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THE HONGKÒNG TELEGRAPH.

ORMISTON-DOBINSON.—At Hongkong, on 17th. December, James Ormiston, of Dunedin. New Zealand, to Emily Mason Dobinson, of London.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1921.

TO EX-SERVICEMEN.

NOTES & COMMENTS,

My

The Kwang Lee,

We had a note the other day remarking that there was some- times a touch of comic opera about piracy in Chinese waters. There was a streak of the incon gruous about the piracy of the

the of tration.

The

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 90.7.1921.

DAY

BY DAY.

BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO, NOTHING TO SAY, HAVING ABSTAINS FROM DIVING - US WORDY EVIDENCE OF THE FACT --- George Eliot.

CHINESE NEWS,

Sun Yat-sen's Wife Missing

LAND SALE:

Brisk Bidding for Kowloon Lots.

There was some brisk bidding

dowa Teste.

A THANKLESS JOB.

Supreme Court Bailiff's Troubles..

and witness promptly followed and arrested him.

Bramined by Mr. M. K. Lo, who” represanied his chauffeur, witnean nimitted that defendant offered no resistance when he The unhappy experience which found himself arrested.

Mr. Lo: As bailiff, when you

st the

The chief interest in the sale might have made their escape, Chao Heng-ti of Huasa instruct- was in the plots at Kowloon and witness went round but was too ing him to stop the copper mint seen produced are too light-Esipet those present began to defondant, however, was after they had been knocked late to intercept Bo Kee. The there, because the copper coins

to sneak away, Foo. The only lot left was endeavouring Rota! Building Lot No. 193, s ares sad described as being above piece of land 7,000 square feet in Roral Bailding Lot No. 14. Nobody appeared it have any interest in this plot and it was sold for the upset price of $840 or 12 cents & square foot. Mr. C. C. Stark was the purchaser.

"THE KID."

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

at the land sile held in the offices befell Supreme Court bailiff of the Public Works Department when he set out to serve a pro- got a judgment debtor in your There was a clean bill of health yesterday afternoon when plots per warrant on a debtor, wore custody and when you apprehend China M. S. N. Co's vessel when in the Colony over the week-end. of land at Kowloon were put up related at the Magistracy this that a mob coming to attack you for auction. Kowloon Inland Lot morning in a case in which Jin order to ressus the debtor, is the pirates shook hands with her

We are in receipt of an excel. No. 1438, adjoining Lot No. 1400 Castilho proceeded against Mr. it your natural instinct to drop master, Capt. Lindsay Crawford, and returned him, some of his lens wall calendar issued by the Portland Strast, with an area of M. K. Lo's chauffeur for assault your defending stick in order to The evidence of the complain- bave both hands on the prisoner ? property after having threatened British-American Tobacco Com- 16,800 square feet, was put up at

Witness said that it was untrue him with revolver, locked him pany. It is embellished with a an upset price of $13,440. It was ant was to the affect that about ng, and then compelled him to splendid, full length photograph pointed out by the principal bidder 4 p.m. yesterday. in bis capacity that he struck the crowd with the that the plot was on the hillside, as bailiff of the Supreme Court, thek. Hau Kos dit not tall kim steer the steamer as they desired. of the Prince of Wales.

but the auctioneer replied that be weat to look up & mantbat defendant was his guarantor

Hau Koo to serve for the debt But this jocase trait is eclipsed by

He spoke in the There were three fatal cases of the sale had been "Gazetted" and named the nefarious side of the opera

Shanghai dialect which witnasa tions. A Chinese youth was plague last week-all Chinese. people had had a chance to look a warrant taken out remorselessly shot, apparently for There were also three cases of at it. For the fint for bids lastigation of an Indian money; did not understand.

