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NOTES & COMMENTS.
Luck at the Races,
Now that the Races are in full swing, there are the usual stories of lock and ill-luck as far as sweepstakes are concerned. · Wa heard one man yesterday telling another that he had just missed winning close on three thogsand dollars. When he explained him- self, it was merely a case of hie baving bought a ticket numbered ona less than the winning number in one of the races. His friend rightly told him that there was nothing in that to get excited about-that in sweepstakes a miss
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
DAY BY DAY.
THOSE WHO MAKE THE MOST USE OF, THEIR TIME MOST COM- PLAIN OF ITS SHORTNESS-La Bruyere,
taking the piedicine course at the There are now two girl students; Hongkong University.
Flags will be hoisted on all Government buildings on H... Princess Mary a wedding day, on 28th Farruary,
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD, writer, bowever, once know increase
Wine & Spirit Merchants.
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THE STRIKE.
1922
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.
Big Ball in Shanghai. ›
(From Our Own Correspondent,
Shanghai, Feb. 13.
WHO WON THE FIRST PRIZE?
not
Again Waiting on Canton" Up to the time of going to press, there appears to be no naw
Cur' offloa telephone development in the strike situa-
over-heated today. People interested in the Derby were ro- tion. The men's delegates are of the shipowners and the Gov- now soquainted with the reply
sponsible. Ten minutes before the Final preparations have been to
race commenced, anquiries begui ernment to their demands, and made for the Washington Ball at much mind giving Away our pour in. We didn't so three out of the four delegates the Town Hall tomorrow night. saleable goods for nothing, but have returned to Canton to report Eleven hundred invitations have what we did object to was on the sitnation. It is evident bean, issued
elaborate the inconvenience caused to our that the question of the reopening decorations and a dance pageant representative at the Racecourse of the Union is now the chief arranged. outstanding point, sa both parties| are willing to arbitrate on the other matters.
return to Hongkong to-night
The delegates are expected to
Shipping.
The French steamer Andre Lebon
and
BRITISH LEGION IN SHANGHAI.
1
to
was as good as a mile. We bare the Canton Munloipality has The Executive Committee of all heard, of course, of folk who decided to limit the speed of have dreamt of a certain num motor boats on the river to tan bar, gone to the Races and miles an hour. bought it. and then won handsome sum. But nobody ever seems to meet anyone to whom Regarding the strike on the Dutch steamer Tjikiai left for
sailed yesterday, the (From Our Own Correspondent) the experience actually occurred Yueh Han Railway, the manag. Kobe at noon to-day and the -we're all "heard about it," bating director declares that he will Andes
Shanghai, Feb, 21. that's as far as we ever get. The grant
Maru has cleared for The United Services Amoci the following rate
of Antwerp.
ation at its to employees-$3
Amongst the arrivals are the appointed
annual meeting man who swore that he would station
a masters; $2
Committee to Hanoi from Haiphong with cat-ascertain the terms of affiliation. purchase a ticket whose number clerks; and $1 to corresponded with the licensed It is expected that the employees Itols from Singapore with rice
coolies. tir, pigs, chicken and rice, the with the British Legion. Bumber of the Brat ricksha he will agree to these terms. used during Race Week. He did 30, and, by a happy coincidence, de woo well over a thousand shows five cases of small por
Last The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is 836 the following year, but Dame stall, two of enteric (one fatal), dollars. He tried the trick again (three fatal), four of plague (one per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
Fortune did not smile on him this two of paratyphoid fever (aon
fatal), and one nog-fatal each of diphtheria and spotted fever. The paratyphoid fever
joss, however, we do not think being Chinese.
cases were British and one of the As an example of sheer bad jenteric cases indian, all the rest
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the case can be beaten of a local
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resident who at a Gymbkana: bought B $5 ticket
be
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Birth.
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week's health
ratura
C850
For the theft of a padlock and
pony which he thought was bailerscrapers were to-day each a piece of zine, valued at $2, two almost a dead cert." Examin sentenced to four weeks' hard ing it to see how many people about after it had bean stated by were backing it, he was astound-the Chief Engineer of the Late ed to note that he was the only Gitano that these workmen had investor. Then it dawned on him
he had been given by mistake things they could lay their bands. 's habit of stealing any triflings ILDEFONSO-Oa February 1, 1922, to Mr. and Mrs. L. Pamed Jock Scott, Anxions to a ticket on rank outsider
A Ildefonso, at their residence, No.3 Saifee Terrace, Kowloon, get a run for his money, he went effects it would give than for any He added that be brought daughter, Both mother and child well.
up the case more for the deterrent back and changed the ticke: to regard for the value of the stolen fit in with his original choice. articles. Result-Jock Scott romped in and paid close on $240!
