"The Wine of Kings
The King of Wines
CHAMPAGNE
De St. Marceaux, "in Brut
or Veory Dry Vintage 1911.
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THE HONGKONG
TUESDAY, JUNE. 7.-1921.
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NOTES & COMMENTS:
An Amazing Rumour.
THAN DOING
LOCAL COAL DISPUTE. AIR FORCE MEMORIAL
COR
ENGE.
No Agreement Reached.
Discussions resumed yesterday
Acknowledgment of Hongkong's Contribution
The following latters have been
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Gymkhanas
THE TALENT OF SUCCESS 19 A startling rumour almost | NOTHING MURE suggestive of Anthony Hope's WHAT YOU CAN DO WELL; AND kingdom of Ruritania was dis- DOING WELL WHATEVER YOU DO, into the wagon qusation between received in acknowledgment of the seminated by the Church Times WITHOUT A THOUGHT OF FAME representatives of the coal coalies contribution made by rzdenis in St.--I should be obliged if you and one daily papar OD the-Longfellow,
and their employers reached Hongkong to the Royal Air Force would allow me to submit through morning that the Japanese Crown
zoother impasse when it came to Memorial Fund. The money was Four valuable paper the following Prince bads farewell to England.
making a decison as to whether raised through the agency of the gentions to the Committee of It was actually intimated that A Chinese was knocked down the increase should be fixed an Hongkong Aaro Club and forward-the Hongkong Jockey Club, the visitor was an imposter, some and injured yesterday in Shang-percentage basis or on the ed by H.B. the Governar at the one unknown baving been sent to hai Street by motor car No. 415, different rates submitted by the end of January. personate his Imperial Highness. The Japanese Embassy took
Among those returning to the immediate steps to contradict Colony to-day by the s.a. Colum- the calumny, Japan's Heit bis ware Mr. and Mrs. J. Cram Apparent is well-known not only Sheppard. to Baron Hayashi, the JapaneSSO Ambassador, and many officials at the Embassy, bat, by sight at The first night fete of the any rata, he is also well season is being held at the V.R.C. koown to a large number of to-morrow evening.
The pro the extensive Japanese colony gramme promises to be an inter- in London Before leaving eating one. for the West, Prince Hirobito deputised at several public
1.-Programmas should be put coolias. Adhering to their
March 21, 1831.
on sale at last three days before original stipulations after making some slight allowances for the write to convey to you the very
Dear Sir Reginald Stubbe, the Gymkhana in principal book. mid-day meal and penalties for warm thanks of the Committee of
stores. foremen found guilty of neglect the Royal Air Force Memorial the names of running ponies and 2-The blackboard on which of duty, the workmen were not Fund for the generous donation their jockey are written should be successful in their endeavour to contributed to the Fund by the replaced out in the open under the get the contractors round to their sidents in Hongkong.
Jockey Club Stand instead of in point of view.
Tha Commilles hope that you
the Weighing Room. The officials of the Cost Coolina will take proper opportunity of as
S.-In the Place Betting Paying Guild yesterday enlisted the suring the residents of the warm Department at least two shroffs services of Mr. M. K. Lo, through sense of their kindness which has each should be appointed to pay whom the following communics-been exalted by this liberal con. the dividends of the 1st, 2nd, and A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. tion ring to the Mikado's ill-Yesterday's health, euro Ki Han Kong Sheung Wai, the bope that the residents will, in so
return tion was then forwarded to the tribution. And the Committeerd, ponies.
Yours, nic. ness. The fact that the Crown cases of enteric fever reported. Association of Contractors— far as it may be possible, continue
WELL-WISHER, Prince was not much seen during two of the sufferers being British **Dear Sirs,With reference too give their valuable support to Hongkong, June 6, 1921. the early stages of his voyage is and one indian. There was also the meeting held on the 28th day the Fund-I remain, etc., easily understood: as H. 1. Hone case of paratyphoid fever. of the 4th moon this Chinese
[Sd.) Bran Ceen. receded from the zone of possible Nage of the cases were fatal.
