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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
The women of Hongkong and Macao will surely appreciate to the fall the kindly message of thanks from Her Majesty the POLISHED BECAUSE
A MAN INT Queen, in recognition of their REFLECTIONS.
work in providing garments for our soldiers at the front, which we published in our issue yester- day. There is one observation in the letter which needs to be emphasised; namely, "the demand for warm clothing for our troops at the front, and for their wives and children at home, is unlimit-olear. od." That remark should spur
the women of the Colony on to
farther work in the good cause.
Just over a week ago it wES
NECESSARILY HE CASTS
The Weather.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 43; olear.
MAGNIFYING "A GERMAN SUCCESS,
1890
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE.
YEARS AGO.
Compiled from the
Hongkong
CORRESPONDENCE. The opinions expressed by the correspondents are not necese
arily those of the "Hongkong
Telegraph.
THE CURRENCY QUESTION.
The Raising of the New British Telegraph" files for the week(To the Editor, of the Hongkong
Armies,
ending Jan. 18, 1890.)
The Dollar.
The Late Dr. Stewart,
Telegraph)... Sir-Under.tanding that sub- sidiary coins up to a value of 82
January 16.-The rate of the are legal tender in the At the Peak Sam. Temp. 35; comfort in the reported success:
There is more than a grain of dollar on demand to-day is 3/2." colony, can you tell me why
certain establishments are allow of German arme in one locality
January 10. — " A publio ed to post notices to the effect in the western theatre, but the meeting is to be held at 4 o'clock that not more than $1 will be one that will appeal to the on Thursday afternoon next, in accepted ? Has the Government average man in the street is that the City Hall, to decide what any control over auch mattera?
Thanking you for any inform
B.m.
The Malls.
e.. Chenan at 3 p.m. Siberian Mail.-Closes per se.
announced that most of the work. Australian Mail-Clored to day the authorities are not holding steps shall be taken to perpetuate
per 8. Nikko Maru at 9 back unfavourable news from the the memory of the late Deation you can give me.
public, Apart from that, the Stewart, LL.D., Culonial Secret- English Mail.
Yours truly, Mr. A. K. Travers will Closed to-day German report contains much ary.
W. L. HUNG;" 24, Pottinger Street, Hong- per .s. Arcadia at 11 am. food for genuine amusement. receive any subscriptions." Siberian Mail-Closes to-day per The naive statement that their
Desorted.
kong, Jao: 15, 1915. forces stormed the heights, of January 10,- The corridor of [We should say the Govern Vregny in pouring rain seems to the Hongkong Hotel was quite ment has control of such mat suggest that degrees of heroism desolate this forencoa; the gentle ters. Our correspondent would may be adjudged by the climatic men of the broker persuasion; be well advised to lay the matter conditions under which military who are usually ixtures there, before the Colonial Treasurer operations are carried out and were conspicuous by their absence,
Ed.) that the wetter the day the greater and even the worthy old law the glory. Apart from that we breaker who makes a precarions learn from the Berlin communi. que that "This glorious deed was performed under the eyes of the Kaiser."
ing parties bad now stopped. Why, we wonder? We should be loth to think that the patriotic display of the women of this Oslony was a mere flash in the pan, but until some explanation of the cessation of work it forth coming, that is the impression which will prevail with the public. It is therefore to be hoped that the remarks made on behalf of our good Queen, who herself is taking Yester lay the Telegraph such an active part in work for the published 38 colomas of solid men who are fighting our battles, reading matter. To-day there Phe object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve will have the effect of reviving will be 45 pablished.
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., Wine & Spirit Merchants.
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915,
AMERICAN VERDICT ON THE WAR.
the activities of the women of Hongkong, especially since it is set on record that the Guild of which Queen Mary is the head
Nabia to-morrow at 9 a..
Count the Columns,
The Dollar.
The rate of" the dollar" on finds it impossible to supply all demand to-day is la 9.3-168. needs, and that every contribution will be welcome.
An Object Lesson to Hongkong.
that
is
Remanded,
A Gross, Libel,
Yours etc.,
AL"
1890.
