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THE GREATEST OF ALL TONIC FOODS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, " 1915.
The Teaching of British History.
"A correspondent remarked in yesterday'a Telagraph on the blussed or garbled history that is taught in Scots tchools. The teaching of history is such a big question that one is surprised that none of the big educational conferences eeem to tackle it and
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
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The Weather.
Lower level 8 am. Tomp. 70;. At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 63;
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GERMAN WAR METHODS.
A Confession that All is Not Well
OLD HONGKONG."
· More"`Facts from old Records..
CADDIES STRIKE:
COMEDY AT THE GOLF CLUB.
Boys Resent the Arrest of one (Continued from Tuesday).
of their "Profession. It was in 1881 that the first attempt was made to secure good Before Mr. Hazeland, at interpretation in the various Police Court, this morning, a cans The surest indication that Courts of Justice of the Colony. which brought about a strike of Germoy realises that she is When it is considered now, how caddies at the Hongkong Golf fighting a losing battle is to be good the interpretation in the Club was heard.
use in all British schools. We clear. are not so sanguine as to believe that any congrees of historians
Count the Columns. found in the fact that she has now Courts is, and yet how difficult According to the story told this could ever come into complete
cut herself adrift from all civilised are the tasks set before the morning, mattere were not very agreement on such vered anb-
Yesterday the Telegraph conceptions of warfare and has administrators of the law, it is a brick at the Club yesterday, and as the Raformation, the published 32 columns of solid deliberately stooped to the dirtiest matter for wonder how the bust the oddies found themselve eats
limə on thei character of Queen Elizabeth, the reading mattor. To-day there and most abady tactics. Until ness of the Colony came to be with more right of George I to the English will be 33 published.
the shelling of unfortified towns transacted at sil. In one instance hands than sticks, which gave throne, eto; but something op
on the English coast, the German and it was mentioned by the them time for diversion. contraventions of international then Governor when introducing They decided to play a game of proaobing a middle and non- contentious way could be arrived
usages were confined to the a oadel-provision Ordinance hand-ball, between the Monument at, by means of which old pre-
operations on land, but the enemy man was charged with theft of and the entrance to the Club judices and bitternesses would at American and Siberian Mails. Las not waited long before extend-watol. Evidence was given to the house, and no vigorous was their least not be fanned into life again,}! Due per s.s. Cordillere to-ing the programme to his activities effect that the only witness was game, and keen their excitement as is too often the case at present.
at es. Toe happenings of the "aalcep" on a wall when the theft that they could not control the In England itself we believe that
present week have made that point was committed. At least that was wanderings of the ball and a lady history-teaching is now on very
clear enough. Already we have had the translation affared to the was struck. much broader lines than formerly, largely on account of so many of the batter-class schools' having adopted Professor S. R. Gardiner's
The object of this paper is to publish correct informatio, to serve book, in which every attempt at a
the truth and print the news without fear or favour,
悦徇無丼礦舆咨亊贤要防樑大正监莒津宗限本
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong,"
Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition.
Office address; 11, Ice House St.
Western Union
BIRTH.
nentral view of debuteable points is made."
The Malls
*morrow.
Canadian and U. K. Mails.— Closed per se. Panama Maru pt1 p.m. to-day.
the report of the torpedoing of two | Court, and it was only the pre- It was in this act that ar Siberian Mail.-Closed per s.s.defenceless merchantressels with-sence of a good linguist, whe Indian constable made his debut Yingehow to-day at 3 p.m. out notice, and it is now no fault of happened to be interested in the and he promptly arrested one of
The Germans thata British hospital case, that enabled the Court to the caddies.
· Latest Advertisements. ship has not been sent to the know that the witness really Ohinese-like, the oaddies com bottom of the oceno. Off Havre a said he was whitewashing the menced to devies schemes of Mr. G. P. Lammert is selling German submarine discharged a wall on which the interpreter had organised retaliation for the con Wanted, a Congress of Historians. valuable Lousehold furniture ut torpedo at the British hospital made him say he was asleep. Itatable's conduct and eventually 24B, Nathan Road, Kowloon, on ship Asturias, bat, happily, it was in the following year that the decided that the most effcotive Jadging from our correspond- the 11th inst.-Page 5.
missed its mark. The shame of first cadets arrived in the Colony, means of protesting was to ent's leitor, matters are not go Flata in Kowloon aro advertised the act is, however, none the less and-like the poor-they are "strike." eaay in Scotland, where boys seem to let by Mr. H. Rattoojee.on that accouns. The fact of always with us now. to be taught not the result of the Page 5.
firing at the ship was a flagrant researches of modern historical The firal floor and ground fisor violation of the Hague Convention, students but the crude dogmatism of 40, Pottinger Street ara toʻlot, to which Germany bas set her of the old fashioned Presbyteriane.-Page 5.
band: Taere can be no getting away from that.
