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Culture.
'DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE crisis,
TROUBLE ON THE DRUMELTAN.
"REBELLION TO TYRANTS IS RUSSIA'S GREAT VICTORY, OBEDIENCE TO GOD.
The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 60;
fine.
When the Germana are not saltering from militarism-on-the- brain they are occupied in blowing" (as the Scotsmen say) about their culture. We »hɔalá |not mind that if they did not seek to establish a monopoly in this particular commodity. No one coa object to their being proud of belonging to the same race as Grothe and Schiller, Kant and Siberian Mail. Olosed to day per Hegel, Beethoven and Handel, had a score of world-geniuses:
6.8. Yingchow at 3 p.m. besides; but no Britisher, French- nan, Belgian, Italian, Portuguese,
A Wonderful Record of
Achievements.
Member of the Crew Sent to Prison.
ALIEN ENEMIES.
THEIR STATUS BEFORE THE
LAW.
The Position Legally Explained.
At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 52;
A question which appears to fine.
We commented bere yesterday
There was a sequel to the fire bave disturbed the minds of many The Malls,
Russians in their operations reported in our issue of yesterday, own rights against subjects of a on the great victory of the on the s.s. Drumeltan, which was persons is whether or not their against the Tarks in the Caa at the Marine Court this morning, Sovereign at war with our own casus, and telegrama which have before Commander Bueil Taylour, country are prejudicially affected since come to hand, showing the RN., when Ferdinand Christian by the outbreak of that war. Scandinavian or Russian is going published 36 columns of solid latter find themselves, indicats charged with continual disobed-simple, and should be understood awful predicament in which the Andersen, a Scandinavian, was The answer to this is exceedingly to sit by quietly while Germany reading matter. To-day there that the victory is one which will ience of the lawful commands of the by everyone, it due thought is
will be 36 published.
become historically notable. There captain of the vessel, and, further, given to the matter:-It must is a tendency in some quarters to with assault. cast doubt on many of the Russian claims to great successes, but in
claims to have made a corner in literary and artistic achievement. Wo mentioned Goethe above- confessedly cus of the world's great dramatists, but is le dra- matic "work to be mentioned in the same breath with that of Shakespeare, or of Ben Jonson, Marlowe, Moliere or Corasille? Can bis poetry compare with that of Dante?
What the Germans "Have and
Have Not.
Count the Columas,“ Yesterday the
The Dollar.
Telegraph
The rate ot the dollar on demand to-day is 19 9.1-16d.
necessarily be the desire and intent of all British authorities to. The defendant pleaded not protect, so for as it is possible for this instance it is certain that a guilty.
them to do so, the interests of both great and smashing blow has broa Captain A. Walt said that at British subjects and alien friends, To Consignees.
delivered at the Turkish forces-about 3.30 pm on Tuesday, and to prevent each intereste Consignees of cargo by the s.8. a blow from which the sufferers while he was saying good-bye to from being damaged as a result Merionethshire are reminded that are not likely to recover. Not only some friends in his cabin, the of the war. goods remaining undelivered after have the Torks lost enormously defendant came
This principle to him and underlies every consideration of to-morrow will be subject to rent. Houseboy's Serious Loss...
The Hongkong Telegraph. Among historic painters she can Caine Rond, an empty house.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1915.
THE BENCH AND THE BUILDING AUTHORITY.
IN
The Surprising Fact. There can now be no doubt
military models of Europe. And nothing. Was it that the D. Stewart will speak on "Mina fact not to be lost sight of is
Meets All-Comers.
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in men and munitions, but the demanded some whiskey. Witness the position of those affected by remnant that is left has been told him to go away, but he would the existing orisis, whether alien A houseboy employed at No. thrown into complete disorder, is not do so and contmenced to create enemies, British subjects, or 63, The Peak, has complained to now practically surrounded by some disturbance. The captain alien friends; and while it is the police that somebody has the Russians and, in its efforts to thereupon pushed him out of the contrary to public policy that Ia music, in philosophy, and clothing, jewellery and money to with snow-driven passes.
stolen from the boys' quarters seek an outlet, finds itself faced sabip, but the prisoner remained assistance should be rendered by perhaps in modern science, Ger the value of $198.
outside until 6 o'clock, continual-oar Courts to enable, an alien any may be said to lead.