SHARE REPORT,
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com-. pany-$402) per share, sellors. China Fire Insurance Company -$80 per share, buyers. Jompany-60 per cent. premium, Hongkong and Whampoa Dook
sellers,
living by retailing Manila lottery tere were not registered, I have tickets was non cat. There must nothing to say beyond wishing to be something radically wrong at call the attention of the public to this wholesale deserting of the the fact that, if in haste or by care- The Magic Kaiser,
popular resort, and Hotel shares leesbess, registration is neglected The amount of shouting that;
are likely to suffer.”
on trifles, loss is almost a certain- The Peace of Europe. appears to bave taken place over January 13 King Humbert somewhere, as such a thing rarely ty. Something is evidently rotten this unimportant success tenda to of Italy, replying to a deputation happens in a well-ordered admin- prove that the Germans them from the Italian Parliament, said istration. I addressed a letter to selves have, wook in and week that there was a time when it the Postmaster General on the Gaol for Embezzlement,
out, very little real cause for re- would have been impossible to subject, and received, by return, a At the Police Court, this morn- joicing. The magic potency of guarantee the peace of Europe printed form, filled in apparently We have many times offered ing, an accountant on the Yaumsti the Kaiser's presence must here for a fortnight, whereas it is now by a Chinoman WAWN.-Charles Ernest Wawo, at Pak Hin Hok (Canton) would be a little more endurable months for embezzling the sum of presence on this occasiou acted as of Germany and Russia is help eral informing me that enquiries suggestions that life in Hongkong ferry was sent to gaol for two after nct be under-rated. His assured, and the rapprochement Acting Assistant Postmaster Gon- and signed January 11th, 1915. Home papers please copy.
if occasional band concerts were $4,180.
a stimulant of the highest ordering its maintenance." held. When we had pushed this
and inspired his men to acts of
had been made, eto,, which I may point for a very long while, we at
Victoria College Prize heroism which resulted in the
remark, was not at all what last had the satisfaction of finding
Railway Quarters.
Distribution." capture of "trench after trench" January 13. The great
desired. arrangements made for a band to
Tenders are being invited forthe vagueness of that phrase gloomy hall of the $500,000 play at North Point once a week; the building of Class B Quarters can be well appreciated when it Vistoria College was put to its and for this concession we were at Hung Hom on behalf of the would aptly describe the capture first public use this morning, on daly grateful, though it did not Kowloon Canton Kailway (British of two such works. Anyhow, the the occasion of the annual prizs. convince us that one baad night Section.)
Kaiser was present and some distribution by H. E. the Gavern- per week' (with the band at a safe
degree of victory was achieved in or, Sir G. W. Dea Voeux. The three-mile distance from the
bis presence. Unfortunately he sosts in the lower part were filled town) was all that the Colony
Stolen Lettuce.
is only human and it is to be by some eight hundred pupils, needed in the way of amuse-
regretted from a Teu on stand- and, on the platform, were the are from the Hongkong Telegraph The quotations which follow ment. We have been told that, Chinese, at the Police Court, this the erstwhile partnership did not Deane, the Hon. Mr. N. G. Mit Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
Inspector McKay charged a point that the stock-in-trade of Hon. Mr. S. Brown, Captain for Jan. 16, 1890.) even if steps were taken for hav ing two or three regular band-morning, with stealing lettuce include the ability to be in more chell-Innes, the Fon. Mr. A. P.-193 per cent. premium, sellers: That Germany" has fallen" is the conclusion of a long and nights or afternoons a week, no month's imprisonment and four
valued $4. A sentence of one than one place at a time.
MacEwen and H. E.'s aide de well-reasoned argument as to the rights and wrongs of the war by
one would patronise them: The hours' stocks was passed..
camp and secretary, while in the Canton-103 por share, buyers. Union Insurance Society of Mr. Church, President of the Carnegie Institute, which we published noon at the performance of the hugo attendance yesterday after-
Yesterday we said something gallery wore the Reve. Dr. Ohal- yesterday; fallen from her high estate as a civilised power and a Filipino band would, however,
China Tradera' Insurance Com hers with regard to the recruiting mere, J. B. Ost, Pastor Hartmann, Rate Reminder. factor in modern civilisation; fallen in the estimation of the American seem to kucek the bottom out of
at Home, and sa just at present Dr. Eitel, Mesare. E Sharp, Wpany $72 per share, buyers."
North China Insurance-Tls. public and of that of the world at large. Mr. Church's article is in the Government officials and many ments that, under the provisions further on this question. The G. H. B. Wright, M. A, the Head Yangtze Insurance Association
we are hearing a deal about the St. J. Hancook, J. Grant Smith, 350 per share, buyers, *** It is notified for the information possibilities of conscription, it J. Pieroy, several missionaries, suggestion. Practically all reply to "An Appeal to the Civilised World" by ninety-three of of the leading business men of of the Rating Ordinance, 1901 rates impression appearats have gained Master, read his report, which-Tls. 96 por share,
of owners and occupiers of tene- may not be out of place to touch and a number of ladies. Mr.
