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NOTES & COMMENTS.
1
A Strike Point.
FGRAPH.
SATURDAYA FEBRUARY
DAY BY DAY.
WHEN PARTIES ARE EQUAL, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER
One cannot witness the large crowds daily arriving by train INTENSE, SOCIETY LOSES MUCH from Canton in these days of no OF ITS SYMPATHY AND SOFTNESS. |ships, without wondering whether
-Beaconsfeld, it would not be possible for the | Gavernment to exercise some kind of check over those coming into and going from this Colony. In conversation with an old resident
opinion that the indiscriminate
THE
RACES.
This Morning's Training Gallops.
Balb tracks were in use this morning, most of the work being done on the grass. There was a good attendance of owners and others. Sams long gallops ware seen, though, as will be asan by the times recorded below, the majority of the ponies are still on the slow side, Great falarest was taken The Guseffe contains a roll of in the gallops of Flying Mouse, Stephanotis, and the Dahlias, among the latter being some really good midwives, totalling 5 in number. mounts.
The times regarded wers -
"The Kid," Charlie Chaplin's
yesterday he gave it as his masterpiece, will make its last entry and exodus of all and sun" *ppearance at the Coronet this
dry Chinese who care to come and leave Hongkong was not a
desirable thing at the present
evening.
Scampardale Yesterday'a health return Churchill time. Tue food supply of the phows two cases of spotted fever Booz Colony is short enough without (Catouse), and one each of dipb- Kangaroo having to feed casual vistors from theria (British) and paratyphoid Mosaic Tile... Canton and, although it may be fever (Chinese).
All were non-Tiddleywinks that more people ara leaving fatal. Boogkong than entering it.
care should be taken that the It is notified that satisfactory ordinary residents of this Colony evidence has been furnished to
protected against
any His Excellency the Governor by sudden invasion of rice-hungry Brother Michael of his appoint Cantonese. Time was, said our ment as the Director in Hong-
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD, conversationalist, when erers kong of St. Joseph's College.
Wine & Spirit Merchants.
Phone 16.
Announcement.
All who wish to be present are cordially invited to the marriage of Mr. J. L. Adams (of Stessrs. Butterfeld and Swire) to Miss G.D. Mason (arriving on the Pyrrhus) at 11.40 am. on Monday, February 6th, in St. John's Cathedral. No personal invitations will be issued. There will be no reception.
Death.
person entering Manila had to Ishow that be either bad work in
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the Islands or was possessed of Suffering from the effects of Spotted Sand a certain amount of money, and opium poisoning, self administer Pawnshop he suggested that all those ed. a Chinese was yesterday Bolshevio
ramoved to the arriving here by Iraia who cannot
Government Ajax... show that they are engaged in Civil Hospital from Connaught Multum in Parro some occupation should be asked Road Central The patient died Jay Bird to defer their visit until the shortly after admission. Colony is enjoying more normal
Flotsam Fighting King Cassia River Wallsby
PONY'S NAME
1/4
48
39
34 Jė *
Mile Mile Mile
1.30.
9.10 1.55
1.18
Mila Miles Miles
2.49 3.25 3.56,2
08
1 114 114 134 Last
Milos quarter`
312
37.3
1.14 1.47
2.18
43
1.24 2.05
2.44
3.22
3.54
11
1.20 1.59 2.34
3.10
37
1.10
1.432
33.9
Hope Dahlia Allied King...
119
38.2
1.15.3
36.3
1.12.
1.54 9.32.3 3.10 1.47.4
3.44
2.92
34.1
Speckled Mouse [Lenjan Hongkong Chief Sovereign Dahlia
14
43
1.23
2.04 2.42.3 3.15.2
31.4
36.3
1.11.3
1.45.3
34
33.2
1.13.2
1.19
9.23.2
34.2
134
36
11:2 1.19
2.24 2.57.4
33.4
Mangosteen and Dublin... Mountain Bear
36
1.10.4 1.49
38,1
14
40
1.18
1.55 2.32 3.05.2
33.2
Sandy Bay... Honesty Dahlia
14
43
1.20
1.552 2.30 3.01.3
31.3
1
1.47.2 2.19.2
34
134 35
1.13
1.302 2.25.4
2.35
14
1.11
1.48
043-
* 542
32.2
13
+4
1.21
2,00 236
3.09.3
3.43
46
1.26
2.06.
