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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1913.
THE FINEST LONDON "GIN
Sir
DISTILLED BY
A Deserving Cause.
In another part of this issue an appeal is made on behalf of
DAY BY D
People who always consider the Italian Convent Hospital in their prestige never consider any Wanchai The article is written thing else. by one who is in no way directly
Robert Burnett & Co. interested but who has been been
OLD TOM GIN.
DRY GIN.
UNEQUALLED IN QUALITY,
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
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on
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Taishun last night.
American Mail.-Despatched per 9.8. Prinz Waldemar at 9:30 a.m. to-day.
[SWEET-FACED CHARITY
A. Hospital la Hongkong of which Few People Know.
existence.
[SPROTAL ANTIOLM),
to do more but they are handi- was enabled to realise extraordi capped by want of room; and they nary profite. And apprently on are not permitted to ask for help the strength of this wonderful ran They cannot go outside and say of luck, and in the delusive hope "See, here is what we have done, that it would continue, Dook but we could do more if you wil abares became a favourite gam
The Malls.
How many residents in Hong-only help," They must not sak for bling stook, ridiculous prophecies impolled by a visit to the Hospital, American Mail. The s.s. Nippon Hong can tell you offhand where alms, for help in any shape or and anticipations were Indulged to do for the Italian Sisters: what
Maru arrived yesterday at the Hospital of the Snored Heart form. That is why the building is in (by those who ought to have 7.30 p.m.
can be found? One ventures the inadequate; the public of Hong known better) as to the Com- they cannot do for themselves
suggestion that only one in five kongdoes not know of the work of pany's glorious fature, thousands ask for help. For over 40 you Siberian Mail-Arrived per s.8t many) knows of its meroy and of how it is restricted, ppon thousands of dollars were this good work has been
Yet for over forty One is convinced that, if wealthy spent on improved machinery and in Hongkong, and has been gallantly supple-
years it has been open to the Hongkong only knew of the work plant to enable ironclade and mented by the gratuitous services
blind and lame and diseased and that is being done, of how the other wonderful specimens of the utmost is being made of every ship-builder's art to be construct of local surgeons. At the pre-
The hospital is in Wanchai and dollar sont, it would loosen itsed at Kowloon, nearly a million of dollars are being sunk in sent time the demand for accom-
attached to the Italian Purse-stringe at once.
There is need for bed-clothes A gigantic dook that medation is so great that the out-
Convent. It is presided over by houses and garrete, never in- tended for such a purpose, are
mother Superior Galli, who has and bad covers. Will some-one will never, in this generation, The repay the interest on its cost,.. doing duty for sleeping apart The se. Bilbister, from Seattle been engaged in the work for start by gifting these? ments. There is need for money to via Moji, arrival here yesterday, nearly forty years, and who is money for the extra rooms will extravagant amounts were set extend the building, and an ap- and reported experiencing severe assisted by a willing band of some more slowly-but one feels aside from the earnings as ban- poal is made to the generosity of a weather, the deck being covered sisters. A chance remark set the that it must coms. community which has ever been with nine inches to one foot of ice writer out to discover it and to willing to assist a dere ving cause. for several days daring the pae- see for himself what manner of
adge.
work was being done by these The Invasion Question.
noble ladies whose religion, it Those alarmists who, in Press and on platform, have been at the
may be stated, is not his. He bottom of all the recent invasion
went with an open mind.
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Severe Weather,
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Sir West Ridgeway Arrives. Sir West Ridgeway, Governer of British North Borneo, General at Home should surely Sir Alfred Furner, and Mr. W. G. stop and think when they read Derby, general manager of the the declaration of the Minister of China Borneo Co., arrived this War that "in the opinion of the morning by the se. Borneo and overnment, the Committee of are staying at the Hongkong Hongkong Telegraph" will Imperial Defence and all the Hotel.
experts I can consult, the danger
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1918.
of an immediate and overwhel ming invasion, or of a blow at the
It
A Sate Policy.
Ashore in the Suez.
Lecture.
Military Duties,
'destitute!
is
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The Patients,
HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO,
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the Week Ending March 22, 1888.)
A
Slr W. Des Vœux
1.
11809 to contributing share- holders-the vast majority of whom were paid directors-and lividends out of all proportion to what was really available for dia tribution were recommended by
the Directors and voted by the shareholders with reckless pro-
fusion."
the above.
In connection wiz the following figures, showing quotations from 1891 to 1912, will be of interent
Interesting Lawsoit.
