THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,« SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1915.
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THAT LOAD BECOMES LIGHT: THE INVASION OF PRUSSIA. WHICH IS CHEERFULLY BORNE.
The Weather.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 58; Some Possibilities of the Future.
clear.
some of the United States papers, to the effect that a New York publisher recently received from alcoal press-cutting agency a letter, to be--forwarded to Mr. Oliver Foldsmith. The writer kindly offered to furnish the author of "Tho Vicar of Wake- At the Peak & sm.Temp 51; field" from time to time with clear. olippings concerning bis "new book." There is a flavour of Yesterday the Telegraph chestnuts about the yarn, but published 35 columns of solid that hardly affects the faot reading matter. To-day there a howler is easily will be 37 published.. that such possible in America. Elucation in the United Sates, until the time when the women were allow-
ed to have something like a con- trolling hand, was decidedly superior to that common in Eag lish sohools; it was modelled, apparently, on a mixture of Scottish and Continental systems, the pupile as a whole were far kooner after knowledge than English boya would be, and, even though the classics were neglected in many schools, the subjects taught were handled thoroughly.
The Swing of the' Pendulum.
Then a new period appears to have arisen (we speak from in Hormation received from Ameri- cans themselves) during which young America found, like the immortal, Huckleberry, that it
people," the utilitarian was all that was wanted and the already neglected classics, whether Greek, Latin or English, broame more reglected than over. Then the
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The Dollar.
VERU
1890.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE ·
YEARS AGO.
SANITARY BOARD.
The orders of the day for, Tues day's meeting of the Sanitary Board are
Minuto by the President of the Sanitary Board ro cemeteries at (Compiled from the "Hongkong | Aplichan and at Tai Shek Kung-
Telegraph" files for the week ending March 20, 1810;
Application for permission to erect two"water closets on the first for of No. 11, Queen's Road Central, Marino Lot No. 2, section A (Mercantile Bank).
The fresh invasion of north- east Prussia by the Russians may be looked upon as the commence-
The Dollar. ment of a new series of moves
March 20,The rate of the that may lead to some modifica
Application for permission to tion of the position in the eastern doller on domand today is 3/01."
erent one water cloast at Kowloon, will lead is a matter which only
The Alice Memorial Hospital. war theatre. Exactly to what it
March 14 "In another column Dick, Kowloon Marine Lot No. 27. Application for permission to time will show, and it is possible we publish an appeal to the om» that the events of the next few manity from the Finance Com-ereor one water closes at No. 1. Application for permission to weeks will partake much of the mittee of the Alice Memerial My Road, Inland Lot No. 1905. nature of surpries. Beides being Hospit.), to which we would
an indication that the line here direct special attention. The erect one water closet at "The the telegram al o tends to show feel sure that it will not speak in (Magazine Gap Road). -_-_-_ is now bring extended to the ses, appeal speaks for itself, and we Fire, Inland Lot No. 1833 that the reinforcement of the Gervain. A vast deal of invaluable Application for permission to mans in this par.icular locality work has been done in aid of the erect twelve water closets and one by the partial withdrawal of the struggling and suffering poor by trough closet in a block of build- Kcenigsberg garrison has not this useful institution, and, in ings on Kowloon Inland Lot No. met with any great succeed, in desiring to extend the scope of 574 R.P., Hanoi Road. that, with these extra men, it purely philanthropic opere- Application for permission to the Germans have not been tions, the Committee strike ale sol, six water closets af the European Suff Quarters, Inland $71, able to hold their own against chord that should find a reapon-
The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is La 9.13-16d;
Lawn Tennis Entries.
Leaving for Home, Mr. Davidson, of Messrs, Har-
From Home,
A Valuable Ornament.
and the pendulum swung to Mr. R. MacGregor, Secretary where it is now: very much in the of the Taikos Dockyard and Ea- direction of effeminacy and senti- gineering Co., returned from mentalism; so that boya are being Home leave yesterday. taught needlework and it is al-
At Mr. G. P. Lammert's sale of freedom is worth for him to give carios on Thursday, Mr. Ho Kom: one of his pupils a harmless but tong paid $1,850 for a sang and by Americans will find a medicinal thrashing. That by de boeuf oraavent.
most as much as a schoolmaster's
reasonable medium in these mat- tere we have not the least doubt,
Remanded.
