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Two days ago we touched in this column on the matter of on- operation between householders and the Food Prices Committee [in regard to circumventing the |ways and means by which the Chinese compradors exceeds the' tariff laid down in the official list. We then spoke of the obligation
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS. ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT
THE HOSPITAL SHIP
OUTRAGE.
BUTTERFLY SOCKS AND STAR SINGLETS.
The Australlar Fleet Still
to the Fore.
The statement--which-Dr.
Prosecution in the Hongkong Courts.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE.
THEATRICALS.
A Big Effort on Behalf of the Prince of Wales' Fund.
Those who coached the Queen's College boys for their amsteur dramatic performance have good reason to congratulate themselves,
another point which may be At the Peak 8-a.m. Temp. 54 ; | Msonsmara made in the Houss At the Police Court, this morn for the lade gave an absolutely mentioned, and that is that the clear,
of Commons regarding the notioning, before Mr. Hazeland, a case Number One show last night in VITAFER is rich in body-building and nerve-restoring Committee should assist the Count the Columns, of a German submarine in firing a in which there was an alleged in- * The Kind Mother and her Dati- elements, the milk constituents form flesh and muscle, whilst the public by fixing the prices, not Yesterday the Telegraph torpedo at the British hospital fringement of trademarks came ful Sons"- vernacular play Glycerophosphates revitalize the nerves and brain. This latter only of market produce, mast and published 33 columns of solid ship Asturias was a moit damning on for hearing. The Kwan Yip (authorship not acknowledged) effect is due to Organic Phosphorus being present in the food in the poultry, but also of the thousand reading matter. To-day there indictment of German methods of Long, 188, Wellington Street, which they performed in the great
and one everyday requirements, will be 33 published.
warfare, Toere can ba no were prosecuted for infringing the hall of the College, as part of s particular form in which it occurs in the human body.
such as tinned goods, mustard,..
The Malls.
wriggling ont of this deliberate "Star" quality of singlets, and the series of entertainments on behalf ou rage; no excuses, such as were Hop Kee, 299, Queen's Road of the Prinos of Wales Fond. made over the wanton destruction Central, were also summoned for
The hall, which lends itself
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of historic buildings in Belgium infringing the trade mark of the admirably to theatricals, was and France, will prevail. The "Star" singlets and the trade brightened with flags and ship was painted white with a mark of the "Butterfly" rocks, flowers, and incidental music was other articles, surely it can Siberian, Mail-Olcses per asgreen band the neual manner of Messrs. W. R. Loxley and do supplied by the St. Joseph's Band, periodically issue lists covering
Liangchow to-morrow at 6 distinguishing a hospital ship- being the plaintiffs, ・・
ander Mr. E. Vassallo, which these as well. This matter in
and her red crosses
Mr. Bowlay appeared for the provided an excellent programme. deserving of all the more atten-
illuminated. More than that, she prosecution and said the case of One had expected to see more tion from the fact that it is on Consigness' notices regarding had been notified to the balliger- Kwan Yip Loong was not defend- Europeans and more influential these tinned and bottled goods the steamers Mishima Mara, Onts as a hospital ship, and, an ed. He had arranged with the Uhinese present, but these pro Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which that the compradore is able to sang and Kumsang are issued, such, was protected by the Hague Kwan Yip Loong, subject to his sumably are saving themselves
with make a far bigger squeeze than Page 5.
Oonvention, the first signatory to Worship' approval, that the sing for to-night, which will be more communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for on small purchases of market A concert in aid of the Belgian which was the Kaiser himself. lets seized should be returned to of n gala occasion.
produce.
Refugees Fund is to be given at There could thus be no possibility the plaintiffs and he had an agres The scenery, supplied, we un- the Italian Convent on the 15th of mistaking the cr.ft for other ment signed by the Kwan Yip derstand, by local Chinese The Canton Chief of Police. and 16th inst-Pago 5.
than that which she was.