Dewa Singh, the money-lender refusing to hand over a bag off enteric fever (one fatal), two non- the offers increased $100 at lender. Han Keo was arrested Poon at the Wanchai Motor Garage. go'd, and treasure to a very large fatal cases of small-pox and two time, but the price amount was taken from the strong non-fatal cases of diphtheria. began to make jumps of $500!The debtor, said that he had no in the case, gave evidence which room, the estimates varying from Three Chinese died of influenza. After a few $500 advances, in money to pay the amount of $111 corroborated the statement mada

creases of $1,000 were offered. owing. When they had proceed by the complainant.

about 50 yards from the Defendant called as his witness $120,000 to 1204000, According

At the Peak Hotel yesterday | At $26,100 there was silence for a ed to one version, the pirates were

Save the fourth few moments, only two rivals left Garage, witness continued, the chauffeur employed by Mr. W. after much bigger haul, but Mrs. Blair somehow missed the larger ship- Christmas te e party, an event in. Then it increased in $100 bids defendant came in sight carry-L. Leask. This man said thai to induce witness to, deavouring to explain to the ment, so consoled themselves with which the name of the and was eventually knocked downing an umbrella, and endeavour-with another friend he was on- release Han Kee. He held Indian that defendant as the with the Kwang Lee. The scope hostelry is now popularly con- on behalf of Mr. Lau Lim-ynsng ed of the plans indicates these rovers accted in the thoughts of the for $27,000.

big Another plot for which there witnesses' arm, and the argument guarantor for the debt. The affair Laudacity, bred of long immunity. young folk. There was

started to demonstrate its hostile the position of the defendant We don't know the size of the attendance, including 150 children was keen competition was Kow-drew together a crowd which rase out of a misunderstanding of other vessel, but the Kwang Lee and 80 grown-ups Each kiddy loon Island Lot No. 1439, also intentions towards the Indian in the matter of the debi. is a good-sized steamer, being received a present from the tree, near Portland Street. The area

Mr. Lindsall decided to adjourn of 1,500 tons register: yet and there was dancing, singing of this lot was given as 23,275 money-lander who had accom conditions are such that in the and games, so that a happy time square feet and the upset price Panied the witness. Apparently the case until to-morrow in order

the release of Hau Kee was to be able to consult the Registrar.. was $18,620. There was brisk

sought for by the crowd and find of the 3upreme Court with regard year 1921 pirates can calmly hold was spent.

bidding and the purchaser. Mring that he was having great to the procedure adopted in the up a vessel trading between such

It has previously been surmised Yip Fook, was called upon to pay difficulty in retaining his hold execution of judgment warrants, ports as Shanghaiand Hongkong.

on Hau Kee, witness dropped his and to see whether the pro- Things being as they are, it is a that on his way to Japan after $41,000 for the plot.

Previous to the suctioning stick in order to have bath bis | missory note given by the debtor wonder, to use Capt. Crawford's his Indo-Chins tour Marshal

of the two Kowloon lows. bands 01 bis prisoner. He contained any confirmation of words, that such an act has not Joffre may find it convenient to occurred earlier, for the ship pay a visit to Hongkong. Accord Rural Building Lot No. 196. Was

assaulted by tha

de defendant's claim that he was and his carries neither armed guards noring to the latest advices received situated at Potfolum, with a fendant.

prisoner acting as the guarantor grills. The robbery was effected here, it appears that this will notares of 44800 square feet, was at length managed to free him. by the now-familiar trick of the be so, as the cruiser Mostealm is sold to Mr. Li Lum for the upset self. The man ran into the PROTEST LIGHT COPPER

COINS. pirates shipping as passengers. under orders to take the listing price of $5,576 and Inland Lot No Garage followed by the crowd. It is ascertained that owing to What precautions, it may be guished envoy direct toJapan with 2362, adjoining Garden Lot No On being informed by the asked, are taken at Shanghai in an intermediate stop at Keelong, 29, Bowsa Road, area 26.970 Manager of the Garage that the protest of the British Min- searching native A French passenger who travelled square feet, was sold to Mr. Li there was a back door through ister, the Central Government More than that is with Marshal Joffre out from Sai-ko for $7,242, the upset price which Hu Kee and the crowd has recently wired to General Our Note and Comment published on Friday, criticis-reference to passengers? ing the action of the "active" ex-servicemen in the Colony in needed, an extensive patrol of Europe on the M.. Porthos and seeking to establish a separate organisation from the British Chinese gunboats being requisite: who arrived here on Sunday, & convarvation he Legion, would seem to call for some further explanation in but it is futile to consider such stated that in

