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OUR LONDON LETTER. FROM OUR OWN COELESPUNDENT] THE RETIREMENT OF THE ENEMY IN THE WEST. WAR WORK AND THE SUPPLY
FOOD.
LONDON, March 5th."
YAUMATI SCHOOL. SECOND ANNUAL SPORTS. The second annual sports meeting in connection with the Yaumati Govern- ment District School took place yes OFterday on the school footbal: ground at King's Park before a large gathering parents and friends. Throughout the racing was of the keenest possible de seription, and Mr. H. Crook (the headmaster) and his staff are to be com pliniented or the success which attended this, their second, effort to run a sports meeting in connection with the school. The full results were as follow: Long Juar (Senior).--1, Lui Tak; 2, Lui Tak Kai.
LONG JUMP (Junior)-1, Kwok Shu; 2, Tam Chan Tu.
HIGH JUMP (Senior),-1, Lui Tak Bai; 2, Lui Tak
HIGH JUMP (Junior)-1, Tam Chun F; 2, Kwok Shu.
100 YARDS FLAT RACE (for boys up to 19)-1, Wong Hing Tat; La Chi Cheung 3 Chang Cheung Wah, But if the Ger-
120 YARDS FLAT RACE (for boys 15 and over)-1, Lui Tok Kaj 2, Lai Tak Lung Tai Wupen to all masters of
STAFF RACE (open YM.T.8.)-1, Chan Lam Lam Kwan
am Pak 3 zu Fate (for boys all ages)-1, Li Tong Wai and Chang Wing Sang 2 Leung Tat Wu and Lang Kwai Chik
Many reasons are being assigned to account for the German retreat on the Anere; and two are canvassed as the most probable. One is that the enemy found himself unable to hold on to the territory The second is that he has abandoned, he desired to upset the plans and calcula tions of the Allies in the West for assum- ing the grand offensive Under the con ditions of modern warfare, it in difficult auddenly to make a big attack. Weeks of careful preparation are needed for roads have to be constructed and railways must be laid to enable supplies and heavy guns to be moved up: mans expected to throw the Allies plans out of gear they have failed in their object. For the British line now extends from a point established in September, 1914, in contact with the Belgians some whore west of Ypres to a point in the south about Roys. In other words, we are holding 130 miles of front line trenches. The contemptible little army" which held only ten mills of trenches a couple of years ago, has indeed grown into a mighty military organisa- tion.
The Huns may try to postpone conclusions at one point, or Hindenburg
may have something up his sleeve in the nature of a surprise, but we shall soon know where the great push on one side or the other will be delivered. atOBILISING THE NATION.
3,
2,
of
50 YARDS BACK RACE (for boys of all ages)-1, Lung Kwai Chik 2, Tsang Shin Hin; 3,
(for
BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE
FAST
HINDENBURG'S HOPE,
TO CRUSH THE ENTENTE IN SIX MONTHS.
Mr. Carl W. Ackerman, formerly Bor- hin correspondent of the United Press, cabling from Berne recently, says:
They
OF ORIENTAL STUDIES. THE KING OPENS THE SCHOOL H.. The King, who was accompanied
The serious transportation difficulties are not affecting Hindenburg's plans the School of Oriental Studies at the
Disregarding everybody and everything by the Queen and Princess Mary, opened London Institution
Sir John r. Hewett, addressing His but the army, apparently believing
to win before again facing the Socialists sence as a sign that his Majesty was.
his purpose. Majesty, said they took the King's pre-military victory is possible, and hoping the importance to the Empire of the every utility to
Buy Germany's American will exceed any of the past fully cognizant of and impressed with and other peace advocates, he is bending study of Oriental and African languages and civilizations on a state which Urat efforts in 1017 will the world interested in the East had not is win or lose in 1917 in the general hitherto regarded as necessary; and they opinion. The Germans believe they will Britain alone among great countries of because it is Germany's final efforts It
their had planned that the School should be at win.
submarines Confident least equal to the Oriental schools in foreign capitals, and adequate to Imparalyse the Entente's war industries, perisi needs. They proposed to teach the they are prepared for gigantic offensives languages of eight hundred million peoby land, ni, and water Germany is to ple. The imports and exports of the day stronger in a military way than at United Kingdom alone with the peoples any time since the war begari.
