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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1915.
English in Local Schools.
Judging from the Belilios School report which we published
DAY BY DAY."
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
OLD HONGKONG
THE SANITARY BOARD.
THE DISHEARTENED TURKS.
The Case of the Lusitania
Analysed.
More Interesting History of the
Colony.
last Friday, a very distinct IT IS WORTH A THOUSAND DOLL- advance in the teaching of Eng-ARS A YEAR TO HAVE THE HABIT lish is being made in that OF LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
OF THINGS." satablishment. English and Chinese are now, it seems, being
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(Continued from Saturday),
Important: Questions at To-day's "Meeting.
At the usual fortnightly meet- We are not surprised to read that the Turks, who in consider Hongkong was called upon ing of the Sanitary Board, held able force attempted to cross the to deal with the question of this afternoon, a letter was" road- Suez Canal, are utterly dissolie traffic about this time, and from the Government forwarding beartened at the failure of the the ball was ast rolling with the correspondence relating to plague.
Bill for epidemics in Hongkong. effort. They have made the introduction of a
"The latter, which was from the
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The following is the report of
Lower level 8 am. Tamp. 73; considerable improvement on the
dull. old eyatem whereby pupils devot
At the Fesk 8's.m. Temp. 66; ed the first seven years of their
fog. school life to the study of the
Count the Columns, vernacular, and only took up two of their course. We note that
they have no desire to renew it, abips. The opposition to the follows:
"Sir, I am directed to trans- ghting, men, and we imagine igrants in Chinese passenger official language of the Colony is│
How hopelessly they failed in Bill was based on the grounda taught for one hour a day, bat
their scheme is revealed by the that the atrocities perpetrated at mit for the consideration of the of the Sanitary that that time is gradually length-French Mail--Due per a.s. Chili fact that the only ones of the other poris in connection with the members ened in succeeding classes till,
enemy to cross the strip of water matter were such as to call for Board the enclosed print of in the highest, only half an hour a Canadian and U. K. Mails were the prisoners, who, we may the abolition of the coolie trads correspondence relating to plague day is devoted to the vernacular.
Closed per a... Nippon Maru be certain, went over not of their altogether, The Macao coolie epidemics in Hongkong, conclud- If a generous slice of the sohool
own desire, and four other trade was stigmatised as nothing|ing with the report of the Medic- working hours be necesary for Siberian Mail-Olosed per as. Bragglere. The message dealing short of a slave-trade in unhappy al Officer of Health on the effec- English in girls' schools, it is
Sado Mara to-day at 11 a.m. with the affair contains an men who had been enticed or tiveness of the Clayton disinfect still more so in those for boys; and
interesting aidelight" on
the kidnapped away from their homes ing apparatus.
"The Government, as at present we should hear wish satisfaction
enemy's treatment of his soldiers. for the purpose of sale to Macao that the maximum possible time
When it became clear that the tradere, and it was argued that adviced, proposes to act on Dr. was being allotted to this subject
Tarke were worsted, some of the the only way in which the Eng-Clark's advice." in all the boys' schools of Hong-
Dr. Clark's Opinion. Company Meeting. despondents who had made them-lish would place themselves in a The meeting of shareholders in selves soarco attempted to rejoin position to remonstrate with kong. The masters know, for better than outsidera can tell the Kowloon Land and Buildings their regiments, but when they saw Macao would be first of all to put them, how the difficulties of their Co., Ltd., will be held at noon to that the German and Turkish their own house in order by do-Dr. Clark on the Clayton appara task are added to by the fact morrow.
officers were shooting runaways ing away with the business alto-tap :-
**The only report that seems to that, the moment their pupils
they conosived discretion to be gether. Amemorial was forwarded are out of the class room, they Mrs. Yuk Hing entrusted the better part of valour and pre-on the subject to the Governor, me to apply to conditions similar revork to their mother tongue; Chinese youth with a $100 billferred to trust themselves to the who remitted it to the Secretary to those which obtain in Hong- and one often feels that if to have changed into subsidiary British rather then place them-of State and the Ordinance was kong, is that from Col. W. G. the results of the English coia. The boy has not yet re-selves at the mercy of their own never brought into force as it King-a distinguished) sanitary leaching in local schools &re torbed.