Feting Adminis to visit Canton but in view of the view of what was said at Sunday morning's meeting in the matters in the present position heard the Marshal express a wish

of status

the is unrecognized happening Coronet Theatre. One of the gentlemen present was so angered that he wanted to know if any Telegraph men were probably the most sensational of Southern Government, it was present in which case they should be asked to withdraw. As the kind since the case of the Tai palikely that his desire could be it so happened there were no Telorugh men present, not On,in which, as residents will re-gratified. because of the "obvious reason some other person spoke ember, all lives, including the of, but because the week-end was such a heavy one in Pirates," were lost by fire. news-gathering work, that we were forced to leave this Wilhelm Again.

The hypothesis generally sc-

Just yesterday I had occasion meeting to be reported by other local journalists. As all

to hire one of the Hotel Cars for ex-active-service men were invited to be present by ad-cepted by the Allied nationals is

We are informed by our Canton

an borr. No' that I had jouating vertisement, three members of the present Telegraph staff that Gernams deliberately built

in my bead, miad ye,at that time in order to assert her will be correspondent that it is rumoured

o' day. No' I like to keep out of could have turned up in that capacity. We point this fact a cormous Army and Navy

them kind of things on wook out to avoid undeserved sneers. The suggestion of a boy-force. It may be that when the that Lady Shorg Bing-ling, wife

days for fear some o' the haid cott was ridiculously foolish and revealed the speaker. time comes for the standard his of Sun Yat-sen, has been kid- We can tory of the Grea: War to be writ-napped by robbers on her way to

yins gets to seeing me and take whoever he was, to be childish in the extreme.

ten, there will be some variation Kweilin to join her husband.

it into their heads to send 10 take criticism as well as give it.

auditor round to examine the U Han Min and Li Lit-choen as we judge will be the case, that

Charlie Chaplin's new produc books. No' that the cars at the Now, we wish it to be understood quite clearly that from the current version, even if. This still requires confirmation, we made our objection to the idea of forming a new version is found to be substantial has been ordered by Sun Yat-sen

We cannot speak to meet Tong Chi-yao in Wing tion. "The Kid" bas already Hotel cost any more either for established a reputation for itself that matter hot when a Scotsman association solely in order to point out that instead of 15 correct

Lady Wo Ting-fang was one of in Hongkong. It was shown to wants a car be wants it in a making a split in the rauks of local ex-servicemen it would with certainty: some matters re Nip

sest burry (or otherwise what's the, be much better to consolidate. In the minds of many to be sifted, perhaps some

the Kg Lee but vacant for the first time yesterday. tram's for) and ye can get motors earthed. What we may be fairly by others besides ourselves there has been far too much re- pitate records remain to be on the passengers from Shanghai, crowded houses-not

So much has been heard of alongside the kerb yonder by the sure of is that any further lost nothing as the captain of the

other time it takes ye to fill your pipe. in at our works when I was a crimination or rather, too great a desire to make distinc-

It evidence that comes to light will pirates on learning whom she this Alm's successes in tions among the various grades of ex-servicemen here. is in the avoidance of those distinctions rather than their not prove the Allies to have de- was ordered that she should not parts of the world that some. And what's more forbye, when boy and bounced job out the thing above the ordinary run they do roll along they're like foreman just on the strength of a A Peking telegram states that of pictures was expected. The new pins and the driver doesns' nice blue suit, a hard hat and a about, as the ex Kaiser repeats emphasis that we in a small Colony like Hongkong, can liberately brought the conflict be molested. best hope to live amicably together. If the sole object that they did. When the exile of in reply to the President's order production comes up to expecialook as if he'd just been wakened gold ring on the wee finger of his There out of second sleep and had left hand. He was an English.. of those who desire to segregate from the main Doorn asserts that the Entente to organise a new cabinet Lung tions body of ex-servicemen is to find a closer community of methodically prepared for war, he Shi-yee has declared that so is no doubt that Charlie has a forgot to put on the rest of his man, though that's no' necessarily frat be real find in his protege Jackia clothes. Besides there's a fine," a drawback every time, but when- interests. to give a more personal touch to things, we is in one sense, altering a truism-anderstanding mus: cannot-neither could any man-censure their action, that is to say, the Entente Powers made with Teo Kwan: that the Coogan and the little chap will fancy rug forasnst ye to bap ever he addressed the boss be did obtained; that the greatest stars the movie world way inclined. Riding in one o' worker he was no great shakes, providing always that that action does not carry with red for the contingency of opinion of the Diplomatic Corps some day probably be one of the your knees if you should feel that so as if he was a wee bord de d

