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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 25TH, 1914.
The Bishop of Victoria will hold the monthly intercession service at St. Paul's College to-day at 6 p.m.
The Gazette announces that E. the
since there now exists a complete under standing between Russia and Japan on all the problems which brought about the great war of eight or nine years ago. The ocssion to Japan of the Russian half of the island of Saghalien, announced in the Governor has been pleased to appoint, cables to-day, is but one more proof of under Section 10 of the Medical Registra the growing cordiality of the relations tion Ordinance, 1884 (Ordinance No. 1 of which now exist between the Govern 1884), Lieut. Col. F. W. G. Gordon-Hall, ments of those two countries. If, then, R.A. M.C., Deputy Director of Medical Japan has no need to strengthen her Services, South China Command, to be a defence in Korea against the native member of the Medical Board, nice Colonel WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Population, nor against her Russian J. M. Irwin, resigned, with effect from
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A GRIFFIN'S CHRISTMAS
DIARY.
Unless the sun shines and nature smiles
at you radiantly from everywhere, or if you: have not successfully cultivated the habit of being happy under any circum stances, a Hongkong Christmas is likely to prove the opposite to jovial; and I am speaking now for those of us who have not risked matrimony with all its house hunting terrors and mortifications. You may look forward, to Christmas,, in the light ordinary existence in the Colony, with great expectations, as many have. done before; but the same old illusion
will follow. Do anjoy Christmas ab all everything has to be right and proper from the moment of rising; and even then imagination has to be utilised to garb the Peak in snow and to vein it with toboggan runs.
CHRISTMAS IN HONGKONG.
TELEGRAM.
TRADITIONALLY QUIET,
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY ]- Christmas time in Hongkong was tradi-
JAPANESE DIET DISSOLVED. tionally unostentatious; and the uncertain state of the weather, along with the pall of war, did not tend to encourage any
REFUSES TO APPROVE A LARGER ARMY,
LONDON, December 20th. festive out door show, There were the
A message from Tokyo says that the usual special services at the various places of worship in the Colony and sportsman who were not made of sugar played golf, Diet has rejected the proposed increase in
football with complete cricket and
ELLIS KADOGRIÉ SCHOOL.
indifference to a drizzling rain. Several the Army. The Diet has bear, dissolved. hundred must have been so employed at different hours on Christinus Day and bank-holiday. The streets were deserted in the evenings, but the picture theatres did good business, and to judge by the warm glows in the windows of the private rosidences there were many who spent Christmas evening in the traditional manner. In another column a griffin has an insight into how many passed the written his Christmas diary, which gives festive day.
CHRISTMAS AT THE CHURCHES.
There were the usual services at all the Churches in the Colony on Christmas little against the congregations, which Day, and the bad weather militated but were uniformly good,
The Gazette announces that the above School, through the generosity of Mr. Ellis Kadoorie, will be taken over by the
The fees will be $30 per annum, being 83. Government from the 1st of January, 1915.
a month in each of tho to school months · of the year.
of China is surely very remote. Chine is wholly unprepared both from the Commandant of the 5.V.C., will be pleased financial as well as the military point of to hear, says the .-C. Daily News, that view for enterprises in any quarter he has been promoted to Major and posted where her troops are likely to come into to the 8th Battalion Kast Lancashire conflict with foreign troops; and, indeed, Regiment, the Commanding Officer being
This Christmas time was never right. so far from any aggressive designs being Colonel Melville, who was second in Com harboured by the Chinese, the reportsmand of the Rajputs in Shanghai in 1900. It was only at rare intervals that we could
CARGO AT TSINGTAU. from Peking have gone to indicate the
At the Magistracy on Saturday, before drag our thoughts awey to lighten topics, prevalence of suspicior and nervous
The Gazette contains the following noti apprehension there of sinister designs on Mr. F. A. Hazeland, a Chinese was and even these digressions were extremely We would quickly picture
fication from the Consul General of the part of Japan whenever the increase charged with being a rogue and vagabond, transient,
At St. John's Cathedral, there was a $63.00 of the garrison in Korea has been found on enclosed premises, and also with ourselves one of a company whose faces
the returning from banishment. Defendant glowed, then vanished, and then re-special Holy Communion service at 7.40 Japan, which has been forwarded to him On the other hand
8.m., the officiating clergy being the by the Government:--- $65.00 discussed.
