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EXHIBITION OF WAR WORK
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.
⠀ (TO THE EDITOR OF THE “MONGKONG
DAILY FRESS."']
Au exhibition of the work which is being Hone by the Hongkong Association of Women War Workers was held at the City Hall yesterday morning, end stirpeted a
SIR,--With referenp to the article in this goodly attendances of the general public morning's paper by Professor Middleton Amongst those prese were:-HE. the Smith, I am sure that as á former member Governor and Lady May; the Hon. Mr.
of the staff of King's College, he will be E, R. Halifax, Mr. G. T. Edkins, Mr. glad to hear that he has done bat scant N. J. Stabb, and Dr. Harston (represent-justice to that society, as I am able to say ing the War Charities Fund, which has.
of my own knowledge that previous to the now undertaken financial responsibility for the work), Miss Joseph (of the Jewish War, from 1911 to 2013, at any rate, there was already in operation in England, c., at King's College, under the auspices of the China Association, rally virile system of teaching the Chinese language "-the teacher being the lab Professor the Rev, G. Owen. There wergst that tiro në least twenty students.
Work Party), Miss Graham (of Kowloon Dock Work Party), Mrs. Green (of "Our Little Bit Workers' Society, Kowloon), Miss Graham and Miss Laurence (of the Government Civil Hospital), Miss James (of the Matilda Hospital), Mr. Edwards (of the Gaol, who offered many useful
Professor Smith sparks of it being neces suggestions), Lady Rosa Davis, Lady Hosary to engage a yong Englishman, I Tung, Mrs. Ho Fook, Mr. Justice Gom-can assure him that, despite Professor perts, and Mr. Stodart Kennedy.
Owen's years, there could have been no The visitors were received by the Commers enthusiastic and inspiring tencher of mittee and Workers, including Mrs. Stabb, Chinese. And I believe that his successors Mrs. Gompertz, Ms. Phelips, Mrs. Mar at King's College are equally effective, tin, Mrs. Edkins, Mrs. M. J. D. Stevens, though they could not be more go. Mrs. Pierpont, Mrs. Stockhausen, Mrs. Cormichael and Mrs. Dowbiggin.
Specimens of flannel and cotton garments together with the Authorised War Office models were shown by Mrs. Stobb's Class; bandages (of which 38,000 have been sent away) by Mrs. Phelips' class; mosquito nets by Mrs. Carmichael's class; and wool.
Jen garments by Mrs. Dowbiggin's class. Stands for the models were kindly lent by Mesara Powell, Ltd. Close inquiry was made into the system of working, and general satisfaction was expressed.
It is hoped to hold another abuilar ex- hibition before the hot weather sets in, as it is desired to give the public every opportunity of judging for themselves how the money they subscribe is expanded. and contributions of white fiantel trousers For conversion into cholera belts will be very gladly received..
CHINESE CHILD KILLED BY MOTOR-CAR.
DKIYER CHARGED WITH ̈
MANSLAUGHTER.
At the Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, a Chinese cuffeur naised. Ha Kit, alias W. Jones, was charged, that, being the driver of inotor car No. 28, on the morning of the 31st March, he did feloniously kit a Chinese eight-year-old boy named Chan Mui by knocking him down with his car in Gap Road, Morrison Hil
I will close these lince, which I have written in justice to King's College out of admiration of the late Professor Oven, by emphasising the point that the best fenolior of Chinese to Englishmen is an Englishman, unless the native teacher has an exception ally good knowledge of English.-1 am, sir, Yours truly,
C. THORNE.
FORMOSA INDUSTRIAL
EXHIBITION.
[CONTRICTED.]
THE HONGKUNG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, APRIL 13rs, 1916.
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ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
VISITORS' CUF,
The Eclectic competition for the above. Cup played at Fan Ling during the mouths of February and March resulted in a win for Lieutenant F. Kinchin Smith.
HUMPTY DUMPTY.”
A LARGE AND ENJOYABLE TEA
PARTY.