With the latter stood bat subsequently re-enacted expert-ard he comes to the con- poor and no one could call them
there was no such spirit prevail with certain alterations. anything else the blame liss not
gas to make the best of a bad with individual masters bat with
job they chose to wreak their Hongkong legislators must those in whose haada is placed the
fary on their own men. At any have been in a mood for spring duty of drawing up the school
rate, it is enough for us that the cleaning at the time, and now time-tables.
attempt has ended in dismal brooms were got to work on many failure, and that in spite of Gera matter. which required a deal Foggy Weather.
manencouragement and direction, of attention. Consequently the
The Recent Election. Lacoming ships report siper. Dodging the Enemy. question of gambling, which had
The following letter was re leucing very foggy weather. The Some interesting points are been carried on in the anal We have remarked, a score of Loongang, which arrived to-day raised by the case of the Cunard manner that most vices are in a caived from the Government times, that a very largo pro from Manila, reports dense fog 30 liner Lusitania, which, on in British community-not with the relative to the election of Dr. portion of Chinese boysnowstudy miles south-east of Waglar, while structions from the Admiralty, actual connivance of the author Fitzwilliams and Mr. P. W. Gold- ing in the various schools here the Haishow, from Holhow, re- has sailed into Liverpool flying ities, but with careful ignor-ring are destined to become clerks to
Ism directed to inform you British firms or to native houses forta moderate weather and, lat- the American flag. in view ance of the matter was taken
of the heartless manner in which up. Though the Government that at an election held at the Germany has been dealing had only intimated a little while Supreme Court on January 22, We are heartily glad to see, in the last Times Literary supple-of business where a good know. terly, dense fog.
The manager of a shop at 41, with merchant shipping, the previously that it had no intention 1915, Merare. G. H. L. Fitzwill ment received from Acme, a fair and equare condemnation of the ledge of English is necessary.
Most heads of British commercial Connaught Road West, reports manoeuvre adopted in this of introducing means of regulatisme, M.D., and P. W. Goldring, tripper who will persist in giving his (or her) opinions on China houses will tell us that, in a to the Palice that on Nov. 30, instance
wise and dis- ing gambling houses, provision were duly elected members of the to the world-or, rather, to that very tiny section of the world that number of cases, such boys-1914, $2,600 was stolen from aerest-more than that, it was was made by the introduction of Sanitary Board." ever troubles to read sach outpourings. In a rather less than mer- despite their possession of hand safe by means of a duplicate key, thoroughly justifiable. Thie view clauses in u Bill dealing with the siful criticism of one such book, written by Mrs. Mary Gaunt, the somely printed. Oxford Local He was away from the shop at the will surely find all the readier maintenance of order and clean- certificates-take something like time and a foki, who has abscond acceptance when it is noted that liness to enable the Government half a lifetime wherein to be
in this particular case Germany to frame rules and regulations. apparently had given it out that Gaol-Birds on faol Staff. she intended to destroy the abip, The police force of Hongkong with its non-combatant crew and has not always been the fine body
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1915.
reviewer observed:~
BOOKS ON CHINA.
"How many books have been writton about this land of China in recent years by men and women, whose imper. “ fect knowledge of the language and customs of the people. has necessarily prevented them from perceiving the real significance and relative values of the scones and events they have described! How little has a generation of globe- trotting authors added to the first store of knowledge gathered for us by the first Josuit missionaries, by Meadow, Fortune, Baber, and other wisely meditative writers of the pioneer period!'
Every one of our readers who has had an opportunity of com- paring the modern travel-book with the older and atandard works
The
Sufferers.
Knocked Down by Tramcar. A coolie bas been admitted to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from injuries caused to his head by being knocked down by tramcar No. 45 in Des Voeux Road Want...
Fokl Suspected.
usefully conversant with Euglish; ad, is suspected.
Pocket Picked.
English In the University.
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a
New Factory,
"superiors."!
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The Gambling Question.
The Sikh Force.
olusion that, for houses, the Clayton apparatus is not efficient in respect 10 cost. His experience has also been gained in India, and I am content to follow his advice and rely on our present method of procedure."
The Water Carring e System. The report from the Select Committee appointed to consider the whole question of the water carriage system was laid before the meeting
BLUEJACKETS' BAIL
ESTREATED.
which means, of course, that the A shopkeeper, of 152; Winglok employers of such boys must suffer Street, has complained to the in one way or another. But we Police that, while walking in
it is, and neither has the gaol staff. Dr. Fitzwilliams minuted I would like to hint that there are Bonham Strand East, some person
The Only Course.