There are now, and all the time, some 150 patients in the
capital, of both sexes, and Sir W. Des Voeux will return uffering from all manners of the Colony on Wednesday next, diseases. Some of these will and the community äre invited to
1891, $3 per cent. pm.; 1892, asver leave it (one old woman attend His Excellener's landing. 76 per cent. pm. 1893, 70 per has found in it a shelter for 40 We have no authority for saying sent. pm.; 1894, 82 per cent. pm. The s.8. Elleric, chartered by years); some, who were brought so, but we are nevertheless per-
214 per cent, pm.; 1807, 222 per heart, is not one wreed to fear." the Admiralty, arrived here on to die, will leave it again to take fectly certain that Governor. Des 1895, 140 per cent. pm. 1806,
will, of course, be argued that Thursday with coal and patent their working plecs in the world. Vaux will be very much obliged such a statement may well have fuel. She reports having gone One was told of case after case of to the community if they willen, pm: 1828, 288 per cent. 580 per cent. pm.; 1900. Apl. Re- been delivered with a view to shore in the Suez Cans and this nature in the past. There kindly attend to their own basi 1899, 625 per cent. p.m.; 1900 bolstering up the Government's stayed there for nine days effect-are children here and old people, neas and allow him to land in caso, but be that as it may, we ing temporary repairs. She will men and women of all ages, peace and quietness. His Ex-structed; 1901 $200; 1009 1905, $104; 1908, $145, 1907, prefer to believe that had there dry dock here for repairs. sufferers from all manner of dis cellency has only been absent for $2123; 1893, 8207; 1901, $216;
few days, and il eases, women mentally deficient, for really been any such danger as the alarmists wish us to believe, An interesting lecture is samen and women hopelessly would be a complete farce, $95; 1908, 800; 1960, 861; 1910, At the Supreme Court, before it would most certainly be knownnounced to be given at the crippled, others still able to under the circumstance of making $58; 1911, 846; 1912, 867). to the body of experts on whom Y.M.C.A. on Monday night. The to do a little work in the way of silly fuss' (pic) about his return the Government relies for advice subject is "Canadian Life and keeping the rooms cleon, con- to the Colony. It is no doubt yr. A. J. Leach, Acting Painno on such weighty and vital ques Scenery," and the lecture, which sumptives and apoplectic, Chi-right that the official elemoot
Co. brought an action oa tions as those. It is well to be will be given by Mr. SB. Ball-nese, Portuguese, Macanese, and should honour (?) their chief by Judge, the Douglas Steamship prepared for all eventualities, we inger, will be illustrated with a Filipinos. No deserving case is an exhibition of toadyism on his March 20, 1888, against Mr. gres, but no good service is beaumber of beautiful lanten slides, turned away, if there is room. return from a short trip to Sings W: Cruikshank, proprietor of But there is not room for all who pore, as they are paid for that he Victoria Dispensary, ing performed by those whose
could be helped. The sisters sort of thing: but let it stop to recover the eum of 3511.54, tock-in-trade is sensationalism Major R. S. Paul, 120th Balu work magnificently for the suf-there. No doubt we shall be told lamages arising out of an ex- and who refuse to accept the well-considered assurances of men chistan Infantry, will be the farers and their labours are nobly that the community has been in plosion which occurred on board who know all there is to be visitor to the detention barrack suported by Dr. Black, who paye vited in order to show rospect the steamer Formosa from some next week. The duties of field two or three calls a week, and by to Lady Des Voeux. The idea of combustible matter alleged to known on défonce problems. Western Union
fficer will be undertaken by Dr. Harston and Dr. Marriot, showing respect to a lady who have been shipped by the de- more than has been in delicate health, by ap fendants. It was contended Having in this way disposed of Captain H. O. Cutler, 8th Raj who help when
that the articles shipped- the question of immediate inva- pats, with Captain C: A. James, one doctor is required. Up till exhibition of vulgar mobbing, is sion, Colonel Seely went on to 120th Baluchistan Infantry, next last year only a makeshift oper- only what might reasonably be ablorate of potash and sul- ating table was available, but ar looked for from Hongkong phar-were merely labelled show that there is no intention for duty. on the part of the Government to Tour of Duty...
Italian gentleman last year pre-officialdom.".
was therefore liable, since one of italill with folded arms and Approval, has been gros for Rented the hospital with one quite [Shrewd man, the "Telegraph Drugs," and that defendant shut its eyes to future possibil- the appointmeal of Captain F. Hp-to-date. In that little operat-editor of those days though; the Company's regulations was ities.