was found on a staircase at the French appeared all aglow once more, the Bishop of Victoria (Dr. Lander), and the
Cargo which has been landed at the $68.00 Japaneso nation has been assured again Mission, Pokfulam, where he had formerly unconscious work of a real log fire. And Revs. C. B. Shann, W. W. Kogers, and Tsingtau wharves and which was found intact and again by responsible ministers that been employed as a cook, at 6.15 am. on glasses would chink_musically and toasts held at noon, the number of communicants safe in the custody of the Japanese Military Martin. A second Communion service was at the time of the capitulation is at present CHAMPAGNE the Government does not conteraplate & the 18th inst. Inspector P. O'Sullivan for those at Home he drunk with a zest at both services exceeding 300. There was Authorities. The marks, numbers and
"forward policy in China-in other said the man had been convicted for steal Home! That deeply pregnant word disa large congregation at the ordinary quantities of the goods, as well as the forme words a policy of aggression. Nothing, bowever, could be more likely to cause then from the place and was banished frompelled the healthy and glowing vision. We service at 11 o'clock, the Bishop of Victoria fitics necessary for their recovery were to ho Chinese people to lose faith in such the Colony in 1912. For returning from pictured Home, perhaps not our own being the preacher. The Cathedral choir published on the 21st December at Tsingtau. sang the anthem As Pants the Hart,' The formalities may be summarized thus:-
The goods will be handed over to persons who assurances than for Japan to station in banishment, the defendant was sent to particular habitation, but other homes. the solo being taken by Master T. Martin,
It prison for six months with four hours There was a circle of faces round there with palms, ferns, and plants, this boing the former Wharf Office of Tsingtau, or other The Cathedral was effectively adorned present, hills of lading, or receipts issued by Korea two more Army Divisions. would be certain to oteple apprehension stocks, and, on the charge of being a and they were played upon by the the work at the following ladies of the reliable certificates, and also to persons who and to provoke, reply, leading to a steady rogue and vagabond, to one month's hard flickering glows of a fire which seemed congregation-Mrs. Stedman and Mrs. deposit in cash the value of the goods, un and disconsolate and melancholy, And the Baker-Brown, Misses May, Baker-Brown, after the 28th December. (No goods under
collection at the 11 o'clock service for the Germani and Austria subjects) Goods that Diocesan Girls' School and Orphanage have not been thus delivered by the 1st of realised the satisfactory sum of $364.35. April next will be detained in the custody of Two services for communicants were held the authorities until the 1st of Jane, when at the Peak Church at 7 and 8 m., the they will be confiscated provided that in the Chaplain of the Cathedral (Rev. V. Copley monatime no demand has been made for them Moyle) officiating. The tasteful decora in the manner mentioned above. tion of the interior of the Church was the work of Mrs. Pamfrott and Mrs. Barton: The Vicar (Rev. N. C. Pope) officiated at all three services at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, at which the congregations were large
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lears sparkled on cheeks which were pale; cach fact was set grimly, and in the corner was an empty chair-the cause of the And only the sadness was explained. fretful spitting of the log-it was more like a sigh of resignation-disturbed the
financially, seems. contemplate such a possibility now than she was three years ago when the question |... frst came up for public discussion, and it. is doubtles the financial aspect of the question that has once more influenced the rejection of the Secretary of State is published in the sad silence. Then another picture came. proposal by the Diet. The costly war with Russia threw upon the people of
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the
The Foreign Office is unable to undertake any responsibility for the forwarding of money, letters, or messages to individual persons abroad.