The Chinese charged at the Their country has produced some Police Court, this morning, in of the deepest thinkers that the connection with the theft of a ton modern world has known, and of coal from Taikoo Dock, were will do so again. In art and remanded. literature its men have ranked
Telegraph. high; it has had its Whistler, and
The Hongkong Telegraph.
Alice Memorial Hospital,
their enemies. At the same time sive coho in the bosom of every-Lot No. 1877, of the University it does not appear likely that any one who cau afford ever so little of Hongkong.
Jist of legal proceedings taken great Rashion success can turn to further such a deserving ob
What will Happen?
"A"Collection of Objects.”
Limewashing return #for the
fortnight ending 9th March, 1915. Mortality return for Hongkong for the week ending 28th February and for the month ending 28th Fobruary 1915..
Mortality retern for Macao for the weeks ending 28th February and 7th Marob, 1915.
Rat return for the weeks ending 6th and 13th March, 1915.
1890%.
SHARE REPORT.
Hongkong and Shanghai, Bank -193 per cent. premium, sellers. Union Insurance Society of Canton $100 per share, sellers.
China Traders' Insurance Com= pany-$70 per share, sellers.
North China Insurance Flas 350 per share, buyers,
the German flank, as the latterject. The question baaaaggest by this Department against per- would have done in the western ed itself to us whether it would sons for breaches of the Publio theatre had they succeeded in not be better to devote the $12, Health and Buildings Ordinance their aims in Belgium game 000 of public money set aside 1 of 1903 for the month of Entries for the U. K. C. C. months ago, before the battle for the reception of the Duke of February, 1915. Lawn Tennis Tournament close front was extended from Switzei-Connaughs to benefit suffering
[load to the sea.
humanity. Undon btedly it would, to-day.
but then the abject fluckeyism At the most, success in north for which Hongkong is so justly women interfered, pointing out, ting and Hastings, solicitors, east Prussia should mean the famed would have no opportuni- rightly enough, that a mero busi- leaves for Home on Thursday driving back of the German left ty of fally extending itself. ness education was no education at next.
wing until it is supported on ite (And so flunkeyism was rife in all. They were listened to in part
extremity by the Koenigsberg fort- Hongkong, even twenty five years resses, to push beyond which age! This is indeed interesting.) would require more men than the Russians can well afford in that direction. Even if Przemysł March 14. We think it a should fall in time, it is question-pily that the enterprising man. able whether the forces so liberat ager of the Hongkong Hotel doen ed would be used in the north, not turn the unique collection of or whether it would be better objects alleged to be brokers, to maintain them within strike which daily assemble in the hotel, ing distance of
many to come purpose. Say a chamber separate points in the centre of horrors, for instance. A glase as possible. Whichever has oase for each one would enable the quotations which follow pens, it is clear that the need visitors to view the beauties cfare from the Hongkong Telegraph. that the Germans will feel of the collection to better advantage, for Marab 20, 1890,
'rengthening their left, and the and, moreover, the hotel would augmentation of available forces draw in a shekel or two in the which Russia will benefit by shape of rent, The hint is fres from the fall of Przemysl, should but the remedy would be genera! also its Longfellow; ite Whittier, The Hon. Treasurer of the bave the effect of providing somely appreciated. " ita Lowell and its Emerson; and Alice Memorial and Affiliated interesting reading in a few The Proposed Hongkong Stock mdern America will produce Hospitale bags to acknowledge weeks' time. others as great, when it succeeds with thanks the following Bravo, New Zealand. March 15 Aschema is con- The Premier of New Zealand, templated for licensing brokere. is first producing a public that donations to the funds of the thicks it worth while to give them Hospitals:-Lan Ce-fang, $100 in his recent speech; performed Quite right. The Government a kearing. Until then there is Chan Kai-ming, $100; Chan two duties at once. He demon appeare anxious to effect a much Yangtze Insurance Association
-Tls. 90 per share. still the chance that Mr. Oliver Kang-u, $100; Chow Shanahan, strated the intense loyalty of the needed reform in one of the most Goldsmith may go on receiving $100: Tean Chun-ahang, $100 southern Colony and practically important elements of coal busi-Hongkong Fire Insurance Com Yesterday we published the text of Sir John French's despatch letters from persons who are fully Tege Yam-chi, $100; Ming Sua asked for information as to the mess and to remove what has long pany $360 per share, sellers,
