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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.,

NOTES & COMMENTS.

U.S. Minister to China.

Dr. J. G. Schurman, Mr. Crane's successor 13 U. S. Minister to China, will probably arrive out! here in the course of the week. He sailed from San Francisco on July 30. To come out to the Far East when within a year or two) of becoming a saptuagenarian is Saburman is no stranger to this quarter, however. Twenty years be visited the Orient 53 president of the first U. S. Philip- pine Commission, and had much

TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1921..

DAY BY DAY.

CANTON · AND PEKING.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

thousand miles long. The canal proper, however, la only about aigba hundred miles in Ru Dr. Yen Catechised.

but, as an old English writer han NEVER HOLD ANYBODY BY THE

| said: “In point of magnitude our (Canton Information Bureau) Some years ago it was dis-'most extensive inland navigation BUTTON, OR BY THE HAND, IN ORDER TO BE HEARD OUT; FOR Canton, August 19, 1991.-The IF PEOPLE ARE NOT WILLING TO (allowing interesting letter has covered by a London physician in England can no more be còm- that a frog's heart, when removed pared to the grand trunk that to Dr. W. HEAR YOU, YOU HAD FETTER been addressed

from the body, would beat for interiects China than a park or Yao of the Peking HOLD YOUR TONGUE THAN THEM. W.

Foreign Oce --Chesterfield.

by Mr. Quo some daya if a certain solution garden fishpond to the great Laka Tai-Chi, a member of the govern-were poured on it gently. Dr. of Windermere." ment here, who was sent to Ringer, who performed the experi Pating by the Government last ment, used salt, calcium and winter to negotiate with the Diplo potassium chlorides. A scientist matic Body for the release of the from Holland has also proved this southern portion of the Customs to be possible by using a like solu- tion, but without the potassium Surplus:

chloride, and allowing rays from

The Health Return for the past not light undertaking. thi 48 hours records one fatal case of enterio fever the sufferer being Chinese.

ago

to do with the preparation to-day by the ss. Tieresias were the four-volume report Mr. and Mr. F.F. Duckworth, of which, at any rate up to the the Hongkong Electric Company. Wood-Forbes mission, has re mained the most complete in-

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Pearl stories seem to be apropos at the moment. Here is one which few people know. Louis Batthyany, who was executed

Sir-Whenthe report-first re-

for his share in the Hungarian of rising of 1849, owned a large almost invisible piece Among those leaving the Colony ached me that you had instigated

the issue of the secret order for my radium to fall thereon. The heart black pearl which he had had set arrest by the Fengtion Military radium is taken away.

once this in a scarf-pin. On the morning of stops again when

A Pari his execution he gave the pin to Police during my visit in Pekingsian surgeon, Dr. Tuffir, also per- his valet, who attended him to last February as a represent-formed a remarkable operation, last, as souvenir. The valet be- ative of Dr. Sun Tel-380. vestigation undertaken on behalf] The remains of a Chinese boy Dr. Wa Ting-fang and Mr. He made an incision in a person's queathed it to his son, and the of the administration at Washing-"were yesterday removed to the

chest and massaged the heart, son, finding himself hard up Tang Shao-yi to negoti ton. He has also written an, Kowloon Mortuary from the

ate for the release of the accumu-setting it in motion again after resolved to sell it. The country for jeweller to whom he offered it unoficial work on the islands. Causway Bay breakwater where Isted Customs Surplus belonging man had been left For Britishers there is aconsider they were damped.

sent it to Budapest to be valued. daad. to the South. I was reluctant to

There it was exbibited in a shop able element of interest in Dr.

give it credence. As confirma-

window, and its magnificence that the new Minister studied at It was reported to the Polication of the report, however, has

Nearly everyone suffers pangs aroused the suspicion of the the Universities of London and by Mr. Grunsell, of Holt's Wharf, lately reached me from an au of soxiety when he sees a child authorities. Inquiries ware in- Edinburgh, which are but two of yesterday, that a drawer in his thoritative source, I can no longer leaning far out of a railway-stituted, and it was established the numerous seats of learning, office bad bean broken open and remain silent. I beg to ask you carriage window with its full that the pearl had been stolen

the following questions:

weight against the door. Soon from the British Crown, and American and European, with silver watch abstracted.

