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THE - HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH.;

NOTES & COMMENTS,

To Kowloon Cyclists.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, · 1921.

DAY

BY DAY.

NEXT IN IMPORTÂNCE FREEDOM AND JUSTICE - IS

TO

It was our duty yesterday to re- cord two further thefts of bicycles POPULAR EDUCATION, WITHOUT

ROUND THE TOWN.

LOCAL MODISTE'S CASE

By "Gadabout.”

What a convenience it la to bo

from the stand of the Star Ferry WHION NEITHER FREEDOM NOR able to stroll into your club, have

Madame Lily and Her Tailors,

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY...

Lord Lambourne tells of a new hybrid flower, a cross besween A- The case in which Madame pink carnation and a sweet wil

at Kowloon, making eight theft JUSTICE CAN BE PERMANENTLY a drink and not be called upon to Lily sued six of her tallars for|lism. The successful crossing is

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pay a single cent. It does not moder lant and in which the not very suprising, sa the flowers in all within the past few weeks.

matter how hard up you may be, defendants counterclaimed money fare related, exch being honoured Our reporter was rather inclined

There was a clean bill of health in the East you need never stint due to them under an alleged with the botanical name dianthus to blame the police for the matter

yourself, because if you have not verbal promise of a 30 per conta flower of the gods.: and although it is true that the in the Colony yesterday.

the cash to pay for what you increase in wages was cabeluded palies might render a little more

desire you can nearly always sigo in the Summary Court. before prove true to type, it will lack the But if the new flower should protection than it has so far, we The body of a Chinese boy, whoa chit. Yes, it is very convenient Mr. Justice Wood, this morning. irritating characteristio which think that cycle owners have was drowned whilst bathing at the time, but when the end of themselves very largely to blame. at Hoogkok, was yesterday re-the month comes along and you His Lordship said the question distinguishes one of its parents. It is an exceedingly risky thing moved to the Kowloon Marturay.are presented with a bill and have to be decided was whether or not There is no plant, not even the to leave an unprotected cycle

to stump up for pleasures almost there was an agreement for an snapdragon, which is as prone as standing for hours at a public Sergeant Skinner of the R.G.A., forgotten you begin to think that increase in pay on December 2nd, the sweet william to put forth stand where every Tom. Dick of yesterday reported to the police it is not quite such a good Mr. Webster (for plantiff) from the same root, and often Harry is free to come and ride it that at about 4 p.m. on Monday arrangement. The chit system referred to the latter that Madame from the same stem, blossoms of away. The police constable on some person stole & revolver to the young fellow on small pay Lily received from the Guild and all sorts of hues. As the same duty would have a pretty big from the storeroom at Whitheld is the curse of the East and I said when plaintiff took it plant will also very likely bear job on band if he were expected | Barracks,

was very Sorry that nobody to the workshop and asked single and double flowers, it is to recognise the owner of every

supported the popular and genial what

meant, all the almost certain as we watch it machine placed in the stand. At}

During the fire at Catohick chairman of the V.R.C. in his employes, with one accord, avid; coming into blooms to give us Home the leaving of cycles Street & house at No. 25 Han recommendations that as far as "It is not us; it is No. 1 (thewhat Mr. Wegg called “a delight-

| ful sap-pur-rise.” outside such places as railway Wo Street, temporarily vacated the Club bar was concerned there Guild). We are very sorry: we stations or fres libraries is very in the general alarm, was entered should be some method of cash are quite happy." The men were Trained to a south wall in Kow A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. sternly discountenanced by the by a thief who stole 115 worth of payments. It certainly would be earning very good money, said

Gardens is a charming evergreen police and owners are more or clothing belonging to one of the rather a drastic measure to make Mr. Webster, and in some cases less expected to have a small lock

people pay up for everything he was speaking from memory shrub which has this warm and chain with which to make

ther hai at the time. but they received as much as $180 summer farnished a fine display their mounts safe against theft

were it onca introduced a month. Na contract had ever (of curious flowers. It is a kind We suggest to

Disbled by a deep wound in there is little doubt that members been made to increase the employes of guava, introduced within recent the Kowloon

his shoulder, toflicted" with 'a cyclists who prefer to ride their chopper, a foki of a vegetable stall at the Canirs! Market was yesterday laid up in the Civil sailant, a fishmonger, has fed. Government Hospitak His as-

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murchines down to the ferry in- stead of taking a ricksha that their own protection is simply the cost of a small padlock and chain Such a protection is cheap ea- ough, surely, and the few seconds

iamates.

would never wish to return to the

old system.

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it

pay by 30 per cent, and the men

were perfectly satisfied.

Madame Lily, in the box, said she had been in business since 1917 and had never before had any trouble with her employes.