war, although imperfectly, as de- should be

position must

bas ever seen. He is certainly yon Hotel cars is the nearest it being the firm conviction of thing to feeling like a taipan that most of us that be must have it the implied or expressed disapprobation of other ex-monstrated by their comparative & acciai

learnt his trade looking throngh servicemen who did something a little less than they. The preparedness when war broke thoroughly investigated and that unrivalled as a child actor.

Remembering Germany's all the present ministers should Charlie Chaplin, too, excels I know of, at the mone7.

Well, as I was saying. I had a window. What be lacked seeking of a congenial social atmosphere, no matter how out

bimself in this production. His consider an remain in office until all the. even to We refusal confined or circumscribed, is not in itself a wrong act.

the above have been investigated.

Tso Kwan has come to the antice are funnier than ever. He just finished filing my pipe and in brains though, be made up drafted one all have the right to choose our associates according to our lines

the little moustache, the big splay when Mac, he comes along and the same suit Sunday, Saturday tastes. When the announcement was made last week that between Britain and the United capital from Tientsin in com-is the same old favourite, with was about to step into the car for in polish and though he was President's feet and baggy trousers, carrying glowers at me like's I had and week-days it was aye spot- a separate association was to be formed it followed so States, likewise her rejection of pliance with the

the little cane but he is better horns in my head. Never a ques- less. Yen Wai-cbitg,the Minister for closely on a newspaper correspondence in which there naval-ratio agreement, it is request

simply & characteristic piece of were a lot of needlessly hard things said, that one could be of fatuousness for Wilhelm to Foreign Affairs, has been ordered/than in any cf his previous tion does he ask, mind ye, but after must have bad a boxful for he ilds, and all the time he is before looking at the sky he thought never seemed to have the same and did I no think it would be his shoes must have been fair forgiven asuming that here was an attempt to break descant upon German guiltless-to act as Premier in addition to the camera it is just one long it was shaping like more rain, one or twice and the leather of

his other duties.

laugh.

well if I'd got the side-Isppets perished wit the amount of black- away from the British Legion on grounds of superior dis-ness and Entente duplicity.

A Shanghai message to band

**The Kid" is a little different down? Mind ye, he didos ask ing he put on them. For tima tinction. That assumption seems to have been a little China's Premier.

says that Wa Pui-foo is at pre- hasty, when we are told that the new association is to be

(as sent trying to cultivate good to the usual run of Charlie what was afoot. No, I thought we thought he was daft and later, For the ump-teenth composed of nien who merely desire to make their own op-Tommy fond of saying) relations with the Tuchaus sloug Chaplin productions. Introduced I'd manage the the way they on came to the conclusion that he certain were. Then he caught sight o couldos' help it and was just a portunities for the special expression of their common time, bis Excellenes Kin Yung- the Yangtse valley, so as to into the comedy is a

a wish to hurry up the Lushan conference. amount of pathos and there were the pipe. No, no, that wouldna sissy' but one fine day we got the momants when tears appeared indo at all. A pipe in a Sue.motor shock of our life for when our experiences. If that is the animating spirit of the move-pen has intimated

the eyes of more than one of the like yon? Fair ridiculous. Here's foreman got a stroke and missed ment there can scarcely be room for criticism. We offer resign the Premiership of China,

audience. This innovation lifta cigar that would be more in his footing at the top o' Baxter's none on that point, though it is not impertinent to ask why and it must be confessed that

post, wen if generous Mr. CosmoC. Gordon-Lennox, the picture out of the rat and keeping and wi' that he pressed a Stairs it was His Nabs that foll these men would not have found room to express their sense spoils have attached to it, as actor and playwright, san of adds in no little measure to its slightly bent Loudre on me which into the job as neat as ninepence, of special and exclusive comradeship and still be members many say, has not been a bed of Lord Alexander Gordon-Lennox, success. The blending of the more I took, after thanking him, and A man wi bis appearance and roses This time Kin Yong-pep and husband of Miss Marie human element with the comedy put carefully away in my bankie presence simply couldns' be passi of the Legion? But that is a matter for them.