2.43
3.17
3.49
136 40
1.13
1.43.2 2,26
3.02 1
3.35.1
1
38
1.12.2
1.46
499
38
1.16
1.55
2.23.3
3.07
33.2
12 40
1.16.1
1.51.2
2.29 3.04.2 3.36.4
32.2
1
30
1.13
1.50 2.23
33
111
35
1.17
1.55
2,322 3.05.2
33
36.4
1.14.1
1.50
7059
32.4
144
38
1.14
1.49
2.25.2 2.56.3
31.1
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1.11.2
1.44.1
32.4
12
42
1.20
1.56 2.31.3 3.06.3 3.41
34.2
1
35.2
1.11
1.47.3
2.184
31.1
1
40
1.19
1.55.3
2.26 3
31
114
39
1.16.1 1.53
2.31
3.07 341.1
34.1
36
1.10
1.45
2.21.2
3.01.2 3.36
313
36.4
1.11.3 1.47
35.2
X
39
1.13
1.51
38
40
1.17
1.53
2.30.3 3.06 3.38
32
37.2
1.16.2 1.55
2.20
3.06
34
43
1.22
144
40
2.02 1.21.1 2.03
2.39 3.14 3.47,3
33.3
2.43
3.16.1
33,1
Gabriel Junks and Mis-
1
41
1-18 1.34
2.27.2
14
35.1 1.13
1.51
3.01 2.29.2 30.7.3
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114
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1.19
1.51
2.31 3.05.2 3.38
323
134
48
1.29
2.10
2.48.2
3.25.3 3.57.3
32
114
38
1.14
1.53
3.03.3
134
40
1.13
1.19.3
2.28
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12 41.2
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35
1.14
1,50
36
.
34
35.3
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36
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37
342
12
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34.2
372
1.15 1.523 2.25
322
Nceston & Hurry Up
Clumbus & Three Star... 34
PASSIM PAPERS.
35
112 1.46
34
35
1.142 149
34.3
and the
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times. Our Canton correspon- In spite of present labour con- dent told us yesterday that there ditions, it is hoped to hold the is a serious shortage of rice in Tes-dance next Thursday, Feb White Star Dahlia Canton and it may just be that ruary 9th. at the Helena May Stephanotio many Cantonese will prefer to Institute, but owing to increasing Repulse Bay Chief come to Hongkong, where the food prices, a charge of one Pull Devil Pull Baker local stocks are said to be dollar must be made, and not Fixing Mouse
OT three fifty cents, as usual-Adv:. months. But people do not live oa rice alone and as there is a local scarcity of other loodstuffs, it might be worth the Gover ment's while to give consideration to the points eaumersted above. Daily Obstruction.
EMBERLEYA Kowloon, on the 4th. Feb. Clara Emberley, sufficient for wife of late William Henry Emberley, aged 63.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1922.
CHINESE PHILOSOPHY.