Loong
theatrer, was excellent, as were. We stated, some months ago,"
The Royal Hongkong Golf
His Worship Do you wish also the dresses. From the The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will that Tang Ia-kwong, who was Club's Competition for the Cap- Thus for once in a way Ger- me to adjourn this case sine dis? synopsis of the play printed on
appointed chief of the Canton tain's Cap has been postponed. many in pinned down to a flag-
Mr. Bowley said he asked his the programme it was possible police after the shooting of Oban Page 5.
rant and most revolting breach Worship to order that the singlets to get quite a good outline idea of King-wah, bad been called upon. Wongneichong Recreation of honour, and she stands be handed over to the plaintiffs the atory, and even those of us resign his past, on the ground Ground is to be used by the disgraced in the eyes of the that was the only order he asked, who were quite ignorant of Ohinese that he is a native of Kwangtung military authorities on Saturday world. Recent telegrame on
His Worship: I will make a could follow the course of events and thus cinnot lawfully hold Page 5.
certain may protests raised by order on the terms consented.
sufficiently to be highly enter Government position in
The s.8. City of Durham saile Germany have shown that the Hr. Bowley said he had arrang tained. The boys acting was Province. "Bal the law's delays from Hongkong on the 20th inst. United States ia beginning to lossed with Meaare, Ewens and Need forceful and whole-hearted and are as noticeable in China as else Page 5
whatever sympathy she had for ham with regard to the summons one noticed none of the self-con- where and, up to the moment of
the Germans, and this latest to put in a similar content.
aciousness which, so often mara writing, we believe Mr. Tang is The rate of the dollar on outrage will sasuredly increass His Worship: I had better British amateur aoting. In fact the still holding office in Canton. He demand today is le 9.3-16d.
youth who took the part of the idle is, however, so we are given to
Missing Clothes,
begger was so batural that understand, definitely leaving A Chinese interpreter has com-
absent-mindedly we almost look- at an early date. There is a story plained to the Police of the theft
ed,round for a policeman. The earrent that Fai Sheung-chi, from his house of clothing to the
women parts, too, seemed wonder- Mazohn and a former Prefect of value of $12.
fully natural and the make-up Kwongchów, is to be his sucoer-
was exceptionally good.
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the detestation which is felt at the methods which our arch
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foremost in preparing that code
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to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd., Shameen,sor; and it has been sufficiently. While coming down the side of wide-spread for one of the Hong- the s.s. Empire, & coal coolie fall kong vernacular papers to think it into the sea, through a rope break-Powers represented at the Hague worth while to contradict it. Ac-ing, and was drowned, cording to our Chinese contempor
European Sued, ery, Tang_lu-kwong's successor In the Summary Court, this The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve will be Ya Chun-fa, who has morning, the action was allowed
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
hitherto been an official ander the to stand over in which Ojager Ewangel Government. We should Singh sued W. Cooper for the like to know the truth about it sum of $160, all. It would be highly diverting
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1915,
BRITISH TRADE EXPANSION.
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Assaulted a Constable.
consolidate the two summonses.
Mr. Bowley:No, they are two different summonses.
His Worship: The "Batterfly" the "Star"?
or
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Mr. Bowley:-The "Star." His Worship-How may distinguish the two?
Mr. BowleyOne is singlets and the other is zooke(laughter). His Worship-Yes, thet i sufficient.
Mr. Bowley-Will your Wor
of regulations for the governance of warfare which has been nom- inlly accepted by the Great Conferences, and the humane influences which have been em. bodied in the Hague Conventions have always commanded the warm-hearted support of the Unit ship remand the socks case sine ed States, which has stood for die?" their accapiscice and enforcement. His Worship:-Yes.. What, therefore, will Amerios now Mr. Bowley:The police may to see Manobu" installed in
At the Police Court, this morn-say to the Germans treating these hand over the singlets to the republican and revolutionary ing, an Indian watchman in the Conventions as mere coreps of plaintiff two lots of singlets?
His Worship-Yes, not the Kwangtang
employ of the Chartered Bank paper? As the greatest of neutral was fined $10. for assaulting a countries she is certainly con- socks. A Lucky Let-off.
constable at Kowloon."
cerned in this serious "affront to We reported a police-court case
Robbers.
the gospel of international Con- yesterday in which a golf caddie Two men are said to have an-ventions, and, when the facts was "dismissed with a warning", tered a cobicle occupied by a teach her, we shall be surprised when charged before Mr. Hazeland woman in Irvine Street and, after if she has not something to sty with playing with a ball in a binding and gagging her, to have on the matter, public thoroughfare. It seems to stolen a bangle, clothing and us that the youth can pat himself money to the value of $67. on the back, for the offence was,
For the Refugees.
Well Done, Australia !
A couple of items in the over- night wiresTM serve to show that Germany is meeting with losses at 28a as well as on land. Her latest
LEGAL TITBITS.
