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captive shouted out "Save my Hfe!" whlist the soldiers threatened to

take the lives of any passers-by who attempted to approach too closely. I am

These are not the only incidents

which could be cited to show that there never has been any rent doubt that Thorburn was whisked away. by Chinese soldiers and brutally treated. Yet in the face of all this cumulative evidence the Chinese nu- thorities binndly assert that they know nothing of him and that no foreigner has been seized!

AUGUST 22, 1931.

DAY BY DAY

THE UTILITARIANS IN POLITICS ARE LIKE THE UNITARIANS IN RE- LGION: HOTH OMỆT IMAGINATION IN THEIR SYSTEMS, AND IMAGINA- TION GOVERNS MANKIND.-Disrachi,

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Chinese Affairs.

HOW TO BE YOUR OWN: WEATHER PROPHET.

its

By E. L. HAWKE.

Until within comparatively re-acoma almost uncanny' to their cent years nearly everybody friends who are not smilarly af- His Excellency the Governor has quired a working knowledge of fected. The rest of us must rely appointed Mr. K. C. Wilkinson to be weather lore out of sheer neces-on visible signs for our warning. What Britons in the Enst. ivant Assistant to the Secretary

for alty, but now that an authoritative Foremost among these is a deve- opinion of the meteorological pros-lopment akin to the familiar "mac- to know is whether the Thorburn

pects is so easily obtainable an kerel

sky"

When the cloud-lets case is to be permitted to remain

The charges for police olivers doing hour or so after issue, the that make up this formation in- where it is, which is precisely what special duty on householders premises ability to read the face of the sky crease in size on a summer day, are being revised as from September is not much cultivated. Neverthe-and eventually thrust up little the Chinese authorities would det. The new rates appear in the less, the atore of wisdom accumu-turret-like excrescences until thos sire. The last news on the subject, | Gazette.

lated by our ancestors remains somewhat resemble the top of an and, although a good deal of it embrasured wall, it is practically over a week ago, intimated that the

Mr. N. VA. Croucher, has reported fails. to stand the searchlight of certain that thunder in brewing. Chinese Investigations had been to the police that he entrusted an modern statistical analysis, there And, later, should we sco clouds concluded and that the results, office "boy" with a sum of $370,08 tours many old adages well worth like giant cauliflowers looming

pay various bits, but the employee remembering. which amount to nil, were being since absconded.

above the horizon, with extensions One of the most useful of the in the shape of an anvil, we may old adages is that relating to sun-safely stake our prophetic reputa- every rise and sunset colours. A com- tions on a storm being in the offing. Wheather or no it will come overhead in another matter. Love

that we have to watch the settle cloud phalanx long enough to find out which way it is drifting. The direction of its travel may be quite different from that of the surface

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, Autist 22, 1921.

TWO OUTRAGES.

svverely benten ånd indecently as- saulted.

Is that to be

A red sky at night,

is the shepherd's delight; A red sky in the morning Is tha

epherd's warning.

The fee to be paid for the Foreign Office.

Chinese undertakers licence hereafteri the final chapter in the episode? granted under the Licensing Ordin-mon form of it runs: If so, it will be a disgrace tuance, 1887, 1s to be $25 In lieu of the fee of $20 appearing in the Schedule British diplomary. We cannot be to the Ordinance. lieve that the organisations in Shanghai which have been so active in the matter will feel Inclined to ait still and do nothing more. To accept the Chinese excuses in this matter would be equivalent to ad- mitting that no remedy can ever he hoped for in mitrages of this

kindl.

J

was 81.

•

an

and registrations under

The feus in respect of applications;

the Trade This has been carefully texted Marks Ordinance are being revíacd, as over a series of years. It was wind, from September ist. The First found that in England red It is rare for the sound of Schedule in rescinded, and a new que sunrise is followed by rain within thunder to carry more than about appears in the fazette.

24 hours seven times out of ten; ten miles: an' when once it fa and a red sunset by

ual heard we may assume the storm to equal

that with aphe within His Majesty the King has been period of dry weather

distance of 18. pleased to approve the appointment proximately the same frequency. Ordlanry "cumulus" or "wont- of the Bon, Mr. W. H. Bell to be Whoever originated the maying pack" clond, to give it its rustic temporarily an Untficial Member of might have added that shepherds nome--often sheds heavy showers the Legislative Council to the place of the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, who is could get an even surer warning accompanied by a clap or two of from a green sky, which is almost thunder, but unless such a cloud temporarily absent from the Colony invariably a precursor of unset-shows hard, well-defined edgea and No Typleal American.

