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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
OERMAN MILITARY MUDDLING...
ARY CRITICISM UPON THOSE WITH How the Allies Have Obtained WHOM YOU LIVE-Holpa,"
the Upper Hand. The resignation of General of the first signs that all was not Falkenhayn calls attention to one
The Weather.
A. Barley Street specialist, Dr. Edwin Ash, bas just pablished a short wo:K or the above question, which, judging from the brief notice of it in a Home paper received this morning, takes quite an optimistic view of the effect of the present strain on the nave constitation of the nation at large. From the layman's point of view the question does not seem ouson which it is safe, aven for a special clear. fist, to dogmatize. Ferone man's " courage is not another's, and to Siberian Mil-Due, per se. lay down a definite rule An
to the effrot produced by the nearness of danger would appear to us impossible. "Many of our Hongkong readers have known what it is to be in a tight corner,
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The Mails.
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HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO:
Telegraph" files for the week Compiled from the Hongkong
ending Jan. 23, 1890,)
The Dollar.. January 23. The rate of the dollar on demand to day is 3/21,"
At the Peak 8 s.m. Temp. 52: going well with the German campaign, and that was bie appointment to the post which he bas now relinquished. The side-
Hongkong Literary Society. tracking of Count von Moltke was January 17,—” an unusually at the time a matter for dis large attendance of members pleasure on the part of Germin honoured Mr. D. F. Caldwell last Periodicals, but that his successor evening when he lectured to the should be General Falkenhayn, Literary Society on Art; its of Zibern fame, was a bad a
Principles aud Practice, stroke of fatuity as could well be Cantlie, the vice-president, took imagined. Von Moltke's plans
the chair. Among subsequent
Siberian Mail. Closed to-day per 8.4. Shidzooka Maru at 10 a.m.
French Mail-Closed per
5,8.
Dr.
1890.
SHARE REPORT.
The quotations which follow for Jan. 23, 1890.) are from the Hongkong Telegrapha
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank --197 per cent., premium, sellerss Union Insurance Society of Canton-$103 per share, buyera.
China Traders' Insurance Com- pany-$72 per share, buyers.
North China Insurance-Tla,
Dambaa to-day at 11 a.m. when the next moment or Siberian Mail-Oloans per 15. mexot so energetic attack on the papera to be read ara-one on pany-$402) per share, sellers.
Lianguhow at 4 p.m. to-day.
next move might bring death;. and these will probably agree
with us that strain or poril will
often bring out 'ramarkable instances of bravery in the weak) and as
Count the Columns; Yesterday. the
350 per share, buyers.
Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.-$130 per share"
Yangtaze Insurance Association Tla. D6 per share, Hongkong Fire Insuranos Com China Fire Insurance Company Hongkong and Whampoa Dook
sellers. Steamboat Company-$1 per Hongkong, Canton and Macao
share, sellers.
Coal Gas Manufacture" by Mr.$80 per share, bugtransm
French Centre, and whether he was right or wrong, the aller F. W. Cross, one on The UR- native plan evolved by the mate of Hongkong" by Mr. Telegraph published 38 columns of solid Supreme War Ler! has certainly Buce Shepherd, and a third on Company-60 per cent premium,
There are also four debates on the agenda."
LTD.. of appuraptly cowardly and reading matter. Today theid been verong. Falkenhayer sainly "Milk, by Me. 3.1.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD..
Wine
& Spirit Merchants.
Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires them to forward their names and addresses communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily foh with publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides..
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The Dollar..
The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 1 9.3.18.1.
Post Office Clothing.
Tendors are being invited for the making up and supply of clothing for the use of the Ganeral Post Office for the year 1915.
Intercession Meeting.
monthly meeting for Intercession The Bishop will conduct the at St. Paul's College on Monday next, January 25th, at 6 p.m.
aunounced.
Prize Day.
West Point Building Co., Ltd.
time of his appointment, was loaked or as the man who would give the Kaiser his head. He did, and the attacks on Ypres and the January 17" Toe first report China and Manila Steamship frustrated dash for Calais wera West Point Building Co., Ltd., buyers.
of the board of directors of the Company. the result. These were indead.
$120 per share,
$135 per share, sellers.
matters for great rejoicing as fa: to be presented to the ordinary Hongkong Gas Company as the Allies were concerned and meeting of shareholders to be it is a pity that Falkenhayn should
held at the City Hall
tools..
Hongkong Hotel Company- $200 per share, sellers,
Hongkong Hotel (lo,'a Six cont. Debenturce-$501.
per
Indo-China S.N. Company-
121 por cent. dis., buyers
A Publisher's Opinion,
Auother interesting item in this
not remain in a position to Thursday, January 23, states that motair g's mail news is an excerpt]
enable the Kaiser to continue as the net profit for the nine monthe from a prase interview with dr.
