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Shanghai's Rice Strike.

FRIDAY

JULY 15. 1991

DAY BY DAY.

THE FRENZY OF NATIONS IS

. Relief is no doubt felt by [THE STATESMANSHIP OF FATE- our friends at Shanghai that Lyttons the rice shop strike is virtually

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Miss Birkband's survey Sawyer's Strike Settled

the field is as entertaining readi "SUPER-SHOCKER” IN (From Our Own Correspondent)

jing as the romances themselves. LITERATURE

The plots of Mrs. Radcliffe's Singapore, July 15.

That vary superior person, books especially, as they are hore The sawyers strike has been Horace Walpole, initiated settled. A tan per cent. redaction fashion in novel-writing when he ment.

retailed, give abundant arelte- in piece work wages has been produced "The Castle of Otran-approaches the modern exponents It is when the author

accepted.

fo." He had capable pupils in that her chapters are less satisfy- French National Day. Mrs. Radcliffe, with her "Mysing. Mr. Phillips Oppenheim and. In connection with the coleteries of Udulpho" and like fare. Mr. Le Queux, entertaining, as A meeting of the Legistative Council takes place on Monday bration of the French National and, perhaps still more so, in they can be, ste glorified penny afternoon when the only business Day a tablet was unveiled to the Matt. Lewis, with his "Monk," areadful manufacturers; they to be proceeded with is the second memory of Frenchman of the auless Mrs. Shelley deserves hardly attain to the altitude of

Strait Settlements who fell in priority on the score of her "super-shockers." reading of the Rents Bill.

the war. The Governor and the [single bat terrifying performance,

at an end, and without any of the serious developments that at one enterio fever reported yesterday. time threatened, The trouble appears to have been mainly the the sufferers being British. work of an obstinate minority, though there was pretty general misunderstanding for some time of points that are fairly simple. The registration fee charged by the Municipal Council cannot possibly be regarded as a

"tax

in any rational sense of the term,

British army and navy were re" "Frankenstein" is assuredly a It appears that thera is a pro- being just a nominal charge-»;

a large tour de force in this department of spect of a good literary steeple- couple of dollars-to cover the A Chinese architect, temporari-presented There was cost of issuing the licences. A residing at the Tai Tung board gathering of Roman Catholic letters and the Frankenstein-chase in the atoma between contening house, in Connaught Road clergy. The Vicar General con- monster (belped by Lord Ave-is, Asquith's second volume of bury's adaptation of the phrase) autobiography and Mr. Winston abides with us a century later. Churchill's memoirs. "Margot" the Governor opened Shelley, rather curiously,

subject of greater tion WAS the system of Cantral reports that his smal secrated the tablet. inspection, designed merely to and servant girl have absconded

Health School.

A.S WATSON & CO., LTD. avoid a repofitios of " cornering" in Canton, taking with chema Fraining Couro for Sanitary omissed to christen her autousal. whats her further pages out ther

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1921.

RUSSIA AND TRADE.

Inspectors, of which the Chiefing creation, hence the imporis-Winston will not wish his book Health Officer will be the director.ed name, except when some to rest in the shade a morgent It is hoped that the school will unthinking user refers to the after he has finished with it. They as Frankenstein, have the same publisher, and he which is, of course, absurd. As probably asks how two such. a vogue the "tale of terror" faded spirited works will run together. with the eminent exemplars named, but there is always a

A new edition, the Bith, of Mr. public for this kind of mental. V. Lucas's "Life of Charles pabulum, and intermittently the Lamb" has appeared through cult shows signs of revival. 49

Methuen. The text has been whan Poe fascinated readers with revised, and some additions have narratives weird and creeps.

keepers' Guild professed to regard of $5,510. as an attempt to impose a hard- and-fast "control,” notwithstand- ing that the Chinese Chamber of

The Vice-Chancellor of Hong-materially improve the health monstrosity kong University

and Lady administration. Commerce gave a general Brunyats left Hongkong to-day proval to the scheme. When the by the ss. Torille on an educa Council met the objection by tional mission for Singapore. allowing the rice shopkeepers to Penang and Java. They are make their return of stocks

expected to return to the Colony through their guild, the reason- ableness of the Municipality's the end of Angust.

When charged at the Magis- tracy this morning with the ambezzlement of $1.

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MR. JOHN SWIRE'S "AT HOME.”