The members of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club apparently are determined that the memory An amah, employed at No. 16 of those members who made the suprema sacrifice during the war wheel would be worth the feeling Morrison Gap Road, has made of security. We have our doubts report to the police to the effect shall not easily be forgotten. The 30 per cent, increase

fine grauite stone that has been to whether a Chinese is doing that between 1 sed ia.m. yes erected in front of the Club have told you so many times.

Madame Lily: Mr. Webster,

All communications intended for publication should be address-it would take to lock a cycle to the Editor.

Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.

Mr. Webster asked if on Feh 2nd the employes asked for the

room Was entered

House will forever be a reminder. of the old faces that will be seen

The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 this kind of thing. because day, her

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would not arouse the suspicions

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1921.

INDUSTRIAL JAPAN.

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years from Brazil. The true

Indian guava will not fruit well in England, even under glass; but this Brazilian cousin seems quite hardy, and unaffected by frost. It would probably thrive far better in sheltered spots of the southern counties than at Kew. So if this fair stranger can be persuaded under happier con- open as well as flowers, we may Iditions to produce fruit in the

get a desirable addition to our Mr. Webster: Yes, but His home-grown garden fruits, says A on the links no more. I hear

lordship has not beard. (laughter.) London writer. that there was a certain amount

Plaintiff was further cross ex- of opposition to placing the stone For being in possession of 64 in the prominent position where amined and most emphatically taels of row opium a Chinese, who is stands but the majority did not denied having ever offered to paydants

or the story told by was searched and arrested on the like the idea of sticking it away an increase of 30 per cent and fadame Negre. His Lordship Wuchow boat, Leungkong, by Re-in an old comer, where nobody that the man had at any time reviewed the evidence of these venue Officer Brown, was this would see it and where it would been dissatisfied.

parties and said, having seen the In giving judgment, His Lord-witnesses in the box. he accepted morning ordered to pay a fine of therefore not serve its purpose. $450, or in default to undergo And quite right, too.

I dare say ship referred to the claims and Madame Negra's statement. He three months' hard labour.

there are one of two "indispans the evidence and said in plaintiff's found that during December her Bbles"* who would rather claim for sumslent to defendants, staff were not anxious to fall into Local depositors in the Banque The management of the World it

80 prominent judgment would be entered for line with the plans of their Guild Fadustrielle de Chine will, after Theatre informs us that they have and there are some who argue | plaintiff, with Costs. With and that no complaints were yesterday's proceedings at the made complete arrangements for that when a man comes out for regard to the counterclaim, made by the staff until this Supreme Court, be looking for securing the sole rights for a game of golf he comes out to His Lordabip had to decide dispute arose, in June. He ward to the day when the bank screening a number of first class enjoy himself and does not want whether he should accept the would give judgment for Madame will again open its doors for busi-pictures at their theatre including to be reminded of the horrors he story told by three of the defen- Negre, with costs.

The information contained the Dempsey-Carpentier Fight, has been through. There appear,

of the constable on daty. So serious has this thieving epidemic become at the ferry wharf that the police ought to insist on the use of locks. And there couldn't be any kick coming from the cyclists.

The Banque Industrielle.

ness.

and the urgent representations

the Government." It has been

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Between

Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

we were good strategists in the way of taking cover at a bar, we must have lost the touch by night, for at the time I'm telling ye of,

MacPherson made so much to do

was craning their necks over

I'd have liked to devote a cou-la exciting o colamas on what Mahan saya

the difference between

in the affidavit of the local "Eyes of Youth". "Desert Gold" to be some, however, to whom manager, Mr. M. Montargis, all and many others of super interest the memorial is nothing but a points to the fact that a combina. It will no doubt be of interest | cold block of stour, which stands tion of other banks in France will to learn that a new and complete for absolutely nothing. It does take over the Bank's business electric lighting plant has been stand for something though: it is reorgauise it make arrangements installed at the theatre, so there erected to the bonour and glory Joe, he was inclined to sniff a baby in the house next door. It for carrying on, and order the will be no cause to complain of of the dead and as such is sacred.bit the other day at what I had turned out though that even if resumption of business within a the "The Light that Failed" in The unveiling ceremony on San-to say about "bloods" as a reasonable space of time. This future.

day took only a few minutes and grown-man's reading fodder. Of arquestionably the best

one would have thought that it course I didos" mean for it to be The effect of the new ordinance would have been possible to put taken over seriously, this Buffalo Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Years ago way that could have been found" German wares paid this homage to British industry. In out of the diffealty. It has been in regard to the restriction of away pipes and cigarettes for Bill Wild West stuff, but wi

But not so: some folks ye may as well save at the very idea of cutting his many directions the effect was to make Germany a serious realised that Fretch credit and rents is seen in the steadier tone that short time.

