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NOTES & COMMENTS.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1921.

THE NEW HANSEATIC LEAGUE.

Pacific Records.

FRID

DAY BY DAY.

PEOPLE DO NOT PERSIST EN In the matter of records on the THEIR VICES BECAUSE THEY ARE Pacific the CP.O.S. liners, the NOT WELRY OF THEM, BUT BE [CAUSE THEY CANNOT LEAVE well-known Empress boats, seem to have matters pretty much their THEM OFF. IT IS THE NATURE OF own way and the only records VICE TO LEAVE US NO RESOURCE

BUT IN ITSELF,--Ħazlitt they break are those set up by themselves. The "Empress of Asia" has now lowered the time

The road from Laichikok to from Yokohama to Vancouver to Castle Peak in again open to 8 days, 19 hours 6 minutes-à vehicular traffic. time which all will agres is very

considerably ahead of the times Yesterday's health return recorded by other companies shows that there was one fatal boats. The old days of speed case of plague and uns non-fatal competition between steamship case of carebro-spinal fever. lines (which reached its zenith on the Atlantio inpre-wardays) seem

JUNE 17, 1921.

even

THE BOOKSHELF.

(By "Libriarian.”)

arch-criminal.

Mr. Bucban's reversal of the process is welcome. The work-in called "The Path of the King," and it will be publish- ed by Hodder and Stoughton. “

ANOTHER AMERICAN

ENTERPRISE.

Big Concern to open Hongkong Office.

who

Of intererost, to those desiring better trade connections with the United States is the arrival in the Colony of Mr. Ervin J. Weiss, General Manager of the Exporters Co-operative Company of New York.

Mr. Weiss bas toured Australia

SHAKESPEARE-WORSHIP

Sometimes people who come IN GERMANY,

little into the limelight are most There is something admirable worth reading when they - are and at the same time hudiarously reminiscent. A member of a presumptious about the German famous family. Mr. Arthur attitude towards Shakespeare. Coleridge, who died in 1913, left It was long ago admitted that his memoirs and they are being German expositions of Shake published by Constable. He lived speare were of special excellence, and worked for music, and as notably that of the older Schlegel Lord Morley once said of Joseph Carlyle, if I remember rightly, Chamberlain, he had a genius for and the Philippines before coming says that no elucidations of such friendship. Born in the far year to Hongkong, and it is bis inten value had been produced by our 1830, he was early thrown into tion to establish an important own critics, and he mentions that the company of literary and branch of bis organization here. in a novel, Wilhelm artistic people. There was a He has taken up his quartern at au natural walooms for one whoak the Hongkong Hotel, and when to have gone for good, for the A cinematograph show will be Meister," Goethe gives

interpretation of family, within a hundred years, seen by a representative of the latter day boats have not given (weather permitting) on the unrivalled

had produced a great poet, also a | Telegraph, communicated to the been built so much for speed as lawn of the Craigengower Cricket Hamlet.

During the war Shakespeare notable one in the great poet's latter the nature of the Company's they they have for comfort and Club on Saturday evening at 9.15. roominess. It has been found The band of H.M.S. Titania will enjoyed undiminished popularity son, Hartley, Lord Chief Justice, organization.

among the Tautons. I remember and Mary Coleridge. All of these

The Exporters Co-operative that the costliness of running be present.

one German professor, whose we shall read about in modest Company, it appears. is a wide- big boats at high speeds is con-

name, however, I have forgotten, anecdotage.

spread organization with branches siderable and that it pays far The Management of the Kowtelling bis countrymen that, so far

at San Francisco, Sydney, Manila better to run at a normal speed loon Theatre regret very much from banning the Bard, it was It is pleasant to find that the and other well-known centres of and so save the use of extra coal, that it was not possible to show their especial duty to study ona by-ways, often sa.rich in growth, trade, and its chief distinctive The whole of the bigger class yesterday afternoon and evening who was German to the tips of his of English literature, are again feature lies in the fact that it is boats on the Pacific-with the on account of failure of current fingers in all except the accident finding harvesters. We have a owned by the people who work exception of the Empresa liners-The trouble has been rectified and of birth, the more so because the great many musicians, composers for it, and that it charters are of the slow type compared the Thestre will show this even-English were utterly incapable and players, to whom history has its own steamers for its with the leviathans of the ing as usual.