China Fire Insurance Company of February 16-an amplification of Renter's wire of that date. Like persuaded that he is a contem-Bank, $100 Ming Kee, $100 best way in which further aid been regarded as an unmitigated-884 per sbars, sellers. its predecessora it is businesslike, pointed nad modest; just the letter porary of theirs, and possibly an Chong Wo, $50; Wong Tag country. We British Brea" funny the views of the Chamber of could be given to the mother naisence, and courteously asks for
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock one would expect of a man who is too great a soldier to stoop to ex-Manila journalist,
19 lot, boasting; and not so businesslike, either, but that it can find room
as a reader remarked the Commerce. And, as onstomary. Company-52 per cent. premium, other day. Our great fault of when that bybrid collection of sellers. for generous commendation where such may be due. Indeed what Italy's Admiration for Britain. stands out more strongly than anything else in the Field Marshal's
There are useful moral lessons, at the Victoria Theatre last night, helps us to fail
There was quite a packed house national imperturbability, which respectable antiquities attempts Hongkong, Canton and Macao statement, is his unstinted praise of a class of men that are unused for those who choose to see them, when the principal item on the preciate great crises, is only importance to Hongkong and its shar, send-May
ap-to deal with anything of actual Steamboat Company-$33 Fer to praise, except from quarters that do not matter: the Territorials. ia a passage from an Italian bill was the long, six-part drama egaalled by the great bonds best interests, the Committee, în China and Manila Steamship paper which we re-printed in last The War of Wars-especially of kinship which knit the its own feeble way, tries to throw Company $107 per share, The Territoriala bave been on their trial and, in spite of past night's issue, and which speaks interesting in that it contains Empire together in times of stress cold water on the Government's military and civil prejudices and evil prognostications, have very of Italy's unqualified admiration some pictures that were taken on The British Empire bee suffered sensible proposal.".
Hongkong Gas Company- considerably more than justified their existence. A man like Sir for the British Empire, Says our the battlefield during actual fight from a dest of lip-disloyalty in (Honour to whom honour is due. $135 per share, sellers, John French does not waste time in idle compliment, and in the comtemporary: "None is more ing. In addition there were two recent years. bestowing of unearned sugar-plams; and, when he says that these marvellous, more spontaneous, particularly uproarious comies:
was largely as a result of the Tele-Hongkong Hotel Company—-
$185 per share, sellers. graph's repeated protests that a battalions are gaining the loud praise of Corps Commanders," we more livinz and adaptable One Round O'Brien" and "A know that he means it. Those of our readers who have followed the or more calculated to arouse our Bowling Match;"
We do not eappose that the war Stock Exchange came into being Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per will eradicate that; probably
cont. Debentures-$501 articles by Kipling on the new army, which have been re-printed emulation and envy than the amusing we have seen for some when it is all done we shall re- March 19 Lieutenant Gen Indo-China S.N. Company- in the Telegraph, will read this testimony to our citizen soldiers' Great British Empire" We while.
turn to our muttons and take up eral Sir E. Hamley's motion will 25 per cent, dis., buyers. efficiency with special interest; for many of the men concerning Britishere know that this is true
our family disputes exactly where not be considered a Cabinet quee
Douglas Steamship Company- whom those articles were written bave since proceeded to the Front,
wo left off and with the same tide, as the Secretary of State fr $60 per share, buyers. to take their stand by the regular troops.
paay. Ltd.-$213 per share, ardour, but behind it all there is War has announced that the Sing China Sugar Refining Com- New Zealand, to the great portion and that they have commenced bayera. of the population of which Great supplying Hongkong."
Squeeze. The March number of the Yel-Britain is a name, a Colony which
March 20. An extra charge buyers.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1915.
PRAISE FROM SIR JOHN FRENCH.
!
but is it good for us to be told
it too cften? That we should
850; Yeung Sing-un, $50.
Victoria Theatre.
the
most
Real Loyalty.
to
It
Exchange.
