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WEDNESDAY.

JUNE

NOTES & COMMENTS,

On-Blake Pier.

Not least in number are the

THE REFUSAL OF PRAISE IS ONLY THE WISH TO BE PRAISED TWICE-La Rochefoucauld

the

LATEST SHANGHAI NEWS

Critical Rice Situation. (From Our Chen Correspondent)

THE FIGHTING.

Conflicting Reports,

first few dan

Fachow is now bac of the Cantonese hard fight, battalions of the

A report from the north states | surrendering:

Now that the hot summer

Shanghai, June 29. evenings, are- with us there are

Three hundred rice hope in that the districts Linchan Yang Cantortao. faw who do not seek the cool

*Mr. and Mrs. 8. Bianer, of Chinese territorios have voted to abah Linyang and Kooking have Fachow commands a direct breeres after the heat of the day. Hongkong, will leave to close on July 5 if the Council fallen and that Shiuebow prefect road to the sea and it seemed for hundreds of Chinese who throng steamer Korea Maru on Friday insists on its leansing schemos is in danger. Tung Hang has time that the invaders would Shops in the French Concession been ardared by General Chan succeed in breaking the Canton- for America on holiday leave our Prays and who congegate on

are not closing. Rice today is Kinging to proceed there with ese line of defenes and reach the different seaporta which mIEGE- the seats of Blake Pier. To stroll

$12 a picul, despite large stocks reinforcements. on to Blake Pier after dinner Yesterday's

A report from the front states that assistance from the outaide bealth, return in godowns. It is impossible to would be a revelation to some of shows that there were four fresh predict whether there will be any that General Luk Wing-ting has would be facilitated.

Now that Fachow is recaptured of our residents who hide them-cases of plague (two fatal), one trouble, although the police areander-in-chief with headquar, and Wuchow in the hands of the

appointed Tam Ho-ming as com selves away in their own districts oase of dipliberia (British) and prepared The Government has very con- one CATO of enteric favor]

fers in Shumehow, and Chan Cantonese troops, there” in no sidarately placed a number of (Dutch).

It rained seventeen days dur-log-kwan who has evacuated hope of the Kwangai militarists

Wochow is to be vies.com receiving outside help.. seats at the end of the pier and, in

Ling June.

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1921.

INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION.

A measure entitled the Trade Union Ballot Bill has

A Rainy June.

A. WOMEN B APPRAI order to keep these free from mara To-day, St. Telor's Day in the Archbishop Mannix.

All the Kwongsi forces after The following appeal has been loafers and undesirables, maka Anglican Calendar, is the Patron-

Archbishop Mannir, at a small charge for the privilege of al Festival of St. Peter's Church, banquet, told of the efforts of the sumed the defensive but reports Wa Ting-fang and the other the evacuation of Wushow have | issued by Mrs. Sun Yat-non, Mrs. sitting down. But what of the one West Point. Special Services on Irish to send priests to the China from the fronts along the Yam officers of the Canton Women's poor lone Indian constable whose Sunday next are advertised in Mission field and Japan.

chow, Limehow and Koshow | War Relief Association organized duty it is to keep these seals our advertisement columas.

Foreign Police.

lines state that heavy: fighting is since the outbreak of hostilities The Police Commissioner now being continued daily.

between the two Kwang Pro- who also has to collect the money

A very attractive programme refuses to accept the resignations

General Chan King-ming left | vinces --- for their use? The writer strolled

is to be shown at the Hongkong of eight foreign constables, al-Shinhing for Wuchow on the 26th *In defence of our province on Blake Pier last evening and Theatre for the week command though an opposite order bad to direct personally the attack against the invasion of the was beat on no particular pur- pose, but took opportunity to ing this afternoon till Friday previously been given. The wes on Shumchow and has declared Kwangsi militarists, our soldiers observe just how harassed this next, a drama "Who will marry refused duty last night and to-day- that he intends to capture the are now sacrificing their lives in The Bank of China.

whole province within 30 days. the front. Their victory means guardian of the law and toll mo" featuring the star Carmel