of appreciating, or even under-paid no adequate tributa. Now trade. Though a co-operative Atlantic. Even the new big

standing, Shakespeare's genios! they are getting their biographer enterprise, it has also connections boats of the United States'

Miss Aileen Woods left for Here we see the ludicrous side in Mr. Richard Northcott, whose with the chief exporters of the Shipping Board аге engined Shanghai yesterday. The Woods of German Shakespeare-worship ripeness of musical scholarship country, and also does a large for speeds On the slow

family, who have been so popular

Since the Armistice. Sbakes-and curiosity for knowledge make business as express agents. side and it may just be that teachers of dancing, have now peare has enjoyed, if possible, him ideal for the task. He has In the different departments of the world is forgetting the taken up permanent residence in more favour than ever, his plays just written the first individual its export business, the idea of slogan "time is money." In Hongkong and Miss Aileen will being on view at theatres all over memoir of Henry Bishop, who placing only experts, acquainted shipping the slogan might be return in good time for the forth-Germany. So far so good. But created the undying melody of with the local conditions of each reversed to "making time costs

professor of the kind that has Home. Sweet Home." He is money." Still, there is a deal of

become typical of modern Gar-engaged on one of that remark-country, has been adopted with satisfaction to be gained from the

great practical advantage by fact that it is a British line which In spite of the receipt of a many has been indulging in some able character,

the Exporters Co-operative Com- Thus, for its China holds the Pacific record, and this further typhoon warning this more talk of the fatuous kind. Menken, the heroine of "Mazep

раду. w Perhaps he is the same professor

as a play, and most im- business, the Company has been popular service of Empress boats morning, the

the 4.9

jast alluded to. portant of all, he has nearly able to secure the services of a will assuredly keep the big hold signal which was hoisted yester-Prof. Max Forster, of Leipzig, is completed the modern it has on the travelling public soday, was lowered to-day just after the individual, and be recently chronicles of Covent Garden."

apers student from a Western State University. Mr. G. P. Ling, while the Japanese and South American departments are under the sole

coming dance season.

No. 4thyboon)

The report of the long as it continues to cater for 10 o'clock. their time, convenience and com- Royal Observatory states that the fort as it has in the past.

typhoon appears to be of feeble intensity. It passed within 100 miles of Gap Rock early this

U. S. S. B. Competition.

The Chairman of the Indo-morning on a N.W. track. China Steam Navigation Com-

action of America

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"The Great Munition Feat.

told the German Shakespeare Society at Weimar (which in other days possessed eminent Shakespearean scholars) that in Mr. G. A. B. Dewar (to be essentials,Shakespeare is Germau to the core, having nothing in common with his unworthy

to

published by Constable) is detailed authoritative survey of the industrial effort made by the nation to win the war.

HOME JUDGES' PAY. Captain Falcon is to ask the Attorney-General if he is aware

that, owing to the rise in the cost of living and the present high Nor is there in taxation. Judges of the High

be is IT3DS-

a terrestrial

tion of conditions. In 1920, although the mercantile fleet given a continuance of the same hard labour. The man

efficient handling of cargo arrested by Mr. Austin, of the admirable--they have in a large

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charge of Japanese and South American managers. The estab- lishment of the new office in Hongkong is the result of repeat- ed requests made by Chinese merchants of the Company,

TYPHOON WARNING.

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Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

condition rapidly improves until towards the middle or the end the paper again greets you wi’ virgin whiteness.

