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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

1941.

DAY BY DAY,

ON THE WATERFRONT.

case of diphtheria.

OBITUARY.

Ir. F. J. Awdry.

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the "Hongkong Tulegraph."

with the

gentlemen

A Former German Steamer -THE MATTER WHICH YOU WISH

It was with vary deaşi regret Arrives.

we learned yesterday afternoon As the reports concerning TO PRESERVE AS À SEORET, IM-

Making har last trip under her of the death from small por in China come slong it must be PART NOT TO ANYONT, ALTHOUGH confessed that the impression of HE MAY BE WORTHY OF CON-present name the former German Shanghai of Mr. F.3. Awdry, who Banque Industrielle. | topsy-turvydom

rather FIDENCE; FOB NO ONE WILL BE steamer Kleist arrived in port was until lately associated with the than diminishes. From Washing-30 TRUE TO YOUR SECRET AS this morning. She is still under staff of the Hongkong Telegraph.

Dear Sir.-I have read in your tbe 'control" of the Imperial ton we hear that the assembled YOURSELF.-Saadi.

The late Mr. Awdry, who was papers of the 26th, and 28th. Inst. Powers have adopted

Japanese Government but she quite a young man in his twenties, that a meeting of depositors of solution ia favour of the

will be transferred to the N.V.K.name to Hongkong from New tha During the weak-end there was when she reaches Japan and will Zealand where he had had con- Chin's

Banque Industrielle de Abolition of foreign post-offices one non-fatal case of plague rathen become the Yoshino Maru.siderable reporting experience few days. Being a depositor to is to be hold in in Chios on January 1, 1923.ported and also one non-fatal She encountered ΤΟΥΤ heary in connection It also appears to be agreed that

with shipping the extent of over £1,000 I would weather from Singapore and matters. In Hongkong be in- be glad if you could inform me extrality" must go. This latter

arrived here two days behind stituted our column "On the through the medium of your decision, however, is qualified by the phrase in principle," which Whilst at work aboard the scheduled time.

Waterfront" and soon became paper how I can get in common. Kleist's Passengers. extremely popular among the localisation may mean that things are pretty Taiszama a cargo coolie accident- much as they were. The Powers ally fell into the hold and was The Kleist carried 223 pas shipping offices. Painstaking arranging the meating.

conscientious he was a had already agreed to the abolition seriously injured. He was removed sangers and 59 bags of mail. and

There

first-class valuable member of our staff and 116 of extra-territoriality when China to the Ewang Wah Hospital ahall have established a suitable

passengers, 75 second-class, 34) was only with as a short while judicial system. It is easy to un derstand the feelings of a coun-and will take place at Tientsin on Hongkong were

A marriage has been arranged intermediate and 3 third class when he was offered a better Amongst the passengers for position au the Shanghai Times try with China's ancient civilisa December 24th, between Mr. F.G.

which he left to take up with tion at having her sovereign Trobridge (of the China Mining

he had been the good wishes of all with whom rights held in abeyance, but & Metal Co. Ltd., Hongkong)

brought into Chinese have felt and Miss M. A. Llewelyn of

ham and Mathaws.

contact here. Prior to coming prominent

Mr. D. J. Brown, of the to Hongkong. Mr. Awdry had been P.W.D, Mrs. Brown and child.

to the United States where he Mrs. A. R. Crapnell, wife secured an engagement on a pro- of the manager of Messrs Laneminent San Francisco newspaper. Mach sympathy is felt among Crawford & Co.

Mrs. R. H. Cousins, wife of the local journalists for the decessed's gard superintendent, Taikoo. mother and sister in New

A. R. Sutherland of Zealand. Ellis Kadoorie School

Mrs. V. J. Hill of Taikoo. The Kleist carried over 6,000

& CO., LTD compelled to acknowledge the Chatham, England. Spirit Merchants.

Phone 616.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1921.

BRITONS AND CHINESE.

defects upon which extra-territor- iality is based. In regard to the post-offices, very considerable The dead body of a Chinese progress has been made-largely, eighteen year old girl was taken it should be added, with foreign to the Kowloon Mortuary from aid. Regarding legal privileges, Lamma Island by the police credit must be given to Chiness yesterday. Marks of violence jurists for their efforts in evolving indicated that she was the victim & modern code. That, however, of a murder.