Empire. chief strategist for the German ending December 31, 1889, the well-known
personal pity in
But there, ia also o
amounts' to $24,871,00; which, publisher. Speaking on the liter
the whole after deducting the Auditor's fee, ary prospects of the future, be
affair: pity for poor Falkenbayo. leaves $24,821.89 for
Douglas Steamship Company appro- war means the death of decadence cesan School and O: phanage takes of his superior; Falkenhayt bas ment of a dividend of 6 per says: "I am convinced that the
Voa Moltke was dropped because
priation. sin British fiction, and in British place next Saturday at 11.30 a mi, to go because those same plans cent, per annum, which will sellers.
From this sam the $64 per share, sellers. The prize-giving at the Dio he could not agree with the plans Directors reammend the "pag- China Sugar Refining Com
pany Ltd.-$228 per share, been living too luxuriously. literature generally, We have and not to-day, as previously failed. The Kaiser is a poor $445.00 to be carried to new pany, Limited-$71 per share, and, as the luxury and the con-
absorb $24,376 00; the Balance of Luzon Sugar Refining Com- sequent weakness have been 'ro-
Military Announcement,
workman; he grumbles" at his We are requested to state that
Profit and Les Account. The sellers. recent years, so, in the yera the Military for drill purposes siguificant information is given the flon, Mr. J. J. Keswick was flected in some of the books of the Happy Valley will be used by.
Our Vigilant Navy,
Hon. Mr. J. Bell Irving having Hongkong Ico Company As is often the case, the most resigned on leaving the Colony, $110 per share, buyers. more virile, a more earnest, a more next, the 25th instant. which follow, we may look for a from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday to day in a small paragraph. We invited to take the Chairmanship ing Company, Ltd.-$104 per Hongkong Rope Manufactur
is an opinion which everyone thoughtful literary output." This
learn that two thousand
transport of the Board, and his appointment share, sellers. The Indians charged in co-ed by the British Navy without Hon. Mr. C. P. Cbater and Mr. and Godown Company.-$100er
voyages have been safely convoy- now requires confirmation. The who has followed current litora nection with the alleged theft of oqsualty. There he never been J: S. Moses retire by rotation, but share, sellers.
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf
nees will readily endorse. Through boats were again remanded at prowess of the Flest than that. ture with anything like serious stores from one of the river una more complete statement of the offer themselves for re-election." over much prosperity, Britishers the Police Court, this morning:
A Wakeful Lukong, bad reached the stage when their
Uccasional stories of enemy sub-
January 18.-"About a quarter Auditor. reading appetites could only be The name of Mr. J. Arnold wandering cruisers on the high Road. Singular to say, he was way Co., Ltd.200 per cent. marines appearing in the Chanuel,
to four this morning a lakong appealed to by something" piqu Dawson, Stanghai, has been
stood in the decerted Queen's seas and the hundred and one awake and, by a coincidence, just prem,, sellers had come to mean
qualified under the Hongkong evasion of which, after all, may down a soffald outside the new Ltd. $25 per share. Companies Ordinance.
be a matter of some luck, give
Remanded,
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve/Bat"-which word, with them, added to the list of auditors perils from fating mines, the bea a Chinawan was climbing|
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1915.
IN THE MATTER OF RECRUITING.
Sanitary Board Election.
insane
The wish is often voiced that goverament, and there can be zo Hongkong could have municipal Ltd. shadow of doubt that such a aje-
"The Grotesques.
Companies Warned.
Trade Openings.
1.
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Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. $14 per share, sellers, A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd - $23 per share, sellers.
Hongkong High Level Tram-"
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co.,
HONGKONG
GOVERNMENT.
ly sensational" or else "dirty"; few people could spare time for thoughtful fiction or for stories
It will be Been from our some idea of the perila from which building adjoining the Telegraph Green Island Cement Co. (old that had nothing more to recom. advertising columns that
offices." the Navy has guarded thousands of The
(Toe office of the jeans).-$43 per share, bayers. mend them than sheer cles, Grotesquee" will open here on
men and huge quantities of stores.
Telegraph was then at 6, Pedder's
Green Island Cement Co. (new honest comedy. With Mr. Laas, (Thursday next-day earlier than adeed, the strangle hold that we lower. The lutong watched more
Hill.)