I bought it years ago, like all my best books, at a stall, for a

sum on the right side of sixpence. Many would-be-worshippers of Toufelsdrockh had been there before me.

pany did not mince his words The Hongkong Boys Scouts are fellow-countrymen. Shakespeare, In the Middle Ages and down to the seventeenth when referring to the keenness of now to have a magazine of their says Heu Professor, has none of century the confederation of independent ports and cities the competition offered or the own. The new publication which our "stupid presumption," our United States Shipping Board is to be the official organ of the "aggressive patriotism," our "re- known as the League of the Hanseatic Towns was pre-vessels. His main point was that Hongkong Boy Scouts Asligious narrowness and hypo- eminent in the maritime and mercantile world. In these was hard for private shipping sociation. is very appropriately criss, our "cold-hearted reserve," days Hamburg. Bremen: and Lubeck, are the only surviving interests to compete against the entitled the "Silver Wolf" and and the inflexibility of mind that "free" towns, having maintained their independence resources of a whole nation, and will be launched on the lat. of weighs like an incubus on present

The telegram quoted below was during the rule of the Hohenzollern Empire. as they those who know how the U.S.S.B. July. The publication is in the day England.

bosts are subsidised by the States hands of Messrs. Noconha and Shakespeare

aus . of the Court are finding it a matter of received by American Consulate

Hongkong. In a political sense and at whas a tremendous cost to Company and an artistic affort is militarism and egotism of the extreme difficulty to maintain General.

from continue to do under the Republic. the independence may be little more than nominal. and is the American nation they are assured in the cover design. English ethics of to-day."

the social duties necessitated by the Manila Observatory at 11.45 of no particular importance to us, What is of importance being run. will beartily agree

A commentator in 8 Home their official position, and will be this morning: In Mr. Orme's Court this journal supports the idea that our say if he contemplates an early Typhoon in about 131 deg. is that these cities still uphold their tradition of maritime with him, whether they endorse

the revision of the present rates of Long. E. 21 deg. Lat. N. inclining enterprise. Before the war. Hamburg-and in lesser but the

noi. In these days of little morning a Chinese was brought psychic friends summon

immortal Bard to appear emolument.

Northward. very notable degree its companion ports-had made itself

whether toanage and many ships the "p on the charge of stabbing a

Say The titanic ronflict dealt the port concern with the biggest backing woman in the eye with a pair and famous the world over.

scissors. Inspector

being Appleton agreeable and the German Mercantile Marine in general a shattering stands a much better chance of said the woman was sent to the ferred to Germany. As it happeLS, blow, yet even under this devastating handicap the Teutonic making out, and in this respect hospital, and he had to ask for a a society in America announced recently that опе of shipping community exhibits astonishing indications of British Companies operating in remand. He also asked that the only

the Far East are handicapped. defendant should be put under their next visitors was to be vitality..

Japanese competition comes in

henone other than Mr. William Figures. it has been said, can be made to prove on, & subsidised basis also, but medical observation,

I have anything, and in the hands of an unscrupulous user they the operations of the U.S.S.B. Ppeared to be somewhat insane. Shakespeare, sometime resident

Janet got on to me this morn not heard whether the guest are certainly capable of giving an altogether deceptive are of an even closer national He surrendered himself to the of Stratford-on-Avon.

materialised. If he did, it was ing for going to sleep last night impression: but a table of definite statistics from direct character than the lines on which Police this morning.

Viewing and no putting out the light. I A Chinese, who was found in opportunity lost. ish shipping in Chinese and other

had nothing to say, for to tell the sources offers a kind of evidence that is not to be ignored. Japanese friends work. Brit-

the subject from The flamburg correspondent of the Daily Chrncil has Far Eastern waters has always possession of ten taols of opium plane, it may be suggested to our truth, when I come to think of it, supplied his journal with an illuminating survey of the held a very high place and we dross, was this morning fined by former enemies that, with all right enough. I had no mind of German shipbuilding position after an extensive investiga-doubt very seriously whether, Mr. Orme $100 or five weeks their study of Shakespeare going asleep at all yestreen.