WALD

Martin of Messrs Lowe, Bing Mfr. D. K. Blair and Mr. A. J.

Mr.

is only the first step. Were the code drafted by a Justinian, it A plot of Crown land, com-tons of cargo, only a matter of would be of little use in the prising 29,392 square feet, was 400 1005 odd for Hongkong, absence of efficient administra-sold by auction at the Fublic bowever. Iron goods, dyes, tion. A Peking report announces Works Department to a clien: of machinery and chorate of potash that the salaries of the official Messrs Denison, Ram and Gibbs, were the chief items. B:ads are so much in arrear that architects, yesterday afternoon, "the Government is now as of the amount involved being $3,140 the habit of paying them" (the upset price.)

Strikes and threats of strikes are the order of the day, the Ministry of Justice being one of the

THE CHINA FLEET.

New Ships Coming Out.

That the China Fleet will, the next your, be constituted of bigger cruisers than the ones now in The Korea Maru.

commission is the information | The T.K.K. Korea Maru arrived secured by a Telegraph reporter. yesterday with 40 first class and The four ships of the "C" class~~ 259 Chinese deck passengers. the Colombo, Carlisle, Curlew Last week witnessed a little the passengers who arrived on be allocated to other stations, and She had 52 bags of mail. Among and Cairo-will, it is anderstood, departments affected. When that increase in the number of not the Korea Maru were: Mr. G. their places in the China Fleet kind of thing goes on with the Bable cases as compared with 1. Diss, Mr. L. E. Ensign and will be taken by units of the eyes of the world upon Chius, recent experience. what is going to happen atone fatal case of plague and one

fatal case of enteric fever. Five The Empire State. other times?

non-fatal cases of diphtheria and The Pacific Mail Empire State with the big Californian business party on board arrived at Manila yesterday morning and is due here on December 4.

New Vessels. The Admiral Line vessel.

It seems a little ironical that after all these years of A Famous Nonagenarian.

calendar. It is with a certain

There was

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| Rev. Brother James.

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Yours, etc., ANXIOUS DEPOSITOR. [Mr. B. J. Silva, of Messrs. Dodwell and Company, his ben appointed Secretary of the new Association and a publicly adver tised meeting is due to take pisco on Friday.-Ed. H.K.T.)

LADIES GOLF.

The Championship Draw.

The drawing- has now taken | place for the Championship of the Ladies' Section of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club. The first round must be played by. Decem- ber 9th. the second round by December 16th, the third round by December 28th, the semi-final by January 6th, and the final either on Sunday, January 8th. or Sunday, January, 15th.

The draw has resulted A3

follows

1st Round-All byes excepting. Mrs. Fitzroy Williams v. Lady Reis Davies, Mrs. Adams v. Mrs. James, Mrs. Coppinger v. Mrs. Pearce, Mrs. Stern v. Mrs Arma

strong.

Second Round —Mrs. Bowden-

class. These are the Diamede, Durham, Dispatch and another. All now are being fitted out at Home and will be sent out to Hongkong in due time. They are Smith v. Mrs. Moore; Mrs. Grif- of a beavier type than the "G" | fin v. Mrs. Drow, Mrs. Dalgety v. boats, being post-war vassola and Mrs. Crawford Morgan, Miss ambody the latest improvements Rodger v. Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Pineia naval armaments and construc. Redmood v. Hrs. Winslow, Miss

Duff v. Mrs. Crawford.

tion.

