THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1915.
PREVENT DISEASE!
DISINFECT with
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Making Themselves a Nuisance.
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
OLD HONGKONG.
DON'T WASTE LIFE IN DOUBTS AND FEARS; SPEND YOURSELF ON THE WORK BEFORE YOU, WELL ASSURED THAT THE RIGHT FER- FORMANCE OF THIS HOUR'S DUTIES WILL BE THE BEST PREPARATION FOR THE HOURS OR AGES THAT FOLLOW IT-Emerson.
That somewhat ratio but ever popular, writer, Victoria Cross, ramarke, in one of her stories, that the Britisher's idea of enjoyment consists in doing something that will annoy or inconvenience other people. It is a burah and a sweeping judgment, and one is glad to be able to feel that there are at least some exceptions toʻ such a rule. It is, however, quite true that many Britishere seem constitutionally unable to under-dall. stand the law of give and take, and that, when they ra on pleasure dull.
GERMICIDE, bent, such persons are utterly regardless of the comfort or sensibilities of others. This
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Count the Columns,
DISINFECTANT & DEODORANT. point is well exemplified, Yesterday the Telegraph almost any night in the week, pablished 32 columns of solid at the Hongkong theatres, where reading matter. Today there the local Nuts are never so will be 33 published. happy as when placing their feet
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they are usually most unwilling to
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Some Gambling Reflections,
Striking CONTRASTS.
Why the Allies are Hopeful,
A SERIOUS FRANCE.
A Former Hongkong Resident......
in Paris.
(Continued from Tuesday),
A serious France" sounds, ia' Gambling, through this Ordin- ance, became de facto a legalised English enre, almost a contradic
tion in forms, for, to our British institution in the Colony. Na. turally, there was immediately an tios, France without gaiety is an impossibility. All the same, outcry against tho establishment of the gambling farm, but ar brave Ally is taking malters memorial on the subject only and even Paris-oven Montmartre with becoming gravity just now,"
The reassembling of the British, drew from the Government a Canadian, Russian and Prussian reply that the Governor preferred can find more time for church- Parliamenta has provided us with addressing himself to the prac-going and for ministering to the striking contrast of the feelings sical question of protecting pro-wounded and the bereaved than of the people in regard to the war perly by suppressing meetings of for levity.
One of our readers has just it shows that the Allies are filled illegal gamblera and retrieving with high hope concerning the the corrupted efficiency of the received a letter from a former Ass result, twelve new resident in Hongkong, which fetare and that a gloomy depress- polico." ion broods over Germany. While gambling houses were opened in painte France as, before all things, in the Allies Parliaments the various parts of the city. They the home of beriousness. The speakers as one man voice their are situated in Hollywood Road, writer of the letter, on returning determination to see the struggle at Salyingpun, Queen'e Road, from the East, landed at Marseilles through to the bitter ond, we bad and near Gilman's Bazaar. There else but persons in mourning, and Circular Buildings, Queen's Road, and there seems to have seen little the proceedings in the Prussian
CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT TO H. E. THE GOVERNOR let any popular tune pass without Eaglish Mail-Das to arrive to Diet marked by wrangling and was no great rash when the wounded soldiers limping hither
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And yet a further contrast is to be
their and thither. In Paris it was
U. K. Mail. Closed per 2.6. clamouring for the cessation of
commotion and the Socialiste houses fint openod
doors. It would seem, in much the same. Her Own Kamo Maruit 11a.m. to-day. the war, which, they infor, badeed, as though gambling, home, like thousands of others, [Siberian Mail-Closed per s.8. Luchow at 3 p.m. to-day.
not the support of the people being no longer forbidden fruit, was broken up antematically, for was not going to prove so popular the simple reason that her seven Editor, not necessarily for in the audience," is it well that the English Mail-Oloses per 8.8.found in the fact that both the But soon it regained its old charm country.. The youngest is report as had at fret been anticipated. brothers are all serving their Oriental to-morrow at 11a.m. British and Frasch Socialists have for men, and Europeans as welled "missing," but the remainder
expressed their sympathy with the cause of the Allies. The
48 Chinese put in regular appear- seem to have met with batter luck. One brother is blind, but denunciation of the war by the ances at the tables.