"The man descended issue).-$5 per share, buyers. we feel that at least much of this previously announced.
have upon German commerce
Hongkong Land Investment vitiated taste will prove to be
seems small in comparison with intently. (This Jules Verne style Co., Ld-$104 per share, sellers. very much a thing of the past, It is notified that at the ex- the fact that thousands of precious of writing is too trying—let us Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. - and that the coming reader will piration of three months, unless lives have been convoyed to their apps they have met.) The $4 per share, buyers. think shame to weste his time on cause is shown to the contrary, for one slight slip might mean cartridges, an inkstand, a Water---$46 per share, buyers.
terrible work on the battle field,
olimber had a revolver, some West Point Buildings Co. Ltd. the weak, the morbid or the the following Companies will be aluchy in fiotion.
struck off the Register and the the sinking of a transport withbury watch, two penknivea and a Companies will be dissolved: men on board and it is conceivable Evidently he was undecided as to silver plate stuck in his girdle. Ltd., Oliver's Freehold Mines, recent years would pale into editor or a highwayman. A few First China Chemical Works,
that the mercantile disasters in!
whether he should set up as an In another column of to-day's issue we print some remarka by Truth on the recruiting question, which come as a protest against
insignificance if a torpedo met s For Fighters and Refugees. much that has been said, both at Home and in Hongkong, as to thetem would serve the common wall been sent Home, by the courtesy the Navy when it can maintain property as having been stolen!
Several New Appointments transport carrying a human hours later, Mr. Schellbass, of slow rate at which volunteering is considered to be proceeding.
This week 195 garmente have freight. All is indeed well with
Melchers and Co., identified the
Gazetted, One of the easiest occupations that we know of is that of the form of government under which Lloyd Thomas, 118 Murray Street, on works of Empire bent.
much more effectually than the of the shipping firms, to Miss free passage for England's troops constable recognised the thief as
The from his room that night, and a following notifications non-volunteer who sits down and condemns other non-volunteers for the Colony at present labours, Hoxton, London, for the soldiers
Gazette contains the not offering their service to the country. We would be the last to take Once in three years the public and sailors at the front and their the report of an almost general ing Mr. Grant Smith's house as Secretary for Chinese Affairs the party who nearly broke his has been pleased to appoint Mr. His Excellency the Governor A Bright Outlook. up the cudgels for the shirker, and we believe that we realise, as fully has an opportunity of exercising families at home, and the Belgian treat of the Gormansar. indeed a West Terrace. Mr. Wode daring the absence on leave of sa most of our neighbours, the desirability of getting the volunteer-the franchise in the election of refugees. The garments have
The optimistic French Note and neck last July whilst bargl Stewart Backle Cirne Ross to act roll as complete as possible; but we see no good purpose to be served unofficial members of the Sanitary been made by the women of matters for rejoicing. The Allies house held that editing was a the Honourable Mr. Edwin Rich- by joining in a general Jeremiad because the number of recraita has Board-that is when a enficient Hongkong, Kong Mun, and Foobave all along been faithful slaves not run to ten or twenty millions. If our readers will take a glance number of candidates come for chos, and 50 of them have been of under-statement, so that when only permitted on the Rialto, and notice, with effect, from the 19th bollow mockery, highway robberyard Hallifar or until further Kitoberor has not appealed to the Empire in vain, and that the Yesterday we had some "elec 6.8. Haiyang. at the figures given in the Truth article, they will see that Lord word to make a contest necessary, sent by the compradore of the the French let themselves go sobald not beatles, Peace pidgin January. 1916, number of men enlisting is not so very discreditable after all. O tioneering," and though all who those who have not yet cffared themselves, one knows perfectly woll could have voted did not pay &
far se to indulge in a littleoptimum could not be allowed anyhow so that a large proportion feel that they would never pass the medical visit to the polling booth,
there must be full grounds for so he remanded the case.
His Excellency the Governor. The latest trade enquiry list doing. This war will certainly be An Early Chinese New Year. test, while others are prevented by one domestic consideration or rufisient number attended to sulate General, Hongkong, shows most unpicturesque in historying Chinese New Year's Day, Buckle Carae Roma to be au has been pleased to appoint, pro- another. But, if we know anything about the Britisher, there are show that there
issued by the American Con- looked upon in future times as the January 20 To-morrow be visionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, Mr. Stewart but few of these who would not be willing to put themselves residents who Bre under instruction, with a view to defending the country in than a
any that American exporters are Dall, hard fighting, dwarfing of there, will be no issue of the Official Member of the Execu base of aninvasion.
more seeking Hongkong connections local battles by the magnitude of Telegraph. passing interest We have no time for the well-to-do young fellow public affairs. It seems there goods, general import and export, balance sheet, reports of gains and Vivian Ladds, tulcerat of the and gallifaz or until further whose excuse is merely: "I cannot leave my business; but are fully fifteen hundred residents meat cutters, electric bells, elec- losses, have made poor reading for markets and Grand Panjindrum notice, with effect from the 19th
in as follows:-Blankets, electrical the operations and the conergaent
What's In a Name?” yo' tive and Legislative Councils we do not believe that many young fellows are saying 80.