The Colonial Defences,
be reminded of it occasion THE YELLOW DRAGON the sturdy kinship which makes apore guns have been despatched,
Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.-$130 per share.
sellers.com
Luzon Sugar Refining Com pany, Limited-870 per share,
It may well be doubted if any other nation in the world could ally is, perhape, desirable; for EOL Bo readily have transformed the crude into the finished article in a we are the more likely to reflect few months. Before war broke out, the Territoriale (old soldiers, of on what a high reputation we course, excepted) left much to be desired as they would be the first have to live up to. If, however, low Dragon-the Queen's College is willing to put its hand into its to admit to-day; for a fortnight in camp, and periodical drills we are going to lay this flattering monthly magazine is an interest-pocket and demonstrate how of 20 cents is to be put on every Hongkong Ice Company during the year, do not make the genuine and useful soldier fact to our souls too much and ing one, though we miss some of completely the Empire isnt one by pig sold here, so that the Pork $105 per share, buyers Generally the men were keen enough and willing enough, and the too often, there will be more the castomary features that help still more precious, the lives of its dragon to baal about the streets, ing Company, Ltd.--$100 per the offer of money, and, what is Guild may have $500 for a silver Hongkong Rope Manufactur annual fortnight's training was frequently obtained at the expence than a chance of national
to brighten it. It contains a re- of a much needed holiday, but willingness is but the half of wh." swelled head." As wo have re- part of Elia Expollenoy's speech young men. Taie Empire may attended by a thousand noisy imps, share, sellere, Ko Britain demands of her fighting men much of the other half was, marked before, this war came at the annual prize diniribation, not be one of "Kultur" it is a to gratify the eyes and ears of our Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf as often as not, lacking. But Earl Kitchener, had not had time o just in time; inat when it was and a spirited account of how the matter for congratulation that it Royal visiters. Those twenty and Godown Company.-$89, ask the country for an suxiliary army when thousands of Territoria's needed to put the extinguisher on Australasian tiger is busted. Judge is not-bat it certainly is possess cents, of course, will come out of share, sallong volunteered for active service, and, abandoning their means of live the "hub of Creation" spirit lihood, put themselves entirely in the King's bande, for him to do which the consciousness the ing from the measurements of the ed of the highest forms of loyally, the pockets of the purchasers, without their consent. Oor re- with them whatever necessity might demand. Since the beginning great deeds of our fathers had noble animal in question this
presentative called on Mr. Mit of the war every one of us has heard men say: "I would volunteer Dagendered in us. Those who weird marsupial must leave the
chell-Innes, the Acting Registrar if I were sure of being sent to the Front." But the lads at Home ponder for a moment the angradg ichthyosaurus well behind, and "DECENT" INTEREST. General, this morning. Mr. Mit who the offered their services to the country had but slight hopes ing praise which this Italian be a not altogether despicable of ever going to the actual seat of war ;"or, rather, they looked for paper has bestowel apon
chell-Innes is in the Pooh-bah rival of the yellow dragon himself. ward to the bare possibility of going on being the highest recom-nation, will surely feel that such. We are
are asked to state that the
position of being at the same time Hon. Secretary to the Reception pense that could be conferred on them for their readiness to put praise is worthless-nay, decided Maroh edition of the Yellow Seven Per Cent, per Month.
Committee, and therefore interest themselves in training. Whether they realized it or not, they were ly harmful unless if in going to Dragon was inadvertently sold
ed in securing as lavish an outlay exercising the highest type of patriotism in thus placing themselves act as an incentive to us all by out on the day of issue without
In Summary Court cases, in- on the Chinese decorations etc. as unreservedly at the Government's disposal, in the full knowledge that becoming modesty, by self-denial teserving the necessary copies for terest on money lent aften seanmes possible; whilet, as Protector of they might be destined to a long period of wearisome routine, car and by the exerciss of both moral anual subscribers. The Editor startling proportions, Yesterday, Chinese, it is his duty to see that tailed liberty and hard work, without the compenestion of being and physical courage and endur- who did not replice from in a case where the principal was the heads of the Guilds do not try able to fire a shot at the snemies of their Homeland. In the fulance, to keep it at Empire in the those who did not receive copies $100, it was mentioned that the on any banky-panky tricks in peas of time, however, it happened that the reward which they songht high place which all nations (in and undertakes in each case to rest amour
interest smounted to $7 per respect to the food supply At came to them: the chance to go and face the enemy. What nue, cluding Germany, to its own war, which will duly appear due 280 odd. Defendant his latter character, and go nap West Point Buildings Ces éds
cent, per month, The interest present he has decided to drop Edited the principal.
on Royalty and dear pork."
our
they have made of their chanos, the Field Marshal's despatch tells sorrow and mortification) concede
to it lo-day,
| forward two copies of the April som vincunts
on April lett
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