It should not be impossible for a A farsished room at 4, Victoria MOYLE.--On February 4, to the Rev. V.. H. and Mrs. Copley board composed of mon who have View, Kowloon, le advertised to Moylo, a daughter.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1915.
THE IRISH AND THE WAS,
let.-Page 5.
The Dollar.
done something that will give them a right to speak with auth ority, to settle once and for all what should and what should not. be taught to British boys where The rate of the dollar on historical matters are concerned. demond to-day is 18 0.1-16d. Those who have read accounts of the Armada by Spaniards, of Waterloo by Frenchmen, of the Reformation by Catholics (to quote:
Prize Day.
This being decided upon, the caddies refused to go back to After Many Years,
|their employment. In the meantime, Mr. Grist, who i The present Rolies Court will connected with the Olab, bailed soon move from its position in the out the boy who was arrested. Old Post Office Building and at At the Police Court, the seque any rate olose the public conneo-was staged, when Mr. Hazeland tion with a building which never in dismissing the youth with seemed to have given satisfadarning, said if the caddie tion, for in 1881 complaints as to wanted to play games they would As we say, the whole polioy of its unsuitability were rife sud n have to go into the Valley and Germany at the present moment proposition to remove the Court not play in the public road. in opposed to that which would be to a new Iccation was considered. followed by a nation which The arguments used only a few believed in its ability to win. A years back for the selling of the
A Beaten Power,
To-morrow is prize day at the victorions army does not usually site are only a repetition of
Beginning of Spring,
Tomorrow, according to the Chinese calendar, is the festival of LiChun, or Beginning of Spring,
Auction.
only one or two points open to Belilios Public School.... dabate) will rendily own that there was a one-sidedness" about the views which were taught to most of us in our youth on such sub- jeola. Of course one knows that: an individual master can and does season the written word of
text-book with his own com ments, but when once a non-parti san book had been agreed upon it would surely be the business of
Af 11 a.m. to-morrow, Mr. G. headmaster to see that that kind P. Lammert in selling tweed and of thing was not done. No special serge suit langths at his sales party of men, British or Spaniards, rooma, Cavaliers or Roandbeade, can have been always in the right cr in the wrong, and unless that fact is well hammered into the toyish mind there 'acema little chance
Our readers remember that, some little while ago, the Times and one or two other Home papers gave prominence andue pro minence, we think-to some seditious literature alleged to have baon printed in Ireland, and to an account of an interview between Sira Roger Casement and the German Chancellor. Both literature and interview were cruched in absurdly immoderate language and were oriminally misleading, inasmuch as they sought to give the impres sion that the sentimenta of the Irish as a whole were reflected in them. We felt that we had no right to inflict reprints of these out pourings on Hongkong readers; but we allude to them now in view that the owner of that mind willing, a Chinese was fined $50 for grow to take a broad view of the being in unlawful possession of
a amall quantity of opiam, facts and fictions of life.
Kallan Output.
of a resolution that has been passed unanimously by the Municipal Council of the United Irish League and Affiliated Irish Societies in New York. Meeting under the presidency of the former U.S. Minister to Chili, Mr. Patrick Egan, the Council placed on record the facts that
Sir Roger Casement, who has been a British officer and a British Consul, has never been in any way connected with the Irish Home Rule 'movement in Ireland or this. country, and never friendly to its objects or policy, but always hostile, and that he is in no way authorised to speak in the name or in behalf of the Irish Volunteers or their 'friende in either country, he having been several months ngo utterly repudiated by the Irish Volunteers and the Irish National leaders in both."
.Oplum Possession.
At the Police Court, this morn
VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
elay harmless non-combatante, those used all those years ago. Corps Orders issued yesterday maim women and children, juth but the suggestion then was by Lisat-Col, A. Chapman, V. D lessly destroy historia buildings to erect s now Court behind state:-. for bombard hospitals; neither St. John's Cathedral on the land Sick Parades. Daring th does an all-conquering navy now occupied by the Hongkong absence from the Colony of Sur stoop to such practices as we Volunteer Headquarters. In geon Captain G. D. B. Black, from have mentioned above. These 1863 the Government, through 3rd to 20th February inclusive are the acts of a discredited and the Surveyor-General, promised a Surgeon Lieutenant J.T. Smalle beaten foe,a foo which argues now Courthouse, but this was not will attend at Volunteer Headquar that, since the game is all ap, fulfilled until the opening of the tera daily from 9 am, to 10 s.u there is nothing to be lost new building in Statue Square in by disregarding the castomary 1013.