We invite the attention of the police to the obstruction which occors daily at one particular spot in the banking district in
Sir Colin Defiance Dahlia A notification issued at the New Year Gift
Kansa King Harbour notifies that the Bockhara Rock Dun
Department to-day Aloha Buoy at the Eastern Entrance to Wild Fire Dablis. Hongkong harbour has broken Han River & Kinshs adrif. It was to bave been with Goldfinch drawn in any case on March 1st next, so it is not proposed to re- place i
serimus Doleful... Sincerity Dablis Shining Star & Sun Star. Queen's Road Anyone passing oaz Engineering shop on the Toyshop
The proprietor of the Wang Cutty Sark King along the pavement from the Ice hillside at the back of No. 19 Bullfinch House Street corner to the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank during Whitfield reports that at 6 o'clock Jewel Dablia From the report of the lecture upon Chinese Philosophy de- the forenoon must have observed evening ofte men entered Roman Pride hivered at the Helena May Institute by Mr. Kuo Ping Ho we judge the big crowd of Chinese gather bis matshed. On his showing a Arvakur & Bajardo that there were & Dumber of points of interest, as there could ed outside the premises of one of revolver they fled notwithstand- The Carpenter & Adver-
carcely fail to be: but it has to be added that the interest which the banks. These people, weing the fact that two of them Mr. Koo's treatment of the subject must inspire in a Western mind learn, are, in the main, gamblers were also armed. is chiefly of the polemical kind, and that witcoot the slightest wish in exchange, and so scutely do
to undervalue China's sages. Mr. Kuo early gave his countrymea they cause congestion of traffic at A car belonging to the Nan- pat on the back, saying that of the ancient civilisations only the this point that the ordinary yang Tebacco Company ran into Chinese remains. He migh: bave added that, while in some passer-by is forced into the road-Duke of Conaught's statue yes. respect it exhibits admirable features, in others it remains a by-way, where he stands a very fair terdag. One of the occupants, a word among the nations. Is it correct, though, to speak of the chance of being knocked down by storekeeper in the employ of the Chinese as the only survivor among the ancient civilisations passing motor-cars. The only Comping, was injured by the Mr. Kuo appears to have confused civilisations and States. Hellas alternative to this is to push splintered glass of the wind- tell; her civilisation has not only preserved itself but has influenced one's way through the dozens of screen and had to be removed to a wider area that even Cains. Only the other day Mr. Kuo's chattering Chinese who complete the Government Civil Hospital. countrymen, Mr. Engene Chen, was telling readers of the North-1 block the causeway. There China Daily News that Chinese students are doing their best to would be as occasion to take
import the civilisation derived from Ancient Greece. They would notice of this state of affairs were Kowloca
An alarm of fire brought out the
not do this unless they recognised its superiority.
WE
COD.
Here's a matter that our revived
idone.
"
Wrote
Barias
Lighting Martial Dablis The Ameer...
Rambling Thoughts on
Various Matters.
I am able to contradict the
ter.
1.13 1.472 £.23.2 2.57.4
Imen have to pick up news as and standard time,
how they can. Here are with the whistle went by the samples of inside information "wrong clock! But no ressonable. offered to the present writer this man minds losing a ferry on his weak :-
way to work. If he had been The strike is financed from ¦ returning now-! Then the 7.35 Canton.
ferry from Hongkong last oven- The strike is fanuced by the ring took quite three minutes to Japanese.
get alongside, LYS another The strike was engineered grumbler. Is that all? Why, by America as part of a wide- | the other evening. I saw the Staë spread scheme of anti-Britieb | Ferry and the Torilia arrivo al- propaganda. walk as warily
most at the same time. From the The wonder is that pressmen ferry wharf one watched the through the crop of rumours that the ferry wrestled to get slong- as they do stesser glide out of sight whils bas sprung up. They have not side and finally arrived wrong gone far astray on many oc-end first. We bustled on board casions during the strike.
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Brizade yesterday. it not for the fact that it is a daily They did not discover the origin absurd rumour that the Kowloog Mr. Kao proceeded to praise Chinese philosophy as self-occurrence and an evil that hoffthe alarm, and the call was put amats have struck in sympathy contained in contrast to that of the West, where, ha declared,20 long persisted. If a shopkeeper down as being a false one. What with the seamen. Our own amab nation lad & pilosophy which could rightly be called its own. were to permit outside his pre actually happend was that ose of st bome hotly denies it and says Although Chinese philosophy is not perhaps quite so all-contained mises a little of the obstruction the buses of the Kowloon Motor that she and the other ladies of her as Mr. Kue adumbrates, we have no parti.ular quarrel with the caused by these Chinese specu Bus Company caught fire from profession have no wish to stop lecturer's description of it under this head, but the complacency lators he would soon be prosecat overheating near the Chinese work. I believe her. I believe her with wahich he advances bis thesis is open to exception. Hed. And it's about times this long theatre but the flames were put implicitly. Why should they wish suggests that the nations of the West. ic consequence of their standing grievance ware remedied out before much damage was to stop work, considering that the contact with each other, have lost the power of independent thinking and self-reliant action," implying that Chios has retained Another Naisance.