War leaders expect the Entente to be of whom they were to teach the languages amounted to between two and three at Germany's mercy in six months,
sterling
annually, despite American developments hundred millions But the magnitude of the scheme could consider America too isolated to be of not be expressed in terms of money, or benefit to the Allies of the more number of languages taught. Their teaching was only a means to au end. The greatness and solidity of the end
relations rated on the comprehension of
Land Colonization Overscas, ent and the just and sympathetic dealing infinitely varied in race, reli-
character. They grand scale, appears to be in the air just with men infinitely believed at the training, given in the now. Not only is the Canadian Govera School would materially contribute to the ment itself preparing for settlement, ex- fuller realization of the nation's ideais tensive tracts, as an after the war moa in other countries, tempted by the fact in the distant parts of his Majesty's sure, but also private and public bodies are officially Dominions, and to the prosperity and that between 200 and 300 million acres of the efficient working of the Empire as a whole. If with the approval of his the finest land in the world ing their new career at this crisis, it for land development on their own lines. was because they were deeply convinced that the task they had to fulfil, both in view of the war and of the period which would inediately follow, could
The King, on rising to reply, said:-. longer safely neglected or delayed.
My Lords, Ladies and Genticmen I thank you for your loyal and dutiful address:
Empire in its internal and its external
།
LAND SETTLEMENT ON THE GRAND SCALE.
"RACE, Handica ljesty's Government they were stari-alat:d to be available, are maturing plaus
200 YARDS ng Tat Wa. toys up to 14)-1, Tam Chun Lan Xan Tu; & Lum Ping Cheung.
440 YARDS FLAT RACE, Handicap (for boys 15 and over)-1, Lui Tak Koi, 2, Lui Tak: 3 Leung Tat Wa
100 YARDS SPOON AND EGG RACE (for Wos of all ages). 1. Lui Tak Kai; 2,
Wong Sau Li Chung Ling.
HP MILE FIAT RACE, Handicap (open) Chan Ting Kwar; 3, Chan Teze Wing to past pupils)-1, Tse Kap Kai, 2
160 YARDS THREAD AND NEEDLE RACE, Chan upen to females Miss Yuk Sin; 2, Mrs, Ho Yau Tak 3 Mrs.
Lai
TEAM RACE, open to all classes-1, 8A, 2,68,"
1
no
1 am glad to be the patron of the School of Oriental Studies, and it gives me particular gratification to take part to-day in the ceremony of open ing this fine building in which the School is hereeforth to carry on its work.
Lord Balfour's Committee on Commer cial and Industrial Policy has recently. discussed the suggestion made to the Em- pire Resources Development Committee that, by arrangements with the Dominion Government, the Imperial Government should acquire territory in Northern and Canada, prepare it for settlement. sell it at a profit, chielly to Americans, grazing Debt. And now 5,000 acres of with a view to the reduction of the War und in Northern Saskatchewan have been leased for dairying purposes to farming interests in Holland. Under the control of the Dutch, who are a race of farmers, the venture promises to be profitable alike to the corporation and to the workers.
the I cannot sufficiently emphasize wide scope and vast iraportance of that work. The School will afford fresh sports the
With such a prodigous host of soldiers in France and elsewhere the demand of
TEAM RACE, open to the four Govern- the British authorities for men is im perative. Except where the manufacment Schools1, Salyingpun; 2, Queen's ture of munitions is concerned the strain College.
At the conclusion of th on mau-power is beginning to be felt in the industrial world at home. In some trades prizes were distributed by Mrs. A. E. firms which formerly employed hundr dRalphs, who was thanked for her services by the headmaster. Mrs. Ralphs (who and where there are reduced to scores,
was accompanied by Mr. Ralphs, Inspec were scores there are now only a few male
tur of Schools) was also presented with assistants. The little men in a small way
a houquet, and was given three hearty "tiger." Mr. Crook also of business have gone under in number-
cheers and less instances, and there are others sti hanked the many generous donors of
Prizes. to go the same road. War is a hard and bitter school. The prospect of furthe
Binec strain on all is clear enough.
non-essential wrote last week a list of a g industries has been issued that is, tradat which, in the opinion of our ruf rs, are not pesential to the winning of the wa Fur stealing 5lbs. of copper from the Moreover, ao male between the age of 6. Aunsang a Chinese was sentenced to and 61 can go to a new job now. Tin three months' hard labour and four hours stocks. The vessel was alongside gives the Government unlimited power to
the Kowloon wharf. control and organise the civil population for war work as required. SPERDING UP FOOD PRODUCTION.
