THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1915.
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OLD HONGKONG.
A SERIOUS FRANCE.
Some Gambling Reflections,
STRIKING CONTRASTS,
That somewhat ratio bat ever popular, writer, Victoria Cross, remarks, in ope of ber stories, that the Britisher's idea of enjoyment consists in doing something that will annoy or inconveniento other people. It is a harsh and alrOLLOW IT-Emerson. sweeping judgment, and one i glad to be able to feel that there are at least some exceptions to such a rale. It is, however, quite true that mauy Britishere seem constitutionally unable to under- dull. stand the law of give and tako, and
DON'T WASTE LIFE IN DOUBTS AND FEARS; SPEND YOURSELF ON THE WORK BEFORE YOU, WELL ASSURED THAT THE RIGHT PER FORMANCEOFTHIS HOUR'S DUTIES WILL BE THE BEST PREPARATION FOR THE HOURS OR AGES THAT
The Weather"-
"Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 73;
Why the Allies are Hopeful,
A Former Hongkong Resident in Paris.
(Continued from Tuesday). "A Forious France” sounds, in Gambling, through this Ordin-English ears. almost a contradio ance, became de facto a legalisedtion in terms, for, to our British institution in the Colony. Na. |Lotions, France without gaiety is tnrally, there was immediately an oatory against tho establishment au impossibility. All the same, Four brava Ally is taking malters of the gambling farm, but with becoming gravity just now, memorial on the subject only and even Paris-aven Montmartre can find more time for church- At the Peak 8 am. Temp, 66; The reassembling of the Britiab, drew from the Government a Canadian, Russian and Prussian reply that the Governor preferred
going and for ministering to the Parliaments has provided us with addressing himself to the prae-wonaded and the bereaved than
tical question of protecting pro a striking contrast of the feelings |
for lavity. of the people in regard to the war, perty by suppressing meetings of It shows that the Allies are filled illegal camblera and retisving with high tope concerning the the corrupted efficiency of the received a letter from a former polico." As a result, twelve new resident in Hongkong, which fatare and that a gloomy depress-gambling housen were opened in paints France sa, before all things, ion broods over Germany,
GERMICIDE, that, when they tri on plesaute dull.
bent, such persons are utterly regardless of the comfort or sensibilities of others. This
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Yesterday the Telegraph almost any night in the week, published 32 columns of solid at the Hongkong theatres, where reading mater. Today there the local "Nuts" are never so will be 33 published. happy as when placing their fest ob the backs of the Beats of people in the row in front of them: Not content with that, they are usually most unwilling to
their signifying their appreciation let any popular tune pass without of it by persistently benting timo to it with their feet or their walk-
The Mails.
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One of our readers has just
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Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which|ing-sticks. Apart from the Siberian Mail.-Closed per 8.8 not the support of the people was not going to prove to popular the simple rasson that her seven
requires them to forward their names and addresses with annoyance caused to other people communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for in the audience, ia it well that the
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Oriental to-morrow'ni 11.
as bad at first been anticipated. brothers are all serving their for men, and Europeans as welled "missing," but the remainder But socn it regained its old charm country. The youngest is report
in the Allies Parliamente the various parts of the city. They the home of seriousness. The speakers as opo man voice their are situated in Hollywood Road, writer of the letter, on returning at Saiyingpan, Queen's Road, from the East, landed at Marseilles determination to see the struggle Circular Buildings, Queen's Road, and there seems to have seen little through to the bitter end, we find Diet marked by wrangling and was to great rash when the wounded soldiers limping hither houses fint opened their and thither. Ia Paris it was commation and the Socialista the proceedings in the Prussian and near Gilman's Bazaar. There else but persons in mourning, and
doors. It would esem, in-mach the same. clamouring for the cessation of the war, which, they infer, has being no longer forbidden fruit, was broken up automatically, for deed, as though gambling, home, like thousands of others,
And yet a further contrast is to be found in the fact that both the British and French Socialists have expressed their sympathy with
as Chinese put in regalar appear- seem to have met with better the cause of the Allies.
luck. One brother is blind, but onces at the tables. denunciation of the war by the
Enormous Rovenue.