Chairman. our Empire, at a time when money year, we are instructed by the danger he showed himself with-
is extremely difficult to obtain coal workers to encloss herewith out restraint. It is especially
Sir, I bave the bonour to from the general public at home. a list of their demand and shall acknowledge receipt this morning regrettable that such a rumour, Twenty-four Chinese appeared be glad if you will kindly inform of your registered letter No. 4991-ful if, through the Press or any The Committee would be grata- worthy of the sensational Press at at the Marine Court this morning us in the course of to-morrow 1920 dated 29th. January, 121, other medium that you think it its worst, should have been in charged with failing to renew which item you agree to and enclosing a cheque for £378:9: our thanks could is conveyed to as itiated by a leading organ of the their cargo boat licanoes. Eight which item you refuse to accept being the amount subscribed by many of the kind donors as is religious Press. Apparently a were fined $7, with the option of as the matter has been protract the residents of Hongkong. proof of the article was sent to 10 days hard labour, and the red for a long time, we are in-
possible. the daily papers, and it is some mainder were each ordered to pay structed to inform you that unless of the Chairman and Committee of official receipt No. A 611.-1 am, Will you please accept on behalf I beg to enclose herewith our consolation to find that, with 85, with the option of 7 days. single exception, all rejected it.
we bear from you in the course this Fund, their very grateful etc.. of to-morrow either accepting thanks for your extremely band-
(sd.) W.E.S. Brach, Censoring Correspondence. We have received information (00: demands
intimating some subscription, and we are the A case in s London police-court from the local Consul General for y
Lk-Col. for more grateful for this help, coming Secretary, Royal Air Force All communications intended for publication should be address-raisesan important query concern the Netherlands to the effect that an early settlement our clients as it does from the remote parts of Afemorial Fund.
ing correspondence. The defend- telegraphic a trice received from will reluctantly cease work. In ant (an ex-officer of the Canadian the Government of the Nether-the interests of all parties we army, who fought in the war) lands East Indies, states that the venture to hope that an early keeps a shop, and in all good decree probibiting the exportation amicable settlement may be faith added a little to the earnings of rice has been rescinded by an reached-Yours, etc. Messrs. Lo by letting the premises be used ordinance of the
4th instant and Lo
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1921.
OUR COAL COOLIES.
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of pata-
reasonable
tion of the guild.
or
basis
MOTOR CASES.
To-Day's List.
Between
Ourselves
By Robi. MacWhirter.
I see among Friday's telegrams miner, who knew conditions la
as an accommodation address-which comes into force on the 8th No reply was received from those from the Old Courtry will instant.
the contractors up to the time of remember the sometimes wel-
writing, but it was expected that come sign-card, "letters may be We are advised by the T.K.K. & development would be reached a nice bit of propagands in favour one of the principal coal fields of addressed bare.” It appears that that the latest addition to their to-day.
of the Government and the coal Scotland once told me that there under the recent Official Secrets South American Line Service.
owners anent this strike business, were many occasions on which Contrary to orders from their After reading on instructive the sound advice of a practical Act any person conducting this the 3.9. Rakuro Maru, will be guild. number of coolies statistics about how the yearly miner was neither invited or kind of business must register open for public inspection on in the service of Mr. Taang earnings per person bave increas- wanted by the powers that bimself and bimself keep a regis-Wednesday, the 8th. instant, from Foo, one of the ter of the letters. The defendsat 3pm. to 5 p.m. A cordial invita aerchants, ceased work to-day raised per persca had decreased
principaled and how the tonnage of coal be. answered that he had never heard tion is extended to the public to This action is commented upon you're supposed to be righteously about the decreased
To-day there is a great outery of the statute, and the Magistrate. inspect this fine now steamer: as being indicative of the some.
output. remarking that there had plainly Launches will leave Blake Fiar what loose state of the organiza-indignant at the rapacity and Cosimasters are simply laughing
alothfulness of the The average man in the street doesn't worry his head been no intention to deceive, at frequent intervals.
British up their sleeves at the tread of disposed of the charge with a
miner. If you're not you should. public opinion being directed very much about our coal coolies. The thing he worries nominal fine. It is just as well
That's what it's given ye to read against the miner. Yet I believe over most in connection with that be-grimed class is to avoid that the charge was brought. There is still a pravalence of
for. The unfortunate thing about a public enquiry into the causes brushing them as they go by, but it might just be that we because it is probable that there plague and smallpox in the
most propaganda is that ye of low output per man would see shall have to worry a good deal about these dirty and are many others who were Colony, as revealed by the health,
get only the one side and them exposed to the world as as in this case the Government the most hard-hearted and the generally betattered men. They recently, organised them-similarly unaware. The case is of returns for last week. Twelve considerable public interest, as cases of small-pox (11_fatal) and
and the coalowners have the most selfish class of folks in the selves into a Guild and they are now threatening to go on it rather implies that the Act ten cases of plague (nine fatal))
majority of the papers and most old country to-day. The Sankey strike unless their pay and conditions are improved. And renders postal correspondence were recorded. There were also
of the money, naturally enough Commission condemned In Mr. Lindsell's Court this its their side of the question present system but it could not the for a shipping port like Hongkong this would indeed be a liable to inspection. This is not three non-fatal cases
natural serious matter. Some many years ago the coal coolies of aly
mos: of. but imperative syphoid fever, one pon-falsi case morning Inspector Garrod pro-ye hear
For pro stopit. Allitdid do was to recom- this Colony did go on strike and their place had to be during time of war. One of the of diphtheria, whilst there were a number of Chinese paganda costs money, ye must mend state ownership and
chauffeura. Cerman spies who suff red the two Chinese deaths from
a to fix scale of pay for the taken by soldiers and convicts. because the Government extreme penalty was so detected. influenza.