( Did you consider what parents will not need to tell their hundred and fifty years before. which he has been associated.

would be the probable and natural children to "come away at puce!" How Batthyany had got hold of Until last year Dr. Schurman was

Mr. W. W. Payne arrived at consequence in the event of my for an automatic-loaking device it could not be ascertained; but president of Cornell. In addition Yokohama on August I on the falling into the clutches of the has been designed by a member Great Britain bought it back for to his writings on the Philippines, RMS. Fmpress of Russian to join Fengtien Hsinen Ping who are of the Immingham Dock staff of £2,500. the doctor bas produced several the staff of the Hongkong & really Chang Two-lin's blood-the Great Central Railway Com- volumes upon various subjects. Shanghai Banking Corporation bounds? and, apart from his professorial there. and literary qualifications, the new Minister has had a number of years' diplomatic experience,

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Schurman's appointment, seeing

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pany. By this new invention (2) And realizing the fatal the carriage door automatically Thus a writer in a Home consequence, did you really think locks itself, and cannot be opened journal: There must be many the nature of my mission war when the train is in motion, Japanese still living who can re- The Management of the World ranted the indiction of the pen-except by a special key, which member when their countrymen Theatreannounces that "Loyalty"alties involved?

will be in the charge of the guard, would have regarded with horror a six-reel. Bernstein production

(3) As you had the whole force This key will unlock the doors the manner in which the Crown Dr. Bertrand Russell. of absorbing interest will belof the Waichino Fu

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when they have been Prince allows himself to be gazed screened to-night at 9.15 pm. Your command and Having finished his engage with Miss Betty Brice in the official access to the Diplomatic and when the train slows down late as 1867 no Japanese scen easy strained by intent or accident, upon by the foreign crowds So ment at Peking. Dr. Bertrand Russell is performing a short principal role as Nell Woodward. Body in Peking, why was it the doors automatically unlock was allowed to look upon the lecturing tour in Japan. Evident-

necessary for you to invoke the themselves. The new device is Emperor, who lived a lifa apart y the authorities in the land of One of the patients admitted assistance of the rengtien Hsinen worked from the axle of the in the seclusion of his palace. All the chrysanthemum, notwith-into the casualty ward at the Ping instead of dealing with me carriage, and can be applied to that was seen of him by those standing their

who waited on his cocamanda antagonism to Government Civil Hospital as man to man?

single carriages.

WES his back. (4) If however, you considered

When the dengerous thoughts," have yesterday was a Chinese married

rule was first modified to the decided to let Dr. Rossell follow woman who was severely injured these means inadequate to deal

with me

Says a London writer: "It is extent of his leaving the palace. his beat. No attempt was made in the abdomen and face as the

why did to interfere with him even when result of an assault committed by

send interesting to know that China's fall shatters had to be put up, all and even yamen-runners Grand Canal, at one time one of blinds drawn, he informed a large body of a man who has since absconded. one

with an **ultimatum", more the world's great engineering the crevices covered with paper, students at Keio University that

this especially as there was no hope for civilisation:

course was wonders, is to be put in order and and no one was permitted in the except in communism. This, too, The Pacific Mail Steamship followed by one of your colleagues used again as a trade route be-streets. Vast changes have taken- occurred at an institution where Company has received advice that with none of your foreign and tween the north and south. This place in the island empire since "training and alcanal, the most famous in the then, but even to-day it is not disorder has lately been rife, the the s.s. "Empire State" is expected Christian

proper personal acquaintance world, was completed in 1350. considered quite

and students having won one of the to arrived at Hongkong. about shorter

and took six hundred years to respectful by the masses of the strikes" that bave become such August 29th. The above steamer with me?

feature of educational life in will sail from Hongkong for San (5.) Could it be that your long construct It utilizes stretches people to look at the Emperor or and your of various rivers on its route, and, his heir when they drive through It would be the gravest reflection on statesmanship if Japan. But what is to be thought Francisco via Shanghai, Japan stay in Germany

over two the streets. this auspicious moment were allowed to pass." Those of a preceptor who, with the case Ports and Honolulu at noon on present tenure of office in Peking including these, is

as a servant of the Bandit War- words of General Smuts, written to De Valera on the eve of Russia before our eyes. pro-September 3rd.

fesses that civilisation must look

lord have rendered you incapable of the former's departure for South Africa, will sum up

otacting otherwise than appeal. Last week's return of notifiable ing to force-to cruce Prussianism the thoughts of the great majority of us who have read the

discases discloses the following embodied ix Chang Tao- telegrams to hand yesterday regarding the Irish situation.

plague, two fatal cases. Chinese; in and his Hsien Ping? We have looked forward so eagerly to peace and we have Straits Chinese.

smallpox, two cases. Chinese:l In the interest of your claim as been led to expect so much out of the present negotiations For some months there has enteric fever, one case. British; a modern-educated and Western- that it is hard to conceive how statesmanship can be called been so agitation among the paratyphoid fever. cases, trained Chinese and as a Chinese i

Chinese in the Straits against the Malay and Chinese and four Christian, I venture to suggest by that name and still permit this grandest of all oppor-Registration of Schools Ordia deaths from intueaza the sufferers that these questions demand tunities to pass without tangible result. And yet. it has a ance, and they petitioned the in the last instance all being of categorical raply from you hard task: how hard can easily be gathered when we read Central Government at Peking to Chinese nationality. of the uncompromising attitudes of the three parties move in the matter. This has not concerned.