led ennditions. If that hue apkrows steadily larger, it soldom The Royal Observatory report fus pears brightly and extensively augure a

a "pakka" thunderstorm. Eurojican visitors to the United July shows that the average mean above the western horizon of all A fairly reliable piece of wen- Very littte Press publicity has States have given varying tensperature was 82.7. the highest

ther

iore is that if on a dull,,grey next day are as high as morning there appears a gap of been given to the recent incident scriptions of the typical Ameri-being 609 and the lowest 75.4. There, the odds on wel or stormy

were 228 hours of sunshine and 0.88] WCHI

A pale yellow sun-blue sky "hig enough to make In the ex-German Concession at enn. For yours they have beest inches of rain (against a normal of eight to one.

a pair of trouser Hankow in which one British and going to that country, have linked 14.79), whilst the average huniidity set must also be regarded as a Dutchman

bad omen.

the day will turn out no. Two American ludles were man-around for a while, and then gone

Cloud formations play an im-

hamiled by a mob of Chinese, being American is this; that or the other Rond, was removed to the Government of the offelal forecasts, and pro-clear before cleven." The origin

home to declare that the typical

known saying. "Rain before seven, An unlicensed howker, of 9, Po Yan pertant part in the constructiquently correct, too, is the well- sort of fellow. Now, however, a civil Hospital yesterday suffering ride the butt generit in peretely rain

Jast for Four British men appear visiting Englishman arises to say from Injuries to his hack caused by for the amateur weather prophet: conditions de nol also to have lwen attacked and to that there is no such creature as Hollywood Road into the yard at the la popularly called, often gives the drier districts. Useful and time- falling from the first floor of 123 Cirrus, or "marestall" claud, as it more than four or five hours in have been forcibly prevente-i, ¦n typical American. II. L. Pusley, rear. The man was running away first news of a cyclone. When the honoured indications of unsettled-

bren from whilst at the police station, from in college student who has

a policeman and or being fleecy wispa are Acen drifting weather are exceptional trans- followed to the house he tried to rapidly and in tuercasing quantity parency of the atmosphere by day communicating.with the Consul. It touring the United States on

(escape and accidentally fell.

from same westerly point on and pronounced twinkling of the that he is evident that foreign feeling in fellowship fund. reports

clear, sunny day, with a southerly stars by night. found no one who seemed to โร Hanlow was greatly arised by typical of America as a whole: nor issues a reminder to motorists that it the chances

The Inspector General of Police or south-westerly surface wind, Among the unsound beliefs that aro that the fine are still cherished by country folk These incidents, so much so, that did he find any typical American is compulsory that they comply with weather will not last long. may be mentioned the superstition protest was cabled to the British town or vity or countryside. On Regulation 87 B of the True If the cirrus gradually over-that the sun is "drawing water" Regulations whigh requirem that spreads the sky with a veil of dull whenever Its rays are seen striking Foreign Offee, with a demand for the contrary, he asserts that "Every motor vehicle shall carry a white, and at the same

time a

& ring

earthward, like a mountain search- strong netion to remove the im-casual observer from abroad finds Reence diar which shall be placed and of coloured light about half as light, through a gap in the clude.

due pression which appears to exist in so many differences between then clearly visible at all hours of daylight wide as a rainbow circles the sun duit particles

merely to it will be

to leave umbrel-dust in the sunbeam's flankow that extrality rights have and places that he would be justi- to a person either at the rear, side or

These path, and may often be noticed in las and raincoats behind. actually been abolished. So far,fied in supposing that he was passat front of the vehicle,"

encumbrances will soon he needed the midst of a spell of settled fine we have not heard of any response

ing through several different coun

when, as usually happens in auch weather. Rainbows, either in the tries. Considering the American The rules reiting to kerosene oil circumstances, the cirrus pull morning or in the evening, man to the demand, but the incident passion for being exnetly like their licences in the New Territories have thickens till the sun pales to afnothing more than that showers · aurly cannot be permitted to re-neighbours, they may find this ver-

been amended by the rescission of watery blob and freshening breeze are about. main unnoticed. It

te diet rather disappointing; but, of the following rule,"Except as "stud" beneath it. appears

rule 9 and the substitution therefor drives patches of ragged grey:

The consonnus of modern scion- have been a most callous and beatful really, it should be regarded As mentioned in rule, the fee payable After steady rain has lasted for tific opinion is that most of the fortruge, and we can only hope that | goads news. The sectional dif- for any licence-granted under thesal

rules shall be five dollars for the some hours a veering of the wind, many weather maxima concerned every effort will be made to keep ferences thai distinguish one

senr, or part of the year, ending on uy from S.E. to S.W., or from S.W with the behaviour of animals. the matter before those concerned. part of the country from another the 17th day of April, during which to N.W., Is Frequently accompanied birds, and Insects have no founda- The Home Government is at the would not be good to lose them.