prestige in the Far East would of the property market. There has there were one or two who stood your breath unless ye go into the boot faces that the whole terrace competitor: in others she became one of the principal have suffered a bessy blow if the been a marked absence of sales looking on and puting away as further must comer of a subject markets for British goods. An industrial supplement to bank bal been allowed to close

versudahs watching the ploy. three decked editorial. As 這

I've learn't since that troops the Times contains an instructive narrative of the rise of a down for good, with the final lately, and speculators, who pre- though they were at a baseball and thrash it out on the lines o

new law controlled practicallyį

matter of fact, my reading nowa moving about after sunset competitor in the Far East The allusion, of course, is to payment of 93 much in the pound.vious to the enforcement of the mates.

There seems to be a pretty bad days is mostly confined to the shouldna' as

much as cheep, Japan. t'onsiderable interest attaches to the story on more So much has been plainly said by the scale of rents, are conspicuous

Industrially, the parallel between the leading French citizens out East by their absence. In some cases epidemic of bicycle thieving at the bed-book order a' literature, the sogad travelling so in the dark. grounds than one. two island empires is closer than is sometimes realised that they sent to Paris have had they have applied to the land present time and although the heavy stuff that's likely to grade- But let that be as it may.

We shall have to wait companies for the cancellation of police by their watchfulness canally see ye off to the Land o

the leases 00 the properties lessen the number of robberies it Nod and no cause As trade became vigorous the necessity in Japan, as in the effec United Kingdom. for the importation of raw material a little longer to learn of the farmed out to them, but needless is not always an easy matter to dreams between then and the about the influence of ses power became a matter of growing importance. Possessing arrangements but there is to say, these overtures have not catch the thief and to prevent it next morning. But by the Hoker and

every reason to feel optimistic been considered.

altogether is a difficult proposi- Fly wi' this awfu' heat these strategy and tactics but I'm sure ample stores of coal and rich veins of copper. Dai Nippon and confident. The large number

tion. The wiles of the cycle thief past few nights it takes very Joe wouldns" be pleased, wi’news- must nevertheless depend upon other countries for such of small investors and depositors

One of the operators of the are various, concing and clever little short of a bottle of whisky paper at the price it is to-day. She has an will have learned yesterday's

But Mahan bas his lessons. He staples as wool, cotton. iron ore, and oil. asset of great value in sericulture, which has been pursued news with no little amount of Hongkong Amusements Limited, and this kind of miscreant ap-or a bit on the back of the bead

who together with others recently pears to be up to all the tricks wi a steamhammer to put ye of takes ye right down the line from As a rula a bed book lasts me the earliest of our Admirals and for so many generations that a section of the community relief.

resigned their employment, was of the trade. I do not know how this morning charged at the inst-they go about with things in the a fairly long time. After Car after you're through wi' him. like the cotton operatives of Lancashire, has developed a Hongkong's Finances.

ance of Mr. Stevens, the Secretary Colony but in a town where Ilyle's "French Revolution" I fol. Naval Strategy or no Naval special physical aptitude for the work. In other respects.! A very interesting report on too. the silk industry of Japan bears soine correspondence the finances of the Colony for of the Company, with entering once lived, where the Chinese lowed on wi' Mahan's "Influence Strategy, yecanda' but appreciate Cinema at one of their methods was this. A Revolution and Empire" in two war. Great Britain has so long to England's cotton trade. except that Japan has a primary last year has just been issued by the premises of the Tai Yat cycle thief was a great nuisance, of Yes Power upon the French the fact how chancy a thing is advantage in the home production of the raw material. compiled by the Hon. Colonial aumati with burglarious intent. man would ride along, on a bicy-volumes and now I'm getting on kept its place among the leading With respect to her mercantile marine. Japan's Treasurer and shows tast the It is alleged that out of spite in cle and when he came to a place wit the same writer's Naval powers that there's maybe a tend advance, especially during and since the war, has been revenue exceeded the expendi- consequence of the acceptance of outside of which were a number Strategy." Dry, but very interest-ency to regard our position as for in this department, as with her Navy, she ture by just over $200,000. That his resignation, he cut the electric of other machines he would dising, mind ye, provided ye skip bits ever established, come what may, very marked.