That only shows ye what a much of it, as already said.

good bed book can do and by the

Till about Chapter amounted to only 300,000 tons against over five millious and management of the lines, Chinese Maritime Customs, res-

writing sleep producers Carlyle IV or thereby I could recognise before the war. Germany's Mercantile Marine showed competition from Arnerica or terday as he was boarding the measure missed his glorious Hokey Fly when it comes to

characteristic-humanity.

was certainly the daddy of them most of them by their finger- signs of looking up: but the recovery that has taken Japan will ever bite dangerously train for Canton. The stuff was

all and Sartor" No. 1 on the prints. But they had apparently place is not a tithe of what the L'entral European not all rests largely in the hands another case where a

into its business. The outcome found concealed in his topec. In

Chinese The house of Murray published list. I think it's the most er been called away one by one to Power expects to achieve within the nest ten years of the shipping companies them- was found in possession of 16 David Livingstone's accounts of asperating book I ever tried to attend to more urgent tasks and according to no less an authority than a leading selves and for that reason we are tacls of opium, which was his wonderful travels in Africa read. The man that says he has conveniently forgot to come back. I admire them for it. When director of the Hamburg-America Line, who estim-pleased to note that the Indo-concealed in his girdle, Mr. Ore There is a foginote to that in a read it from cover to cover for ates that by 1030 or soon after Germany will have China fleet is not only being kept fined him $1,500 or six months Murray book just announced for the first time of asking without there are so many treasures in this spring. It is a memoir of turning a hair or fetching a sigh the English language that sur- John Smith Moffatt, CMG, the deserves a medal or our syc- render themselves so easily at 5,000,000 of new shipping. In Hamburg, says the Daily up to its normal efficiency but is hard labour in the alternative. Chronicle correspondent." people are looking forward to an being improved in many direc-

tions. Provided those who man An invitation in connection son of Livingstone's distinguish-pathy. Many a time I've felt like the first time of asking why immediate ten years of strenuous work, and that decade. the ships are content to co-operate with the forthcoming Internation- ed companion and father-in-law sending it spinning like old should any man acquire wrinkles it is hopefully reckoned, will produce a mercantile fleet at loyally with their employers and al Products Exposition at Lyons He. like his father, was a mis-Quixote's knight errantry up and premature greyness over the of A giroy old least equal to that which the country had before the war-there is an avoidance of labour is being issued to the Chinese sionary, who spent all his life in into the back yard or using it up obfuscation 5,250,000 tons of shipping. And Bremen and trouble the future of British ship merchants of Hongkong through Africa, living among the natives. bit by bit as sharing paper of Scoteman.

working for their welfare. His long intervals for the greater of stuff. If a body were in gaol Lubeck, I found on visiting these two cities. are going to ping should, by reason of its own the French Consulate-General, speaking their language, and morning. I've wrestled wi' it at

efficiency, be as bright as its past. from whom all details relative to life-story, which is written by his part of my life and I've aye had now, I'd sak for nothing better back up this work for all they are worth."

the exhibition can be obtained. The exhibition is scheduled take son. Mr. Robert U. Moffatt, is to give it best. Some of these to keep the mind occupied and Of the working agreements between the Hamburg-America and Japan. America Line and the North-German Lloyd respectively, That direct negotiations have place from October 1st to 15th, full of incident and adventure days I'll succeed in reaching the alert. It would belp to pass the Broadly stated, it describes the last page and after that there'll time ooyway. To many another, on the one hand, and powerful corporations in the United been opened between Japan and the price on the goods to be she transition state from savagery no be mach left for me but to of course that idea, if carried ont, States, on the other, the world has already heard, as also America on the many outstand should be clearly marked are to civilisation, and it throws make friends wi' some of the new would mean something worse

ing questions affecting the two Exposition authorities have of the Hamburg-America Line's increase of capital by nations will have been learned assured Chinese manufacturers interesting light on the history J.Ps when they visit the lunatic than extra shot drill. It's all a sylum. The man that says he mattez o' taste, as the old woman M. 100,000,000. What perhaps is not so well known is with satisfaction by all who have that large orders may be placed of the Boer War.

