the man and that my you know what I mean. it, is that America had cognizance of the proceedings Ireland and subsequently Solicitor arriving in Shanghai is very possession on December 10 and extra careful. Do you? I sup- a real-dyed-in-the-wood Stradi-

time.) Solicitor-General for nails and other merchandize Road. Plaintiff

I don't want you to think for a when the League of Nations awarded the mandate, and General and Attorney-General large. Substantial quantities are remained in possession

entered into any way, I see no reason for being moment that Elman's fiddle's no' failed to enter a protest, as she might have done, for the "predominant partner," he arriving each week.

until pose I shouldna' for all that, but varius. In his hands. it sounds though not a member of the League. American anxiety has the probably unique ex-

December 27, when the premises when ye come to think of it, like three of thom rolled into Most of the men who were over Mesopotamia

taken may be

closed by order of the classical music doesna' provide one. And from what I hear I measure perience of having boon a formerly managers of Gernian Chinese authorities, and defond- much in the way of easily hand- should say he's got enough of the value of the oilfields there, and if

Officer of the

Crown export firms have returned to aut re-possossed himselt of the led verbs when it comes to writ- money to buy half a dozen if he Britishers, who have expended many millions upon that Sir Rufus Isaacs (now Earl Read-managers of Siemsons and Mel-possession and occupation ever been brought up to that sort of to death is that every time a in two countries. Like Shanghai, among them the premises and had remained ining about it. Unless a man's wants to. But what tickles me territory, have acquired oil elaims, it is surely a warranting, the new Viceroy of India), chers, while other well known since. Plaintiff further claimed thing and has had a heap of fiddler is interviewed the reporter. able step. unless America can clearly demonstrate whom he succeeded as Attorney- companies are now represented, for the return to him of a portion musical sisters during his adoles- aye manages to drag, in a line invalidity. Any way, America is likely to get a useful General, Sir Edward long They are endeavouring to resume of the stock of wine and spirits cence he's very apt to put a about the lineage and pedigree share of Mesopotamian oil. A portion has been allotted enjoyed one of tho moat business, with the assistance of belonging to him and left by him soft needle on when it comes to of his blamed fiddle, as if was to France. Did not the Rockefeller organisation conclude and in accepting an appoint-Pootung wharf of Melchere & Co. or wrongfully detained by defen- musical line. I suppose though, first account.

lucrative practices at the Bar, their old compradores. The upon the premises and consumed chattering about onything in the it, an no' the player, that was of an agreement with French oil interests not long ago?ment 18 Regarding Djambi, the Dutch Government has hitherto which will take him to the Upper try of Communications and is at value of the goods, $450,

Lord of Appeal-is under the control of the Minis- dant; or, in the alternative, the when a man takes to handling MacPherson once had a very welcomed foreign capital for the development of the Chamber as a life peer-Ulster's present leased by a Japanese

a real Strad he deserves to valuable violin. He bought it Netherlands E. Indies, but in granting a concession to the of income. Perhaps at 67 the August or September next and

Mr. Kentwoll, for defendant, become a violinist and Mischa out of a second-hand boot shop hero will no doubt sustain a loss firm. The lease, expires in raised the question of there being certainly is, you can take it from when he was on home on holiday Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., to the exclusion of the lawyer-politician feels ready for German representative of Messrs subject.

a doubt as to his being a British me. But this is no' a musical and for the best part of a month Standard Oil Corporation, the Parliament at The Hague comparative quietude after probably felt it necessary to conserve its oil resources strenuous career. For a short ese, has left for Peking in the pointed out that defendant had me of the brilliant idea of the make when he sold it. It was a Mechers, accompanied by a Chin- Mr. P. W. Goldring, for plaintiff, Thom Strad fiddles aye remind ing of the money he was going to oritique so I'll spare ye the rest. could neith r eat or sleep think~. against such a formidable competitor.

while Sir Edward was First hope of securing the leave from submitted to the jurisdiction of the English Town Councillorat very old fiddle. The label told, With respect to British supplies, it has just been Lord of the Admiralty, and the Ministry of Communications, Magistrate in the British Police Reading, I think it was. Ye see ye that in plain German moth- stated in the House of Commons that the Anglo-Persian without

subsequently Whe Minister so as to be able to use the wharf Court, who recently sentenced him they had been fixing up some eaten lettering. agreement is regarded as having definitely lapsed. This imported from Continental poli-

Cremona", it to three months' imprisonment. The Board of Directors of the

kind of an artificial pond there said, And the date was 1763. The is presumably without prejudice to the concession granted tios during the war). He is most Deutselte Asiatische Bank at question of nationality had arisen considering a gondola or two to time for schooling for his signa

Mr. Kentwell answered that the and had duly got the length of maker couldns' have had much: to the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., which recently decided upon widely known to fame, however, Berlin has appointed a Chinese since then. a substantial increase of its capital (a large portion is held as the protagonist of the Orange representative at Shanghai in

sail thereon. The question of ture waens great shakes. Oh! by the British Government). With interests also in Asia eralissimo"

Mr. Goldring I cannot bring a expense cropped up. How much an old fiddle right enough. To gen- connexion with the opening of a cross-claim against defendaut in did a gondola cost anyway? put Mac out of his misery some Minor, Trinidad, the Maikop field, Galicia, Roumania Volunteers, with Mr. F. E. Smith, co.amodation has been secured at claims British nationality.

the Ulster branch office, and temporary ae-the Mixed Court because he Oh! one would cost so much but one suggested that he should send and Egypt, as well as the Mexican Eagle areas, British K.C., as chief "galloper," which No. 51 Kiangse Road. The for-

by taking two they would work it to Ho eyman the fiddle export. enterprise has shown an expanding appreciation of oil, as it gave rise to a piquant sequel, mer compradore of the Bank is and said the defendant could raise on the other hand-but up jump- ony faith in him afterwards,

His Lordship ordered pleadings, out a bit cheaper. Half a dozen So he did and Mac never had was eminently neussary it should do, considering the daily (now Lord Birkenhead), assisting in arrangements for the the question of nationality in his ed the representative of the cheap German violin worth 15/- increasing importance of the product. Britain, too, has to chief's junior, in turn became cannot be done until the com-

who is many years his former resumption of business, but this defence. remember the factor that is causing concern to oil men in Solicitor-General and Attorney-mercial treaty has been signed. the big Republic. Still, America has reason to congratulate General, and then mounted the It is learned that the Waichaipou herself upon having a larger margin for decrease of yield he read the Ulster chief a lecture question of roparations has been Vladivostok is selling its steamer of

Woolsack. Not long afterwards will not sign the treaty until the than any other country.

upon intemperate speeches ! determined,

Portfolio (&

interest. Bir Edward was

of

post for German vessels.

R.V.F. STEAMER FOR SALE. The Russian Volunteer Flest in

Moscow by public tender.

people and wanted to know what when new" was his verdict. was the use of such extravag- But that doesna go to prove ance. Better get two to begin that Mac's no musical for all wi', he said, and breed them. that mind ye. Mao can tell the Judging from the number tune on the opposite side of n' real Strads still in record quicker than ony other existence nowadays I'm strongly man I know,