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

That our stomachs

tell

yo fourteen

three non-fatal cases of paraty Perhaps not since the memorphoid fever were also notified. close association between Britishers and Chinese in the Far East there should be cause to discuss such a questionable presentation to Carlgie by Two Chinese died of influenza.

band of brother authors (ons) as the non-friendliness of Britain for China, yet it is a might add and sister, for We have received from the fact that in very many quarters such a question is being George biot was among them) Canadian Pacific Steamships.Ltd. Tree State, is due to leave Seattle debated in all seriousness. The views of one of Britain's on his eightieth birthday has four very attractive folders setting

on her maiden voyage on Dec- delegates to the Washington Conference regarding the there been an event so coteworthy forth the attractions of resorts in ember 10, The Bay State will start on her initial Trans-Pacific nature of the financial assistance which might be given to as the address tendered last month the ever-famous

to Mr. Frederic Harrison by near-¡detailing sight-seeing tours and China and the conditions governing that assistance seem is a hundred of the most eminent bolidays. Those who contemplate

voyage on December 5.

The New York Maru. to have upset quite a lot of people, though we should have living men. We do not forget spanding a holiday.om the other

From a usually well-informed thought that the Chinese needed no convincing that Lord Morley and others, but the side of the Pacifc would do well Britain has always been among their best, friends and on English exponent of Camtism to consult these little brochures. source came the information this

Right enough, yon man Crook's today. We're ays being told that morning that the Japanese tag. many berasions has exerted her influence in highly bene-sands distinctly first by the

which arrived back in port after fool. I solemnly, believe he we abuse our systems. That our ficial directions. Whatever the Washington delegate's feeling of envy that we have read dependents of the late Leading the New York Maru, was return than early man ever did about brush them.

A charity concert in aid of the an unsuccessful attempt to reach more about early man teeth decay because we dicna' proposals may have been we are quite sure they were the article of an interviewer. Stoker W. Norman of HMS ing to Japan without making himself. MacPherson and I climb rebel because of improper dist and

conversing with framed in a spirit of helpfulness and not in a spirit of Fancy

Titanis, who died on Wednesday another attempt. Messrs. Suzuki ed the hill together and ware in a doctor'll man who was domination.

tutored by an last leaving a widow and three and Company, however, inform fine time. We got into the ball different causes of appendicitis. Bcquaintance of Dr. Johnson!! In the Daily Trea of yesterday morning there was a When Mr. Harrison was young children, will be given in our representative that the tag is just to see what looked, at first, I wonder now if early man ever bor the Royal Navy Canteen Theatre to make another effort to reach like a lot of washing being hung had the toothacha for instance? lengthy article and leader on the question of Hongkong's there were still goodness knows on Friday next, December 2nd.it e vessel and is not yet return-on a line but which on closer Wia jawbone like some that Mr. attitude towards Canton and we cannot but view it as bo mang capital offences by the Titania Concert Partying to Japan. The seas roundexamination proved to be charta. Crook showed us and molars extremely unfortunate that need should have arisen for the Statute-book. See, celocity. The programme will take the form the Paracels are very heary and Mac was for turning back think- tear fleah, it's no likely. I could- strong across the platform. built to grind crude food and to any such discussion. The interests of the two places are tion had been invented, certainly of a variety entertainment and no tug can possibly get near thing & an Art Society show but as na' help wondering either, when so identical-the success of the one makes for success of Fe: it was still something of will be similar to that recently wreck at present

novelty to travel by train. How given in Shanghai and which

A Newcomer.

I pointed out it needed more than the lectorer was explaining some the other that to talk of animosity between them is almost many great figures that are but proved such a huge success. The

of the difficulties of the anthro- The Karimata, a fine vessel imagination to draw like you. tantamount to talk of suicide. There bas, of course, been Dames to us and indeed to the Rev. Gordon W.B. Sta: Chapisin belonging to

Mr. Crook was very good and pologists, what one of these birda the Netherlands a little friction and disappointment over the fact that the grandparents of sewing of the ship, is soxious to secure a Royal Mail Steamship Compas obviously knew his subject. It a couple o' thousand years hence attendance for such is in the harbour for the first even if at times a body didns' of our skeletons and finds instead WAS a perfect treat to listen will think when he digs up one Hongkong Government has not been free to recognise generation beve passed across the stage during the veteran's Canton's Government and there were some unfortunate lifetime! In his child bood Well-

deserving causË.

time. Her usual rup is from

understand half of what of teeth, a job lot of porcelain mistakes made at the time of Dr. Sun's inauguration as ington was Premier. And at