bas read "Sartor Resartus" and said when she kissed the cow. that German shipbuilding yards, with the Government the peace of the Pacific at heart. by French importers for future

Mr. John Buchan-lately Col. understood it, basus' only Sartori- But truly, yon book fair cows docks no longer needed for warships are capable of There has been a deal of loose delivery direct from China to turning out 750,000 tons of shipping yearly, so that, after speech lately regarding the re-French ports. From the large Buchan who awoke one morn-al enthusiasim but is a liar into

lationships

onywhere else such amazing and existing between number of enquiries addressed to ing to find himself a "popular the bargain. deducting the 200,000 tons per annum to which the Allies these two great Powers and the the local Consulate, the exposi- novelist." sats a new story, which Unhappy is the man that outrageous transitions as in this. his Carlyle wi yon extraordinary treatise on Clothes- have a claim for five years. Germany is left with more than only way to remove the cause of tion is assured of a large measure he has finished, to a daring ides. started

and Things in her pre-war capacity of 300,000 tons. At the moment there is it is for a straightforward confer- of co-operation from merchants It is the idea of the persistence book for a couple o' chapters Philosophy

and influence of an ancestral is enough to wean him of the General.

Take his well-known passage a shipping slump, but Germany's shipping and commercial ence on the whole of the matters of these parts.

in dispate. When one reada

strain, beginning far back in the Chelsea sage for the rest of his magnates, Hugo Stinnes among them, are watching every (as Reuter told us yesterday)

ages and culinating in the life. Luckily, for me I think on the dignity of labour for io- with the most that the questions now being] opportunity. A shipbuilding trust,

character and career of one of the "Sartor" is about the only one stance. Ye think you're getting influential support, for economical and rapid construction jointly considered at Washing working agreement regarding greatest figures of modern time' bis 1 ever stuck at and that, on fine when whizz, you're among is in contemplation, and a special working arrangement ton include, the Yap dispute, their respective naval policies. First we have a dramatic episode after I had a good dose of other paucers that he would have sho

the At all events, it should not be in the life of one of the Viking works. between the two great German lines is under consideration. alien immigration into

I'm no alone though, in my Stat. s. alien land-holding and difficult matter to lay the bogey kings, then the fortunes of his Notwithstanding the alump, nearly all the concerns given the return of Sbangtung to Cbins of war at rest for it has always descendants through divers times, ideas about the book and the and Navy, then for the infirm in the Daily Chronicle correspondent's representative list of thers seems little else to provoke been found that when a bonest in livers countries, and, finally, proof that others have been laid paupers who had been spared.

I can only compare tealing shipping and shipbuilding enterprises show increased misunderstandioz. Japan might, to-goodness talk has been had the dower of it all in Abraham low bifire me, is maybe bist

A critic emphasises its provod by the condition of my gymnastics like that to chasing and impressive dividends for 1920, as well as large with a great deal of usefulness, between two parties many of Lincoln. expansion of capital. Without taking fright. British take opportunity to indicate her their differences can be disipated. originality. The idea has been own copy. This book of mine has a flying cockroach in the dark. shipbuilders and shipowners will do well to note these policy in connection with the Let us hope that such will prove worked a number of times, but in passed through many han's for Between you and mo. ib. ngo

direction, Anglo-Japanese Alliance and to be the case in the present the opposite

the the first pages are badly tattered is about as intelligent as the developments,

both nations could come to some instance,

culmination usually being some and soiled but as you go on their other.

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