A POLICE MISTAKE.
Now while every sensible man miner. recognised that to keep ships coming and going was a It is desirable, too, in particular
will work for peace, there's It is common knowledge among A summoo8 Was taken out wisdom though io examining the miners that good seams were vital matter to the life of this community. We were cases, as, for instance, where a In the case of the two Chinese against the driver of car No. 69, causes of unrest. Dd it ever opened out at Government ex- enabled yesterday to publish a detailed statement of the bogus lottery concern is ascertain who were charged with being in but Inspector Garrod said that strike ye that there must be pernas and then men's case and although that might appear to have been at sending out circular possession of two table electric the Police had made a mistake in another side to this question, ons (ie, not worked). Did seams
stowed up rather a long-winded composition it served to bring out respondence in general is su ject from the Ming Yuen Gardens, found that the car had been at fore hundreds of thousands of a seam of 18 inches or two fret If, however, cor-fans, alleged to have been stolen the number. It was afterwards wi'a great deal of justice in it be were worked to death and when one or two illuminating facts.
to censorship, the question seems the first defendant produced that time in the French Hospital miners would put up such a des was tapped a section was quickly First. it must be recoguised that a coal coolie's work to have called for more discussion evidence this morning before Mr. The prosecution was instituted perate fight for so long a time, developed and the men pusbed is by no means constant. He taight have several days off than it apparently received Orme that he was not connected for being without a rear light, and and no' only risk the entire well into it. When a good productive before the measure was enacted, with the theft. He said that he in view of the fact that the Police being of the country but their seam was struck it was never duty and then he might be called upon to work at any old time of the day or night. If there are not enough The Philosopher's Stone. was a priest as well as a trader had made a mistake in the num-very means of livelihood into the worked. Under" Government coolies to do the coaling immediately called for, then street The alchemists spent their in Chung Chow and had advanced ber be asked that the summons bargain?
control nothing was too expen coolies are enlisted to help at higher rates of pay the Philosopher's Stone, which The Magistrate acquitted the
days and nights in the quest of the second 'defendant six dollars. be dismissed.
Mind ye, it's no a case o sive to go into a mine for the than
oppression. The position of the purposes of up-kesp. Pit props the men
EXCESSIVE SPEEDING. who earn their living by coaling was to transmute base metals second defendant and sentenced
miner to-day is a vast different of the very best were put in. and nothing else. The work is hard and strenuous and into gold. They
The driver of motor car No. from what it was a generation I've been in a pit where in the the social lot of a man who engages in it is about" forreder," notwithstanding that Prisonment.
275 was prosecuted for driving ago. Yo have only to read that main workings the pit prope past the City Hall on the 28th notable book by a Scottish miner were so close together that ye as low as anything that could be conceived. He usually there were shrewd heads among
ultime at 9.10 p.m. at a fast speed.The Underworld"-to admit could hardly get your band Inspector Garrod said there without hesitation that the life of between them. No wonder the
wholesale.
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the first one to two weeks' im
A CAUTION.
Government House
know?
ing, we suggest that it would be an act of good government report Dalevely adds that if the could be done for the girl. In-
in any way indicated). The Chinese Secretarist to see what proper side of the road.
sleeps where he can. un pavements and under verandabs. who anticipated some of the cases this morning before Mr.
them, such as old Roger Bacon,
There were a number of opium and the pay be receives for his labours is of the scantiest. developments of modern science. Orme. Four Chinese were charged was a performance at the Theatre the pit worker at one time didna' output was decreased and the Who will dare say that he has not the right to agitate Now we hear from Tokyo that a with having in their possession Royal that night and there were travel very far from the serfdom price per ton raised. And in for better conditions or that he is not deserving of them Japanese named Tatsudo Hattori opium 1:oss. They were found a large number of chairs and aoce so common to our collieries. many cases when coal could be In the terms that have been submitted to the employers it is has discovered a means whereby by a Revenue Officer on the rickshas. The car passed tim To-day the miner can look after got out the men were on short- Bilver can be produced out ground floor of 386, Queen's Road going east to west at 25 miles an his physical interests, just as time because waggons operated correctly stated that if a man falls sick he is without the of all things." Even
the with pine pots in which was hour. The driver said that he well, if no better, than any other by the Government were not means to help himself and there must be many an untold title of "miraculous invention" opium dress. The opium was was not stopped and that he was organised group of workers. forward to take it away. ITO tragedy among those who keep our ships supplied with which the report bears looks wrapped up in packets. The first only going tea miles and hour. They have big Union and are seen this wi' my own eyes. fuel. The increases asked for amount to something like inadequate in the case of defendant was fined $50 and the A fine of $20 was imposed.