There was a full dress rehearsal of
Humpty Dumpty" or "The Greedy Knayo" at Mt. Austin Theatre, the Peak, The yesterday afternoon when the opportunity best cards returned are as follows, half was taken of entertaining the children of handicaps deducted from the Eclectic | iha
navy, military and pollee, soms 200 - being present. Tea, enkes and crackers were supplied in abundance, and the mem berg of the Hongkong Club, who provided. to means for entertaining, would have. been
SCOTU 2.***
Liorat. F. Kinchin Smith... 65-~ € 59. Mr. E. Golland Mr. F. Maitland Mr. E B Reed Capt. C. Campbell Mr. H. P. Winslow Mr. E. Carpmael Mr. S. H. Dodwell Mr. U Soper....... Mr. A. E. Crappelį Mr. H. 1. Jones
Fon, Mr. A. M. Thomason Mr. A B. Haworth
79 8 64 77-12 65 74-905 00 Ser. 16 72 8.00 148 60 002.87 73-8 67. 768 07 76 7.99 4-6 68 766 09
The entrance fees totalled $275, a cheque for which amount has been sent to the Hon, Treasurer of the War Charities Fund,
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more than gratified had the BROWN
leard the sounds of laughter and jollity which prevailed throughout the whole afternoon.
With regard to the performancë p Humpty Dumply "there is no doubl that it, will be a huge success, and those who attend will be surprised by the degres
of excellence to which under skiliul train. ing, the children have attained both in sing. resulted as follows:-
The semi-fival of the above competitioning and dancing and in carrying out the various parts. Those who are fond of Mrs. Crawford beat Mrs. Maitland by children and are at the same time lovers I up
of juvenile theatricals should not miss the Miss Rodger beat Mrs. Davison by 1 up opportunity of seeing the play which is
DEEP WATER BAY MIXED FOURSOME
BOGET COMPETITION-
The result of this competition in which 54 couples took part, was ng under:- Winner of First Prize: Mr. J
-Rodgor and Mr. J. D. Kinnaird 1 down. Tie for second and third prizes:
Mrs. Wilson and Mr. Lampman- Other Results :-
Mr. and Mrs. Carlton
Mr. and Mrs. Davison
2
Mrs. McKonny and Mr. Tanner, 4 Mr Butlin and Mr. S. H. Døde
well
Miss Gordon and Mr. T, A
Loughlin
The Formosa Industrial Exhibition-Mrs, and Mr. F. Maitland frst of its kind to be held in the island was to be opened at Taikoku on the 9th inst, and is to lest a month. The official opening, however, wi take place on the
18th inst, when the ceremony will be por formed by Their Imperial Highnesses, Prines and Princess Kanin, the former bringing especially gone messages from the Emperor,
According to advice from Formosa, this there. No pandert function ever bed. spared in making the arrangements, and, bearing in mind Japtics, traditions and thoroughness in all such matters there is doubt that the venture will be crowned with success..
Since introduction of the Japanoso régime in 1855, the island has made rapid progress, politically, commercally and in- dustrially, and the whole aspect of the country has undergon a magial trans Formation. To give an account of all that the new rulers have thieved for Formosa during the last two decades is not with u the scope of a short article, Suffice it to say that the Japanese had a colo sal task in hand when they undertook the colonizatio and expansion of Forosa, and that the efforts have met with unqualified success any old resident can justify to this, and evi- deners of it are pateat enough everywhere from Keelung to Takes, so that he who reas may read:
The present Exhibition has been inspired by a desire on the part of the Formosan Government not only to make known the actual conditions and potentialities of de
island under their administration but to forster industrial activities, to furth develop, the resouren of the island, and to give a fillip to trade in general,
The Hon. Mr. C. Mcl, Messer (Captain Superintendent of Police), who prosecuted, said that the motor car was taking a party of T.K.K. officials to Taikoo Dock in order that they might go out to the Chtyo Mdre, which had struck the rocks. The obvious inference was that they wanted to get to the Dock quickly. A boy and a man were walking along the road in the same direction as the car. It was said that no warning booter was sounded and the car dashed along and knocked down a small boy, afterwards skidding into the gutter. Altogether the car took 46 feet to stop, having regard to the skil ding. Ten miles an hour was the limitin Victoria, and there was a danges signal near the spot, where, presumably, they would have, to go less than the waximum speed. Experiments were conducted with the same car and a Chinese driven from
Tuiboku, where the Exhibition is being the same Garage on a similar surface,
The under the eye of a police expert. The car held, is the seat of the Government. was sent along a from 10 to 12 miles ancity proper is typilly Japanese, poetas hour, and was pulled up in 13 feet. He ing fine roads, handsome buildings, well- thought his worship would have no doubt laid-cut parks, bras avenues and, but for that the car was travelling at more than a preponderance of the Chinese element, 10 miles an hour when the accident all the colour and Mosphere of a Japanese! occurred.