Amsterdam to Batavia, but she he said.

of At the Helens May Institute has been chartered, for one trip fault. If I'd had a schoolmaster course, when they've nothing but

Bot that was' his stock on a rubber platel President. But we affirm that it is false to speak of ninety, as the interviewer states, animosity between the two peoples and we think there is Mr. Harrison "is not only sillast evening Mr. A. H. Crook only, by the J.C.J.L. line. Sheike yon I'd no" be on the Chins a few bones left to ponder over delivered A most interesting carried to Hongkong from BataVİK Coast to-day. Mac, be was it must be a dickens of a job at absolutely no grounds for assuming that Hongkong is jealous live, but be is one of the mast

live mien

B.S." He lecture on Farly Man" in the no fewer than 125,000 picula of of Canton in a commercial way." Rightly or wrongly, we represents the relatively rare presence of a rather small but sugar in addition to tapioca and impressed as well and only made the best of times but the dear

audience.

among

finished a new book,

lare

י.

be.

when be ladies' fast after a bit will be

sense a little anti-British propaganda on this matter-not type of a man of letters who is appreciative

The flour, also 100 passengers. From one slip. That was on the part of the Chine-e, but of the part of others who are also a man of affairs, notwith-lecturer dealt with his subject in bere she goes to Saigon and asked me if you Harbutt stuff more than & problem unless size out to profit by British discomfiture We bave been favoured standing the be, has avoided more or less popular manner, thence to Batavia to resume her was really discovered in the threes and French heels get out Plasticine Age. He sye thought of fashion within the next hon. as much, he said, from the dred years or so. Ay, true as with the latest issue of the China Beriir, published by direct association with politics.speaking of the great difficulty of European run.

Mr. Harrison has produced a research work regarding anything Yuensang's Rough Trip.

decayed smell it bad. But let it Mr. Crook said an anthropolozist American Chinese in New York in sympathy with Canton's whole library of books-hio-earlier than the pleistocene period The Yuensang which arrived DASS. Ye canna" expect an old has no easy job to-day but it'l cause and we regret to find in it a great deal derogatory graphies, essays, and novels. He and the difficulty of differentiat-to-day had a rough voyage from man that was working for a be a pienie compared to the to Sino-British friendship. In discussing a statement by is still at it, too, as articles in the jing between simian and humeo Manila and was a day late in living at the age of ten to be as guessing competition by the time Viscount James Bryce, former British Ambassador to the October reviews bear witness. remains beyond that period. The reaching Hongkong. Very heavy gleg in the up-tak as someo you we belong to new geological were encountered, the schoolmasters that graced the period and our bones rest beneath United States, made regarding the Washington Conference More than this, he has just advent of neolithic man and the seas

subdivision of the human race waves at times sweeping over proceedings wit their presence. the rubbish of a new Ice Age. and in which Viscount Bryce states that there is no reason

into races was touched upon, the vessel with great force. Some sort of busman's holiday you It would truly seem that as why Great Britain and the United States should diverge Another Story.

the lecture being illustrated by of her superstructure aft was was, but it would do them no man progresses mentally he loses in any way where the interests of China are concerned, a If Mr. Harrison may be quoted Damber of interesting charts. At swept away, but otherwise no harm to hear some of you big all the sense be ever had and back- words pronounced as they should slides physically into the bargain. writer in this magazine says: "It is surprising that as an example of fame, scother the close the Hon. Mr. E, Irving material damage was done. Big Cement Plant,

When we ceased to burrow homes such an eminent historian as Viscount Bryce, if he bases ouncement to catch the eye (Director of Education) expressed

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Shannon, Ay, I was just turning the in the hillside and added new his present vision upon past performances, cannot see why might be cited as an illustration the thanks of those present.

of notoriety. Fifteen years ago the

of Chicago, were among the whole affair over in my mind means of defence to our bare Great Britain and the United States should not diverge newspapers of the two hemis-

passengers for Manils on the afterwards and I've come to the bands, nature discarded talon A DIVORCE PUZZLE in any way where the interests of China are concerned. It pheres were filled with the Thaw