A winning laws of warfare. nation would certainly not stain its fair name in the eyes of the world by indulging in dirty work of this kind.
Very Considerate.
Joined. The undermentiqne members having joined the Corp are allotted Corps numbers 'su posted as follows:-No. 175 Sapper F. Garcia, to Enginee Company; 1751 Pie. F. A, Reis to Signalling Section; 1752; Ete W. R. Wilkinson, to Signallin Section.
· Clock Tower and Mint,
Another landmark that has already disappeared was the Clock Tower, built from public sub scriptions and furnished with a clock presented by Mesere. Weekly Reports, —0, 0.ser Douglas, Lapraik and Co. This reminded that the weekly state i performed a useful work until required at the Orderly Room nu We are getting quite used by 1913, when its room was thought later than 5 p.m. to-morrow. this time to the terrible threats of more value than its company,
Officers Training Lectures.- which the German naval author and Hongkong knew it no more. There will be no lecture to From a little paragraph which The total outpot of the Kailan ities are holding out against us. About this time, too, Hongkong morrow 4th instant. Tusaday we printed yesterday it will be Mining Administration's mizes It is certainly very kind and cone had a Mint of its own, but whether 9th February, "Battalion Drill, seen that the London County for the week ending January 23 siderate of them cow to give us it had coinage troubles as it has Capt. Stewart. Council's scheme for giving amounted to 62,201.47 tona and fair warning of what their sub at the present time is not clear. To-day's Orders... instruction in the management of the sales during the period to marines intend to do to our transHowever, the Mint did not pay children is meeting with consider-[38,832.99 tons.
ports which are to convey the and it was scrapped, the plaut new armies across to France. Bat being sold to Japan, where it was we need bave no fears on this re-erected at Osaka. BOOre. Hitherto we have been
The Training of Mothers,
able
was time success. It that some sane "measures were adopted in regard to teaching
Nubia's Cargo,
Hospital Visit.
The Warning.
For Prisoners.
a
Corps Orders issued to-day, b Major D. Macdonald, state ------- Field Day, 7th inst.-Refer ence to Corps Orders of 2nd inst the Corps and Reserves will leav Kowloon by the 8.45 a.m. trai |and return from Tsipo Market b
train leaving at 5.15 p.m.
Paraden-Parades for Friday 5th instant, nil, Rees. Orderly Sergeant, Serg Detail Orderly Officer, Lien Hall. To furnish Guard to nigh Scouts Company: to-morrow Scouts Company,
a certain class of mothers how The cargo shipped from Hong- able to land our expeditionary Individual Irishmen, whether in Hongkong or elsewhere, will not to kill their children; kong by the a.. Nubia on Janu- forces on French soil without let resent as strongly as the League has done, the impudence of any one and, so long as fade and theories ary 29 included 100 bales of waste or hindrance and without a single
All this time the prisons had person in professing to represent the views of a body which has are kept at a safe distance, we wish silk for Manchester: 583 rolls of assualty, and we have sufficient given the authorities more than actually cast him out. Who is Sir Roger Casement that he should the movement lack. A great deal mats and matting for Ameterdam; faith in our Navy to-be- make, or try to make strife and mischief? For years past he bas of the ignorance observable in 150 rolls of matting and 1,224 lieve that that proud record little trouble. Besides the gaol been earning bis bread as a servant of the British Government. Is some of the young mothers of the packages of Government stores stands in no danger of being building, always inconveniently it not almost a pity that he should have waited till his retirement poorer classes is undoubtedly due for London; 76 bales of raw silk besmirched. After all, the Stonecutter's Island, as well as an orowded, the Government used from the Consular service before, discovering what a contemptible to much of the precious and im- for Lyons; and 1,087 half-cheste utility of the submarine at night old bulk. It was at Stonecutter's nation the English are? Why did be condescend to accept knight-pressionable time of the girlhood of tes, 99 bales of raw silk and is not great. In darkness it is that a revolt broke out among the hood and the O.M.G. from our King? The man who cots as Sir having been devoted by a misguid- 300 slabs of tin for Marseiller. very much like a bat during Roger Casement has acted, in deliberately holding friendly inter-ed School Board to subjects that
the day-time. And in the dark prisoners, some of whom esos ped, to the number of about 100, coures with the enemy can only be one of two things-koave or fool. were never likely to be of any
THE WAR BLAMED of night the distance aorous the While the barbour thus added ita His many years of good service and the readiness with which he pro-practical use to them. The courofs
Channel could easily be covered
quota of landmarke, which have
Pelce of Hardwood done Up tested against the Putumayo outrages, do not show him as have been so occupied in teach Lady May, accompanied by without great risk of detection.
