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Kipling hae, we understand, returned to journalism, for Home papera speak in glowing terms of his descriptive articles in the Daily Telegraphs. The paper that pets his temporary servicea is certainly lucky-notonly in being able to print work that comes from his pen bat (nowadays)in having the wherewithal to pay his price, which is generally believed to be a "fancy one." That his articles will be widely read goes without
aying-oven by his detractors. European Mail. Due per And that such a manabould have Menelaus to-day. detractors seems inexplicable; Siberian Mail. - Closed per
Tenyo Maru to-day at 11 just as inexplicable as the fact that, though he certainly has an| 1a.m. enormous public, one meets doz-Siberian Mail-Oloses to merrow ena of people-alleged readerspers.s. Oriental at 4 p.m.
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Who Stole the Chickens?
A rickeba coolie has reported to the police the theft from his master's fowl-run of six chickens, valued at $12.
Taklog Kipling Seriously.
Usually such people, when catechised on the point, will be
short story orone poem (preferably "The Absent-minded. Beggar") of Kipling's, and to have heard The Milkmaid" Company is that he once pooh-poobed cricket giving away some tins of thick sud football. We have never rich cream, particulars of which come terus-and we doubt if we will le found on page 3. aver shall-s man who has read
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
D HONGKONG.
THE NORTH SEA BATTLE.
The German Fleet Which Ran Away.
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O-DAY'S NOTEWORTHY
ANNIVERSARY.
and 74 years
ngo
SEQUEL TO ROBBERY.
Four Chinese In Court.
At the Police Court, this morn ing, before Mr. Haseland, four Leaves from = "History
Chinese were obsrged with an at- of the Colony
tempted armed robbery at 12, Praya East, on Saturday night. What has been aptly spoken of
Seventy-four years ago this In the course of the attempt it is as the Great Monotony has at month, on January 20, 1841, Capt. alleged they stabbed and wound- Elliot ancounced the cassioned a Japanese and two Chinese, length been broken. The news of Hongkong to the British, who are now in hospital. One which came to hand yesterday showed that there had been some.
to-day man pleaded guilty to both the thing very much more than "a the Colony was formally attempted armed robbery and the certain liveliness" in the North taken over by representatives cutting and wounding. The Sea. The Kaiser had sent forth of Her Majesty the Queen. The second man said he was led there the biggest naval force which has ceremony would appear to have by the fret defendant, and the yet ventured out of the Kiel Canal been as informal sa it well could other two denied the cffences...
The case was adjourned for a since war began. It was sort out to have been, for all history tella asia justify its existence. It turned tail that the first landing party dis week. at first sight of the enemy, and embarked upon Possession Mount managed to limp home ahora of and drank the health of the one of its finest units and with Queen and gave the usual cheers. another brace tsdly crippled. We The next day the Union Jack CHINESE ENGINEERING may be sure that the Equadron was hoisted over the Island and & MINING CO. ID. Ballied forth with great flare of so small an affair did it seem that trumpets and that the people were nicely schooled to get ready for existing as to who hoisted the
usually Points from the Annual Report glorious news of another invasiong The gentleman of England. We can imagine credited with this noteworthy what the homecoming was like, performance afternards denied and we may be permitted tower- ever having done it.
As We Found It.