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attitude became manifest to everybody, and a majority of the shopkeepers were evidently dis

A history of this class of fiction posed to acquiescence, but a noisy

The Repulse Bay Hotel was the has made its appearance from the minority kept the dispute 5010. Chinese clerk in the employ of scene of a very pleasant gather pen of Miss Edith Birkbead. best critical work under the title However, with the vernacular Press as well as the Chinese in- the Dragon Motor Car Company. ing last evening when the stuffs The Tale of Terror" (Constable, "Literary Impressions. habitants of the Settlemen: show-said one of the drivers of the of the various Taikoo bongs 15.) is its characterstic caption. book has been transisted by Mr. Birth.

ing the agitators no sympathy, company requested him to alter assembled as the guests of Mr. while the sub-title of A Study A. W. Evans ("Penguin" of the

Mrs. John Swice. The of the Gothic Romance" calls up Observer) GREIG. On July 15, at Quarry Bay, North Point. to Mr. and the strike has practically fizzled $11 on a chit to $10. He was and

on occasion was to allow Mr. Swire, at once the figure of its pioneer. Mrs. Kenneth E. Greig, a daughter.

out, and it ought to be plain to the remanded until to-mr-row shopkeepers by now that the the application of Inspector senior partner of Messrs. But-Miss Birkhead, I see, is so far Council's stand is simply for fair Blackman to enable a represent-terfield & Swire, who is in the from regarding the vogue as an introduction, and Sir James

ative of the Garage to attend. Colony on a short visit from Home, extinct that she predicts it will Craig & foreword" to a book. MASON-At his residence Cardenald. Glasgow, on the 12th dealing.

to meet again his employees proceed to take new impetus about "Sir Edward CarsonTM July. Walter Masan, late of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co-Labour Troubles in Japan.

ia A social way. Altogether from every fresh advance of Ulster Leader." which John in his Bith year.-By Cable.

A telegram was received in the there were 250 persons present science and of psychological in Murray is publishing. The writer An astonishing piece of news comes from Tokio to the effect Colony yesterday afternoon cau-from the refinery, the dockyard, quiry, and lead into unexplored is Mr. Jean Victor Bates, that the workers at the Kawasaki celling the opening performance Holt's wharf, the offre, and the labyrinths of terror."

U.S. SOCIALISTS' NATIONAL officers and engineers and their generations are to find delight in of the Bandman Opera Company Dockyard, emulating the syn-

CONVENTION. dicalists in Italy, first seized the at the Theatre Royal on Saturday Fives from all the B. & S. ships thrills surpassing those of the

The US. Socialista' National. offices, refusing to admit re-night. Owing to delay in her in the harbour. Mr. and Mrs.oppressed maiden driven into a

from Manila the

Swire received their guests be-nunuery, the ambitious countess, Convention, by a vote of 34 to 2, presentatives of the company, and departure then proceeded to possess them-teamer by which the Company is tween 8.30 and 9 o'clock and a the davoted loquacious servant, rejected a motion to expel the selves of the whole undertaking. travelling, the Aki Maru, is no very merry evening was passed the inhuman abbesa, dark serie members of the party who are in dancing, which was followed galleries, decayed apartments, supporting and endorsing the "All the works are now absolutely due here till Sunday. The opent under the supervision of the ing performance will now take by an excellently prepared sup-mouldering floors, tolling bells. Third Communist International

per. Tre rooms of the Lotel workmen," says the message.

place on Monday,

were artistically decorated and Ever since the signing of the Anglo Russian trade Over 13,000 bands are concerned

the music rendered was really! agreement there have been contradictory reports concerning in the movement, which appears

In to-morrow's Picture Page

enjoyable. Shortly after mid- to have originated through the the extent of the benefit which Great Britain has derived dismissal of same form and we have pleasure in publishing night the party broke up after a from the document. Hongkong is only remotely interested workers. In taking on Western several photographs in connection very pleasant and informal even- in the matter, it is true. but as having a bearing on one civilisation Japan is experiencing with the presentation of medals ing, and the guests motored back aspect of Britain's overseas trade the question of commer-some of its inconvenient features, by His Excellency the Governor to the city. Mr. and Mrs. Swire,

This last week or so back I've no'likely in any way to haste"

to take a rub convalescence. ciul relations with Russia is well worth taking note of as was practically inevitable at Police Headquarters. There accompanied by their daughter,

Daly a few days ago there was are two views of the whole parade will leave Hongkong to-morrow had occasion

I never was one to screech for Oce of Reuter's recent cables said that Mr. Baldwin. trouble at the Uchida Shipyard, and separate snaps of the actual on the steamer Shinyo Mare for down to the Franch Hospital

route to at Causeway Bay. It's a fine the Police when I notice a thing President of the Board of Trade. stated in the House of Yokohama, the chief proprietar presentation of medals to C.I.San Francisco, en

place and a' that but it's only like that for I know they have Commons that there had been a gradual expansion of taking the precaution of enlisting KETT, C.DI. Murison, Firemaster London"

well folk that can best appre- their hands full enough without United Kingdom exports to Russia since the signatures to a bodyguard. The trouble in that Lane and Sergt Stimson. We

ciste a place o' that kind. The having to run and be at the beck lad I've been seeing bas been and call of every tender-hearted the trade agreement were appended. The goods exported iustance appears to have been also publish a group of those caused through the closing-interested in the St. Joseph's during April were valued at £2,000 whilst in June they

gey near to the Valley and need fool that writes in the papers. I Home for the Aged. of & Large portion

ed cheering up badly so I used saw an Indian constable walk had risen to ES1000, exclusive of large consignments to of the works Un account of

to take him down a copy of the calmly through the repulsivo the Baltic States. re-exported to Russia. That would. by their not paying. Since the