from which they have since been granted little or no relief. For some years now the political ory of the people bas been “retrenchment” in unproductive expen- diture, and the repeated rejection of the demand of successive War Ministers for he found necessary to forward such remit to life and stalwart men prepared them-
$36.80
these two extra Divisions, supported $39.00
though the demand is by the Committee of $41.20 National Defence, must be regarded simply and solely as a sustained protest against increase try expenature until the country is in a better position to
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Dovalas. On the 18th of December, at Woodford Green, Essex, to Mr. and Mrs. R. H. DOUGLAS, a son.. (By cable.)
[1490 POTTER-On Christmas Day, at 133, The Peak, the wife of ELDON POTTERs of a daughter..
[1484 KILLY, ON- December 18th, 1014, at Mount Durand, Guernsey, to Mr. and Mrs. U. J. KELLY, & doughter.
DEATH.
MARSHALL-On December 10th, 1914, in London, FRANCIS JULIAN MARSHALL, formerly of H.B.M.'s Office of Works, Shanghai. Aged 81 years.
Hongkong Orvion: 104, Das Vœux Road (7). LONDON Ortica: 381, Flam Srsair, E C.
The Daily Press.
HOSOKONG, DECEMBER 28TH, 1914,
bear it.
Commodore and Mrs. Anstruther gare an At Home to Naval officers and the staff of the Naval Yard on E.M. S. Tamir on Christmas Eve, and this annual social function was as usual a great success.
are detained in an enemy country and unable to return to His Majesty's Dominious do not constitute an infringement of the Trading with the Enomy Proclamation, but it may
tances through a neutral country,
It is suggested that it may be found possible, forward the money through Messrs. Cook & Son or one af toe.ivinai Lauks
The Church was suitably embellished, Mrs. Packham being
BRITONS IN AUSTRIA
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It was a camp fire and in the amber reflections muffled forms of men could be seen. A sickly, pale moon made the canvas Payments of money to British subjects who look ghastly and the men who were pacing responsible for the pretty adornment of
to and fro like so many spectres only the pulpit. added to the unnerving scene. picture became very real. There was. sudden commotion. Muffled forms came
selves for battle. In the next minnie the air was full of the screaming of gun-fire and the groantug or men Gradually the fighting waned and then all was still again. The camp fire had ceased to glow, but the moon quietly revealed forms of men quite still, with their faces to the sky. It was a sickening picture in the face of which a hint of Xmas cheer and joviality would have frozen on the lips Thoughts like these, even to the brutally philosophical, made Christmas, as we have usually known it, a very distant and out of-place sort of day.
The Gazette contains the following despatch from the Secretary of State The The service at the Union Church was relative to the arrangements which have
conducted by the Rev. T. W. Pearce, of the London Mission, the Minister (Rev. J. been made for the reciprocal exchange of Kirk Maconachie) being still indisposed. British and Austro-Hungarian civilian The midnight Mass at the Cathedral of subjects detained in the respective the Immaculate Conception was attended by a very numerous congregation. Bishop Pozzon celebrated assisted by the Cathedral clergy, and afterwards said a Low Mass for communicants,
Private letters to Germany and Austra Hungary through neutral countries are now alowed to be forwarded subject to the usual conditions of consorship, Letters cannot, however, he forwarded direct to Germany or Austria-Hungary British subjects and others wishing to communicate with friends in enemy countries must forward their letters through an agency in a neutral country, and correspondents may select their own private agency. Letters should not, however, be sent through British or Foreign Embassies, Legations, or Consulates in central countries. Messrs. Cook et Bon have, it is understood, expressed their willingness to arrange for the. transmission of such letters, and applications for information as to the necessary stamps, etc., should be made to them,
Letters intended for transmission to enemy. countries should be as brief as possible, should contain nothing but personal matter, and should, if possible, be written in the German language.