ly demanding more whiskey. enemy, for his own advantage, Thefts from Empty House.. But how does she compare,
to enforce claim against a Wong Chi-chi, a rent collector, with the other cultivated living at 22, Elgin Street, bas re- that Russia's part in the war has was at about 5 a.m. yesterday, it must be equally contrary The next time witness saw him British sabject, or alien friend, races of Europe, where history, ported to the police that glass not been sa widely appreciated as when he again asked for whiskey, to public policy to placa chataclea general literature, painting and and gas piping to the value of it deserves. With the exception of In the meantime the fire on board in the way of the latter enforcing modern fiction are concerned? $10 has been stolen from 40, the early set-back in East Prussia the ship had been discovered. claims against an alien enemy., our Poland, she has practically Witness refused bim the liquor This view was most clearly held put up Albrecht Durer and a hand-
Large Theft of Gold. * advanced from victory to victory that he demanded and told him to by Mr. Justice Bailhache when fal of others, se against a score of The Russian Consul, M. D'Oet That she should have played such get on with his work. The captain be recently decided that, although Flemings and Spaniards and well tingen, has reported to the police havoo with the Turks is not al- then went forward to look at the an alien enemy could not sue in nigt. A handrad Italiane, In that one hundred and twenty-one together surprising, while the fire and the defendant followed jour Courts, yet he could defend modern philosophy, against the Englial sovereigns have been way she has smashed up the Aus-him up to the forecastle head. an action brought against him; anne, hard-headed work of Stuart stolen from the Enfe in his office trian armies is a great thing, but Witness left him there, but soon but which aotion he could not re- Mill, or the magnificently-worded between December 10 and January still comprehensible. What is after the chief officer came to him quire to be suspended until the yet invincible logic of John Henty 5.
incomprehensible to many, how- and complained of the conduct of termination of the war. Norman, one has the crack-.
Week of Prayer.
ever, is that Raseia-whose weak- the man. brained twaddle of the individual At the meeting, hold in the City noss was so painfully evident in
Just as the law does not allow who has received all too much Hall last evening, Mr. E T. Wil- the Russo-Japanese war-should
A MAR to take advantage of We have, at sundry times, found it necessary to call the atteu- gratuitous advertisement lately.liame gave an interesting address have been able, at the came time, fondant doing his work?-No; an alien en my to obtain apy The Magistrate-Was the de-his own wrong, so it cannot allow tion of our rendere so the fact that it is one thing to make a law in And, when we come to serious on " Nations and Their Rulers." to put such a holy fear into the he was making a fool of evers-advantage for himself by reason Hongkong, and quite another to ineist on its being carried out." nineteenth and twentieth cen- The Rev. C. F. Cooper-Hunt pre- German armies, so long the body. long as those three excellent volumes "The Laws of Hongkong"
of the fact that he has become are obtainable, no one reed feel at a loss for enter aining readingy, fiction, she has next to sided. This ovaning the Rev. A.
an alien enemy-certainly not to the sort of reading, indeed, that one pursues, pencil in band, since unbending Teutonic it is likely to inspire merginal comments. Over and over again the could not so humble itself as to Wenborn will occupy the chair.
brain sions, and the Jewe." Major S. T. that the fighting in Poland and he gave instructions to the chief or alien friend. Therefore no Continuing, witness said that the detriment of a British subject Ordinances say Thou shalt not," yet local custom is "continually write or read mere navale? How
Galicia extends over five or six officer to pat the man in irons, British Court could possibly hold either breaking these little tables of stone or else throwing a few ever it be, we shall look in vain
Bijou Theatre.
hundred miles of country, with but, willing to give the man an- that an alien enemy is justified in....... shovelfuls of earth over them. Yesterday afforded us an excellent in Germany for any writer of Bijen Theatre began last night, waren a grand scale, if you please. away while the chief officer was that the enforcement of a claim The new programme at the millions of men engaged. That is other chance, he told him to go resisting legal proceedings," or example of this method of doing business. A contractor, convicted fiction who can approach the work and there was quite a good at- And not only is Russia fighting, getting them. In reply, the man against him may lawfully be on December 4 of baring tran-greased one of the aforesaid Ordin done by Thackeray, "Stendhal" tendance. The main attraction but she is meeting with successes only swore at him and defied obstructed or delayed, merely ances by using inferior mortar, came before Mr. Wood at the Police or Balzac or in our own time was a long dramatic film: "The all along the line. Court, for sentence; and the magistrate's observations on the case-by Meredith, Kipling, Hardy, Lfe of a Mother," containing
him. As a matter of fact, the because of the fact of (what must are such as can hardly be psated over without remark.
Turgenev, Tolstoi, Gorky, "Pierre somo
witness continued, they had to be assumed to be) the wrong. very pretty situations. While ano, was in the throes of Evidence had been given that mortar which breaks at a tension annzio or Bjornsen; and this is by "Have Him Arrested" and the Austria, Turkey came on the dealing with the defendant. A
Leti," Zola, Huysmans, D'An- Abundant comedy was supplied her st.uggle with Germany and neglect the fire while they were doing of his Sovereign. below twenty-five pounds was not good material for substance only to mention half a dozen or two-partAmbrosio Company's filma scene, and Russia lost no time in and the defendant strack him on struggle eventually took place, work. The defendant had held other views, feeling that what so, out of perhaps a hundred-Papa's Hat." On Saturday, for getting to grips with Germany's the chest. would support a strain of nine and a half pounds was quite good among whom probably only the first time, the thrilling defea- new ally. Without withdrawing enough for Hongkong. For this he was fined $50. It is evident Sudermann, and one or two other tive drama, "The Corner House any of her men from Poland or enough, from the magistrate's remarks on the case, that the penalty Germano, are it to rank. Burglary," will be shown.