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

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BROTHEL ROW.

Berkongeng

Soldier in Trouble.

Your obedient servant,

(sd.) QUO TAI-CHI.

MANDSOME DONATION.

Sir Alec Black has expressed

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

On

opened up quite a new feature in got there.

This ball game basicesa basa sunsi:ade and a fan when they the repertorial line of business. But this ball game's here for " Local journalists-and every re- good all right. The day will porter here, of course, answers to surely come when the public of ho other description-will bave Hongkong will willingly pay to produced the desired effect. and

According to the Centred thing į

to get the hang of the game, for see it, and small boys need the at- now e deputation of two, claiming The British Government has made an offer far in

the Chinese of Post Mr. A. M. S. Bailsony, first

surely the day will come when tention of an Inspector of Police. to represent

they'll have to get down to it and The day will soon be hers advance of anything that has even been offered Ireland Malaya," has left Penang for officer of the str. Kianging, who

torn in their own "copy" of a when reporters'll have to put in before. A full dominious status with just the necessary London to obtain an interview fell ill from santroke while on the bis intection of giving £125 per Monday morning Ye canna' some snappy work over Saturday safeguards-an offer that General Smuts himself has with the Colonial Secretary. The first voyage up to Changking, was week for three months to be expect the manager of a baseball night. The day will come when advised Dail Eireann to accept. De Valera has replied Objectors assert that the Ordin- being brought back to Hankow on distributed among the unemploy team to train a bunch of ball the home run hashers will have

ance is "subversive of the in- the str. Shasi, but died as the vesse.ed fisherman of Grimsby. that neither Dail Elreant nor the Irish people can accepterests of Chinese vernacular reached port on Tuesday evening SATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES after the ground, arrange for the Soon the homers'll be whacked sloshers through the week, look to give the fans a full dinner pail the proposals, and, after pointing out why be thinks the education. A very large prop Mr. Bailsony was an officer in The Prince of Wales has lent hire of chairs, see to the supply into the barbour and Babe Ruths freedom of Ireland would be illusory under such circumtion of the Chinese in the Straits the French Nery during the war, to the National Library of Wales af ice-water punch for the bes

Alin which service he lost the use for exhibition the stances, asks for Ireland's right to secede entirely from the attend the British schools.

illuminated players

common spectacle is our on Saturday and at streets. In days no' far distant the British crown. The Premier has pointed out the impossi-far as the vernacular schools are of an arm, the vessel on which addresses presented to him during play

sace time spend the man that socks out 241 homers in a concerned, the measure appears he was serving having been blown his recent visit.

beat part of bility of that request and has pleaded for a reconsideration. to be designed to improve these up by a German mine.

every Sunday season will have a job in Hong- And then Ulster comes into the picture, full of a vigorous institutions. sorcething on the

playing Annie Roodie

kong for life and the prospects Spring Garden Lane and saw a typewriter so that the news of public status if enough patriotism and loudly proclaiming that Ulster will recognise lines sdopted in this Colony. The

dispute in progress and papers'll have a fine account of money can be got together before no authority other than that of the King and Parliament Colonial Office may be expected to accord the deputation a courteous

attracting the attention of a Saturday's game in their Monday he dies. Home to sta'istics Ti of the United Kingdom. So far as we have news.

hearing, and if any distinct grier-

large crowd. The defendant was issues. No, ye canoa expect become the fashionable topic of there the position stands, three parties, Great Britain. can be shown it will no

arguing with the woman, and even the mob piece of a baseball conversation when the fans are Dail Eireann and Ulster, all where they were before doubt receive attention; but the

when questioned. admitted to team to do that for long without no argoing over the respective witness that he did assault her. registering a kick. So the re- merits of certain grades of yarn the conferences and peace talk began. Have we reached movement has rather the appear

The character of Wanchai was He was advised by witness to porters. I mean journalists, of that go to the making of base- an impure out of which there is to be no escape save that ance of gratuitous agitation, such of further strife? With whom does the next move rest?as has come to be associated with made the subject of an outspoken take a ricksha and clear out of course, will have to get wise and balls. Made of wood you say? It seems to be with De Valera and his companions, who Sean Chinese organisations at comment by the Magistrate (Mr. the locality, but was obstinate in for the future make Castle Peak, Oh! never mind. What's the use G. N. Orme) at the Police Court spite of all persuasions, and, Fanling and Repuise Bay of a toan being ignorant if be must seriously face the consequences of a definite refusal

this morning when a soldier of eventually, witness had to take escondary consideration in the canna' show it occasionally?