and place his cycle and you're aye sure o' finding the History contains many terrible now ranks as the third Power in the world. though there is a welcome change to the year theatre, and this charge which amongst them. He would go place where ye left off the night examples of the folly of that line is still a big gap between British and Japanese tonnage. 19 when the Colony's business was denied, on behalf of the de-away and in a short time return foze. In our house, you're some of reasoning. If history teaches

was run at a loss of nearly a British shipbuilders and British seamen have had a large million and a half dollars. The fendant by Mr. Nash, was brought and, quickly picking out the best times lucky if ye find the book us anything it surely teaches us share in regard to Japan's fleets, naval and merchant. three previous years were ran at by Mr. Woo, for the prosecution, machine, jump on it and ride off. itself but as that's a sore subject. that no nation has a prescriptive as it does not justify it's existence Regarding constructional work in Japan, which shows a profit and on December 31st an alternative to the major If the owner should happen to we'll let that particular flee stick right to exist and flourish so long

was remanded come out, he could plead "that he to the wa' in the meantime.

was in a hurry and had made a Mind ye, I'd no particular by the hard work and sayvee of remarkable strides, British influence has been supreme, and last the Colony's surplus balances. The case

amounted to nearly five millions.

mistake and go off on his own action to read up strategy, naval its citizens. Ships or no' ships, the colony from the Old Country which established itself we have heard a lot about the

machine. If he was not caught or otherwise. I got enough o' strategy or no strategy, it is at Kobe many years ago contributed largely to the saccess Government's finances of late

in this way he would ride away strategy when I was out on nevertheless patent to ony calm of that port

the stoten machine and Sunday field-days wi' the Volun- and unprejudiced observer that Many inequalities are still to be noted in Japan's made to increase the revenue credited with having adopted a short time after come back for teers at Fanling. The only the present trend of industrial development. Even in the dwellings of the poor show that money is flowing out

Director of Afforestation, to con-never stolen because there was a how to get shot of the whole thing and well-being but towards on the Ionely billside the oil-lamp has been superseded by pretty freely. The revenue from Dizne toggested by Prof. Honda, his own. The thief's bicycle was strategy 1. thought of then was no going the way events are

the Opiam Monopoly last year fell the electric globe. due to Japan's natural facilities for away by $1,582,019 and we all vert the district around Asama-confederate watching it all the without unduly weakening the poverty and sloth.

yara into a national park.. The time. The stolen machines ware defences o' the Colony. Some If we could really understand hydro-electric power, and the towns contain any number of know that a further decrease is region includes several small taken to big repairing shops run of our officers hadna' great the present we could predict the factories equipped with up-to-date machinery, but a few expected to be shown at the end lakes and streams, and a number by the gang and there taken to headpieces for strategy either. future. Aye, the present is age miles away agriculturists may still be seen tilling the fields of the current year. That of hot springs. The necessary pieces, interchanged, repainted now I come to think of it. They. the blind spot in life. We often with the primitive implements of their grandfathers, financial statement published an estimates will be presented to and done up and sold at a big were by no means keen on their say, if we had been in this Colony the Government Gazette revealed the Diet next season. It is pro- profit. Yes, the cycle thief is a men showing onything in the thirty years ago what we couldn' while unwieldy ox-drawn carts perform the work of tran- the fact tbat nearly every posed to name the reservation pest apt easily got rid of, hat if he way of initiative. The only have done in the way of swelling

Department sport. On the whole, though, there is no room for question Government

is the Japan Park. about Japan's progress. It has brought its problems, too. spending more money apart al- Labour in the Eastern Empire is putting forward demands together from any of the special schemes of public Improvement exceeding in some respects those of the Western proletariat, that were sanctioned at the should aim to avoid the necessity all the more difficult to meet because of the comparative Budget meeting held last autuma. of any further taxation. Business slump that has succeede the wonderful boom. But the There is a fear that we are living is bad enough without the proe- expertes. The present stagnation is practically universal It is encourag-up to the very limit of our income, pect of more ing to remember that prosperous nations, among whom if not beyond it. The Govern- Colony has weathered the in- ment should exercise the great-dustrial depression fairly well, Japan must certainly be included, have correspondingly est care in its expenditure for but it still has anxious days greater purchasing power.

urdinery purposes, because it ahead,

and the efforts that have been

wires giving current to

antil to-morrow afternoon.

"JAPAN PARK."

the mount

The Japanese Home Office is on

fiods that every bicycle loaning thing in that line I ever got the a credit balance at the bank. against the wall is well secured opportunity of showing was the Thirty years bence posterity'll with a good lock he will find that movement to a flank in which I set us down for a parblind ast of his money is not so easily earned fed the MacPherson on Armistice "dodders no' able to see our fingers and will probably be driven out of Day, our two wives being the store our face, and the chances * business.”.

enemy on that occasion. I that were shipping between our may add that I was sorry for it fingers. Aye, Its a cheap: sod afterwards for I got the job to easy thing to predict a great and take Mac's boots off that same glorious future but its aye a good night (or to be accurate, the next thing to mind that no man can morning) so that he could slip up live longer at peace than hie' his stair without waking the neighbours'll let him,

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