The mate of the vessel, Angus would have been infinitely greater but for circumstances which it
Cigarette and Tobacco Fund, was necessary to take into consideration. What those eircumstances
Army was promptly put in motion, McEachern, informed the ma A meeting of the official Com From the snow-covered mountains gistrate that they had had a deal the Fairy Ballet drew a large The matinee performance of were may be seen from the wording of the decision. It had been
mittee appointed to administer the the Russians advanced and in he had refneed to iura to, and had crowd to the Theatre Royal ahown in the evidenca that "the Building Authority does, in pract ice, condone (without taking legal proceedings, though not always
It is often said that the Britisher Cigarette and Tobacco Fund for their first brush with their now been put ashore and paid off, but yesterday afternoon, including s without judgment) lime mortar breaking at slightly over ten pounds has Shakespeare in his house, and the old troops at the Framt enemy they registered a victory. been phea on and Dai off, but big sprinkling of juveniles, who (the italics are ours). "I have therefore," said Mr. Wood, "to take never reads him. But the same was held last evening, Mr. D W. From that time till the present he said he was going to take spent a most happy time. The into account the following facts (a); that the Building Authority is thing is true of the average Gercial report was presented by Mr. Turks and now their operatione completo charge and would do play was greatly enjoyed by every
addock presiding. The finan- they have gone on harassing the accepting, under this Ordinance, lime mortar which is below the mouth, with the classica of his own G. J. B. Sayer, Hon. Secretary have culminated in the tone just as he liked. About 4.30 body present, and was voted by standard of good mortar (namely, twenty-five pounds' tension); (b).country. Most of us in Hongkong and Treasurer, and it was decided triumph. There have been vary turned out, as the ship was interpreted, and there was much a.m. yesterday everybody was the characters were admirably. all ass great artistio triumph, All that, in considering whether to institute prosecutions in this caso, can. look back on more or less the Building Authority has, in practice, adopted an arbitrary standard close friendships with individual to send a further abipment of ing reports of the strength of which the Ordinance itself does not authorise (namely, ten pounde); Germans. Of those Germans, how tobacco and cigarettes by the next the Turks, but it is generally on fire. The defendent got into
English mail steamer. The Com- agreed that great numbera of 0 boat to
tow ashore but appreciation expressed at the (c). that, with the present case, though the prosecution has been many were, in the beat sense,
cleverness of the child-actors in instituted, and the mortar obtained, the Bailding Authority is cultured? Man for man, the mitee will again meet on Wed-fighting mon have been pat into was called back by the captain authorising the work done with this mortar to remain, and has not average German is certainly not besday to complete the arrange- the field, Bat, numbers notwith- and pat to his work. He was particular. The play will be pro- seked for an order to have it demolished."
so musical, so artistic, or so liter-ients for despatching the con- standing, the Russians have been doing it all right at first, but later duced for the last time at the Theatre on Saturday night, and signment. acy in his tastes a the average
able to deliver this smashing blow the witness and to prevent him all who have not seen it should "Condone" is the word used by the magistrate, and it is one Frenchman. We have met edu
while at the same time attending from doing bis work. Be con- which there can be little possibility of misunderstanding. We now cated Germans in various paris ronised during the last few nights, Germany and Austria. Every
The Victoria has been well patto a few little matters against tinued this till witness could no
make's point of being present. see why the man was fined $50 instead of a larger sum: the mortar of the world, bat among them and the long film "Fascination" indication shows how futile and longer stand it and he appealed than that of the Building Authority's "arbitrary standard"! Now anywise catholic in their intellect which is not surprising, so it is the war. The Russian victory There was a straggle and the which he was using collapsed under only half a pound's less strain there were but few who were in has proved decidedly popular, suicidal was Turkey's entry into to the Captain, who ordered the if that Authority is authorising the work done with this mortar to Dal interests. If they were good fall of beautiful pictures and has called forth glowing compli captain was struck in the chest.