Solleitor & Query,
At the Summary Court, this Mr. Haywood-In any other
not altogether a trifling one: A A concert in aid of Lady La. lady pussing was strack by the gard's Belgian Refugees' Fund in ball, and thongh, presumably, she to be given at the Italian Convent Dasualtiesaro the loss of a destroy-morning :-
astained no great i jury, the on Monday and Tuesday, the 15th er,which has been accounted for If the war has done nothing else for Britishers it can certainly chances were equs! that she and 18th last, The concert by Russian submarine, and the case of this kind the solicitor be said that it has roused them to a recognition of the need for great- might have done so. For which has been entirely organised and sinking of an auxiliary orniser, would have to pay coste, and why er and more organised efforts to secure a larger share of the world's reason we should have liked to will be conducted by pupils of It is of interest, in connection not the Official Receiver?*** trade than they have hitherto enjoyed. Long before war was thought see some punishment imposed the music class of the Convent, with the latter of these losses, to His Lordship will not give
In brief the story comes to this: Acertain widow, Chau Shan sba by name, bad two sons, Han and Yo; neither of them any better than he should be. At an early stage in his history the elder of them saw the error of his ways; howbeit the younger was given to gambling, which weakness eventually led him to prison, through the medium of bad ingot which he would fai have passed as a good one. He was bailed out by his godfather, ChauSai-un, a man who had much goode Isid up to himself and who in after life, for reasona zot necessarily connected with the narrative," was made: Chinose" Minister to Washington, DC. Mrs. Chan, determined to give the prodigal another ohanoo provided him with money where with to trade, and, as he finished by coming back and being a comfort to his mother, we may take it that he made good in business. Meanwhile the elder brother whose reform had been brought about by the in fallible expedient of his being -of, attention was constantly being drawn to the frot that, because of that would be & satisfactory
Feil from the Roof. notice that the performance goss them.
made to take his meals with the wall-organised trade campaigne, backed up by the State and well deterrent to other sportsmen of Asirvant girl, aged eleven to the credit of a abip of the Aus- Why not Saveral ? aupported by assistance from Banks, Germany was forging ahead this clues. It is the arst instance years, has been admitted to the tralian Navy, which has done
Mr. Shenton: This case has company with the godfather, servants—went on his travels in commercially all over the world, in some regions even endangering we remember of hand-ball's Tung Wah Hospital, suffering such good work on the high seas been adjourned once.
and studied abroad until his Mr. Haywood-Bat it has mother began to peak and our own supremacy in markets which we ought to and could supply. being thrown in the streefs, but from injuries caused by falling in this war. H.M.A.S. Australia, Our business men and financiers were slow to act and the complaints we have several times reen from the roof to a second floor which put an end to the auxiliary only been adjourned ones, my pine by reason of his long ab largely went unheeded. Since Germany has been driven out of the Chiness er Portuguese boys kitohen.
craiser, is one of the warships Lord; that it all-laughter.) sence. Then be returned and all field, however, a marked change has come over the situation, and kicking a muddy football from Claim Against a European.
provided by the Australians in His Lordship (referring to the characters in the drama wers
Would not Give ■ Ruling. lived happily ever after. Other to-day there are big movements afoot to grasp the opportunities one to the other in thoroughfares Mesura, Lane, Crawford and the building up of their own Fleet. which are presented.
frequented by Europeans, and we Company were the plaintiffe and She is battle-cruiser of the im-se in which Lawran and Co. Sam On-yau a tenant of Mrs. In the past, Britain has been content to trust to individus! affort should like to hear that a few A. Orawford the defendant in an proved Indomitable type, and was were the defendants) Judg Chau's who brought the erring to cure what trade she could, but gradually it is becoming realised more indian constables were action listed at the Summary completed in 1912just at the meat for the plaintif with costs. that there is a duty on the State to foster and help foreign trade. about to follow the example of Court, this morning, for the sam sme time as the Bydney, which Mr. Dannys You don't find ger son back to his mother and promised that he would to The other day we cited some examples of the good work which the their comrade by arresting one or of 855.15. The case was ad-some weeks back put the finishing the defendant is a partner in this
better boy in fature; Ah Ye, Board of Trade has been doing along these lines, and we may taks two of the offenders. A fortnight jzarned.
touch on the Emden. The Aug. firm? by Man gund Sai Es, women servants, vide is that the policy thus initiated will expand as time goes on... At a ago an old gentleman, proceed- What is Wrong with the Thien ? | tralians will surely be proud of
His Lordship: I don't go s0
The play will be repeated meeting of the British Engineering Acoiation recently held in ing up Icehouse Street in a chair, The tiles in the Law Courts are this, the latest bit of good work far as that. I don't find he was
|te-night in presence of H. E. the Manchester, Mr. Wilfred Stokes, the Chairman of the Executive was as nearly as possible struck cansing some inconvenienne at done by their Fleet, which, though not and I don't find he was- Governor, and, to-morrow night, Committee of the Association, had this subject as the theme of an in the face by a football. Can no the moment. The building, sa is young in age, has established a
(laughter).