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1922.
THE STRIKE OUTLOOK.
The
OD.
scd lead, the Waho from Shang hai with general cargo, The Providence has returned from Canton.
vesnaly
Toe number of
JAPANESE INTRIGUE
ALLEGED.
who could not got in touch with as by telephone because the Hna was blocked by these anxious folk.
Just as we got the first edition to bed and were settling down to a few asadwiches and a bottle of the Dairy Farm's best, exchange connected us to a very excited female voice. Ensued the follow ing conversation
who won the Derby?
Fe: Could you please tell ma
Us: Ob, Sun Star.
Fe: But who Kon it?
Us: Abl you wish to know the name of Sna Star's
Owner? Mr. Birkett.
Fa.: No, no, who was it? Us: Ob, the lookay's name? Mr. Doyle was the lucky man.
Fe. Would you mind telling me who-
Us: Sorry, we've forgotten tha
being American Officer Leaves for mafoo's name, but if you ring up
ia the barbour to-day is 158, total tonnage 245141. This is a slight increase 152 ships with a total toonsge of From Our Own Correspondent.) on yesterday, when there were 235,183.
The camber of big ships in the| barbour to-day is as follows:- To35.
British, 73... Chiasse, 35...
125,615
28.115
Japanese, 16...
38,879
American,11...
22,374
Dutch, French,
5... 5...
Norwegian, 10
14.753 3,792 10,419
Portugese, 1...
1,145
Siamese, Swediab,
1...
1...
1,012 44
Totaal 158...
246,141
More Food Seized. Our Canton correspondent states that on the 18th. instant members of the Seamen's Union detained 266 catties of fish which were intended for Hongkong and presented them to the Po Chui Convent as a gift.
Home.
B
the-
Fe. I want-could you tell me who won the FIRST PRIZE?
Us: R--~!
22ND. PUNJABIS.
Shanghai, Feb 21. Major E. M. Clarke, American representative on the Inter-Allied Technical Railway Board Vladivostok, has sailed for home! on four months' furlough. He was silent on charges of Japanese intrigue
The Troopship Dufferin which in Siberia. which arrived here last week, with relief calminated in a search of Mujer troops for the local Indian gar- Clarke's private car by the Mer-rison, left this morning for Kara- kuloff officials. It is believed chi, having aboard the 2/22nd
Leave for India.
that the purpose of his trip is to Panjabis. The process of embark lay the whole case before Washington.
CANTON LABOUR.
Ricksha Coolies Threatening Strike.
ation took place yesterday aftar noon, under the supervision of Colonel Nicholson, who represe eated the General Officer Come manding. With the departure of the batcalion, which 20m. gentle man concerned then went, A charge of hat-snatching was into a corner and kicked himself preferred against a Chinese at the
bered 3006 600 rank sad severely. His friends all told Police Court this morning. The
file, official and sporting him that he deserved the dis-complainant was said to have
circles of the Colony will miss a familiar figure in the person of appointment through not sticking been so enamoured of a girl in
Colonel Clement-Smith, who is to the ticket once he got it. And Temple Street that he was eatire-
A Scurrilous Attack.
The Kwangtong Tramway personally taking his battalion to most gamblers will agree with the ly oblivious to the presence of the
The Canton vernacular papers Company (says the Conton Times) India for its disbandment, acting dictum.
snatcher until his ha: had been on the 20th. instant republished has grabbed a great deal of the medical officer and ship's ad- actually snatched off his head. 4 the text of a scurrilous proclama-rickshs coolies business by add-jutant respectively are two well- district watchman, however, had on issued by the managing in third class cars to the motor-known officers of the Regiment, More Obstruction.
watched the whole proceedings department of the The strike situation appears to have somewhat ir-
Seamen's buses. According to the ricksha Captain H. E. Murray LMS., and with interest. He waited notil Union, which was posted in front coolie, their daily earnings bave Captain M. Glover, while Lt proved as a result of Saturday's conferences and the the ballders hands at the moment, before he seized the man. Sen- along the west bund. It attacked cannot earn half of what they talion, will act as quartermaster Hongkong is pretty much in the culprit had made the attempt of all the Kuo Ming Tang premises been greatly affected and they R. Emerson, of the same bat- replies made by the Government and owners to the seamen's and the result is a generally un-tecce of three months was passed. the Hongkong Government and could before, while they have to for the voyage. new demands. So far as we can read the situation. the kempi appearance at points where
the shipowners and declared that pay the same rate of vehicle only issues now remaining for adjustment before arbitra-constraction and reconstruction
the Union would not give way rentals to the ricksha company Battalion of the 102nd. Gren- The relieving troops, the First tion commences
are the precise point at which the are taking place. This, of course,
Hard on the heels of the until all its demands had been Deploring the hardsbipa Union shall be reopened and the men shall resume one respect in which matters fancy dress dance, the Kowloon publishing its text.