Reuter's Tokyo correspondent states that the Emperor and Empress of Japan have given Y.3,000 to the Salvation Army, This is the first recognition by the Japan. Imperial family of that organization, The result of working parties last weak was 162 garments, which have been seat to Miss Lloyd Thomas, 316, Murray Street, Hoxton, London, for distributios amongst families of soldiers and sailors at the front and Belgian Refugees.
Mr. R. I. Fearon, the well-known ex- change broker and interport pole-player............. of Shanghai, has been granted a commis
It should be noted that the Foreign Office, in making the above suggestions, cannot guarantee the safe delivery of either money or letters.
And how did Christmas day actually dawn? It came in keeping with the times;
dull and miserable. I looked for some
BISHOP OF VICTORIA'S CHRISTMAS
SERMON.
"THE MADNESS OF THE NATIONS."
countries:--
Arrangements, Jaco been made furthe resiprocal exchange of British and Austre Hungarian subjects (civilians) at present detained in Austria-Hungary and the United
Kingdom respectively.
The Austro-Hungarian Government agree to facilitate the departure from Austria Hungary of the following classes of British subjects:
Women and children. A- 2-Males outside the limits of military age, .., those under 18 or over 50. ̈3—Males of military age who are clearly
unsuited for military service or unlikely to serve, such as physicians, surgeons, clergymen, priests; and the medically. ualit.
ONCE more a Japanese Ministry has been sion as Captain in the Sherwood Rangers, ledge with thanks the following donations semi-deranged condition at any rate but the letting loose of the fends of Hell, the wards 16ft up a tree.
Mr. Fearon left Shanghai for home in May, intending to return in the autumn,
to the Flood Relief Fund: -
history is over all hearts, and leaves our "The shadow of the greatest war in minda but little attuned to feasting. The flower of our manhood is at this hour wrestling in deadly conflict for all that we hold dear. All that the wisdom and the valour of our fathers has wrought for a thousand years is at stake. Our fairest hopes, our noblest aspirations hang upon the issue. The magnitude and the gravity of the straggle weigh heavily upon us all,"
EFFECT OF A HEAVY SHELL. semblance of Christmas, but the Opening with the foregoing striking monotonous falling of the rain from a words, the Bishop of Victoria based his
An officer attached to the Royal West. dirty grey sky obliterated everything. Christmas Day message on the words of
St. Paul: Let us keep the feast." Kent Regiment tells the following story Christmas day greeted me with a fright Despite the shadow of the war, added the of the result of the Germans' heavy fully sad visage, and before I had dressed Bishop, it was well that time-honoured shells:- each article of clothing and the other institutions should be kept up. So ran
The Times leader on the Lord Mayor's There is a man in this regiment hero now who had an experience. He was knick-knacks which go to complete a Lanquet, but we have come here to keep standing with another man behind the Briton's toilet had
been brutally an infinitely higher festival. The awful trenches when one burst. One man was TUNG WA HOSPITAL RELIEF FUND. handled, the room boy wished me a cruel and unnecessary sufferings of never seen again, even in bits, and an Melly Klismas with a demoniacal millions of men, women and children in enormous hole was made; but the other The Tung Wa Hospital begs to acknow-Chinese, smile it seemed so to me in my Europe, the madness of the nations, and fellow was found banging head down- "They got him. ho left hurriedly, when he saw that sighing of broken hearts, and the nervous down, and found his rifle among the Chinese Association, New Zea
"Molly " was the opposite to my sppear tension of anxiety for dear ones at the branches; and except that he couldn't defeated on a proposal to increase the
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£222 82,470.17 ance and manner. At breakfast people front, shall not silence the Divine call to speak or hear for two days he was none strength of the standing army. In view
Transvaal Chinese United Club, with very long faces which seemed to have keep the feast. Many things emphasise the worse and is now back with his com of the recent bellicose writing and talking The current issue of the Gazette contains and the Cantonese Club £263 2,807.00 | robbed the sky of some of its leaden rouge it, for rever since angels sang to the paay. by Japanese Chauviniste in regard despatches from the Secretary of State
wished me the compliments of the season shepherds at Bethlehem has their song of $6,277.17 in a key which would bave been more Peace on earth and good-will to men to the attitude of the Japanese relating to the Government War Risks
appropriate to a dark passage in Hamlet. been more needed, and never have the Government towards the future status Insurance Scheme, exchange of British
GERMAN INTRIGUE IN THE A few people slouched about in the rain, nations of the world been so anxiously
́UNITED STATES. of Kiacchow, it is, perhaps, necessary and Austro-Hungarian civilian subjects, DEATH OF ME. JA MAITLAND.