der what the German people think
there is not even a cloår idea
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| June 30 sayn the grose profit of the Kailan Mining Administration of their Navy now.". We know Hongkong, as the new owners amounted to $4,786;258,* Alter what to think about it, of course. found it, must have been the making provision for one year's It is a very asslal instrument for reverse of inspiring. There were interest on the 6 per cent. Kailan bombarding fashionable watering about five thousand inhabitants bonds, £71,280; redemption of places when the enemy is not on the island; they had a village bonds for the year to June 30, about. But let British warships where Victoria now finds itself appear above the horizon and it and, of courir, there were alto $24.000; reserve for depreciation, immediately turas nose for home, those round the island which even $717,938; the proportion of proât puts on a full head of steam and now exist. The colecising instinct to which the Ghibli Provincial dashes off. Its utility for purposes was very strong at the time, and Government is entitled, $91,028, and other items, there remains a of invasion is, like that of the Ger the first land sale of the Colony not profit of $2,928,385, which in min Army, nil. Itis even one worse took place in June of the first
divisible as follows:-60 percent. than the Army from the other year of British possession. It was We are informed that, on standpoint: It cannot put up a held at a time when the Govern to this company and 40 per cent. to the Lanebow Mining Company, blowing near Ling Ting only at one thing-running away. the land and in the next year credit of the profit and loss genius. His most loyal admirera Teland, some twelve miles out of
Acquaintances Renewed, when a rising population
had There can be little doubt that called for will not deny that once or twice Hongkong.
farther housing account, including interest in be has written mutter that was not
China, less certain email expenses, the recent uninterrupted visit to and consequently given rise to At the Police Court, this morn Scarborough and the dubirquent the formidable boundary disputes and other items bring up the is 5160,359. Interest in Europe worthy of him; but his worst is usually better than most folks' best and, in patting forth hising, an Indian watchman of the aerial visit to other points on the that sometimes perplex judges total credit to £177,809. After
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the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
higher level than anything in that suicide by hanging.
another portion of the German it now, does not appear to have $5,854 forward, and deducting line that England has produced'
Flest had previously made in the been the product of a town plen 69,245 for income-tax, there re- Railway Lights Stolen. since Thackeray's time, and would Mr. Aglett, travelling inspector battle of Heligoland Bight. It ner but rather the offspring of mains 8152,269. The Board pro- will be recalled that on that ce chance, for the Governor found it pores a further dividend of 6 per esteem much of his verse, so the of the Canton-Kowloon Railway,casion Bear Admiral Beatty, on necessary at the same time to cent. (making 10 per cent, for the. strongest in modern British peotry. has reported to the police the board the Lion, led the Battlefinstreet the Commission to settle year,) and that £52,288 be carried Kipling knows men, and because theft, from a coach belonging he has let that fact leak out, bebas given offence in high places, But we can hardly believe that that will worry him much.
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1915.
ANOTHER PIRACY.
capacity in mind. Of one thing we are very sure; and that is
a
The Mandarin Language In the
South.
one better. But this time they locations which had been sold.
Queen's Road.
to the railway, of electric light Cruiser Squadron to the assistance the direction and breadth of forward. The total sales of coal bulbs to the value of $40. of the smaller vossels fighting Queen's Road and, indeed, all the amounted to 2,411,038 tome.
against odds with German cruisers public roads, but it seems that at
Haven't Come Back.
Sent to
Death of Sir J. Barker, Sir John Barker, Bart, died at
A Chinese msichant, of Wing and destroyers amid a sea of that time the only road worth Lok Street, entrusted two of his mines. The Arethusa, of historio mai t'oning was Queen's Road fokis with sums of money amount name, was one of those smaller and that it had not been decided 'Oar Canton ecrrespondent ing to $2,500, in bank notes, to craft and was in charge of whither it should lead. By this his residence at Bishops Stort- writes that the private and Gov- ohange at a money changer's. Commander Tyrwhitt, and, after time the population had risen to ford last month. Deceased, who ernment schools in the Kwang. The fokis have not returned.