The inclusion of all sorts and cannot agree with No. 1. of the other sufferers by Hongkong's an- picked his pocket and stole a On the international aspect of conditions of men, and the scheme committee's proposals. With re- satisfactory educational methods; to wit: the professord and lecturers para containing $65 in money, the case, there is no reason that we for the inclusion of gaol-birds, gard to No. 3, I am of opinion deposit note for $5,350 and a know of why any ship during war- if necessary, during the early that it would not be difficult, or at the University.
pasaport for Cabu.
time should not fly whatever flag part of the history of the Colony, even expensive, to abolish all Queen's College Prize Day, she chooses. In recent Prize Court should tend to show what sort of openings of sewers in the harbour With reference to the annual proceedings in Hongkong it was force it was in the bad old daye. in the central district by means of distribution of prizes at Queen's admitted that the battleship Of the gaol niaff, it might be a long calvert with terminal open- Hongkong Chinese boys do not College yesterday, a representa-Triumph, or any other warship, said that a superintendent of the ings opposite Green Island on the on Obins will, we imagine, readily endorse what the Times man has all go into commerce; many tive from the College this morn- had a perfect right to fly the gaol was formerly a mate of a one side and at some point well said, realising, as they must do, the justics of his complaint. Egen proceed to the University, with ing called at our office and slated enemy flag in order to attract ship, with pone too good a east on the other. The Select to the people at Home who have travelled no farther than Cork or view to taking a degree in Arts, that no invitations therefor were merchant shipping belong-character, who was known at Committee have considered the Boulogne, many of these books are more or less an insalt; while Medicine or Engineering. How issued to the local Press, these ing to the enemy. With so times to have allowed at least one existing arrangements, but I hold persons out here will best avoid a needless display and expenditure can those who are responsible for being inadvertently overlooked much admitted, the converse of his charges to be present at a that a water carriage system-in of temper by not reading them, or else by treating them as a huge joke. the lads' higher education hope owing to the illness of one of the surely holde good-namely that a dinner party that begave. That the Hongkong does not exist. After attempting to read many dozens of such works, we have to obtain satisfactory results if the mastera.
merchant ship may by any flag to superintendent met with his just arrived at the conclusion that there is hardly one volume on China, lade themselves only understand
escape the attentions of enemy dues must have been a matter for penned by the conventional traveller, that could not easily have been half of what is said to them? The It is notified by the American warships. In fact, the procedure congratulation in a Colony whore written in the reading-room of the British Museum by a person who Arts course here includes a fairly Consulate General that a widely is more than ever justified in the everyone seemed to do pretty much had never been outside England. We remember being called upon, wide knowledge of English liter-known American manufacturer latter instance, since merchant as he liked. some few years ago, to review one suck work, which certainly bore ature. Can an undergraduate, is contemplating the erection of vessels have no such means of re- something of the imprint of having been written by a man who had ho hee a difficulty in su underwear knitting branob palling an attack as have ships of A change came when the Bikh stayed in China long agough to get some inkling of the native temp analysing a complex sentence or factory in Hongkong, and secke war. Germany, in her latest Police Force was introduced into erament etc. On subsequent enquiry, however, we found that the in paraphrasing a verse of modern connections Hongkong mood, has revealed herself in the Hongkong for the first timus. An writer had spent one month in the East and that in Hongkong! postry, hope to shine when he is capitalists interested in such en-role of an unscrupulous pirate, Assistant Superintendent in At the Police Court, this morn- But even this particular book at least tried to cover subjects that asked to explain a passage from terprises. The name and address and as long as she shapes her the Panjab Police had been aping, before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, had not already been done to death," whereas the average work of Bacon's Essays or to convert a can be obtained from the Con- conduct on those lines it is the pointed to Hongkong and, with two American sailors, J. Bhoten- the same class tells the people at Home absolutely nothing that they couple of stanzas of "The Faerie sulata.
business of those who may the permission of the Viceroy of burg and D. Wandworth, should do not already know.
Queene" into every-day English| Alice Memorial Hospital. proso? How, too, can a professor The Hon. Treasurer of the Alica Fossibly suffer to take any and India, be raised a force of 108 Sikh have appeared on a charge of overy precaution to safeguard the Police for Hongkong. The men being drank and disorderly in Some day, surely, the world will be so full of books on Chinn that of Economies, Engineering or Memorial and Afiliated Hospitals lives of innocent and defenceless that they started with were of a Samran Street. They had been it can hold no mora. Before the Revolution broke out, the globe-trot Anatomy hope to appeal to the begs to acknowledge with thanks travellers on th sexs. ters were beginning to show signs of having realised this fact; but, intellect of his papila, if half his the following donations to the slas, the Revolution gave a fresh apart to a dying industry, and remarks are going to be Greek to funds of the Hospitals:-Gibb so the manufacture still goes on nobody profiting, aave a few them? So long as boys go up Livingston and Co., $25; Java publishers. Of course the average London publisher is a fair dealing with so ragged a knowledge of China Japan Lija, $25; W. B. and honourable man, and will therefore, as a rule, warn those who English, the University will be Loxley and Co., $25; J. D. itch to see themselves in print on the subject of China, that they robbed of half its power to do the Humphreys and Bon, $25; W. G. are embarking on a very expensive voyage. It is therefore not just work for which it was intended. Humphreys and Co., $25; John-
Bop, Stokes and Master, $25 to blame the trade, for, as most of us know, the man-nay, it is
Linstead and Daviss, $25; A. R. generally the woman who bas basu seized with the notion of writ-
book can
short be stayed by nothing.