defendant to be put in, chains. remain," where was the need originally, to fix the standard two and science men, they knew nothing dramatic situations. "Obatselements from General Jeffre, and it a belf times higher than what has been accepted? Was it merely of poetry, apart from a few set Gan Drill" shows the splendid is more than significant that he to provide the man in the street and the Chinese contractor with passeges learned by heat during raining in which our bluejackets should add to his message the matter for unholy mirth? It is just possible that other feelings boyhood; while, if they were paint-keep themselves, while "The observation that the Allies in all was sick and did not do what he The defendant averred that he baldes ahoge of mirth may be aroused by the evidence in the case ere or musicians they were very Beile and the Bracelet" and "The theatres of war are now preparing He might have said a word or two, been sent by the women of Elong- before us. What one has to keep before one's mind is that human comfortably ignorant
was told 'because he could not. life depends on the atability or instability of bricks and mortar. On history, science or general litera amplo food for laughter. To- shaping themselves as they are but be did not cause any die kong, Canton, Macao and Swatow
about Mocking Actress" both provide for final victory. With events Jone 17 and 20 of 1913, we felt it necessary to discuss the question ture. This, admittedly, is also the morrow night the great military just now, that victory should not turbance. He was standing in to Mrs. G. Hant, Westmeath, Bomewhat plainly, in connection with the fall of houses at Taiping-GD with many of us Britishers; drama, "iligh Tecason," which be long postponed: shan. As we said then, this particular generation of authorities was but we have the excuse that our has been obtained at very great
the forecastle when the mate told Folkestone Road, Dover, to be' not responsible for the death of the nineteen people who perished in schools, except in Scotland, are expense, will be coreened for the
him that unless he came out be distributed amongst the families. that disaster; but manifestly it should have been a warning to the far behind those of the Continent first time; and, with it, the fourth
would put him in irona Theof soldiers and sailors at the front P.W.D. to have
sa to how it allowed houses to be in general, as regards efficiency.erries of war pictures, a three
mato produced a pair of rusty and Belgian refugees, also two put together in future. That the mortar used during quite Germans, however, can never thousand for firm containing up-
marked, "If you are going to roller bandages and the other handoulis to do this and he retine (one containing 370 sterilised recent years has been disgracefully poor, we have also pointed shelter themselves behind this, to dato Reines from the Front,
put me in irons, you will have to many-tailed bandages) which out. When a burglar (he of Peak fame) contrived to escapo from Boeing that their own schools, as which everyone will be glad to
clean them firat. Victoria Gaol, he needed no more than the end of a bucket-hoodle they would be the first to tell us, 200.
a care
Culture among the People.
*
to scrape out the mortar between the bricks or stones of his coll-fare miles ahead of cure, well; and when a property-owner at the Peak wished to test the quality of the mortar that his contractor was using, he found no
difficulty in digging a brick out of a wall with an ordinary pair of nail-
Victoria Theatre.
TYPHOON WARNING.
Galicia, the Russian Caucasian
American Elections,
of trouble with the defendant and
оп commenced..
to
annoy
The Magistrate remarked that
THE FAIRY BALLET.
FOR FIGHTING MEN AND REFUGEES.
Hongkong and Coast Port Gifts.
This week 171 garments have
have kindly been made by the women of Mauro. These latter are being sent to Dr. Beavis, who has a field hospital in Belgium.
Washington, January 1.-Dean O. Worcester, a former member of the Philippine commission, testified before the members of the eonate committed which is now giving bearings on the Jones bill.
Mr. Worcester said that the there was no doubt that the de- Boissora! If this matter stopped short at the mere monetary loss to Revolution Indemnity Claims.
recent revolt or outbreak in the fondant was under the influence property owners, it would reflect quite heavily enough on the Build. The Chinese Government to-
islands was a sample of what of drink and had behaved in a ing Authority; but what are we to say with the fact before our day requested the doyen of the
might be expected if independence most disorderly manner. minds, that dwelling houses, "which are to accommodate large Diplomatic, Corps to secure the
Tho telegram quoted below Further he said that elections was granted by the United States. numbere of human beings, are constructed with such mortar? consent of his colleagues to the was received by the American would be a farce and bloodehed the captain hit him twice on the Son, and when there are a sulli- Should one of these modern jerry-built constructions collages at some payment to the Government of Consulate General, Hongkong, and a state of anarchy would head with something blunt and cient number of articles ready, time or other, as any day it might, we opine that there are people in 61,300,000 remaining from the from the Manila Observatory at follow. Ultimately he declared he hit back. London if not in this Colony, who may have quite a lot of remarks sur cetteside for the settlement 11.15 a.m. to-day: Oyalone or it would result in an anti-foreign He was sent to prison for three the courtesy of the shipping they will be sent Home through to make. The obvious moral is that it is time that the Building of the claims arising out of the Typhoon 3. E, of Nahs, moving Authority mended its manners.
revolution.-N. O. Daily News, NE."
aggression.
months with hard labour,
firms.
Most of the working parties. having stopped now, Lady May would like it to be known that work done by individuale can still be sent to Government House The defendant asserted that and St. Andrew's Vicarage, Kow