Keystone State. Mr. Shannon is conclusion that a man like Mr. and gave us neat pink nails "My late wife is now a widow," secretary to Mr. Charles F. Massey, Crook's fair wasted teaching a lot instead. As our for moulted we is possible that Viscount Bryce bas overlooked the case of trizi, arising out of the shooting

of Stanford White, an artist, at is declared a Cassel Collieries in Kwangtung and a few other mattere fashionable roof garden restaur-magistrate a: Totten bazu. "That Company, who arrived last month should be is at the University and The jaw got smaller as our food men to a puzzled of the Massey Concrete Products of youngsters. Where you man took to clothes and fashion pages. of similar nature wherein it is certain the underhand sat in New York. It transpired is beyond my comprehension; on the Wenatchee to supervise doing research work at that, became predigested. Clothes and methods employed by British interests in exploiting China that before her marriage to Harry what do you mean?" asked the the Izauching of a project to Whether be wants it or no, that's cities made the doctor and would never be countenanced by the people of the United Thaw, & young millionaire, Evelyn magistrats. "I married a widow," build a $10,000,000 cement plant where he should be and if our dentist an institution among us.

and later on the island of Cebu. States

Possibly he sees that the present Nesbit as she then was, had been explained the man,

Lamp of Asia had a few like him I wonder also it, despite the Back From America. there would be less monkey non- League of Nations and Dis United States government intends to insist upon the policy betrayed by the artist. Neverthe divorced her. I take it she now

less, the deliberate shooting of reverts to her original status AS After two years at Georgetown sense one way and another, less armament Conferences, whether of the Open Door and he knows that this will strike at the white some time after the occurs widow."

University, District of Columbia, bickering and snarling sad some modern man will die very root of British and Japanese policies in China. Perrence and some time after Thaw's

preparing for his work, Jose D. thing done more in keeping wi'an like bia Paleolithic pais ? haps the drop of oil is merely to ease any tension in marriage caused a widespread

Peralta, of San Fernando, pro-institution that's had so much What does the future hold

the Washington which might occur were the truth regarding outcry, with demands for the to the stage, but apparently her vince of La Union, P.I., arrived good money spent on it. I only for TRCE? Wilt We

extreme penalty, Eventually the attitude of the governments of Great Britain and after a second trial, the first jury vogue spent itself, and she opened back on the Keystone State to hope Sir William Bronyste will all be gone some day perhaps Japan toward China made known to the American people." disagreeing, Thaw was adjudged a teashop in New York This, take a post as land law clerk see into the matter.

too, was unsuccessful. When the ander the insular department of There's one thing certain and sex bed or a footprint on come Now, that kind of talk is false to Britain and we think insane. Some little while later City Marshal called last month grloulture. He was formerly that is, even if we couldna, mud flat? The instinct of self- that any impartial historian will have no difficulty in the prisoner sought to obtain his

Exterior at Washington. pronouncing the fact that Britain, throughout the whole release on the plea that he had to carry out an eviction corder, artached to the department of the pretend to follow everything that preservation is strong, I know Mz. was said last night there was and man has an ingenuity in -course of her diplomatic dealings with China bas dealt notĺrecovered sanity, and ultimately the propristress was found Peralta spent two years at the one left yon hall but what was frustration "he hostile forces of University of California before thoughtful. Even our Director of nature. But nature, fair lady, only as fair with China as any other nation but a great ing his liberty. Meanwhile his attempt to be les matriculating at Georgetown, Education seemed to be impress will ays have the last word. deal fairer than many. And if our Chinese friends will wife, formerly a chorus girl, had carcotic.

from which be graduated recentlyed. I couldns help but think of bot stop to analyse that (tatement and all that is carried obtained a divorce and resumeda pathetic note at the same time with the degrees of LLB and the kind of life early man led and and the Ball's the morn's night, But masker, we're no deid yet

her maiden name. She returned

LL.M.

compare it wi'. our existence. Whe's like ne ? Deil the ans !

with it we think they will be forced to agree..

he was successful in regaio-

sensible As the result of an

The spectacle strikes

that it offers a warning against |the primrose path..

out

leaving only a stray tooth on the