The aim of this journal all along has been to dis-appears to mean business; Tempest, left a fortune of £139,- is done so skilfully that just pocket, Mac, he hung on. Fire I ed over and he might have been when one is finding the tragedy know what he was waiting for, in the place yet if he hadng" got courage the drawing of distinctions by local men one other words, be appears really to intend retiring from the Premier-

of the little orphan boy's life. He wanted to hear what I had to mixed up wi' some lass in the against another. At one time there was far too much of ship business. One account, in that. The very fact of having done the utmost one could, fact, atates that be has actually candidate is Mr. Cha Chi-chien, touching humour is at once in- tell the driver. So I said Repulse front office and had it no come troduced and the audience ste Bay, but to ge Shaukiwan way out that he'd run Away from of having served in the trenches or on the bigir seas, done so, and the names of possible, who once in bo pre visiter, once again rocking with laughter for a near cut, and off I went. another wife and four of a family

are England, he impressed Mr.

at the funny antice of their old Mrs. HacPherson would get a down Wolverhampton way. The should give a man much inward satisfaction, but it should even probable, succesSOTS

mentioned. Among them is Lloyd George, among others, with favourite Charlie and his great queer story last night and I'll bet last I heard of him was his getting not lead him to make odious comparisons. It is our duty Lianz Shib-y, the gentleman his commercial aptitude. Ee Jackie" Coogan. »*

ye they both made up their minds an appointment as a district to protect as well as to censure when occasion demands, known as "the God of Wealth" on also visited Japan, where he was This production is certainly one that I couldns' afford it at the manager wi” the Prudential

Ay, clothes go a long way to and knowing, as we do, that many of the men who never ccount of his reputed riches. reported to have become over-

On the road down to the French make the man, mind I'm telling left Hongkong tried their hardest to do so and willing-Mr. Lisng has not only scquired friendly with the authorities, of the best pictures that has been salary I was drawing. ly combined tiring military duties with extra heavy office enormous wealth, but knows which would suggest renewed screened in the Colony for some

Ok, 1 nearly forgot - to on any Mac and the cigar and about it and taunt. If we did our hest we have a right to be proud been invited to come to the denied the impeachment. But account miss. Bet it is drawing being the right kind of trimming tell ye Mac called round at our motor: place last night, and found tts In

There was nothing said you'll, of it; what our neighbour did is a matter either of his salstance of the Chinese banks will any of the candidates (if packed houses and those who while riding in

With this ex-He was also reported to have the present Premier bas really want to make sure of witnessing car. conscience or of opportunities denied. planation of our attitude--rather badly misjudged by answered by stipulating that thrown up the sponge) make a the screening of this super-pro-Now that sort of thing's do so understand, but some folk can somebody else should first out whole-beacted attempt to tackle duction are advised to book silly and protectious as it appeare be damned inquisitive withou

at fut sight. Carry the thing a making questions. some, we fear-we are content to leave the matter.

down a couple of millions. Another China's problem st the root?

treaty srbitration

that

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ACTORS $141,000 FORTUNE.

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Packed Houses at the Coronet,

every way.

bit farther the other way and yo get the idea in batter perspective. Ride along Des Voeux Road in Rolls Royce wi' & clay pipe in your mouth and the chances are “. all in your favour of Garrod arresting se before ye get of the Cricket the length Ground. Ay, there's quite a lot in externals when ye come to think of it, especially in the matter o'clothes. Some folks get and hold on to their jobs just because they're aye nicely dressed and look as if they had just stepped out of a band bor.

work, we shall always try to silence those who would jibe how to keep it, apparently. He bout of Sino-Japanese finance. time and it is a film that no Hospital I got to thinking about ye

was recently reported to have Mr. Chu, i should be added, kinems-goer

seats.

should

I once knew a man who blaw

When it cams to ties be