since gone, one still remains that a krave, and the only assumption left to us is that his brain is past ing chemistry and theoretical Miss Phoebe May, visited the
was then and is now connected
Balore. Mr. Justion Gompert: its beat. At any other time than war-time the seditions rubbish bygiene and in wasting pupila wards of the Nethercole Hospital
with the sea, namely the Sailors in the Summary Court, this morn published by him and by a few others like him might have been time sed ratepayers money in and Alice Memorial Maternity
Home at West Point, which was ing, the Tai Bang Teeung fr ignored; but under present circumstances he would do well to remain the purchase of expensive scien- Hospital, this morning Lady
opened in 1864. In 1887 the Rued the Chung Stan Loong Bru out of England and Ireland for a while.
tife apparatas, that they seem to May is specially interested in the
There is one point about the convict hulk, which bad proved for $175, monies paid by ther The question of Ireland's loyalty or disloyalty is not worth the have had no time to impress on Children's Ward of the Nether labour of argument. The presence of the Irish regiments at the Front the girls such simple realities as sols Hospital, where a cot bar German announcement which is only a source of vexation and for work done and material decides that question. The Irishman, for some unaccountable reason, that auaired linen, ill-cooked or been instituted to be supported worth noticing it is the warning expense to the Government since applied in restoring and rainsta has been represented as a wild, unpractical person, always at log-improper food and imperfect by the Ministering Children's to merchant shipping not to ap-its purchase, was sold to a Chinese, ing the ground floor of 198, De proach the north-west coast of and the Royal Saxon, as it was Voeux Road Central, on defend gerheads with himself, always standing in his own light, and at ventilation may bring death. The League.
France, owing to the serious called, ended its life in the watere sute' behalf, which was let b whiles bitterly antagonistic to England. But this is to judge a next generation will be no strong-
of Canton. confused with
the plaintiffs to the defendente. whole country according to one or two misguided enthusiasts. Ire-er for the fact that the woman who
danger of being
Mr. CA. 8. Ruse (Mr JRE land orce had a lot to forgive where England is ooncerned; and she have borne it have been taught that
warlike ships. This may mean
Gardiner) appasred for th ham forgiven it, because the cause of grievance has been removed, carbon dioxide or whatever they The Hon. Treasurer of the Alica many things. It may be intended
plaintiff and Mr. Dəni That the Irish of Queen Elizabeth's or Cromwell's days, who were in call the stuff is a poisonous gas. Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals to cover the enemy's recent acts in
Mesara, Donnya and the grip of some of the cruellest persecutions known to bistory, should If the elementary schools would boga to acknowledge with thanks giving small meray to merchant
appeared for the defend have felt bitter and resentful was natural enough. But all that is but teach a little less about the following donations to the boats, or it may be intended to
in the course of his pest and forgotten: Ireland has got what she strove for religious colonos and a little more about fands of the Hospitals-Butter- prepare me for more work along
plaintiff said that even freedom, and, to her, little else matters. Her sons, like Englishmen, shirt-making, and potato boiling, fold and Swire, $100 Hongkong the same lices. But why a nation
The Germans have seized all had gone ap, on account Scots or Welshmen, may grumble at times, but their grumbling is and the necessity for cleanliness and Shanghai Bark $100; Ewhich strikes at hospital ships from the lips father than from the heart. When England is at war, of house and person, there would D. Sassoon and Co., 8100 (and sinks merchantmen without the bone and arrows in Belgium war (laughter) they, like Australasia, Canada, India, and South Africa are also at be less need for the L.0.0. to D. Sassoon and Co., $100, Rains notice should now pose as being owing to their having discovered The hasring was adjour
aras England's enamies know to their coat in the Peninsula davote hime and money to the and Co.. $100; Asiatic Petroleum so solicitous for peaceful shipping that the arrows were used to shoot arbitration an to the Talne o War, the Crimes and the Boar campaign, and as Germany, knows to business of mother-training. Co., 850.
OBO would very much like to know, letters Raross, the Datoh frontier, work done.
Alice Memoria. Hospital,
(To be continued).
Belgian Bows and Arrows.