Enormous Revenue. even he is busy making cart. German Socialists is all the more significant when it is observed conscience at Home would not pat superintendent is employed in Naturally the Nonconformist ridges, while another a railway that it was openly expressed in the Diet. When war broke out con the flome Government was for which the railway workshops up with this state of affairs, and connection with shell-making, the Germans may have been, and worried with articles in some of are now being used. and united as the peoples of the local press did not put itself out retires early. Shops, etc., close at probably were, as enthusiastic the most influential papers. The Patie, says the letter, now Allied nations. But since then about the matter, but the Cham they have seen the flower of their bor of Commer, but role has 3 in the evening, the traras stop foolish ambitions of a military given, at a meeting of the Legi In spite of all this, people still manhood sacrificed to satisfy the Government, the reply being running at 8.30 and the Inst metropolitan train leaves at 9.30. olique, and to-day we hear the fative Council, by the Governcr, make a heroic attempt to keep first muttering of internal discord. who endeavoured to show the cheerful. The absence of men enormous revoque which Way
is capecially marked, of course; being derived from this source only old men are in evidence. In 1871, when the gaming In certain directions, prices baye house licences were put up for naturally risen, and there re auction, the highest bidder some commodities that are no secured the privilege for the Bum
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Some of our readers who are property owners complain of the frequency
with which robberies take place in unoccupied houses within the Colony. Many police, bath in Hongkong and at Home, 600m to labour under the
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„A Obinere seamon has reported to the Police the theft of money and clothing to the value of $42 from his cubicle.
Drunken Watchman.
An Indian watchman, named
Buddah, was fired five dollars this morning by Mr. Wood at the Police Court, for being drunk and incapable.
Birch Ordered,
Passing Bad Coin,
Causes of Depression.
ROYAL HONGKONG.
YACHT CLUB.
Coming Championship Races.
delusion that when once a tenant bas 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. Seeing how often men are charged before the
A month ago the German of $15,800 per month. Conso- longer obtainable in the Capital official lists admitted casualties quently the revenue from this notably white writing paper. magistrates with removing win-
A youth, aged sixteen years, totalling two million officers and monopoly amounted to $150,000 dow-fittings, door-knoba, electric charged before Mr. Wood with men, and now we have it on the per annum. light apparatus, piping, and a shoplifting from a shop in Well-authority of Mr. Harcourt, in hie * Licensed Gambling Stopped. score of other fixtures, we thinkington Street, was ordered to
A year after this large sum was DUNCAN-On 26th "January, 1916, at the General Hospital, the Law might know bettor then receive ten strokes of the birch.
message to the Canadians, that a to leave, any "empty". house to!
further quarter of a million has roached, the schome was put a Penang, the wife of J.T. Duncan, F.R.C.S., & doughter.
take care of itself? The number
been added to the roll; Ia stop to, in an Ordinance which of convictions for breaking into
ther words, sloze on half was claimed to have put a stop t such premises ie small in con-
of Germany's great active the "licensed gambling Boanda!!! A Chinese was charged this service Army has been accounted probably unknown in any other parison with the frequency with morning, before Mr. J. R. Wood, fur. Is it any wonder that the British Colony. This dosa not which the robberies occurs and we with passing counterfeit tea-cont people are beginning to tire of justify any assumption that the would bint to the local police that pieces. He was sent to prison for the war, especially sizes their people in the Colony were unable! a greater amount of watohfulness ix months with feer hours' armed forces are achieving noth to gamble if they wanted to. The on their part might result in the harvealing of quite a crop of these enthusiastic collectors of house" fittinge. We mention the matter
To-morrow's Auctions, just now, because we are, on the verge of Chinone Now Year: a To-morrow at 11 a.m. Mr. G. P. There is no inconsidorable significazes in the now contained time when curio-busters of this Lammert sells by auction & stoel in our Shanghai correspondent's wire of yesterday. The meeting to description neually look to find bridge, at the Kowloon Wharf which the telegram refers was called in connection with a movement be able to attend to thour and nil, at 2030, quantity of the police too much engaged to and Godown Company's Godown, which has been in progress for some while, for forming a Shanghai their hobbies. branch of the Patriotic League of Brilons Oversea. The sûthusiasm
liquors, at his ealce rooms. wherewith a Britisher was rushed to the top of the poll at the recent Municipal Election in the Settlement is a sufficient indication, not only of the solidarity of the British element, there, but of the sympathy that non-British residents feel towards the Empire. Baarn Absurd Proposal. ing the result of the recent polling in mind, it is not difficult to un-i derstand how the meeting of which our correspondent now speake "should have been the largest and heartiest ever witnessed by Shang-
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1915.