even he is busy making cart. German Socialists is all the more
Naturally the Nonconformist ridges, while another-a railway significant when it is observed conscience at Home would not put superintendent is employed in that it was openly expressed in
op with this state of affairs, and connection with shell-making, the Diet. When war broke cut soon the Home Government was for which the railway workshops the Germans may have been, and worried with articles in some of are now being used. probably were, as enthusiastic the most influential papers. The
Paris, says the letter, now and united as the peoples of the local press did not put itself out retires early. Shops, etc., close at Some of our readers who are to the Policy the theft of money Allied nations. But since then about the matter, but the Chamgin the evening, the trams stop their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent. by property owners complain of the and plcibing to the value of $42 they have seen the flower of their ber of Commerce wrote to the running at 8:30 and the last
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Seaman's Loss.
on
A Chinare seaman bas reported
frequency with which robberies from his cubicle. take place in uzcecupied houses within the Colony. Many police, both in Hongkong and at Home, seem to labour ander the
DUNCAN-On 26th January, 1915, at the General Hospital, the Law might know better than Penang, the wife of JT, Duncan, F.R.C.S., a daughter.
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1915,
THE SHANGHAI MEETING.
ཎྞཾ
to
Drunken Watchman.
An Indian watchman, named.
Baddah, was fired five dollars this morning by Mr. Wood at the Polien Court, for being drank and incapable.
Birch Ordered,
delusion that when once a tenant has removed himself and his belongings from a house or flat there is no further need for the Law to keep its eye on the vacated premises. Seing how often men are charged before the magistratos with removing win- don-fittings, door knobs, electric light apparatus, piping, and a score of other fixtures, we think
to leave any "empty" honse to take care of itself, The number of convictions for breaking into such premises is small in con- A Chinese was charge this parison with the frequency with morning, before Mr. J. R. Wood, which the robberies occur; and we with passing counterfeit ten-cent would hint to the local police that pieces. He was sent to prison for a greater amount of watobfulness six months with four hours on their part might reaalt in the stocks. harvealing of quite a crop of these enthusiastic collectors of house-I fittinge. We mention the matter. just now, because we are on the varge of Chinese New Year; a
Passing Bad Coln,
The
manhood sacrificed to satisfy the Government, the reply being metropolitan train leaves at 9.30. foolish ambitions of a military given, at a menting of the Legis. In spite of all this, people still clique, sad to-day we hear the lative Couzeil, by the Governor make a heroic attempt to keep firatmutteringsofinternal discord, who endeavoured to show the cheerful. The absence of men enormous revonge. which was
is especially marked, of course; being derived from this source only old men are in evidence. In 1871, when the gaming In certain directione, prices have house licences were put up for auction, the highest
naturally risen, and there are bidder some commodities that are no secured the privilege for the sum looger obtainable in the Capital
Causes of Depression.
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ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.
Coming Championship Races,
A month ago the German of $15,800 per month, Conte official lists admitted casualties quently the revenue from this notably white writing paper A youth, aged sixteen years, totalling two million officers and monopoly amounted to $189,800 charged before Mr. Wood with men, and now we have it on the per annum. shoplifting from a shop in Well-authority of Mr. Harcourt, in his
Licensed Gambling Stopped.. inston Street, was ordered to
A year after this large sum was message to the Canadiads, that's receive ten sirckes of the birch.
further quarter of a million has rasobed, the scheme was pat a been added to the roll. In stop lo, in an Ordinance which
half was claimed to have put a stop t ther words, close on of Germany's great motive the licensed gambling scandal " service Army has been accounted probably unknown in any other for. Is it any wonder that the British Colony. This does not people are beginning to tire of justify any assumption that the the war, espacially sizes their people in the Colony were unable armed forces are achieving noth to gamble if they wanted to. The ing but failure? They have seen writer has met old residents who their manhood, their trade and claimed to have gone to Samsuipo their culture squandered, all to and Old Kowloon City for “cluck- no purpose. In the hour when, olack" and fan-tan, while the arranged for the remaining Club enfeebled by losses and weak for latter place also added the Championship races to be sailed
some-of attraction-for
an in connection with the above supplies, all hope of the priza ccasional execution on the beach Club that dazzled them has been abandoned, they see the foss Again, as soon as the housse whom
they have outraged were closed down, private "olube" gathering ap their strength were atarted and gambling on to prazecute the war to final vic-open spaces was resorted to, Tai: tory. For here it must be re- pingebap, in particular, gaining membered, as Mr. Harcourt Las for itself quite a healthy reputa pointed out, that whereas the tion. power of Germany is on the wane,
To-morrow's Auctions,
To-morrow at 11a.m. Mr. G. P.
anant sells by nuclica a steal bridge, at the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godown, and, at roon, a quantity of liquors, at his sales rooms.