He admitted that new Span, 2nd Bn. DCLI. for a ing room, which one saw the perhaps, jnst a trifle too vitriolic.] that it could not be responsible factors and many changes have tour of duty with 3rd Reserve other day, some wonderful opera-Hongkong and Whampoa Shares. for consequences arising from a
On Thursday we published an
wrong declaration. While the arisen since this question of inva- Battalion, in relief of Captain A tions have been performed.
article dealing with the recent The telegrams of the past week-end contained ample evidencession was last considered, and with P. Dene, appointed Adjutant of Suffering Children.
It is impossible to set down one quick rise in Hongkong and ship was in Swatow Harbour, an of the growing importance which is attached to the airship as this fact in mind a new Comit the 8th Ba, Liverpool Regiment
Captain half that one saw in these scrupul Whampoa Stock. The Tole-explosion took place in the mail room where these articles had weapon of warfare. In one of the wires the formation of tee of Imperial Defence has been (Territorial Force).
rooms. And one's impressions defy tains a leader dealing exhaustive- to the extent mentioned above.. eight British Air Squadrons is announced. Then there "ppointed to reconsider the whole Span took up his dalies at Bod. ously, clean but over crowded graph" of March 20, 1888, con bean placed and caused damage.
matter. The polioy of the Gov-min on 10th instant.
adequate expression. No one can with the affairs of this company. After a lengthy hearing, judgment is the fact that no Jess
C. B.M. S.
"Io February 1881," than £500,950 is ernment, therefore, appears to be
was reserved.*** The next meeting of the St. see for himself what manner of
the shares of to be set aside this year in the Army Estimates for purposea of perfectly safe and sound onë
Present danger there is none, John's Cathedral Branch of the work is being done, without the writer,
being tempted to cry aloud that the Hongkong and Whampoa aviation development. And coincident with these announcements and the future is being amply C.D.M.S. will be held at St. Paul's here is a work deserving of im Dock Co. Ltd., were quoted in comes the news of a most successful trial in Germany of a Zeppelia contemplated. There is one College on Tuesday. The speaker mediate assistance. One saw the local share mareket at 120 per airship in which a machine gun mounted on the upper deck was happy development which will will be the Rev. E. Copley Moyle children in the hospital whose cont. premium, (in 1868 the pr able to fire 500 rounds of ball cartridge and was handled with ease be hailed with deep satisfaction and the chairman Mr. S. Paul. The faces he can never forget. One value was $125 per share) and it and it having a slap at the
by men of all parties, and that is first. Admission Service will be and precision. These circumstances, together with the constantly the appointment of Mr. Balfour held on Wednesday at St. John's recurring indications, from almost every quarter, of the immense to the new Committee.
Cathedral at 6 pm, the Rav moved forward cheerfully—but [scrip had actually been done af observes
so pitifully; 000 suffered from as high as 130 in August of "The Daily Press" must be. possibilities of the aeroplane in war, may well make us pause and Colonel Seely took occasion Foster Pogg will give a short spilepsy and his head is never the same year the quotation hard up for local matter when it
observe, Ministerialists address.
without a wound sustained when had dropped to 82; and, has to specially paragraph the consider what the precise effect of the new development will
owe the late leader of the Opposi
he falls. Is it nothing to Hong- this afternoon, Dock shares fact that somebody in the Hong- eventually be.
tion a great debt of gratitude for
kong that children are thus affect-Bre freely offered at 33 per cent. kong Hotel got bitton by a dog ed and that there is no room for premium, and are friendless at and that a certain medical practi- One of the chief functions which aircraft can play in actual bis patriotic and unselfish spirit
in accepting theappointment, and, COCKROACHES AND
many outside who seek admit that price which meane, in plain tioner was called in to cauterise warfare is of course, that of observing and reporting on the move-
we might add, the Government is
CANCER.
English, that shares, the market the wound. ments of the evemy. In this connection it is worth noting that in to be equally commended for its
Why should children be asked value of which, thirteen monthe "Why does not Granny tell recent Army manoeuvres a single aviator is stated to have detected willingness to take ita chief op
Experiments of a German
to suffer so? They play their part, ago, was $283 are to-day worth, an expectant publio when the Scientist.