THE SHANGHAI MEETING.
stocks.
Coolle's Fall.
ing but failure? They have seen writer has met old residents who their manhood, their trade and claimed to have gone to Samsaipo their culture equandered, all to and Old Kowloon City for "cluck- The following are the coursea no, purpose. In the hour whoa, clock" and fan-tan, while the arranged for the remaining Club onfe bled by losses and weak for latter place also added the Championship races to be sailed:
in connection with the above that dazzled them has been occasional excention on the beach. Club: supplies, all hope of the prize attraction-for some-of abandoned, they are the foe Again, as soon as the houses gathering up their strength were started and gambling on whom they have outraged were closed down; private clubs"
on
Handicap Class.
Seventh race to be sailed on to prosocate the war to final vic- open spaces was resorted to, Tai 20th February, 1915. Troess Rock tory. For here it must be re- pingelion, in particular, gaining (8.), Kowloon Rock (S.), Channel membered, as Mr. Harcourt has for itself quite a healthy reputo-Hook (S); distance, 1011⁄2 miles, pointed oat, that whereas the tion. power of Germany is on the wade,
The Police Accused.
the whole of the vast resources of Of course, all this time the the British Empire have not yet Police had come in for a full been called into play. And what share of abuse. They weza alleged
Eighth race to be sailed on 8th March, 1915. Lyzeman Beacon (P.), Kowloon Rouk (P.), Lyeamun Beacon (S.), distance, 9.2 miler.
bai Britisbers; or that ten different races should have been rapra- we dealt in general terma with pital aufering from injuries reis true of Britain is aimant equali, to be guilty of gambling in the Ninth race.to be sailed on 20th-
sented among the speakers.
The Futura.
be, there was certainly a chapge to be noted in the force after 1873. It may be that the commission had ventilated matters suficiently,
Mush, 1915. Datum Rock (P.),
alteration),
One Design Class,
Seventh race to be esiled on
A opolie residing at Jervois In our leading article yesterday Street has been sent to the Hos the decision of the Sanitary Board ceived through falling from true of France and Russia, who are houses and to be a most corrupt There are many charges that can be laid against the Britisher regarding the water carriage sye the verandah of the second floor daily building up their reserves, body. But, however that might diere 148 miles. (Subject to who is away from Home, but want of attachment to the Old Countrytem, but there is one point which of a house while engaged in fixing. is not one of them. He may wander far-very far-from Home calls for particular notice-name- electric lamps, traditions, where religion, politics, morality are concerned; he may ly, the resolution to imposs, hero- (and sometimes does) develop into a prig, a saob, a rogus cr a altor, a fax of $50 on every zuffian; 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 Sea, which look so of installing a water cloast. A insignificant on the map and yet have so world-wide an influence. more preposterous auggestion has,
The following båre the resulte The point of the moment in When the world is at peace he may speak in terms of disparagement we venture to say, never been of crushing operations at Raub whether or not Germany a great of them, though it will not be wall with a non-Briton who does so recommended by the Board, and for the four week ending 30th adventure will expire in a grotes force. The propertion of that in his presence. The moment, however, that there is any question we hope that it will be quickly ult: Bakit Koman: stona orash- que faeco. Can the Germans element has never since decreased. surat those islands” being in danger, all real or fancied grievances that killed when the matter comes ed 6,275 tons, gold obtained 898 sustain each 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 as their rulers have that he is a Britisher with a duty to perform.