Was He Breathing Hard? Times on odd occasions horde the other day but I didna' Norma Talmadge is again bà- itself. give us cause for a deal of satisfaction, but reports rise in the cost of living, labour

The Steward of H.M S. Blue-ljust to cheer him up. Now as even throw a fit at that, knowing disputes have been frequent in fore the Cinema public in a bell charged a Chinese before Mr. regards the average man as reliable, point to something Japan, attended by a socialistic, Goldwyn production from other sources, equally

yon well that collectors of such entitled R. E. Lindsell at the Magistracy paper's enough to raise a tem- human driftwood are no Bye a little different.

and sometimes, as in the case of "The Woman Gires," now form this morning with snatching a perature again but for Jock to welcomed in the chargeroom. A special representative of a large American concern the proceedings at the Kawasaki ing the main attraction at the silver mounted fountain pen in read the wee bits of news about Besides shifting them is no good recently paid a visit to Scandinavia for the express purpose Dockyard, a syndicalist streak. Coronet. The popular star appears the Central market. The Islay. how the Fast Day was onyway for they would only of studying the trade movement with Russia and he has Mr. Suzuki, the president of the in the role of woman who complainant was ordering fish observed at Coll, how the shinty turn up like bad money some openly declared that very few indeed of the statements of Yuaikal (the Japanese Federation braves the censure of a corvent when defendant smartly pull-match got on at Ballachulish where else. Yet I suppose the

of Trade Unions), lately accused ional world and a devoted lover, d the fountain

from and how the sheep scab was bad pen business being consummated with Russia at this time can the

matter of this pestering and Government of lack of to place her ideal of unselfishness his pocket, to which is was at Kilmallie, man, it did hire as festering nuisance does lie with- be authenticated. Reports of big deals are made more for sympathy with the workers. The and sacrifice on a high plane, and fastened by means of a clip. It muckle good as if he'd been in the province of the police purposes of propaganda than for anything else and Government has certainly adopt the many absorbing situations was a Waterman pen, bearing there himself and had seen the authorities. I know Mr. Walfe's representatives of American. British and other foreigned repressive measures towards which arise from this resolution the initials A. H. P. which, how-swallows come and the first of busy' than, but I wonder if he

Socialists including the disciples are treated with refinement.

couldna' devise some means of firms, who are at present in Scandinavia appear to be marking time-frerely watching the situation in enunciated by Kropotkin, but it and a first class company of

of the "intellectual anarchism Combined with good photography ever, did not correspond with the the lambs from the hill. As

complainant's name.

water in a thirsty land"-but keeping our pavements clearer of The steward said he caught ye_ken the rest.

these eyesores. the hope that business will be resumed at an early is too sweeping an assertion to actors, the film is unmistakeably

It wasna about Jock though I saw Mr. Lau Cba-pak at you date. When trade with Russia is resumed. Lowever, say that the authorities are in- one of the best shown at the defendant and recovered his pen

from his pocket. Defendant broke that I set out to pen this screed meeting when the S.P.C.A was Copenhagen will be the logical port for the tranship-different to the welfare of the Cinema. ment of goods to Russia and thus it is that by checking is that the advanced wing is

loose only to be intercepted by a to-night. Man, for the few times aborning. From that I take it constable.

I went about yon Hospital I that be's a humans kind of chap. business done at that port one can get a good idea of how tra Ting at dangerous speed in

couldan but help noticing the Now could it no' be possible for The constable in question also brordinar number of beggars him to get together a few of the much foreign trade Russia is actually doing. Copenhagen a country whose ecocomic or

gave evidence. When asked by that infested the district. Mind wealthier Chinese and raise is a Free Fort. is situated on the highway of traffic from ganisation on modern lines is still While flying between London the Magistrate if defendant's ye, I'm no bising the Hospital money for some kind of institu the Atlantic to the Baltic and is the terminus or port of far from complete.

and Paris, Sir Godfrey Baring, breathing was normal when he folks in the least, for I'm sure tion to house these unfortunate call of a very large number of steamship lines. In looking Mercurial Conditions.

Bart, of Cowes, and seven other arrested bim, the witness replied they canna' help it, but all the nationals of his who earn their passengers, including his eon.