Coolie's Fall.
Raub Returns;
is
The Future.
The Police Accused..
to be noted in the force aftor 1873,
It may be that the commission had ventilated matters sufficiently;
The following are the courses
Handicap Class,
Seventh race to be sailed on 20th February, 1915. Trosas Rock (S), Kowloon Rock (8.), Channel Rock (8); distance, 1011⁄2 miles.
Eighth race to be sailed on 6th
Ninth race to be sailed on 20th
alteration).
One Design Class.
Seventh race to be sailed on but the point is not without inter- 20th February, 1915. Kowloon
est that in that year a strong Rock (P.), North Fairway Buoy
(P); distance, 9 miles.
Eighth race to be sailed on 6th March, 1815. Mark Buoy Querry
There is no inconsiderable significance in the news contained time when curio-busters of this in our Shanghai correspondent's wire of yesterday. The meeting description usually look to find the police too much engaged to which the telegrani refers was called in connection with a movement, which has been in progress for some while, for forming Shanghai be able to attend to them und
their hobbies. branch of the Patriotic League of Britons Oversen: The enthusiasm wherewith a Britisher was rushed to the top of the poll at the recent | Manicipal Election in the Settlement is a suficient indication, not only of the solidarity of the British element there, but of the sympathy that non-British residents feel towards the Empire. Bear An Absurd Proposal. ing the result of the recent polling in mind, it is not difficult to un
the whole of the vast resources of Of course, all this time the March, 1915. Lyeeman Beacon derstand how the meeting of which our correspondent now speaks
A coolis residing at Jarvois the British Empire have not yet Police had come in for a full), Kowloon Rock (P.), Lysemun hai Britishers; or that ten different races should have been repre we dealt in general terms with pital suffering from injuries, tine of Britain is almost equate houses and to be a moat corrupt distance, 14.8 miles. (Sabject to should have been the largest and heartiest ever witnessed by Shang- In our leading article yesterday Street has been sent to the Hos- bean called into play, And what share of abuse. They were alleged Beacon (S.), distance, 9.2 miles.
to be guilty of gambling in the March, 1915. Datum Rook (P.), the decision of the Sanitary Board coived through falling from true of France and Russia, whoare sented among the speakers.
There are many charges that can be laid against the Britisher regarding the water carriage sys- the varandah of the second floor daily building up their reserves. body. But, however that might be, there was certainly a change who is away from Home, bat want of attachment to the Old Country tem, but there is one point which of a house while engaged in fizing is not one of them. He may wander far-very far-from Home calls for particular notice-name- electrio lamps, traditions, where religion, politics, morality are concerned; he mayly, the resolution to impose, hero- (and sometimer does) develop into a prig, a anob, a rogue cr a aftor, a tax of $50 on every ruffian; but it is not in him, wherever he goes, and whatever he does, householder who goes to the pains to forget the two little islands away in the North Sae, which look so of installing a water closet. A insignificant on the map and yet have so world-wide an infidence. mcro preposterous suggestion has,
The following are the results The point of the moment is Scotch element was spoken of as When the world is at pasce he may speak in terms of disparagement we venture to say, never been of crushing operations at Raub whether or not Germany's great having recently been added to the of them, though it will not be well with a non-Briton who does so recommended by the Board, and for the four weeks ending 30th adventure will expire in a grotes force. The proportion of that in his presence. The moment, however, that there is any question we hope that it will be quickly ult: Bakit Koman: stone crash- que fasco, Can the Germans element has never since decreated: of thoro islands' baing in danger, all real or fancied grievances that killed when the matter comes ed 6,275 tons, gold obtained 896 sustain such blows of ad- he may have nourished disappear before the more important fact before the Legislative Council. oz., average per ton 2.855 dwts, versity na their rolers bave that he in- « Britisher—with a duty to perform.