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.
THEFT
EXPORTING SILVER
export silver. One man was fined $10, and $29 was confiscated and another had
50 consented and was also ordered to pay a fine of $10.
nice to make ourselves independent of foreign countries. On this point let me say, parenthetically, that the public has had such a fright that never again will British agriculture be allowed to fall into neglect. At the same time, while there is every reason why we should practise care in the matter of stocks of food, the situa con is not alarming, as might be inferred from the drastic regulations issued from week to week by the Government. Doubt- ess we shall have to go short of one or commodities before the next harvest
Everyono who is able by any means to There were two cases of attempting to cultivate a plot of land has gone gardening. Even the boys of Eton School, no less than the children of the elementary schools throughout the coun
" try, are hard at work. The idea is to raise as much food as posible and make us so self-supporting that we shall be able to laugh at the submarine, hice -ade,” Of course, scores of thousands of enthusiasts who are purchasing seed potatowe to plant in the back garden, 07 on the tennis lawn which has been lugur in a fine frenzy of patriotic seal, never handled a potato before except with a knife and work at the meal table; but what would you have? The Government having called upon the people to cultivate the land, the response is amazing. In and around towns and villages from Land's End to John o' Groat's all-classes have got "Back to the Land.” hour of spare time in being spent digging: to ground, up ground building plots, waste and, in some cases, the public parks
Bince in order to grow vegetables. Baturday, 21st April-
Noon-Hongkong Jockey Club, Half-Yearly Adam delved among the apple trees in Eden, there has never been such a craze for gardening and it is to be lupod that Mother Earth, so bountiful in her re 8.15 pm. Soens from Shakespeare afth sponse to those who have learned to know
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It was
com-
opportunities of study to those dar-similar institutions which existed at vices which have been the pioneer of Paris at Petrograd, and, if he might progras and the instrument of good say it with bated breath at Berlin. government in India and Egypt. It Henceforward they hoped they would not will furnish with a fuller technical be behind those rivals, or that enemy,
.of commerce the
in their equipment for that which was pioneers industry who in each successive essentially part of the duty of the Em generation undertake the duty of up-pire Ho spoke just now of Oxford and holding the honoured fame of British Cambridge, and he did not want anyone this was an attempt to trade in the East. Its work will serve to
was rather an endeavour to in develop the sympathy which already
exists between my Eubiects supplement the education in Oriental They happily
of my Far Eastern Ally, subjects given at these institutions,
to u
their had placed
representatives upon the Japan. But more than this is looked for from the School governing body and wished to work in co-operation If it happily suceeds in imparting the closest and most cordinî
the
pupile sent out as teachers of with the early
10 years since n unselfish government and civilized com merce a clearer comprehension of the mittee was formed under the chairman- thoughts and lives of the diverse raceship of Lord Reay which laid down the of the East, the good effects of that plan of that School of Oriental Studies. success will extend far beyond the im- 4 good deal of hard work had been done
tangible results, The since then, He happened to be in mediate and aueint literature and the art of Indit position to speak to it because, first under are of unique interest in the history Lord Cromer and afterwards under his of human endeavour. I look to the successor in the chair, he was familiar School to quicken public interest in the with every stage of the development of intellectual tradition of that great con- the scheme. Lord Curzon, continuing, tinent and to promote, and assist the said he hoped that, as time passed, the labours of the students in these depart school would become a sort of clearing ments of knowledge, to the mutual house of ideas between the East and the Weet-a bridge between the mind and advantage of both countries
The School is about to open its doors character of Great Britain and those in the midst of an unparalleled crisis Oriental peoples with whom she was in the world's history. For more than brought into such close contact. two years the peoples of my Dominions gap that existed between the psychology with loyalty and devotion have vind of East and West was often spoken of as with each other in offering their blood though it were unplumbable and im and treasure for the prosecution of a passable, but his belief was that every righteous war. The sense of common year that passed it became less wide and sacrifice and common cadeavour has less deep. Great indeed would be the drawn us all nearer to one another in disappointment of many of them if feeling and sympathy. Meanwhile we that place did not bring into closer union believe that the peaceful labours of this what he might describe as the soul of the institution in spreading accurate and Eastern and Western world
a
The
scientific knowledge of Eastern life There could be no happier augury and thought will foster the spirit of the success of such a scheme than that his loyalty and patriotism and knit to Majesty should have graced the opening There were a good many gether still closer the many nations of ceremony.