Canton Insurance Company, the most prominent men in Germany, who bare been seeking to the Colony were present, and we for the first quarter of 1915 are
Ltd.-$130 per share. awaken America's sympathies. From the beginning of the war the bave no hesitation in saying that Kaiser, relying on the enormous number of Germana who now rank the crowd in the Botanical Gar Payable in advance on or before ground in some quarters that the was followed by an excellent ́ao American citizens, has heen busily occupied, through his various sentative than any gathering we dens' was more thoroughly repre
the 30th January, 1915.
men at Hamo are shirking the speech by the Governor." first duty of citizenship, That. The Pope as Arbitrator In egenta, ja endeavouring to persuade the United States to see the have ever seen in the Colony, short,
however, is very far from being
European Disputes. war through the eyes of himself and his friende, and, failing with perhaps, of the race meetings.
trae-it is, in fact, a gross libel
January 14-"The Spanish the business and political elements of the country, he sought to
on the bulk of our countrymen. Conference of Jurisconsults at Roman Catholics intend, at the make his point by an appeal to philosophers and scholars. But Useless Public Spots.
We see from the latest mails to Three Indique, coe a sergeant hand that the fresh appeal for Madrid, to put forward the pro- these also will have none of him.
in the Royal Naval Yard and the men which was made last month position that all disputes which
Hongkong, Canton and Macao There are many places in the with stealing and receiving Ad- than 30,000 recruits a week, submitted to the Pope for arbitra-
othera watchmen, were charged has drawn an average of no fewer may arise in Europe among the Steamboat Company-841 fer babble and sophistry. Cheap 'casuistry cannot hope to banish from where a band could play, without miralty stores to the value of which is said to be about as many tion in the fatore."
And what wonder? Facts make themselves heard above mere City of Victoris and in Kowloon
various Governments shall be share, sellers. the minds of sensible people the deliberate setting aside of treaties its being exiled to North Point mission. The case was remanded. From the commencement of the
China and Manila Steamship $360, from river boats out of com- and the insulent invasion of Belgium, whose neutrality Germany The Botanical Gar tens were laid
as the authorities can cope with.
Company $120 per share, buyers, was sworn to respect. Mr. Church disposes of the card-tower out at an encrmou expense-and argument of these ninety-three mouthpieces of the Kaiser with one if three Europeans in a week visit
war up to this time it was the Legislative Council was held $135 per share, sellers.
January, 15.-"A meeting of Hongkong Gas Company- breath. If England wanted to go to war, why was she rot prepared? them (and these usually strangers) His Excellency the Governo this number including what is the Acting Colonial Secretary, estimated that close on two mil- this afternoon. There were pre- he aeke, in so many words. Germany was prepared; and yet Germany it is as much as ever.
lion men had joined the colours, sent His Excellency the Governor; $200 per share, sellers.,
Hongkong Hotel Company- was a peaceable nation! Peaceable, with her children nourished on Statue Square has been called the has been pleased to re-appoint know as Kitchoner a the doctrines of Troitschke and trained in the sweet and childlike Finest Site. But the finest site under Section 8 of the Liquors depot recruiting and the Territ Wodehouse, Acting Colonial Indo-China SN. Company
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per Army Mr. A. Lister, Mr. H. L. cont. Debentarca-8501, creed that small nations have no right to exi-t; that the weak mast for what? The other day, when Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, orial reserves. go to the wall because they are weak! Mr. Church and buppily we passed it, coolie garments and the Honourable Mr. Claud Severn there are a few million people who think with him-has not com- sweat-cloths were airing on its to be Chairman of the Licensing. Of course, it cannot be denied Captain Superintendent of Police: $64 per share, sellers.
Treasurer; Mr, S. Brown, Surveyor 12 per cent. dis., buyers. General; Mr. W. M. Deane, Douglas Steamship Company- mon patience with the soft worde of the ninety-three. I for tells them, point-blank, that they and their country are condemned a fine drying ground, but this three years, with effect from the under a system of national training General; Messrs. P. Byris, Wong pany, Ltd.-$228 per share, rails. Certainly it should make Board for a further period of that it would have been better Mr. A. J. Lech, Acting Attorney China Sugar Refining Com- En regarda the breaking of Belgiam's neutrality, out of the mouth seems to constitute a somewhat 2nd February, 1915. of the Imperial Chancellor himself. We were compelled to over expensive luxury, and it is not
to have had all these men already Shing, C. P. Chater, AP sellere. ride the just proteste of the Luxemburg and Belgian Governments. everybody whose artistic orav
efficient, at any rate in the rudi-Machiwen, J. J. Keswick (Un Luzon Sugar Refining Com The wrong I speak frankly-that, we are committing we will ings are satisfied by an exhibition
ments of soldiering, but in fair official Member), and Mr. A. pany, Limited-$71 per share, endeavour to make good, as soon as our military goal has been of the week's washing. One can't,
heas to the nation's manhood it Bath, Clerk of Councile. The sellers. resched." In face of these words of Dr. von Bathmann-Hollweg, perhaps, blame the inventive
It is notified that at the expira- quoted, are more than merely. His Excellency, were referred to $110 per share, buyers.