Marty and O., $25; Holland Germans Shipbuilding Haste at China Trading Co.. $25. Sach money."
folk will
"The Evolution of Germany. cent attempting to get their work on Berne, December 25.-A Milan
in the market. If they must needs write-and we suppose, after all,telegram saya that a correspond. The first of a series of three quilted himself was worthy of all
ing.
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of lank their last
risk almsst
Kiel.
with
good stamp, for most of them arrested but allowed out on bail wore the medals of the Matiny and of ten dollars each, and, on their the China War. The experiment failure to answer to their names, ORGAN RECITAL. was so ancosssful that the Deputy the magistrato ordered their bail
Superintendent of Police, in a fow to be setreated. Last evening, Mr. Derman months, again went back to ladis, Faller gave anothor of his series bringing further reinforcements, of organ recitale, in St. John's and the new institution gained a BELGIAN RELIEF FUND bold upon the affection of the Cathedral, at which there was a good attendance. The programme authorities which it holds to the waa very good and the manner in present day.
(To be continued). *飯 which the instrumentalist &0%
"Come yo
A is their own affair, to long as they can afford to pay the piperent of the New York Tribuna, delivered last evening at the R. A. verdure clad in a most finished
various classes. Eight thousand
Sir E. T. Cook as a Press
Bureau Man.:
Handsome Donations from Hongkong,
The following donations have
sent Home to Lady Lugard
lectures on the above subject was praise, Miss White sang "With why at least not give China s rent? We have met men of high cult who visited Kiel, atates that there Theatra by Commander Busmana, manner, and also ure who have spent over thirty years in the East, and who decline are two aquadrons there one of H. M. S. Tamar, those present children with the assistance of to write about the Ubiness on the score that they do not know en of eight Dreadnoughts, the other including Hie. Excellency the quartelte. The programme was The appointment of Sir Edward been ough about them. Every established Hongkong resident will own that there are features of the Chinese character into which it is im-composed of eight vessels of Governor, Major General Kelly, as follows: Toccata and Tyas Cook, the well-known for the Belgian Relief Fund: possible for the Westernar to enter, and that, however long the workmon daily and 3,000 nightly basal and military officers. The "Meditation," Batiste; Air" With directors of theed in London s Commander Anstruther and many Faguo in D minor," Bach; journalist, as one of the assistant Westerner may remain among the people of China, he will be lucky are working solely on ships com discourse was of a most interest- verdure clad," Hadyn; Miss L Bureau is welcomed in London if he succeeds in getting to know any more about their mind, point of plateable in three months. All view and temperament, or even their mannera and castoms, than other ship work is at a standstill, ing character, and at its close the White Harmonies du Soir," S. thoroughly satisfactory. He people in Europe knew a hundred years ago. Few of our readers Therefore the correspondent lecturer was thanked by Major Karg Elort; Toue picture, Grieg; understands thoroughly what the even those who have had the best possible opportunities of observing anticipates a Aght in the early General Kelly on behalf of those Bolo and quartette, "Come se public want, and what the public their Asistic neighbours would venture to put forth a book on the spring! A further 3,000 workmen present. This evening at 6:30, children, "Sullivan, Miss L. White, service in another cense requires, Chinese but the average tripper will, it seema, never fully under are engaged at Friedrichsort the lecture will be on The in- soloist Master T. Martin, Mrs. and may be counted upon to meet stand that a little knowledge makes a man or a woman an unspeak torpedo factory.
fluence of the philosophical move Goldsmith, Mr. N. Pullen, Mr. F. both demands with a bread- ment in Germany.
Biden: Prelude F. Borowski, minded wisdom.
able nuisance.
Mr. HoTang8100 0 Collected at a Indica bridge tournament at Kingsolero (8166).
Sir Henry Ma
£180.1340