ending two German cruisera 20,000 quiet, cheerful, and in was 14 years of age, was the tung Province have received
Pocket Picked. limping home and engaging dustrious Chinese, as the reports founder and chairman of John ordere to the effool that henceforth A Chinese shopkeeper, of the others, this boat was able to lend say, but it is worthy of note that Berker and Co., Kensington, and The "strong measures" which the Chinese Government was Mandarin must be taught to the Old Post Office Building, Queen's a hand in the sinking of the however quiet and industrious chairman of Paquin, Lid, Paris. British Bubjects He est for some time as Liberal going to take, in the direction of putting down piracy, still seem to pupils. The reason assigned is Road Central, has complained to Mainz. The sancy Arethusa thenew hang fire; and meanwhile another Hongkong boat has been robbed that there are so many dialects in the Pulice that, while he was was herself badly damaged, but were, their quietness was merely member for Penrhyn and Fal- of goods to the value of $4,500. That the piracy took place in the Province that the transaction of walking in Queen's Road, $46 in the was able to get eafely away. aoloak for all sorts of nofarious mouth. In 1900 he was returned for Maidstone, but was unseated Chinese waters happens, however, in this case, to make little differ- Government business is serionaly netes were stolen from his pocket. She took no part in this latest practices. ence; for, as will have been seen from the report in our last night's impeded. This is a forward Colony's Health,
success, but it is noteworthy that The Night-Watchman System. on pelition. Later Sir John went issue, the boat was robbed, not by thieves who attacked her from movement on which Kwangtang Last week there wore three cases the Lion has again come in for a The first buildings for the in for the breeding of polo ponies, Government to put up were the at which he was very successful, without but by her own passengere, as in the case of the Tai may congratulate itself, and one of diphtheria and one each of eu- big share of the honours.
Magistracy and the Gaol, and taking numbers of prizes at On. Thia at once gives the matter a more than ordinary interest which non. Chinese-speaking Brittorio and email-pox notified. All The German Version. where Hongkong folk are concerned, for it was from this port that there who have cocasion to do were fatal save the last named, The Berlin version of the while these were merely for therious shows, the boat sailed.
business in Canton from time to in which the sufferer was a Jap-sotion fully maintains the repata-punishment of evil-doers it is not How is it that the Hongkong authorition are content to offer so time will fully appreciate. Bithanese. The other cases were tion which the Germans have little amusing to learn of the foeble a protest against the handiwork of ruffians from the mainland? erto the European who is mov-Chinese...
gained for wilfully distorting various methods adopted to put Certainly the boat in question was Chinese owned, and its akipper ing about the Province or even in
fools. There is of down night thieving. One of the was at its highest, this form of was a Chinese, but we presame that at least some of the persons who the city of Canton has felt to A Chinese charged at the Police the hurried no mention box first was the use of the watchman, prevention was not resorted of were robbed were Britiel subjects, and had therefore a right to our what quite a staff of interpreters Court, this morning, with the the British ships were sighted. and, even as now, he oft-timis fell until the establishment of a Government's protection. The boat bad two watchmen aboard, but and if the diversity of tongues larceny and unlawful possess and the circumstance of our sleep. To prevent this, he was corps of Indian hight watchmen they seem to have made a poor showing against the men who sur was awkward for strangare it was ion of two tons of varnish, the squadron having wisely refrained provided with two pieces of bam. had failed to prove sa beneficial an rounded them and took away their weapons. We know, of course, hundred times more so for property of Mr. Greenfeld, was from running into a sen el mines to which he would strike to was at first anticipated. When that the masters of Chinese-owned craft, whether native or British, people intimately concerned with sentenced to a month's imprison is conveniently described as a gether at intervals throughout the street lighting did come about it have been from to time instructed by their owners to offer no the government of the district. ment on each charge.