The Bank of Chins is remodell-Besides Tang Hang'e division the triumph of democracy and collector is. How many hours he Myers, being one of the first has to endure that kind of duty Productions from the Universal ing the German Club and will more forces have been dispatched the down-fall of militarism, we do not know, but the hope-Film Company. There is also a spend forty thousand tsels on for the northern froat. It is **The women of Canton, realiz- plotura from the alterations, aiming to establish a predicted that hot fighting willing their responsibility as citizens lessly inadequate provision that splendid

take place in a fow days.

of the Republic, desire to is made by detailing just one American Gazette and a very modern Bank.

The Big Fight.

It is said that military do their share in alleviating constable for this work was de- good comedy in two acts, ic

The betting is three to one on zeroplanes of considerable size the sufferings of our, soldier- monstrated with rather painful which Joe Martin takes the clearness. As there are two ends principal part in "Monkey Stuff Dempsey.

have appeared in the Kwangai brothers, who are now valiantly garrisons behind the south-west defending us from the barbarous. to the seats he cannot possibly special picture will be screened

AUSTRALIA AND THE front. It is believed that they invasion and its consequent check the people going in; when on Sunday at 6 p.m.

were supplied by the Peking | atrocities. For this purpose we' he tries to collect money from

ORIENT.

Government. some they object and he has to

bave banded together and or- The Cantonese military ganized the Canton Womens' turn them out, the while being morning & mui tsei was brought Interesting Chat with Hon.

thority in Waghow has ordered War Relief Association. This la subjected to scornful laughter at up on the charge of stealing a

Mr. John Storey." the He gold bracelet, the property of hari

Commercial Chamber the hopelessness of his job.

to the least we can do to express our Returning by Australia after a collect two lakhs of dollars for gratitude to our protectors. was a good natured constable mistress. The pawnbroker's successful financial mission to military expenses, but the mam and did his best to do what was book showed that same one with London and a tour of the Far bere, after negotiation among as much money as possible for the Our aim is to raise immediately expected of him. He got rid of different name hatt pawned the East to study conditions and the themselves, have agreed to supply sole purpose of relieving the one or two tickets but there must article. He could not identify possibilities of developing the only half a lakh, on the ground soldiers and their families in have been many who didn't pay the defendant and he was constantly kept on The mui tsai had a couple of commerce of the Southern Con- that the wealthy merchants and various ways. Will you not, as tinent with Japan and Chins, the residents have left the city and friend and wall-wisher of China, the move round trying, in the nights ago made a complaint at Hon. Mr. John Storey. Premier that only $7,000. was collected support us by contributing liber- semi-darkness of the pier's end, the central station that her of New South Wales sailed for on the first day.

ally to this noble cause? to recognise new comers with a mistress had assaulted her. The

Late yesterday afternoon, a very limited amount of success. Magistrate remarked that prob- Sydney at noon to-day on board For the dignity of the man and his ably the mistress desired to Mr. Storey is accompanied by report was received from bead- uniform we do seriously suggest extract a confession. In theirs. and Miss Storey, Mr. Cese troops under Generals Ho quarters stating that the Canton-

The telegram quated below wERS that assistance might be given absence of any direct evidence. H. Hay, M.V.O. him. At present he is made a the Magistrate discharged the Under-secretary for New South kwanz in the Kou Lo district sulate General, Hongkong, from Principal Haz-ching and Chen Chinag- received by the American Con- joke of.

girl.

Wales, and Mr Thomas Fox and had wrested a victory from the the Manila Observatory at 4.20 "Punkha Wallahs."

Miss Fox, Mr. J. B. Suttor, Com- Kwangsi invaders at Fachow, p.m. yesterday:

rest.

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this

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the person

the steamer Eastern.

Between

TYPHOON WARNING.

Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

A Chinese merchant living in mercial Commissioner in the Far (Huachow) a very important city Typhoon in about 129 deg. With the coming of the electric Tai On Terrace has made a re- East for the Government of New which the invaders had captured Long. E and 19 deg. Lat. N. prepared by a section of Conservative M.P. s. By fan the old-sime punkha" has port to the Police that at 11.15 South Wales, who is stationed at from the Cantonese during the moving N.W. section of the Liberal Press which is fond of ostenta-gone largely into disuse, but there last night while he was walking Kobe came with the party to usly bracketing the interests of Liberalism and Labour are one or two firms in this on Caine Road four men accosted Hongkong. He will return on

Bill is dismissed as worse than useless, and Parliament Colony who still retain that parbim near Peel Street Two had the steamer Kanowns.

ticular method of cooling daggers. They seized bin and Mr. Storey and his party left fected a measure of a simir kind last Session. It may their stafe. It

has always pressed him down to the ground. Australia in Januáry for London. that the Bill stands in need of extensive revision, or struck us as being something of a One man stole a gold watch While there the Premier was ay even be altogether impracticable. The purpose of it, misnomer that in our churches, valued $25, but on attempting to instrumental in raising a loan to wever, is highly important, and has a reasonable claim where the gospel of only six-days run away the merchant held him be used for the development of careful consideration. What changes may have been labour is being preached, native tight and tried to blow his police the State of New South Wales.

A couple of the Home news-cliffe) was put in for His abodied in the Bill as compared with the one which the boys should be employed to fan whistle. The robber snatched the principally its railways, irrigation papers have been busy in the information or just for fear some the worshippers on the seventh whistle from him, and in response works and settling soldiers on the anniversary line of business late other Alfred might by chance base threw out are not clearly indicated, but the leading and hallowed day. But that can to cries of "thief" & Chinese con land. The amount of the loan be ly. Last Saturday I took home have got mixed up in the bless- ovision of the measure as it now stands deals with a be overlooked because the hours stable came on the scene and was unable to divulge until be the Manchester Guardian Conten ing and got coming to him what

The other got back ta Australia His estion well meriting attention. If the criticismns in the of punkba pulling are short. arrested the man.

ary Number and had good maybe wasna rightfully bis. w3.5 very successful, chew at it over the week-end. I The occasion being op a Somtay, beral Press, that the Bill is really designed to frustrate But we know of at least one three robbers made their escape. mission

however, and there will be made fine reading, lots of it. No' I think, on the other hand, it interests of Labour, be true, the measure calls for office at which is engaged a

small Chinese girl-she cannot Theopile Logos, & Perovian, 80 iggue shortly alter bis ooly was it a souvenir of the

was just ordinary precaution, for andment accordingly, and the representatives of the be more than seven or eight years was charged this morning before return. He found that money paper's 100th year but it also the purpose of identification, in orkers may be trusted to see to this. That is no reason of age and she pulls the punkha Mr. Orme with assaulting a was much cheaper in London chronicled an event never likely case that in the midst of so many by the beneficial possibilities of the Bill should be ignored. string for bours on end. Co Chinese woman last night. The than in New York where he made again to bave its parallel. Mr. C. appeals Alfred might have been

The chief provision of the Bill is that in such indus- Saturday last she was at it from woman was another tenant of the inquires too.

P. Scott has now been editor of the "left over" before going to press. The tour has been not without Manchester Guardian for all of 50 Hic mucus mutandis (No, that's des as mining, shipping, and the railways-in short, in nine in the morning until half same house. The defendant said ose activities classed as public utility" undertakings past pe, with never a break or he did not assault the woman. its pleasures. The Prime Minis- years. They, caught him young no connected Latin bat it looks We bare never pulled The latter had called him names, ter and his party wore the guests for he was a full fledged editor at somewhat scholarly, so I'm leav- ahall be compulsory to take a ballot on any question punkba so have no first-hand and be remonstrated with her. A of the Canadian Government the age of 25. As newspapers at ing it in).