city like Tokio or fata on a smaller scale, The Exhibition building is the newly- Mr. J. V. Braga, passenger clerk in the local office of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, said erected Governmell offices, an imposing the Company engaged the car to take them five-storey edifice covering nearly two acres to Taikoo Dock, where n launch would be of ground. For the purposes of the Exbibi. ready to take them to the Chiyo Marution however this is inadequate, and the They took a car because it was quicker Fotanical Gardens have consequently been They first saw the boy about 20 yards called into requistion. These cover an off the top of the Gap Road. He was area of over 20 acres, and accommodate walking on the left hand side of the road, special building, among which is the with several other Chinese, The boy ran Chiss-and-South-Sas Hall, the largest of spross the road and then ran hack. the all, set apart for specimen exbibits of pro- right hand lamp striking him in the back. Juce and manufactures from Japan, Korea, So far as he remembered the hooter was
Saghalien, Kwangtung Province, South sounded. The car was about 12 yards China, Hongkong, Indo-China, Biam, away from the boy when the brake was traits Settlements, Dutch East Indies applied. The speed just before the accl- Phippizes, India, Austral and the
South Sea Islands; dent would be about 12 wiles an hour.
Visitors from Hongkong are sure to find Messer-Wore; any
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher
Mrs. Taylor and Mr. K. M. Cum-
mingka
Mrs. Griffia and Mr. J. Hodged
(Junior)
Miss Lammert and Mr. Mitchell. 6 Mr. and Mrs. J. W. C. Bounar, 6 Mrs. Hay and Mr. R. Sutherland 7 Mr and Mrs. Anderson Miss Edkin and M. Edkins
Aitken
Mrs. Arthur and Mr. F. Beving
ton
Mr. and Mrs, Harry Hancock Mr. and Mrs. Greaves
Miss Robertson and Mr Thorne...10
HONGKONG C.C. TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
NISBET BEATEN IN CHAMPION.
SHIP SINGLES.
Ng Sze Kwong defeated H, A. Nisbet ia the semi-final of the Open Championship Singles yesterday after a magnificent exhibition of tennis, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, B-0-
The Chinese displayed splendid form, He is a cool, wary, and very clever player. and executed some brilliant shots which evoked the involuntary admiration of Nishat himself. For the most part he was content to remain on the defensive on his buse line, and allow. Nisbet to force wattera, but occasionally be coule up to the net and get through his opponent's defence by some extraordinarily acenrato placing. Nishet gave away a considerable
to be presented at a matinée this (Thurs day) afternoon at 5:15. and again ou Saturday, at 9.10 p.m. The band of the Police Reserve will be in attendance.
The proceeds of the entertainments are to be devoted to the Veterans' Club, ant on account both of the derving object and of the high merit of the performance itself it is hoped that there will be crowded houses.
SHIPPING NOTES,
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SENEGAMBIA REALISES £73,000
Trambla, of 3,780 tons which way buil; n Hamburg, in 1893, was sold by Messrs, C W. Kelloc & Co to the very high price of £73,000, equivalent to nore than £19 per ton gloss. As a Hamburg-Amerika, steamer, she was captured and taken into. Hongkong, and has since been worked on behalf of the British Government. The first. hid was £50,000. Like the Polkerrës, which was put up for auction a week previousl the Sonegambia was bought for French ao count, British, French, Begian, and Ita lian buyers were allowed to bid. It was estimated by brokers that before the wor possibly about £20,000 might have been offered for the Scargambia,
LIFE IN CONSTANTINOPLE,
The following account of the state of affairs in Constantinople, is told by " Greek profesor and an Armenian law- ver
Con- People go about the streets of stantinople mute, frightened, and afroid of being suspected and generally tired of everything
only persons who approach it are curiosits
The court-martial is in session every day. wholesale. distributing death sentences Fifteen or twenty persons are sent la the gallows daily. The executions usually take place in the square of Bajazet, which is come to be known as Massacre Square. The inhabitants avoid crossing it, and the serkers. The Armonina lawyer said that number of valuable points by faulty ser-
two days before he left the city ho crossed vices, and the occasions on which he got his the square as three men were being ex- menian. They were hanged in the presence fast service over the net were fewer than ented. Two were Greeks and one an År- those when he failed. The back hand play of the public
in a He of the young Chinees was splendid. Things could hardly go otherwise rarely failed to return Nisbet's powerful city like Constantinople, warning with willing spies The German hold on Con- volleys, though sometimes his roturng were antinople is cured by the presence of a trifle "streaky." Ng Sie Kwong wen the 20.000 German troops, and a similar im- Asia Minor Apart from this, the mili two games of the opening sef, but Nisbet ber is garrisoned in the Dardanelles and drew level after some pretty net pay.tary garrison, the Germans are assisted by The Chinese, however, eventually won the set in comparative ease by 6-3.