January 20-Mr. Charles daring the absence on leave of the Honourable Mr. Edwin Rich- If enlistment have not reached the desired figure yet, the blame, yes'erday only some 430 exercised paper towels and other paper balance has generally appeared forth to be known as the Colonial January, 1915.
who era entitled to the vote, but tric conduit, electric power plants, some time past, give that the of the slaughter-houses, is hence 2000rding to Truth, lies largely with a certain asction of the public the right. Press, Probably one of the worst hindrances to recruiting is the point out, however, that there paraffin wax, silk besiery, gloves a note of emphatic optimism has of the Governor. Our African has been pleased to appoint Mr. It is only fair to products, lubricating oil and on the right side for us. But now Veterinary Surgeon, by command His Excellency the Governor daily announcement of orushing German defeats in the contents bills were very many members of the end underwear, y and beadlines of the halfpenny papers, and perhaps still more the Volunteer Reserve who were Sunday pipere."
been etruck, and, judging from brethren who superintend the Philip Peveril John Walshouse Of course, if the public at large cannot see cause engaged in drilling within
Governor's Former A. D. C. for undue alarm, recruiting may well be slack. Unfortunately this stone's throw of the Supreme
Wounded, there appears to be no reason the rare occasions when any is
previous cautions statemente, road-mending of the Colony-on to act as District Officer and ips difficulty that is not easily remedied. A little apprehension is Court who for that very reason Alison, Seaforth Highlanders, who safely assumed that the facts are fature addressed as Inspectora until further notice, with effect
Lieutenant George Newdegate whatever why it should not be done mest, we suppose, be in
Assistant Seorétiry fo Chinese a fine stimulant a good deal may moar panic and financial paralysis, could not go to the poll. The has been wounded, is the second slightly more than sufficient to General, too,
from the 11th January, 1015, Affairs in the New Territories When all is said, the papers can print no more than the news which knowledge, too, that the unofficials son of Sir Archibald Alison, third justify this qu'et note of confid Interport Cricket His Excelloy the Governor they receive and which they are allowed to print; and this view of on the Board can at any mesting Baronst, of Possil Bonso, Uopse- noe. the matter at once brings us up against the already much discussed be out voted by the official hill, Wimbledon, formerly in the censor question...Sir Henry Norman pointed out, some months ago, element was no doubt a factor Rifle Brigade, and Culonial Sec- MISSIONARY SERMONS. day match was played on the Charles Forsyth to act as Second ** || _| On January 22 and 23 a two has been pleased to appoint Dr. in a letter to the Press, that the banishing of the war correspondent which dampened publio interest, retary of Bermuda from 1888 to The annual armons for the kong and the Straite Settlements. was a dangerous experiment, if only in so far as the thrilling stories while the infrequency of these 1900. Lient. Alison wen gazetted Hongkong Church Missionary The Straits fared badly, losing by absence on leave of Dr. Fritz Cricket Ground between Houg Health Officer of Port and Inspen- of victory and of heroism which that gentleman formerly gont elections no doubt bas a like second-lieutenant in the Seaforth Association will ha preached an innings and 147 runs. The Grone or until farther notice, with tor of Emigrante daring the through to his paper were so many stimuli to the youth of the country effect. That under these condi Highlanders in December, 1900, to-morrow to volunteer for services. Surely one of the greatest difficulties with tione close on five hundred voters and received his step in April, The Bishop of Victoria will be Lent. E M. Blair, R. E. 78, L His Ecellency the Garernor which the Government at Home te faced is to strike a just middle took the trouble to vote is enough 1913. In November of the latter the preacher at the Cathedral in J, Coron (Capt.119; Dr W Mat has been pleased to appoint Mr. Hongkong score was as follows! effect from the 19:h January, 1915, between over-ale rming the people, on the one hand, and falling them to show that there is public spirit year he was appointed A.D.O to the morning and the Rav E.W.L. land, 2; J. Leach 31: Lient. A Geoffrey Robley Sayer to be his into comfortable inaction on the other. It is quite clear that much in the Colony, which only needs Sir Henry May, Governor and Martin, of the Church Missionary J. Campbell, 9, Dr. Lawson, 69, *f the war nows published at the time of the Beer campaign did to be given encouragement in Commander-in-Chief Hongkong. Society, in the evening enteros Major Miles, R. A., 28; Manourable Mr. Edwin Richard harm to our troope, and the absence of a consurate to day, when the official quarters, instead of re- Lieutenant Alison, who is 25 years Special sermons will also be land, 1; J. J. Ball-Irving, T. Hallifax, on leave, with effect Private Storetary vice the Hon enemy is nearer to Home, might do even more. Yet if with-holding pression, to grow into a factor to of age, has two brothers serving preached at St. Andrew's, Kow: Sercombe Smith, 20; GS Coxon, from the 19th January, 1916, and news, good or bad, is going to militate against sufficient recruiting, be taken into serious account. the remedy will have proved not much better than the disease,
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