io ising out of a stoppage of work. It appears that no experience of its hardships but woman, named Mary Haward. while that country and Home are nowadays, he couldos Aye, true enough, a great guif lot is to be required in the first instance the unions we do know that for a young said that she was living with the America was visited also. In get away wi' it at that age and is fixed between the Victorian

girl to pall a heavy punkba for defendant. oncerned in these essential departments would continue to four-and-a-half hours on and must in the house. There was no 25-andience with the King and he couldna stand the pace for half so uneasily to-day. Remarkable Last night she was London Mr. Storey has a long even if by luck be did manage it, period and that in which we live free to declare a strike without a ballot but there must be an endurance of a particularly suit but only a few words ex his party was entertained at a century. The more strenuous changes, to be sure. And the a ballot "on any question arising out of" the stoppage. trying if not cruel-kind. It changed. The Magistrate fined luncheon by the Prince of Wales-conditions o' journalism nowa- changes are not all to the good be reference being, presumably, to such matters as a fresh is isn't girls' work anyhow and the man $10, and bound him and He had conferences with Mr-days wouldas permit it. Mr. either, mind ye, though neither fer. The wording is certainly vague, yet the ground for we sincerely trust that someone Mary Howard to be of good be Lloyd George and Mr. Winston Scott's opening article Hun are they all to be deplored. The riticism of such a measure appears to be not that it goes connected with the firm in ques-haviour for one year in a bead of Churchill on matters that were dred Years is very fins though Manchester Guardian gave us a

tion will cotice this little com- $100. "

vital to the best interests of and after reading it one cao fac-simile of it's first issue. Wi' so far but that it does not go far enough. One can readily ment and remedy what must be a

Australia.

Basily understand bow the such a paper the reader bad" to nderstand, if not invariably agreeing with. such objec-case of sheer thoughtlessness.

The visit to Japan, where two Guardian in aye admired for it's sit fairly and aquarely down.. ons as "interference with the liberty of the subject,"

Last night His Excellency the weeks were spent. was for the intellectual force. And it wasna before a solid production. Now- Governor gave a dinner party in purpose of looking into the trade just idle high-falating talk either adays the perusal of a at when compulsion is designed surely the logical

The North Chica Famine Relief honour of the Hon. Mr. J. Storey. conditions now existing in that when one considers it in the paper is made easy and there is kep would be to make it applicable before instead of

Fund has given western nations Premier of New South Wales. country and to view Australia's light of the fact that the man as much call on the intellect of fter a cessation of work. This is not abolishing the an opportunity of demonstrating The guests were:-Hon. Mr. Jshowing in the markets. From who wrote it was the chap who the average reader as is exacted feapon of the strike, to which Labour naturally attaches their humane interest in the hard storey and Mrs. Storey. H. Ewhat he has seen and learned, shaped the paper's policy when from the devotee of the picture imary importance: it is avoiding strikes against the lot of China's milliers. In our Major-General Sir George Kirk- Mr. Storey hopes to bring the it opposed the current of popular house. The weak point about orkers' will. Admittedly the question is a big one, union special Chinese telegramos yester- patrick, KCB KCSI and field that Japan offers for an az-opinion during the last South the new journalism is its inclina

ders contend that it is sometimes necessary to call a day was recorded the thanks Lady Kirkpatrick, H., H. Mr. tension of the export trade of African War and at the begining tion ike suddenly. It is hardly feasible that this would expressed by Chins's Minister Justice Gompertz and Mrs. Gom Australia more prominently be of the Great World War. Mr. journalistic essayist has been at Washington for America's pertz, Commodore Bowden Smith, fore the manufacturers of the Scott doesna believe that a replaced by the paragraphist ten be so where the workers have a strong case. At any splendid contribution to this C.B.E, Hon. Mr. C. Severn. country. ite a question of such moment cannot well receive deserving cause and Reater told C.M.G, LL.D., Hoo. Mr. J.

sin wis newspaper nowadays. K.0. us how Britain has donated over H. Kern,

C. B.E., cessive consideration.

LOCAL FOOD PRICES."