'Like a man who is carrying a same you collection of Hong- living by the exposition of their at this question of Russia's overseas trade it is as well to The thermometer sppears to be bad a narrow escape, the aero- remember that there were always those who thought that on the climb all round. In London plane crashing to the ground

kong's best in the way of the sores and misery. The times are His Worship: What do you maimed, halt and blind wants hard I know, wi'so many Chinese trade would not have much of a chance whilst the present town the good people have been near Rouen. Some of the pas-mean?

seeing to. I recognised quite a Banks to be opened yet and the regime remained in power. Practically all outside parties trying to cajole the dewdrops by sengers were badly cut.

The constable: He was breath-"number of old friends. The bird Chinese landlord setting up a wail recognise that the country is seething with revolt against from the heath at Appy Amp discharging hundreds of rockets

ing bard.

wi' the bandaged hands was in in the land, but for all that I'm the Bolshevists and that industrialism, (a revival of which stead. A book of fables by

loth to think that there are not yet Defendant

the forefront. If I mistake not attributed his

still a few soft hearts beating. must come before there is a revival of outside trade) is in a Cutcliffe Hyne describes how a

readings of London's abnormal breathing to a cough on wound's beeu bleeding for hear professor sent the fog away mentioned showed three figures. suffering for the last three years.

temperature on state of hopeless disorder. The recent risings

the occasion and cold, from which he had been the last ten years and I suppose This minor scandal cannot be era

is likely to bleedy another ten so dicated by excercising a vicarious Petrograd were but an index of the situation all over the means of projecting-tubes; the The present nest-wars is not He said his home is No 14 long as the supply of red paint philanthropy. The Telegraph gad-

attempt to lure down the vapour]

holds country. Before Russia can settle down to business with does not seem to have worked. confined to America and Europe, Cheung Chan.

out. Then there's the fly the other night was maybe others she will have to settle her own little affairs first. Paris has been

chap wi' the feet awanting and right when he said that apparent a still worse

The police said defendant the maimed individual minus ly we thought more about Fido's The question asked by Commander Kenworthy whether sufferer, extensive conflagrations, in such figures as 105 and originanally gave his address as the bands and a good half dozen drinking water than the human General Wrangel was in Constantinople and, under British apparently resulting from the 106 day after day tempered. No. 54, the inmates of which of the same ilk all seeking derelicts in our midst. But evils, protection, plotting against the Russian Government, was heat, adding to the afflictione.wever, by cool nights while denied knowledge of him. sanctity under the shade of this small and great alike, flourish His Worship remanded defend- institution of charity and suffer only because they're tolerated. given a most emphatic negative by Mr. Cecil Harmsworth America has also been in the Shanghai, farther to the south, is throes of a visitation, and perhaps content with something in the

Matters of opinion are one thing in the House of Commons two days ago. It would hardly transmitted it to Europe. Rather seventies. But then London, at all to-morrow to enable ing

Mind ye, I'm not what ye call and should be encourged; tolera- be to the benefit of Britain to help to conspire against a curiously, this Colony also has Faris, and New York, much as him to obtain witnesses.

hard hearted for I believe there's tion of a recognised social wrong : Government with whom we had only just recently concluded bad a comparative scarcity of lease the precious fluid, are spazéd they wish for the clouds to re-

LOST GRANDSON IN WILL. a few cases of genuine affiction is either Indifference or what is a trade agreement, but the question does good as it draws rain lately. In France the mercury the burnid air with which we in

has risen to 100 deg, so it looks

Mrs. Ann Jenkin, of Stowting among you gang bat all the maybe worse, cowardice. attention to the somewhat anomalous position existing be- as if the weather is rivelling the this Colony have to contend; and Court, Kent, widow of Frof. same I don't think it's the thing I wonder if Mr. Lan wouldna' tween the two countries. In view of the great need for record summer of 1911, when the perhaps a few days more, so Jenkin, whose estate is valued at for them to be there or on our meet Mr. Wolfe. If they did general amity and the easy and unrestricted flow of the Meteorological Office registered rapidly do changes come, will see £25,609, directs that should her streets at all, for that matter. I'm sure something could be. complaining. like Mr. grandson, Captain L. 8. Jenkin Prospective patients in you Hos- fixed up very soon in the way of world's commerce, it is to be hoped that Russia will not London's maximum with some Mantilini, that it is "demned missing for nine months, not be pital are deep enough in the blues clearing Hongkong's streets of only settle her own domestic differences but will soon take thing between 98 and 99 (the demoist". (A cable to hand this alive two years after the war his without having to meet you what literally is an eyesore and, ber rightful place among the well-governed and prosperous it may be noted, is higher than muvius has duly let himself go), his brother and sister.

cimal point bas escaped us). This, morning notifies that Jupiter share of the property revesta to, Ichabod-looking bunch before what's more forby, reflection entering and I'm sure the sight on the management of our nations of the world.

the Colony's record of 97, Un-

of them from the verandahs is streets. Here's hoping.

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