Seeing that every householder Bakit Mainera: stone crushed invited on their heads? Unlike
Raub Returns.
Bijou Theatre,
but the point is not without inter- 20th February, 1916. Kowloon eat that in that year a strong Scotch element was spoken of Hook (P.). North Fairway Buoy having recently been added to the (P) distance, 9 miles,
Eighth race to be sailed on 6th March, 1915. Mark Buoy Quarry Bay (P.), Channel Rock (P.), Kowloon Book (P.), Channel Rock (8.), Mark Buoy Quarry Bay (8.); Distance 7.16 miles,
(To be continued.)
Rear-Admiral: Byres,
⠀⠀ Ninth race to be sailed on 20th: March, 1915 North Fairway Buoy (8.), Kowloon Rook (8), The retirement of Rear-Admiral Channel Rock (8.); distance, 10.1. Cresswell John Eyres, who has miles, been unemployed since he vicated
Cruiser Class. **
Fourth race to be sailed on
How well Britain's sons over seas have performed that duty, who adopts this modern sanitary 3,781 tone, gold obtained 370 Clermany, the Allies can afford to the wires from the Front have told us. Hen have gone to join the arrangement has to find his owa oz, average per ton 1.957 dwts. leave political considerations out colours, literally from every corner of the habitable globe. But thers independent water supply, and
of account. The military sitan are many others who, for one reason or another, cannot gird on the that the other expenses of instal
tion is good enough for them sword and hurry to do their mite towards upholding the cause of lation are by no means small,
there is no doubt that the enemy js Homeland that is so dear to them. Cannot they do something elas encouragement rather than the
being held accurely both east and for it, then? The meeting at Shanghai is practically an answer to reverse should be the attitude Miss May Clarke'a beautiful weat. And in the next few months, that question. The Dominions answered it long before war watever shown by the authorities to such singing is drawing big audiences or may be weeke, Rasis in the the post of commodore at Hong- thought of, by helping the Navy; and our neighbour, the Federated people. And then if we take the at the Bijon Theatre. She is a csat and the Allies in the west kong, has, Baye Truth, given Malay Batos, answered it in like manner. And, sinoo war brokeout, purely financial side of the matter, very versatile artiste, who can forn will launch out on a big offensive Rear Admiral Palmer" big slep. every place where Britishers and non-British subjets of the Empire we have it on the word of the her hand-or, rather, her voice Then will come the invasion of Admiral Byres still had another 21st February, 1915. Hongkong ere 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 (6.); distance 24 miles. Bermuda to New Zealand has hastened to contribute funds which it loan to the Colony in revenue for ballada, masic-hall ditties or know that her resources of men the age limit, but there are so few (Subject 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 irretrieve openings for the employment of concerned).
Fifth race to be sailed on 14th But even the warmest and most loysi hearts can do more by asting modern methods is only $1.20 was equally popular last night; ably depleted and that the an officer of his rank who lacke tu unison than by separate, isolated or irregular effort; system in 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 Marob, 1915. Bokhara Rock necessary to patriots as to bankers, and the Patriotin League will not an annual fes of 350 to balance by no means satisfied her admire realising theirs. With the facts followed the example of several Buoy (P.), Mark Boat of the old only serve to bind British subjects more closely together than ever, effira! The whole thing looks ing hearera We hope that a thos, the outlook for Germany in other fig officers who have retired Fan Tahan Custom Station but it will provide just that very spirit of order and good counsel little better than sheer robbery, singer of such unusual ability black indeed. And everything by taking on H.N.R. commission Jank Bay (F) distance 15.5 which is going to double the force with which Britishore can strike Above all else, why put a tax on will make long stay in the aboms that the Germans them as a captain, to enable him to see miles (Subject to approval of in their attempt to help the Empire.
Colony.
cleanliness?
selvas know this all too well;
407 (nuthorities concerned),