and my Christmas morning was spent longing for it. Never has our refusal to at enoc to remind the reader that and to the transmission of money and
In recording the death of Mr. Johnnierely in waiting for something to lat Christ reign over national relationship this question of increasing the Army Liters to individuals abroad.
Writing from Washington The Times happen; I did not care really in what been so deeply regretted. But let us keep Andrew Maitland, head of the well-known form. This meant more pipes than was the feast, for it is the festival of our correspondent says: The New York ia not
one, Two previous
World draws attention to what it believes Shanghai firm of Maitland & Co., the usual and good, and by tiffin time my head faith." Ministries have come to grief over the The final of the Shanghai Golf Club's Shanghai Mercury says the deceased, who became leaden. The same dull-grey Emphasising the word
faith, the Bishop is another example of German intrigue. same proposal, which dates from the championship, over thirty-six holes, was had reached the age of 75, was a well collection surrounded the festive" board said that some people stumble at the It notes that a story is current in
known and highly popular member of the annexation of Korea by Japan. The played at Kiangwan last week, and pro- community during the time he was re-haut been an undertaker's board in legiti: discourage any honest doubter groping, solidate ita standing with the Allies
we could not have been less jovial if it miracle of virgin birth, and he would not Washington that Japan is trying to con War Department insists that the station-vided one of the most exciting finishes sident in Shanghai, and the news of his mate use, and the same boring common ut say a word to make him feel unwelcome so as to strengthen its position in the ing of two extra, Divisions in Korea is of ever seen in Shanghai, although the demise will be received with sincere regret. plates complete the grey picture. I had had However, he must bear testimony to his California; Land Law controversyl vital importance to the defence of the form shown came somewhat as a dis- A man of splendid physique, the late Mr. enough and determined upon passing the conviction. For, so unique a person why purpose of the story, which, it is stated.
Maitland enjoyed practically perfect Empire, but no other reason has been appointment to spectators. The finalists health, until a low months ago when it remainder of this glorious Christmas day not an unique birth? After epealing of emanated from high German diplomatic publicly advanced for this demand than wero Captain E. I. M. Barrett and Mr. contracted a chill, from which he never in bed. Upon my dressing table was a the purely spiritual side of Christmas, quarters, is described as being trouse that the Army is still on the same scale as H. M. Little, the latter winning by ene
fully recovered.
small chit; it was an invitation to dinner, and dwelling on "Hope," the preacher an anti-Japanese sentiment in this country. The deceased before the annexation of Korea and that up.
eto, from one whom I had never dreamed said that there was something wrong with by leading the public to believe that the gentleman, familiarly cared so much. Come and spend the any, nation if its married women were Japanese Government is merely seeking known by his older friends as Jam,
to put itself in readiness to strike this it must be obvious that so large an exteu-
came to Shanghai over 30 years ago for evening with the wife and me and a few unwilling to give birth to future citizens, country. According to the Washington gion of territory involves extra military
Our attention has been drawn to the the frm of Thorne Bros. Subsequently friends." A great load disappeared, and and perhaps this tendency is one of the feruld the business has caused consider-
I eventually smiled at the boy" who causes of the awful judgment upon able annoyance in official ciroles. obligations, On the other hand, it is fact that the announcement that Major the name of the firm was changed to
however, looked at me with some mis European nations to-day." John Ruskin contended that this is a specious argument front was made in error by one of the
Brierley, D.8.0., had been killed at the Maitland & Co., with the deceased as
chief.