represented strongly in Parlia Now why did the coal owners forty-five per cent and whilst that may be considered a very been spending all his financial Chinese were brought up on a such a process. Mr. Tatsuda has others $3. In another case Evol
ment. So ye see its no' allogether apparently act contrary to their substantial advance the men seem to have made out a pretty resources for more than ten years similar charge. They were found
the fear o' hunger that makes best interests? Well that's very The driver of car No. 220 was them fight. good case for an advance approximating to it. On the in the study of this phenomenon. lying on beds with the opium at prosecuted at the instance of
simple when ye come to figure Class warfare has been in the it out. Should the country have employers' side it is argued that to pay the extra money The inventor is stated to have 7.45 this morning at 346 Queen's Inspector Garrod, with bringing sir for quite time. It has been decided to take over the late demanded would be to increase the local price of coal to a succeeded in his experiment Road West. The first man was his car to a sudden halt near systematically preached for long interests the shareholders and very considerable extent, but we question whether the designed to show sceptical in- fined $60 and the others $4 sach
without and many a day. I've bad doses directors would be able to point. increase the consumer would have to pay would be anything out of earth, sand, and flowers. quirers that he can produce silver
giving warning to rear traffic. of it myself in Hyde Park, out the coal yet unwon in their The Inspector said that he was London, Glasgow Green, Glasgow field so that the price the uation like so great as has been represented. When one thinks This feat has the Indian juggler In Mr. R.E. Lindsell's Court about 25 yards behind the car in and the Mound, Edinburgh, to would have to pay would be pro- that a man may spend all the hours of one day coaling a beaten hollow, and Mr. Tatrada this morning there came up on his side car, and when the defend-name ooly the centres of hibitive. Once that bogey laid, ship for the princely pay of 20 or 30 cents one cannot help ought to be able to recoup his ten remand the case of the young ant stopped his car he nearly agitation. This sort of stuff has decontrol established again and
years' outlay with interest, for, mui Isai, who WLS having the realisation that it is high time his conditions of like Archimedes when he bit upon ed with stealing the clothes of snother car behind. The driver many would-be leader of the to- an
charg ran into him. There was also in the past gone to the heads of the miner's wages screwed down service were revised.
specific gravity, the Japanese her master's neighbour. It will did not put up his hand to indicate worker's movement. I've had soon see the output increased Unless a settlement is come to, the men will go on strike inventor can exclaim, Eureka! be remembered that the Magis- that he was going to come to some and I know. I know also when the good seams were being at once and, in view of the seriousness of such a proceed. (bow he worked the oracle is not trate referred the cass to the step. The driver was on the that it's all mostly rant and rave bowked.
and no to be seriously considered On the face of it, is it fair to if our officials took it upon themselves to act as advisory invention should be deman- spector Appleton informed the He remembered putting up his know them) are no Bocialists, of slackness? Truly, as Hodges The driver said be slowed down. in the lost. The miners (as I vilify the miner and accuse him intermediaries between the parties. It generally falls to strated scientifically, modern Magistrate that he had sent the band. The Inspector may not whatever else they may be. So said the other day, let the the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs to concern itself with chemistry would be fundament-girl to the S... Mr. Lindsell have seen it."
that's no at the bottom of the Government keep ont of this labour disputes and in this particular instauce it should ally reformed." Such a consum- asked the mui tsoi, where she hasten to convene a meeting between the employers and the fontinentally thee there is no a man who was in Court. His bon in a Paigeeing that the excited about are the mines. themselves and then we'd seo ́s business and let the coatowners The Magistrate: He may have strike. would upset things so Wanted to go. She asked to gowith
What the miners are most and miners fight it out between Guilds representatives, in an endeavour not only to avert saying where the consequences Worship said that the girl was too/Police were behind him.
ill-would end.
When I was at Home last year change. Why? Because the What sort of a young to be punished for stealing. Inspector Garrod: I do not I had quite a lot of talk wi miner knows what most of us" to dollar, for instance, are we going She would be set to the Po think so.
miners and in the way of politics, will never know so long as we to get when you can turn sand Leung Kok where they would The Magistrate: I will caution the begining and the end of their lap up this propaganda. Ha into silver?
decide how to deal with her.
him to be careful in future. talk is their work. An intelligent knows the truth
a serious inconvenience but to give a hard-working and conditioned body of men a substantial lift on the road contentment and decent living conditions.
economia" level, we'd
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