"retreat.” But that is not all. The night to inform his employer, it was not a Government venture, opposition to pirates, but simply to "pay. up." That is Northern Chinese who visit Can-
loss of the Blacher is set off by indeed he were swake, that hister for the Governor called on all Mr. Clark, of Messrs. J. D. the observation that "3 a Chinese way of doing business which will not appeal to our read-ton will also welcome the new
of did not put a stop to the thieves, penalties, to place a lighted ere. The British notion is, or used to be, that once oargo and regulation. passengers are on board, they are reo re from interference, and
Baildings, has reported to the car battle-ornizers was sent to who, in addition to parloining the lantera outside their doors from
sanset to sunrise. police that some person entered the bottom The facts are, of goods of lesser try levied uponAll this time the Chiness that people who cannot refrain from interfering with the one or the
the office by means of the course, that no British ship was the goods of the Chief Magistrate other must be taught, by forcible measures, to repair their manners. We have suggested many times what appears to be the only
A Japanese, named Tomosuke verandah, the door of which he lost, whereas we accounted for and the Governor himself, Ia watoaman had gone his rounds af
fact,
so bad were things at this night striking his bamboos, keep- Immediate way out of the piracy difficulty, aa for a the Hongkong end Yindo, has been admitted to the forced, and stole four brass plage one of the finest boats in the Ger- of the matter is concerned. Wo venture to suggest it once more, Government Civil Hopital suffer from the sink, valued at $20. man Navy a boat which on her time that an Old Steger" wrote ng bis employer informed as to because we and British skippora of river bosta bzoking is up. Why ing from a rather serious wound The intruder also attempted to trials did the remarkably good those who did not want their be- also warning any likely thief of to a local paper suggesting that his faithfulness to his post and not forbid any Chinese passenger to enter or leave the boate within in the throat. The injured man, pick the looks of two safes,
pzed of 25,86 knots. Still, wo an hour before the time of sailing? Many of the bad characters who lives at 198, Queen's Roid Injured in the Sunderland
are prepared for stories of this longings stolen should look their his approach. The custom, how- who would be likely to figure in such a robbery as that committed East was explaining to his wife on Sunday be known to the police and would be recognited at once and of friend the working of Among the injured in Scar-kind-it is all on a par with the boxes and nail them to the floor, ever, came to an end, not because with a loaded pistol under their the fact that it interfered with the prevarication. Our police force is not over stellel, we know, but it is large enough an automatic pistol, when it borough ara Mra. Bell-I-ving and German campaign of unblushing taking also good care to go to bad of his absurdity, but by reason of pillows. It was not as though the rest of one of the powers-that-was, to admit of a certain number of men being told off for the sole work went off and inflicted the wound Mies Lea, both visitorastaying on the Esplanade, South Cliff, a
punishment meted out to those whose name has been given to ons of searching thoroughly every on-going boat. Had the Tai On been Tar Boller Afire.
caught was not sufficient, for the of the principal therangh so searched, the subsequent piracy could never have taton place, for On Saturday morning a small fashionable parade which fronte
C.P.R. Buying Cargo Boats whipping posti
taituated outside the the city, which by this time had the arms at least must have been discovered, even if the pirates fire broke out in Canton Road, the sea, and which came in for
Some very high prices, relative old Harbour Office was well used, changed its original name of ecouped detection. Why will not the Government give anoh a involving a tar boiler which was particular attention from the measure as leapt a trial? If one hour be not long enough in which being used by the P.W.D. in German ships. A shell struck ly speaking, are being paid for and in a very short time farther Queen's Town for the one which to make a thorough search, let it be two hours. Of course treating the roads. The boiler the house and burst inside, caus- ships under construction and stops were taked to deal with the it now hears. Though there were many who protested a thie stop inconvenience would be caused to passengers, but better that than bicame over-hested and barat ing general havoc to the fabric searing completion, and also for ond-hand tonnage: The Cana
Street Lighting by Lanterns. ping of a method of provention were of property stolen and lives endangered or perhaps sacrificed. One into flames. The alarm was given, and the furniture, and the two other question. When, from time to time, some of these auspicious to the Police, but before they ladies were so terribly injured dian Pacific Railway, it is under Hongkong street lighting.navar of crime, their obje
large cargo
was particularly brilliant, but no avail and the wash of the man characters are caught, at sometimes they are, are the police empower arrived on the upot with a des that in each case the imputation stood has bought
Both hips which are under construtore was a time when it on top carried the day ed to take such measures with them as would lead to the apprehension patoh cart and hose, the fre had of leg
tion on the Olyde: are progressing a
did not exist. Even when robbery (To be continuo who, in some oises, are supporting the rafflanele been extinguished. ment and pro
Pistol Accident;
Undesirable Visitor.
Humphreys and Sɔas, Alexandra to information available ouvant was about and doing. This householders, under pains and
Attack.
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