In 1872 Mr. Maitland started the giving the change was so complete had said most truthfully that of all the which cannot be supported by any proof
The dinner with its subsequent pleasan-virtues Hope" was the most distinc first piece goods auction in Shanghai, and London papers. of real necessity. When Japaa annexed
The list in which his after his return home to take charge of tries was an entire success. Everyone lively Christian, and this referred to the The profits of the Kuala Lumpur Bubber name appeared should have been publish the London branch of the firm his two seemed hungry, and all had a healthy race as well as to the individual life Of Company for the year to June 30th Korea the country was sething with
ed under the heading "wounded," and not consins, Mr. F. J. Maitland and Mr laugh and keen appreciation of enjoy the confusion and anguish of the world amounted to £80,229, exclusive of £11,191 ! discontent and active sedition, but the under now reported killed." The list the local business, While in Shanghai wings, and
Harry Maitland, became associated with ment. The hours had swallows! there was no mistake, but everything brought forward. The directors propose I returned to my depended upon the interpretation of the to transfer to reserve £12,500, and to pay garrison has proved equal to every emergency, and to-day, after but a few appears correctly in The Tames of Novetathe deceased was interested in many in quarters healthily tired and a peace waiting creation. Said the pessimistic a final dividend of 7 per cent., without portant commercial enterprises, and was with everyone. But before sleep came my philosophy: The world is in its death deduction of tax, making 22 per cent. years of strong and enlightened govern
a director of the Union Insurance Society thoughts travelled to that sad circle of throes, it heaves with mortal agony, its for the year, leaving £11,670 to bo carried The yield of rubber was mont, Korea is in a state of prosperity The Vestry of the Cathedral at Shang- of Canton and of the Mercantile Bank faces and the vacant chair, and I dwelt groan is the death rattle. But Chris forward.
against an estimate of and peaceful content such as she has not had met last week to consider the invite He was also interested in tea plantations with reverence on those still forms in the tianity said, "No, the whole creation 1,193,8991
tion sent to the Dean, and subs quer ly in Ceylon.
moonlight, Ferhaps 1 murmured a greaneth and travaileth in pain in the 1,138,000lb. The average gross price for known within the mentiory of the oldest alternatively to the Rev. W. H. Price, to A splendid all-round athlete, the de
prayer in which Bis loving influence was birth pang of a grander world that is the whole crop is estimated at Es. 3:30d, inhabitant.
Hence, internal conditions act as temporary chaplain of H.M.S. esased was keenly interested in rowing, pleaded for on behalf of thos who cannot now coming into the light, and the per lb. The cost, excluding only income
Triumphi It was unanimously agreed boxing, fencing, and cross-country riding afford no cause for uneasiness as regards the adequacy of the garrison at present that the help aaked for should be given, He was also one of the original members mile on this day when He was given to sorrow of the present time shall soon be tax, was 18. 213d. per lb., showing & and the Rev. W. H. Price will leave of the Mah Ho Loong fire company, which the world as a living symbol of peace forgotten for joy that a new pure earth reduction as compared with 1912 of 317d. on earth and good-will towards men. has been born into the sweet brotherhood per lb. The estimated yield for the current maintained in Korea. Nor is there any Shanghai to join the battleship after Lecame a semi-military body at the time
C.R.of the stars."
year is 1,400,00016. of the Tientsin massacre in 1870. reason to fear aggression on Russia's part,
new a
ber 13th.
Christmas.