only man who ever asw one of
and the ferry left in the direction these qualities. Without seeking to underrate Chinese philosophy,
them start work is dead? When At the present time there are to
opposite to that usually taken we suggest that a truer interpretation would be that Westera
Famous as the author of We secured our present treasure A Pleasant Meeting. be soen wandering about the city
and we were permitted to see that philosophy has enriched itself by this process, while China's isols-
When I first saw him he was the Torilla was tied up! It had tion, instead of yielding a succession of independen: thinker and self- Chinese in charge of performing Hodgson Burnett also
one or two parties of Northern Little Lord Fauntelor," Francis She savvied many things-in one exalted moment she made it
not yet the length of walking, but got alongside frat by a short reliant men of action, bas produced a spectacle,of unparalleded in-
all things and a spirit of we became friends on the spot. head. But it is easy to be critical. ertia. Nor is it correct to suppose that because one Western nation
animals. We encountered one The Secret Garden," the film is in conract with soother it may not have plenty of original think such kroupyesterday, the animals version of which comes to the opinione I saw him several times during Star ferry baske are not p
Kowloon Theatre
One of these fine days the next four years and a sturdy ticularly handy things to handle to-morrow she many discover for us the ers. Some Western writers have purposely abstained from study of Comprising a hornal sheep. Sunday) ind Monday eveniDES: amazing versatility at which she youngster ha became. Then for and the currents are peculiar others in order to preserve their originality, and, without taking that miserable trip of animals
monkey and Z dog. A more Delightful in its charm ard
seven years I lost sight of him, round the station corner. One step, there will usually be spontaneous thinkors in any virile haro scarcely ever seen. The piquan: in its humour, this ne shs "does the turn" and believes Wednesday. Don't tell me that is from a man who was das
bioted months ago. Meanwhile
only to meet him again on must be fair. The third grumble civilisation. So far as it is true that one Western philosopher is cheap in particular was in a Paramount picture makes a indebted to another, there is the gain of development. Nopbilosopter filthy and ill-nourished worthy successor to "The Dub,"
she does it best sitting on a kerb young folk must be sent Home to nied what he proposed to need hesitate to acknowledge a debt to Plato; "the best belongs to dition, suggesting that the streets which will be shown again this stone while her charges make the be educated-not after seeing make his last drink the other the world," as Carlyle wrote. This does not prevent the national of a busy city were about the last evening for the last time in But she is not going on strike, nor being educated out of Hongkong, keeps its clock fast and closes lives of motor-cyclists miserable.this alert lad of eleven. He is evening because a certain hotel character of the various Western philosophies from being plainly spot it would desire to be in. Kowloon. perceptible.
her sister, nor her aunt with whom
but in the East, and a bright, well- | ils bar before twelve." Shocking!. Turning to the influence of Chinese philosophy upon the race. Society for the Prevention ef
she foregethers daily. So abe set-up, hardy lad he is. Self- But he has a choice of three re- - we find the lecture saying: "All Chinese philosophers, without Cruelty to Animals might look
says, but one never knows in these possessed to a degree, but modest mediee-change his pub or call exception, look down upon wealth and material pleasure." Most)
If we had our way, we
A COLOMBO "RAFFLES" days: one would not be greatly with it; neither over-sby nor over earlier or tura teetotal. Soms other philosophers, by the way, also do this, but the point to strike would not permit for one moment.
For many years past bunzalow surprised to find pickets mounting forward; met one as man to man people have no initiative. noble tazes, which Mr. Kao asserts has been one of harmony. We are Chinese of their animals into the in Colombo, and, recently, there Their Little Difficulties. one here is the relation between the Chinese in general, and their the entry of these wandering verandah thefts betwess lunchuard over perambulators in and was 45 frank with his
and tea have been very common
Nathan Road kay fine morning. nasserting that the Chinese are more avaricious than some other Colony. The men have ever seems to have been quite and.
answers as he was respectful. He A Chance for the Beefeaters. has more good manners to the Another paper gets a dollar for peoples, but assuredly the instinct of acquisitiveness is as strongly appearance of being strong and developed among Mr. Kuo's compatriots as among any race on the able-bodied, and a good hard epidemic of robbers of this kind.