of adiers, have moved into Whit cannot be avoided, but there success achieved by last week's conceded. We refrain from their comrades, some of the Beld Camp. work. The seamen have asked for the appointment might well be improved upon.able evening for devotees of the
more progressive coolies recently Theatre promises acother enjoy. of arbitrators
organized B to decide the wage issue. agreeing We refer to the obstructions that
Ricksha Coolies' Union on Wei Fuk Maloo. The to abide by the decision of the Arbitration Board, and the are caused through workmen Popular pastime to-night when it
anion decided
that measures owners have agreed that their (the owners') offer shall be asing public thoroughfares for latest diversion takes the form of will hold a roulette dance. This
should be taken against the taken as the minimum from which the the arbitrators shall blocks of granite so as to render an ordinary dance, with one
the purpose of dressing rongh
motorbus company and the rick- start to work. So that appears to dispose of the wage them fit for building purposes. Boot is marked out as a roulette
sha companies. They will soon, aovel sad exciting addition. The question But the seamen's delegates demand that the This is quite a common practice,
issue an announcement declaring: decision of the arbitrators on this matter of wages shall be and, one which, in our opinion. dance & wheel is spun. The ing bome in the early hours of be reduced and the third class which four Swedish naval officers,
bat unless the rate of vehicle board and towards the end of each A Chinese gentleman return- rentals of the ricksbe.companies bour & forty-four ton ketah in made known before the men return to work, and that should be discouraged by the couple having the good fortune Sunday morning, in & rickshs, cars of the Kwangtung tramway with a taste for adventure, are simultaneously the Government cancel the order closing the kind of thing we mean, to tons indicated by the wheel verandah of the upper floor cl strike until their demands are the Tidra, and is commanded by
authorities. As an example of their Union. This is where a divergence of viewpoint we would
to stand on the spot corresponding noticed smoke issuing from the Company be suspended, they will touring the world. She is named draw tbe atten. comes in, for the Government abides by its decision that tion of the police to what is receive something to serve as No. 283 Queen's Road West. granted. the Union can only be reopened when the seamen bare occurring
ber owner, Capt. S. Tamm. outside the
souvenir of their lack-prizes, in He rushed up the nite given proof of their freedom from lawlessness by returning which are going on next to the Dus-ible-from this novel pleasure covery that a fire had just broken
In this tiny craft, which is fit- building to work. There does. Lowever, appear, some possibility of new Bank of Asia in Queenare obviuas, and a very happy out from a quantity of joss-paperin the number of workwomen in have visited many ports during
The fun and excitement and operations
ccade the startling dis
ted with a 60 h.p. auxiliary motor. & compromise on this point as to when the men shall resume Road. The narrow piece of pave. /revel is anticipated this evening. well soaked in kerosine, from different industrial and commer-their travels and have come to In view of the rapid increase on September 25th. 1920. They the four voyagers left Karlskrona
work, for it seems that the seamen's delegates at the Tung Wah meeting on Saturday expressed willingness that the nien should return on the river steamers and the Hongkong Wuchow and Hongkong Swatow services before the Union's signboard is replaced. This fact has, we understand, now been notified to the Government.
of the
meat there is being utilised by workers for the purpose which
walk and go on to the road. It
A wo :).
ATTEMPTED ARSON,
Startling Discovery in Queen's Road.
the two
staircase
Workwomen Organizing Labour Federation.
INTREPID VOYAGERS.
Round the World in a Ketch There is at present in the har-
SZE.
which was trained a quantity of cial enterprises, Mins sequence is that pedestrians have
gun powder. The alarm was we have mentioned, and the con- SOUTH CHINA AFFAIRS,sistance of the police, quickly workwomen have (says the Can. They intend to complete their Wong Hongkong from Yokohama, which giver, and the inmates, with the Shent-ching, and other progressive they left on Jan. 30 of this year. no option but to leave the side-
put the fire out.
ton Times) recently proposed to tour in two YEBIS. About two hours after this at-organize & Workwomen's Labour seems to us that much of this!