But you journalists'll have to of the Governments offer. They have just met in Dublin

the Wiltshire Regt, was charged him to the Police Station. He scheme of things reportorial. It'll with assaulting a Chinese woman, bad to use a certain amount of o be easy, mind ye, for up to get hep. The fellow wi' the classy and we must await their verdict. Reuter, so fond of giving An Echo of Raisuli.

now I've no noticed onything in vocabulary is the chap, ten years That picturesque character, 40 inmate of one of the houses at force in doing so. us his own opinions, says that the southern leaders still

Etherington denied the charge this line among the subjects set bence, that's going to hold down seemed to be in buoyant spirits on Sunday and that Raisuli, brigand chief and some Spring Garden Lane, and with

time dictator in Borth-west disorderly behaviour when re- of disonierly behaviour and com-out by the several correspond the greatest number of iron men Government circles in Dublin believe that De Valera will africa, appears to have had a monstrated with by Police Ser plained of being roughly treat-ence schools and I don't believe per. This is the stuff they'll have that Pear's Annual even makes to burn up the typewriter ribbons be persuaded to accept the terms offered. One can only hand in the disturbance that has geant Shafton.

the ed by

Police Sergeant hope that their belief will not be falsified.

broken out in Spanish Morocco. The complainant in the Erst who, he alleged, caught hold casual mention of the game. But wi' in the near future if they For our own part we are inclined to think that the Raisuli is no respecter of persons, charge said that she was con- of him by the neck and forcibly still wi' practice and the steady mean to keep their jobs :--

the Police consumption of at least three British Government has, in this instance, gone as far as it Spanish, French, or British. For versing with a number of friends pitched him into

Manhattans daily, no" to speak of the matter of that, he rides when the defendant came in, and Station. can go and that it has behind it the weight of the majority roughshod over his own Sultan slapped her face. She ran out One of the defendant's friends an occasional read-up of the Saturday Evening Post the use of British public opinion. It has tried, with generosity, when the humour seizes him. into the street and summoned who was called B.9 witness,

of the American to settle this old feud: its action has the approbation of a Probably his most celebrated police aid by blowing a whistle. corroborated the man's story. Tad sbase man like General Smuts and that will count a lot in the exploit Was the capture of This, the defendant, whose name was received with some degree of language shouldna' present ony scale when men and women pass their individual judgments. the late Sir Harry Maclean-is William Etherington, denied scepticism by the Magistrate, thing very by-ordinar in the way Kaid Maclean, the Sultan's and brought a countercharge who, in passing sentence of of difficulty. Of course if the Sinn Feit must realise that it is asking more than can be British adviser-whom he held against the woman. He said that‡s $20 fine or 14 days' hard Hongkong Baseball Team would issue something in the way of a given it when it demands complete secession and the right to heavy ransom, eventually paid it was she who slapped his face, labour, remarked that unfortu glossary it would help lots but to establish its own Republic-a Republic hostile to in February 1908. Spain is being and when he pushed bet away ately the district bad of late Britain. Mr. Asquith has been in opposition to the present advised to cut her losses in Africa from him she ran into the street been the ecene of many rows in then that's no to be expected which soldiers like the defendant doing so much as they are to Government because it has not offered the dominion status by getting out, but has responded and blew the whistle..

with some spirit by sending re- Questioned by the Magistrate, had figured. It was primarily popularise the game. No' that to Ireland before. He will be in agreement with it now, inforcements. A year or two the complainant remarked that the defendant's duty, by reason and so will the majority of thinking men and women. ago the Spanish Government she was only a woman, and would of his profession, to observe the thing they'd be asked to do would Here is a chance to make amends and to end a sordid proposed to follow France's ex- not have thought of assaulting peace of the district and if he be to ran a fleet of automobiles chapter. If Sion Fein throws it away in an excess of ample by instituting a Foreign big, hefty being like the defendant. could not do that, then it was to the ball park free, gratis and for nothing. Even, then there's intolerance the fault will be widely recognised. The con bat high pay, and no, questions said

Legion, with "rigorous discipline, Ip evidence, Sergeant Shafton much better for the police and

that іл response to a for the people there, that he some Hongkong folks that'd grumble and demand iced drinks, sequences they make unpleasant contemplation.

asked.

telephone message he went to should keep away.

would be too much. The dat

In a game with Shaukiwan the other day, Atta Boy socked ove no high it had snow on It Doo had time to run in and get a shower bath before grabbing the comet, but be missed it when it finally settled back to earth.

They gave an error for failing to pitch camp in the right spot. "How do you get hits around bere, anyway." yelled the dis- gruntled Babe. By breaking any's lez, huh?"

Yeah, the big fellow likes bis. hits as well as the,140 hitter.

Nothing would please him better than to make Harry Heilman, Ty Cobb and Tristram Speaker take a back seat in the hit column.