Seeing that every householder Bakit Mainces stone crushed invited on their heads? Unlike How well Britain's sons over Bass have performed that duty, who adopts this modern sanitary 3,781 tone, gold obtained. 370 Germany, the Allies can afford to the wires from the Front have told us, Men have gone to join the arrangement has to find his owa oza, average per ton 1.057 dwts. leave political considerations out coloure, literally from every corner of the habitable globe. But there independent water supply, and are many others who, for one reason or another, counot gird on the that the other expenses of instal sword and hurry to do their mite towards upholding the cause of lation are by no means small, Homeland that is so dear to them. Cannot they do something else encouragement rather than the for it, then? The meeting at Shanghai is practically sa suswor to reverse should be the attitude Mias May Olarke's beautiful west. And in the next few months, been unemployed since be vacated that question. The Dominions answered it long before war was ever shown by the authorities to soch singing is drawing big audiences or may be weeke, Russia in the the post of commodore at Bong- thought of, by helping the Navy; and our neighbour, the Federated people. And then if we take the at the Bijou Theatre. She is a east and the Allies in the west kong, has, says Truth, given Malay Stater, answered it in like manner. And, cinos war broke out, purely financial side of the matter, very versatile artiste, who can turn will launch out on a big offensive. Rear Admiral Palmer his step: 21st February, 1915. Hongkong avery place where Britishers and not-British subj cts of the Empire we have it on the word of the her hand-or, rather, her voiceThen will come the invasion of Admiral Eyres still had another are gathered together from the Gold Coast to Shanghai, and from Director of Public Works that the to almost anything: light comedy, the Fatherland: Germany must eight years to go before reaching Island (8.); distance, 24 miles. Bermuda to New Zealand-bas heatened to contribute funds which it loss to the Colony in revenue for ballads, mario-hall ditties or know that her resources of men the age limit, but there are so few (abject to approval of authorities was anxious to trust to Britain's keeping, for one purpose or another, every household which adopta ragtime. In each of these she and munitions have been irretrier openings for the employment of concerned) But even the warmest and most loyal hearts can do more by acting modern methods it only $1.20 was equally popular last night; ably depleted and that the an officer of his rank who lacks Fifth race to be sailed on 14th in unison than by separate, isolated or irregular effort; system is as per annum, yet the Board proposes so much so that one encore song Allies are only on the point of Dreadnought service, that he has March, 1916 Bokhara Rock imacassary to patriots as to bankers, and the Patriotic League will not an annual fee of $50 to balance by no means satisfied her admire realising theirs. With the facta followed the example of several Buoy (P.), Mark Boat off the cold a only serve to bind British subjects mo's closely together than ever, affairs! The whole thing looks ing hosters. We hope that a thus, the outlook for Germany in other flag officers who have retired Fau Ta-obsu Customs Station but it will provide just that very spirit of order and good counsel little better than sheer robbery singer of nach unusual ability black indeed. And everything by taking an H.N.R. commission which is going to double the force with which Britishers on strike Above all else, why put a tax on will make long misy in the shows that the Germans them captain, to enable him to doo
closulinose ? in their attempt to help the Empire.
Colony
selves know this all too well, actirs service.
.
داییم
Bijou Theatre.
of account. The military situa tion is good enough for them thers ia no doubt that the enemy is being held securely both east and
!!!
(To be continued.)
Rear Admiral Byres, The retirement of Beer-Admiral Creeswell John Eyres, who has
Bay (P), Channel Rock (P.), Kowloon Rock (P.), Channel Rook (8.), Mark Buoy Quarry Bay (8); Distance 7.16 miles.
Ninth race to be sailed on 20th March, 1915. North Fairway Buoy (8) Kowloon Rook (8) Channel Rook (S.); distance, 10.1. miles.
Cruiser Class.
Fourth rass to be sailed on
Jank Bay (P.) distance 15.5 miles. (Subject to approval of authorities conserned).