Serious Complications
tempt to set the building on fire, Federation in Canton. The ladies. That there is a spirit of compromise in the air, and work of dressing stone could well
a foki of the adjoining floor was give as their reasons foy the MYSTERY OF MR. PARRY Arise. that both owners and men are anxious to get the dispute be done in builders' yards; at any
[awakened by something bard fal- organization of such a federation settled at the earliest possible moment, is evident. The place for such operations. The fearing that the dispute between someone attempting to communi- which has already obtained bene- rate, the public pavement is no it is reported that Sun Yat-sen, briek, knocked out of the wall by federation for male workers, Our Canton correspondent sayaling on his head. It proved to be the fact that there is a labour shipping companies have conceded a point by agreeing police are very keen on pades-Tong Chi-yzo (former Tachon of cate between that their offer shall be made the starting point of arbit-trisas keeping to the sidewalks Funnan) and Koo Pun-chun (the Suspicions were ration, and it is now up to the seamen's leaders to drop in the city, but at spots such as present Tuchon) may interrupt in
Doors als for the workmen of the city. Former Student of Hongkong aroused and and there is na reason
University. all reservations, to get the men back to work and let utterly impossible, owing to the has aeot two delegates with and investigated the matter. In body lo order to give them anborn cousin of Dr. Alfred Eza.
we have jest referred to, this is his expedition against the North, message the police again came should act
response to 力 urgent wby the working women A Montreal message statas: arbitration proceed. The demand of the seamen's delegates obstruction caused by workmen. antograph letters, one to Tong the next house, No. 281, it was opportunity to co-operate.
organize • Jike Mr. Harry 8ze, an American- that the wages decision shall be made known before the The nuisance, as we say, is fairly and the other to Koo. He asks discovered that a kerosine ter been organized by 10 of the women real, and the police are working men resume is absurd. in view of the fact that they express general where building operations the former to abandon bis idea of well filled and wrapped in a pince workers. Regulations have been on a murder theory advanced by Chinese Minister to the United their willingness to abide by the arbitrators' award. If ze in hand, and the police would resuming the Tuchunship of Yun-of trunk-lining, had been drafted by the Committed and local Chinese merchants.
A Committes of Promoters bas States, has disappeared in Mont they pledge themselves to accept the decision, what dolog the public a service if nan and the latter to prepare in such a manner as to confirm possible. reason can there be for the men remaining out until the award is promulgated? At any rate, so near
troops to take part in the expedi- the suspicions of the police that, presented to the Government for tion instead of merely doing de-failing in their previous attempt the organization is "The Feders-University arrived her from. Mr. Sze, 28 years old end & have the parties come to an ending of the deadlock that
formal registration. The name of former student at Hongkong fence duty,
the culprits were making another we hope a settlement will immediately be sought. After
Owing to the serious situation effort at aron. The piece of lining tion of Canton Workwomen's Ottawa. He was en route to New all, it was on a matter of wages that the men struck
which has arisen owing to the furnished a valuable clus, for it alone. It is understood, the York, planning to enter Harvard and as both sides have agreed to a basis of arbitration on
conflict between Kwangsi troops was found to have been torn from Federation is to be joined by the or, Yale University and had $4,000. and Sun Yat-sen's soldiers, alla tronk belonging to one of the different workwomen's labour in cash in his possession. He this issue, the main obstacle appears disposed of. Add The following will represent the Cantonese merchants to that the fact that the men's delegates are willing that the H.K.C.C. on the Club ground various districts in Kwaasi have others and a woman, was taken
in inmates. This man, with two unious of Canton. their other demands eball also go to arbitration, and it Saturday the 25th. instant, ceased business and are prepar-into opstody, and when the case would seem that there is little else left for solution. Buting at 2.15 p.m.-E. J.R. Mitchell
against the IR.C., play commencing to depart.
came up before Mr. J.R. Wood there may be more in it than meets the eye. The men's (Captain), C. Blaker, H. H. Ben-led a long telegram to Tong Chi. explained the facts, adding that Chan King-ming bae despatch-this morning, Inspector Keat
RE-ESTABLISHING GERMAN
A delegation of Chinese went leaders have obviously now made the wage issue quite son, L.. J. Davies, Major H. M. so explaining the serious com- he had every hope of tracing the fed the Waichinops that ble they declared, might have sup
CONSULATES. The German Minister has poli-a search bring begun. Roboery, to police headquarters to insist on subsidiary to the reopening of the Union; and that is a B. L. Leader, L. D. McNicoll, G. actually begins a movement to made the discovery of the fire.
Edwards, E. G. Lammert, Lieut, plications that will arise if he Chinese gentleman who matter upon which the Government cannot change its H. Piercy, R. E. A. Webster & F.secure
first Government is desirous of replied a motive for his death.". mind.
Tachanship N. Young.
of The case was remanded forjat Tainunfa with consules juris
establishing & Consulate Groërzi further police investigations.
distion at Cheloo concurrently.
they gave it their attention.
CRICKET.
the
YUBORD,
went with several friends to the, Chinese Omb, spent several hours there, and has not been soezi, since.
Sze is Mr. A Sze of New York Another cousin of Mr. Hairy City, an imposter and expo rter.
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