Immediate Retribution to One's address, and, though he appreciated what had so far been done, ha utapa be taken to make these common knowledge, is practically remarkably fine record since war
Own Evil Deade" will be staged advocated sweeping reforme in the Board of Trade and Foreign young people understand that the Office and the setting up of a paid council of business men to look streets are not intended to be after Britinh trade interests abroad and in the Colonies. We cannot used as playgrounds? go into the full details of his scheme, but it may be mentioned that his idea was thịt the Council should be composed of men having an intimate acquaintance with business requirements, who should 10 well paid, no as to attract man of capacity from private business cón-
of
Food Shortage in Germany. Tae London correspondent o
the Pioneer cables: An Ex
new one, get on different broke out. verandahs great patches of tilos have cracked up, for some reason or other, and parts are tileless. The tiles in the top lavatory are also working looze.
Yiumati Robbery,
6 € Armed Robbery,
Kr.Dennys-Iwould like some
raling.
His Lordship I am not going
to give any ruling. It is a ques
tion of fact and it is enough that MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING I am giving judgment for the plaintiff.
Another Generous dift.
Kosers. 8. Dawson & Co., Ltd.,
A Judgment that was Spirited
Away,
la the Summary Court, this
sugar to the Belgian Belief Fund. in that case in which Mr But.
A case of highway robbery is Alice Memorial Hospital. reported from Yaumati," A man cerns. As part and parcel of the scheme be also advocated the ap
Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals Birest carrying $150 in subsid The Bon, Treasurer of the Alice war walking along Shanghai pointment of numarons qualified trade commissioners in all parts change correspondent at Copen bege to acknowledge with thanks lary coine, when he was set upon the world, who should display samples of goods, draw up classified Lagen, dealing with German mea he following donations to the by a number of men, who threw lists and in other dirsotiana halp to bring together buyer and seller sure for meeting the cutting all fands of the HospitalsNestle'him to the ground, making off of 59 Mark-lans, E.C., have made morning: MAAR in the interests of British trade. His view was that the Ommercial of supplies, points out that the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co. with the money by Zuke qua gift of 20,000 lb. of Demerara His Lordship :-Mr. Davidson, Attache servios should offer a separato and distinot career from that regulation of prioas is powerless $100 H Brott, 8100 Details are not yet to hand of The gift will be distributed | in | fonjas in defendant; I had pro diplomatio representatives abroad in the interests of business, it will) time will soon come when the A Boss and Co., $50: A. B. Wat place at Sheung Bhai. It appears, Hongkong-Saigon Rice Trade, the written Judgment has" my When we remem bar how little real service is done by British arists, and anticipates that the Lane, Crawford and Co., 850 ↑ An Artmed robbery which took Belgiam,posed to deliver Judgme be conceded that the plan anggested by Mr. Stokes in deserving of Government will be obliged to son and Co., $50; Bradley and however, that of the men con-Exports of rice from Baigon teriously disppeared, Ovary consideration. Our methods must undergo a complete revison, put the nation on short allowance. Co $25; British American cerned in the affair, one during December included 9,000 give you; Judgment to-morrow and now is the time to reorganise. That point is clearly seep, and) Professor Riohst considers that, Tobacco Co., 25; Oʻrmichael was shot by a villager, while tons to Singapore, 6,500 tons to morning in Chambers or Buy if business men do not get all they want, we may at any rate.com- if the blockade continues as at fidently look to seeing a powers of organised activity soon insugarat present, Germany will be faced and Clark, $25; 0, K. Hall Brut ed, the benefits of which will no doubt be lasting and permanent, |with a famine in May,57
of diplomaty.
when an actual shortage of food Northern Telegraph Co, $50;
ton, $25.
was wounded. The mon Hongkong and 21,500 tons to other time you like
Mr, Haywood were six in number and armed Java, besides 14,000 tone to
Europea de
with
Ford
but
Wals