and students present, but none scholars Empire. "I am very conscious of how much we of the would deny him when he said owe to those distinguished scholars and that his Majesty was the most travelled statesmen whose undaunted efforts have Sovereign since the days of the Roman largely aided in establishing this Emperor Hadrian. There was hardly of I deeply regret that one of one of the countries the languages the must illustriona, Lord Cromer, has which were going to be taught in that not been permitted to see the comple school which the King had not visited, speak with tion of his share in the work. Had he and of which he could not spe lived his wise judgment and unrivalled personal knowledge, Circumstances had experience would have been of price thrown a good deal of his life into son Jess value in council. 1 recognize and tact with the East and the intimate appreciate the debt of gratitude which acquaintance which his Majesty this School owes to the public-spirited acquired with those parts" of the world bonefactors who have contributed so
to
the Empirs of which he was the literally, to its endowment Fund and hoen of immense and incalculable
they have rendered, a service head. He hoped that so dos
of British Empire would beneñence of the community will follow his Majesty' example in that endow the School with funds adequate respect, and that they would all remem to all the demands which may be made her that, though the central tabernacle of upen
its teaching capacity.
the Empire was set up in this country, I now declare the
of Oriental its outer courts were thronged with Studice open. May God bless its countless hosts who would continue to labours in the advancement of learning, ok to us in the future, as in the past unity, and government among tion, and for example. As to the
for administrative guidance, neopls of every race and language. The King's address was repeatedly choered
Lord, Curzon, as chairman of the Gen-
of those countries and those peoples, and what degree of annomy or self-govern ment would be concealed to them, or what
i have noted before now, shortage of eral Committee, then spoke on the would be the link test would unite thems absorbing topic of discussion, and indeed ships owing to the demands of the Gov-objects of the school. He said that his to us in the futes he hoped it would It is likely to remain very prominently erdment on the m.rcantile marine. Lord Majesty had taken part in a memorable never be said the the country which and the beginning of another stitutional development of andastrial expansion, and of mural tour not to consume more than a For years there had existed means of and commercial
from the task before the public for a long time to come. Devonport has put the nation on its hour marked the end of one started them forward on n'career of con There are some who go so far as to say quantity of food per head daily; and following Oriental studies both in Kin advance would · shrink •
evenly on as far as can be ascertained, this here College and in the University College of because it becarge more dificult, or that the war may be won eventusly. "ön being loyally met. Of course, there
efforts that had been made by the old mist Kather might institutions like that the corn fields and the potato patches of is a class of persons who will always do London quite apart from the larger because the end was lost in
institutions of Oxford and be a wayside inn on the road which East England. Be that as it may, there is no themselves well so long as they have edge. But now, for the first time, and West would travel together, and in
CHO the chance and until they are forced to
need to emphasise the importance of hav ing ample supplies of home-grown food. In a war of endurance such as that in which we are engaged it is common prud (Continued at font of next column)
ast otherwise, but they are in a minority those efforts were to be coordinated, hand, in an ever closer and fraternal Most people practised self-denial in est
They could not the Empire Henceforward they The proceedings then terminated. end ing sad drinking before the Food Conanied, and centralized in the metropolis union. (Cheers,) and frater froiler was appointed. help themselves, owing to the enormously would feel that they were not behind their Maiesties afterwards inspected the
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