en-
The second got was productive of some of the best tennis witnessed for quite a long while Nisbet won the first three game straight away. Both players were thusiastically applauded by the large number of spectators for beautiful sho's Ng Sze Kwong won the next three games, aking the score three all, and then CS- tablished a lead. Nisbet drew level, after scine exciting passages, literally by the skin of his teeth, and won the two last games and the set-
The third set was a ding-dong struggle With the score at three all the Chinese got in some sparkling shots, and von the three succeding games and the set by
be scarce, and prices are very high. The army of spies. Provisions continue to Germans are sending only ammunition and
than guns, telling the Turks to depend on selves for bread and other food.
The Sultan is described as a more in- strument in the hands of the Germans. There are reporty that he is trying to be come oblivions to everything hy drinking heavily. He is said to be more often drank than sober,
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Nisbet observed player sometimes fell. that the weak point in the game of the Chinese was his failure when trying to gnash, and be frequently returned the ball high into the air, for his opponent to bring down into the not. The sevouth game saw the score 4-3 in favour of the Chinese, In the tenth gamo Nisbet go oneven terms, and then was warmly cheered for taking the lead after some very clever play. Hereabouts the Chinese had been less careful than-is customary Ng Sz Kwong won three games succes him, but re pulled himself together, and won the next three games, the set, and given to the driver to hurry up 1-No.2 great deal of absorbing interest in this sively in the final set, and then Nisbes the match by 3-6. His success was greeted
Exhibition, as well as enjoy a delightful rallied. He contrived to compel his oppo with warm applese
S. E, Green, owes 30, meete N. E. Kent, sojourn in a country which has been aptly bent to do most of the chasing, and set owes 16, in the semi-final of the handicap there was no special hurry at all.
Further evidence was called, and the named the Island Beautiful."
A.E.S. traps into which the less experienced singles (a) this afternoon ase was remanded
instructions
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MACAO TO HONGKONG'
Week days at 7.30 am, and 2 p.m. Sundays at 7.30 am, and x pu EXCURSION TO MACAOL SUNDAY, 16TH APRIL, 1916.
The Company's New Steamship MLAVIA
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Will depart from the Company's WING LOK STEKET WHARD at A man, and return From Mano at 3 p.m.
N.B-The Company will also run a Steamer from Macao en Bunday at 7,30 am, sed from Hongkong st 1 p.m., from the Company's Wing Lak Streek Whanchi
FARES AS USUAL,
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Ospartures from Macao to Canton on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 9 pan.) Ispartures from Cantou to co on Tuesday, Thursday and
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THE ROTAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB
TBE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the above flat will. be held in the Club House, Happy Valley, on MONDAY, the 17th April, 1915, at 6.30 P.M., for the following
purposes:
wat ng 31st December, 1915.
To receive the Report and Accounts for the
To slect the Officers and Committee for 19'6
To transact any other business.
By order
T. WHILL Acting Hon. Secretary. Borgtorg, 7th April, 1910
15.5
NOTICE
IN THE MATTER of the Estate of the lato JOHN EDWARD GRESSON, decessid
A
ALL CREDITORS and others having Claims against the Estate of the above deceased are requested to send them in to me, the Undersigned, on or before the first day of Jane, 1916.
B. . D. F. BETTH, Attorney for the Administratrix, Care of JARDINE, MATHESOX & CO., LTD,
Hongkong
T931 Hongkong, 10th April, 191d-