On the other hand, the Daily We no longer have ony desire to Mr. Kemp, Hon. Mr. An objection raised by opponents is that the Bill £40,000 in relief of the sufferers and

celebrated it's 25th anniveTRATY The changes in journalism is lows a period of up to seventeen days for the ballot There are some Chinese who are C Mcl. Messer, O.B.E., Hon. Mr. Questions by Mr. Pollock. Mail wi' it's daily stunt has just

rather foud of thinking that T. L. Perkins and Mrs. Perking, At to-morrow's meeting of the much blowing o' trumpets reflected a lot in literature. To rocess, and it is naturally contended that a series of 17 western nations are only bent on Hor. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. and Legislative Council, the Hound high feeding at the Olympia, sbade into dulness is an un- ballots would knock the bottom out of most strikes. the exploitation of this great Mrs. Pollock, Hon. Mr. P. H. Mr. H. E. Pollock, E. C., Will London. It took the best part o pardonable sin on the part of nearly two columns of the Times ony writer and the product of

Self-Help.

DOWS-

to sensationalism. The

newspaper should be primarily To be serious is an unpardonable run for profit.

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listen to the prophets or teachers,

sides, such delays must be extremely unsatisfactory to country, but their minds should Holyoak and Mrs. Holyoak, Sir ask the following questions

have been opened a little by this William Brunyate, R.C.M.G. and 1 Has the Committee for fixing to do the gathering justice. 1 bis pen ins' likely to get past

selves. It bus bren said that the

WISHING-WELL'S HAUL.

grace

her parties, particularly the public. This part of the latest act of commiseration. The Lady Brunyats, Miss Btorey, the prices of food and other I axtract this pearl that fell from the publisher's reader. That's oposal certainly stands in need of revision, nor is it giving of all this money in assist. Miss M. Kirkpatrick, Mr. J. B. necessaries been dissolved and if the parson who offered up the how Margot" was such a sue-

te clear that there would be much advantage in ance will not, however, effact Suttor, Mr. T. Fox and Miss Fox. so when was it dissolved and Kablishing an official committee to take the place of the anything but temporary relief and Mr. C. H Hay, M.V.O. Pay- why? If not dissolved, how long ade union in holding the ballot. There may still be the real problem to be faced must Lieut.Com. Stern, and Capt. is it since it last me!?

2. In the Government aware rit in the Bill, if suitably revised. A statute is extant, be tackled by the Chinese them. Fisher, M.C.

that the prices of fish and fire- believe, making it a penal offence for workers in public famine was caused as much by

wood have been recently, con- ility services to strike, though it has fallen into obsoles- lack of proper irrigation as it was

siderably increased by comI- Australasia has been more than once held up as a by an stoormally dry season and dropped into the wishing well at cause enquiries to be made into This year more than £14 was pradores? Will the Government del in relation to industrial legislation. Perhaps things China would take the lesson to Culloden, near Inverness, by the same, with a view to having Hot work as smoothly there as has sometimes been re-all that is possible to prevent so Highland custom of visiting such

heart in a practical way and do people who observed the old same reduced? ented. None the less it behoves the forces of progress disastrous a repetilien then the wells on the first Sunday in May agenda is the second readings of The only other business on the explore, not to deride, possibilities of an advance in our will have given an earnest of her and throwing a coin into the the six Bille introduced last jal arrangements,

sppreciation," · "Those are helped water

| Thursday,

I most who always help themselves.)

cess, financially. Amiel's Journal Thou has imbued Thy servantes a new book, would, to-day. Alfred Lord Northcliffe] with have as much chance of getting many singular and excellent away wit it as my wife has of gifte. Grant bim health and getting a diazord ring for her strength, wisdom and power birthday. To de Ray BDU AIDUS- from on high, that he may ing is the high road to achieve. continue to servó his time and menf when Messre, Charles and generation, holding ever Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, wi aloft the torch of 'imperial their Gen-jumping wit, number faith, and guiding aright the their admirers by the million. I hope the Diety was suitably destinies of this great Empire." impressed I couldns help won dering whether that (Lord North

this is tolerated proves my con- tention. A hundred year. REG many a man went to jail for less.

The fact that such a corner as