A man in a shipping office the square inch than his father and putting in the following, but I
I have to the square foot. give it free- face of the earth, from which it appears that the divorce between day's work would do them worlds Evidence collected by s. repres other day told the writer that the And I think that bis father will "In spite of present labjar China's philosophers and China's people is wide indeed. We put it to of good. But they are about asentative of the Times of Ceylon strike news which appeared in agree with me that if the lad conditions, it is hoped to bold Mr. Kuo himself that the last thing the average Chinese does is to filthy as the animals who eam Points to the fict that many, if the newpapers was inclined at grows up alert and well-manner- the tea-dance next Thursday,
look down upon wealth and material pleasure." In polat of fact. their living for them-the very mitted by a well-dressed man or can it be other than contradic humoursome he will do very well
times to be contradictory, How ed and healthy-minded and February 9th. at the Helens May Institute, but, owing to poor is so marked, which surely indicates that those Chinese wto/17pe of "people to spread disease men who drive around in aory? The Union for the most indeed even though he cannot)
in our midst. In
increasing food prices, & charge have the chance do precisely the opposite of looking down upon whether they come here or not, motor car or motor care and who part offered statements that were tell the height of Mount Ararat of one dollar must be WSIP, wealth. Mr. Kuo apparently seeks to saddle the West with the the business quarter of the city that the are looking for someone's ifted as carefully as could be, school in the Far East where our
if they are seen, made the excuse
either highly coloured or palpable off-band. It did me good to meet and not fifty cents as usual,” responsibility for Chios's corruption in the last few years.”
vatruths. These, I know, were him and I know now of one
I had intended to make a to is no place for them fault of the
the West that about these poor creatures. If bungalow. In some cases, it ip Chinese have copied bad features of Occidental life. while neglecting the beneficent side. But, as far as that goes, we we must have them, they should stated, these thieves arm them-bat it was not always possible to boys can safely be sent. believe that of Mr. Kuo will refer to the bistory if his own country at any rate be confined to the selves with bogus letters correct-Union officials hit the truth on Some Grumbles. he will find that long before the republic, before even the opening
Wednesday when they spoke of One seems to hear nothing bat 6f the Treaty ports, his countrymen bad small need of Western
to live in the neighbourhood news being available on Thurs- grumbles this week; The poor tolslage in the arts of corruption. To the traits of Western civilise STEEL CORPORATION'S SHIPPING which is being worked at the day. It was available, which old Star Ferry has come in for The Shanghai Furnal of Com tion, lis buildings, its railways, its libraries, museums, and universi-
moment. If detected in the W&S more than the officials some nasty kuocks, as is usual atmerce reports toss the Yengtien ties, Mr. Kuo appears to be oblivious, although a member of one of the The Interstate Commerce Com-compound, on the verandah or proved to be. The shipping this season of the year. One man faction bas pledged $3,000,000 last-named. It is just in these vital respects that China lags, notwith-mission examiner has report even in the front rooms these offices, again, offer little help, complained that, on the Kowloon and the Chibli faction $2,000,000 standing that the lecturer credits her philosophy, in contradised to uphold the right of the would be thieves at once present they have little to offer while the in the entrance-way was two Shantung
and one can understand that side, yesterday moroing, the clock towards the redemption of the tinction from that of the West, with being eminently practical. We United States Steel Corporatool the letter and, on being informed other side in Osuton declines to minutes ahead of the other on the officials hope that Shanghai will Railways. Fuking have read the report of Mr. Kuo's lecture with considerable interest, to operate ships by way of that they have come to the but cannot avoid being struck by its inconsistencies,
I the Panama Canai.
wrong bungalow, dzive sway,
make a move. So the newspapet ! wharf which indicates the i be able to rates “a larga rum."" -
we know of no civilised race in which the disparity between rich and
as
it were
into.
native districts.
RIGHTS.
any Case,
not all, of these thefts are com-
IF addressed to well-known Colombo residents who are known
sift them to the bottom. Still the
comment, but on second thoughts I let the paragraph go as it is. It
is comic enough as it stands.
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