are valuable

It such licence is in force." possessions.

by squalls and sudden heavy tion in fact. Nevertheless, there down-pour. This means that the is evidence that some. of thone moment in the throes of a domestic There is little danger of

taxis of the eyelone is passing, and creatures are acutely sensitive to The regulations relating to Yaumat that the day will begin to mend present conditions, and react to ferisis, but that fact is no reason The Texan and the New Yorker. Typhoon" Refuge Promenade have

why the security of British re

been amended by the rescission of at once, though there may still be changes in atmospheric humidity for instance, tive umid entirely regulation 11 and the substitution showers between spells of sun-more readily than we do. When

shine. sidents in China should be over- different environments; how could therefore of the following regulation:

we consider that our barometers and hygrometers give us a clue looked. For reasons which it is they ever grow to look, talk and "No craft shall lie alongside or

Some people are curiously sun-to coming weather only by inform difcult to fathom, there appears art alike? Kansas and Mas make fast to the south side of the

Promenade, that is to say, the side ceptible to the electrical tensioning us as to existing circumstances a strange reluctance on the parisachusetts have almost nothing opposite the portion of the Yaumat that heralds thundery weather, that we cannot detect without in common. There is a greater Typhoon Refuge exclusively reserved and can foretell the approach of their ald, it seems raah to deride of the Foreign Office to probe to

storm with an accuracy difference between Virginia and at all times for Government craft. the bottom of incidents such as Wyoming than mere miles of dis- these, and the Thorburn scandal. It tance. Each section has its own vir is, however, up to those affected and tuck. It would be a pity if their concerned to see that these matters inhabitants all became identiest jare not allowed to be dropped. There is no reason why New Eng- The Thorburn case-remains sa Ittanders and Californians should was, with the Chinese authorities be exactly alike: no more reason than there in for wishing that the continuing to profess entire ignor landscapes of the two regions anee of this unfortunate young should be similar. There are man. The fact of the matter, of typical Ohiouns, typient Philadel course, is that, Imving once denied | phlans, typical Oklahomans, that any foreigner had been seized | typien) Mississippians, typical by she military. the Chinese of- | Georgians) The typical American, Acials continue to make their ense probably, would be a mixture it that contention. In contrast to them all. He has to be taken ou

faith. this, we have the very definite in- formation secured by British en- sular investigation that a foreigner tallying with the description of Thorburn had been seen, bound with ropes, in the custody of mill- tary police. There is also any amount of further evidence which

SUGAR MARKET.

i

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

London Terminals,

this.

от

The following cable at the close tenves beyond any doubt whatever of the sugar market yesterday bas the fact that Thorburn was 30 beun received by Mesura, Pen- seized, and, what is more, had been treath and Co, severely maimed. For example, there is the definite story told by an eye-witness who saw a foreigner, obviously "Thorburn, in charge of five or six soldiers, with his hands' tied behind his back, blood stream- ing from a wound in the head, and with an injury in the chest which had apparently been inflicted by a bayonot. Not only so, but the

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"It ain't far. Right gown this road, not more'n a dozen.

Ollin statios from here.

which such old-fashioned omens of rain

part

excessive vocal activity on the of donkeys, ducks, and pea- cocks.

No doubt they are merely lamenting or applauding a present climatic event that contributes to their comfort or discomfort; but since the future turns on the pre- sent, their exprcasions of emotion be worth our attention. Our ancestors had greater need of such auguries than we have in those days of cheap newspapers and wireless, so that presumably they formulated for the benefit of their descendunta maxims that had best survived the test of export- ence. The wealth of fore which has been handed down to us through the centuries should not lightly be swept aside, and any body who puts these old - sayings on trial is doing a service to wea ther science.

WATER LEVELS.

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH

AND EAST RIVERS. ~ ́

The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Com- mission, shows in English foot the water levels on the West River, North River and East River' on the datos named:

Aug. Aug. 20 21 West River at Bhluhing 24.6 25.6 North River at Sanshui 26.3.18.9 North River at Taingyuen 16.2 · 16,6° East River at Sheklung" 10.5.118.

The highest levels recorded" arat Shishing, 41 foeti Tsingyuen, 29.3 feet;: Samakul, 27.8 feet; Bheklang, 11.5 foot

The lowest levels on record 'are minus F. feet at Samahul aid polzens. 9.7 feet at Bheklung. -