we may be sure; they are tiny, only $166, showing the startling agicultural editor intends to be and communicated to his general such information that the latter ponent into its confidence in this was able to take a strong defensive position and made defeat Suffragists and Incendiarism
bat necessary, links in the great depreciation of $117 per share, Some interesting results of
The Daily Presa" is no longer impossible. In the Balkan war, too, we have seen the airship to
Granny, and the. heyond our finite comprehension. in the value of these shares has known as have been used with distinct success in scouting work, as well also tends doing anything besides cancer research are communicated scheme of things which is happily This unprecedented fall
chenschrift" by Professor Jo-
ever splits an infinitive: 3. 1· as in the fighting between Turks and Italians in Tripoli. It has talk, in connection with Suffragist to the Berlin "Klinische, Woft is not for us to ask why things taken place under most extra-Telegraphy, never wall hardly, well been said that good intelligence meads
right outrages it would do well to be liannes Fibiger, director of the should thus be ordered. And yet ordinary circumstances, which gin as soon as possible. The Pathological Institute of Copen-whatever the great purpose, inexplicable to those who relying the thoughtcannot but hurt that, render the occurrence quite
LOCAL SPORT, direction and the lattor in iurn means superior latest exploit of these crazy woś bazen:
THE COMMAND OF THE AIR,
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Our Contemporaries.
Last week we stated that the Telegraph of a quarter of a century ago was it logger heads with the "China Mail. We now
vace,nated."
ALICE MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL
The game for to-day between combination, which in warfare is the harbinger of men is to set a country house on Professor Fibiger found that children should be asked to suffer on the bona fides of the Board of stock (at victory. We have all become acquainted with the strides which fire, regardless, as usual, of con- aro being made so as to render the airship capable of doing its sequences. As we have repeated monzous affections in the 80. That little chap, with the head Directors, invested their saving the Hongkong Cricket Olab “A”
stomach and csophagus of rata constantly bruised, who looks in the Company's ly pointed out, such abominable share of actual fighting by dropping bombs on to objects of attack,
wers associated with a particular out on life with big wondering high rates and now find them and "B" teams is declared off
eyes it is not easy to understand selves either completely ruined owing to the weather. lending to the necessity of special protection of chips of war. But be perpetrated, but for the species of warm which develops that there is some great pur or on the brink of insolvency The Company'ssor pought probably the proatest function of all which the "batilo-planes" of culprits knowledge that the from the egg to the larvae slago the future will have to ditchange will be to fight with orch other to Government is too weak in the in the bodies of cockroaches. He pose behind all his pain and secure the field of observation. The power to observe will be of the knees to dare to punish. These fed healthy cockroaches with the suffering. Yet surely he will not to be a general or convenient
healthy rats with the infected great scheme the better for our amongst share traffickers. The Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals very essence of the causes which will bring victory, and since to womed, like other bullies, will eggs of these worms, and then prest home the pater in the medium for extensive gambling The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice
venture just as far as they
cockroaches, with the result that help. If we who sleep softly and business is practically a safe ono begs to acknowledge with thanks restrict the observational power of an opponent will be as important
weaker the law the rodents developed tumours of rise merrily will do what we can that can be easily understood and the following donations to the ás to retain the power of observation itself, it follows that in the the more. offensive, and the days ahead there must be conflict between the aorial forces in any big more adacions will be their na unmistakably cancerons type. to soften the hardness of his lot, fairly calculated by any person funds of the Hospitals
Thus he claims to have demon- and the lot of others, will it not be of ordinary intelligence. As an wat. Then will come that long-foretold day when the airabips will actions. If these incendiaries strated for the first time that belter, for him and for us? It important shipping centre, this Ho Kam Tong.
sre detected and arrested; they grapple “in the contral blas
know, and everyone knows, that rate or can be produced at any to to these vint this hospital, port will always be the head un Tong If we could lift the veil and look aheid there might bo terrible they will be liberated, now, star rate in rats and mine by the to talk to those kindly Sisters, to quarters of a large fless of steam visions to behold. We may regret the possibilities, but we cannot how severe their sentence, na operation of these parasites, see these unfortunates without vessels which must undergo, Pire lo
The German medical world feeling that you must help and periodical docking and repairing Barious
For many months, Cape shut our eyes to the march of human invention in this particular soon as they start the says the Telegraph's corres plead with others to help.
There is urgent need, then for the casualties to aphero. And the process still goes on. It has been predio'ed by hunger strike business. But sup-
pondent, is very reserved in its The Imperial Maritime League that within half the life-time of a pose someone had perished in the onions as to the importance of an extension of the building the vicinity of Hongko
The hospital is full now un-numerous and imp single generation-Ray 15 years the centre of military gravity may fire! It rooms to as that had this discovery. past experience babansferred from the sarface of the sea and of the fond to the forty people met their death the with the claims of cancer investi- comfortably fall and the section the
is a startling prophecy, but recent events point I would not dare to hang those
thehoren Britain to responsible.
gators having
for males is terribly small and Com cramped. The workers are v
resple
in the
boan
British Etek