must be admitted that the figures following votes, recommended by we do not quite understand how these ninety-three men of light and minds that devoted the railings tion of three months the following satisfactory. The real spirit of the Finance Committee, on the
Hongkong Ice Company- leading could have the impudence to deny that Germany was at to this purpose; it is the only time companies-will, unless cause is the country is shown by the way motion of the Acting Colonial ing Company, Ltd. $110 per Hongkong Rope Manufactur fault concerning Belgiam.
we ever saw the Finest Site being Blown to the contrary, be etrack bad news swelle the recruiting. Secretary:$2,187 for the roads share, buyers. There is much, too, in the American reply as to the shooting of Pier, too, was not grested for panies will be dissolved. The always been followed by more gratuity to Mr. Bruce Shepherd, and Godown Company-$100-r put to any manner of use. Blake off the Register and the Com. A set-back on the Continent has at Kowloon (re-vcte); $250, Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf oivilians in Belgium. When the desperate and maddened popu- nothing or as a camping around Hongkong Brewery Company, men coming forward, and we all for compiling an inder of the share, sellers. lace, seeing their sons slain and their homes in flames, fire from for coclies who scratch and spit Limited, the Wo On Steamship know how the reoraita came streets, house-numbers and lease. Hongkong Dairy Farm Co— their windows in the last instinct of nature, your troops, with bar and remove their shoes, and Company, Limited. bario ferosity, put them to the sword without distinction of age or otherwise make, themselves gen-
pouring in when the Germans lots of the city. If these conditions should ever be reverend would not erally agreeable. Bat Hongkong
made their little raid on Soar
New Colonfat Secretary, all of my ninety-three correspondents fire from their windows upon always puts u in mind of the
borough. Nothing could be more the merciless invaders?" There is more to the same effect, in Mr. ultra-respectable retailer at Home
fool eh than to combine praies of the newly-appointed Colonial January 10-"Mr. Fleming, Church's reply all of it showing that he and those who think with who has a beautiful best parlour, Tenders are being invited for which we know to be perfectly the s. Natal,"
the British Army in the field; Secretary, arrived here today by him are not to be hamboozled with claptrap, We have spoken, on whose glories he has spent the construction of a motor lauoch justified, with hysterical con- Our Post Office Again. times enough, about the Kaiser's miscalculations, here, surely, was large sume and which neither for the Police Department, the demnation of thecivilian manhood another of them. He organised an elaborata lying propaganda in he nor his family ever enters, lannoh to be of teakwood, 36 feet at Home, of whom and ita differ- time ago a parcel of jewellery, of Green Island Cement Co. (old Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., January 16" Sir, Some Ltd.-$25 per share. the States and the whole thing fell through. He made the very There is too much of this small overall, by 8 feet moulded ent classes, the forces in the field, small value, was sent to me issus)-843 per share, bayers. common mistake of thinking that America is composed of grafters, grocery-line spirit in the Colony, breadth, by 3 feet 8 inches mould. in their several reuke, are perfect through the Hongkong post, but Green Island Cement Co. (now vote-buyers-trust-builders, cornerers of wheat and pro-German and a band night once or twice a ed depth and to be equipped ly typical. The spirit of the failed to reach me about a issue).-$6 per share, buyers. swashbucklers, forgetting that these things lie only on the surface week in the Botanical Gardens complete and ready for use with Britisher is just the same, whether month ago I sent a letter contain- Hongkong Land Investment and that the great heart of Amerion is as sound as ever. America and on the drying ground might a 20/24 H. P. Penta or other be be uniformed or not. That is ing a photo and some postage Co.,Ld-$104 per share, sellers. is not just New York and Chicago, any more than Britain is just help to banish it. Of coured the approved motor of equal power, why we believe there will always stamps, and, on two other occa Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. London. The American owen the very existance of his independ- unco dristocratio could stay away anchor, chains, bell, whistle (or be men ready to come forward sione, letters coatsiming small $4 per share, buyers. ence to his loathing for tyranny; and as such is the last to whom if minded; the loss, would be approved substiinte therefor), when the need of their servi people like the Prussians should squeal for sympathy
regulation lights, awning, etc.
Bervices ja amounts, all of which shared a West Point Buildings Co. Ltd. made plain.
similar fate. Now, as tusse let--846 per share, buyers
Queen'e
Re-appointed,
Company Warning,
Now Motor Launch.
The Real Spirit,
Legislative Council.
$14 per share, sellers.
A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd.-- $23 per share, sellers. way Co., Ltd.-200 per cent. Hongkong High Level Tram-
prem., sellers.