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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1915.
All Fools' Day.
Evoy year, about this time, an indefinite number of perrons gets: busy for-five minutes in trying
DAY BY DAY.
DIVIDENDS.
The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 72; fine.
At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 65; slight fog.
EXPERIENCE BELLS AT PAR OR to discover the origin of the April HIGHER. YET RARELY PAYS FOR THE BATH, TOILET AND HOUSEHOLD. Used Fool joke. We quite thought in the Fath it promotes healthy action of the skin, counteracts all that All Fools' Day was confined effects of perspiration, and is refreshing and invigorating. It is es- to, England and France, but paolally useful for cleaning Jewellery, Silver and Plated Ware, etc. Dyer's British Popular One- toms" shows that this festival of folly is also observed in India. and Parsia. It goes without saying that most of the quaint
Count the Columns. observantee of this kind have a
Yesterday the
Telegraph religious origin. The most gen- erally accepted explanation of published 32 columns of solid the castor of sending a person reading, matter. To-day there оп aome fruitless errand is will be 34 published.
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
CERMAN SAVAGERY.
The Allies Cannot Readily Forgive,
FOOTBALL,
R. G. A. Defeat the Club.
At Happy Valley, yesterday, in the United Services League match
PRIZE COURT.
THE S.5. HANAMETAL.
The Pisal Order of the Court.
This morning, Mr. Justice between the Hongkong F. C. and Gompere, sitting in Prize, bad the R. G. A., the Club went under before him the final stage of to the tune of two goala to pil. Is the proceedings on the r... The Falaba incident becomes the two goals registered against Potter, nstructed by Mr. W. E. ia only fair to state thit, despite Hanames), when Mr. Eldon; all the more interesting as the the Club, the goalkeeping of L. Sheton, of Messre. Deacon, various details of this latest Goldenberg was meritorions. The exploit come to hand. The serious allegation b snow been made, by man to beat him in the first half Looker Deacon and Hareton, ressel, William Katz, of Sheng- the Chief Officer of the ill-fated was Harper after others had tried appeard for the claimant of the repeatedly sad desperately. The vessel, that the enemy submarine nature of the ground appeared/bai, ant put in a draft of the pro- flow the white ensign, and that
the crew were dressed in khaki. to greatly handicap the Olub posed Order, agreed between themeeves and the Crown, re- the mediagra) Siberian Mail.-Doo per 8.9, Kan- The exact reason for the latter is men, who found it too silppery presered by the Hon. Mr. J. H."
However, the soldiers revelled in herd to find, but the ure of the it and played a good game.
Komp Attorney General, in- In 8.8. ensign is a legitimate ruse do the second half, I. Goldenberg Crow Solicitor,
strus by M. P. M. Hodgson, guerre which has been adopted came near scoring, but his shot by one nation or another in times caught the upright. Swan scored
Thcrder was as follows:- of war. There is an example of the only other goal of the match.
Up bearing the Attorney that in the, Pacifio during the
Genel and counsel for the Score: R.G.A., 2 goals. Hong- present war, when the Triumph
owne of the above ship, and by kong F.C., nil. How the German flag with the
Police Defeat Engineers, coneet, it is ordered that in object of making a ship she de
In the United Services League furth purauance of the order sired to capture stand towardaber.match on the Naval ground, the madeberein, that the above ship, This is, however, the first time Police won from the Royal Eber tokie, apparel and furniture, that an enemy fig has beengineers by one goal to nil. In and le gco's, wares and mer- used for the purpose of whole the frat half there was not a score chantse, laden therein, be re- sale murder, and it is to the ex-registered, but in the early stages Kat for the use of the owner sterd to the claimant, William ponents of Kaltur that the world of the resumed play Drury scored owee this illuminating icoident the only goal of the match. as to how far the studied no-
St. Paul's College Win Schools cumulation of the graces may
Final. justify the disregard of the ordin St. Paul's College won the final onary laws of honour. Who can of the Schools League from St. say now that the stories of Joseph's College by thres goals to atrocities in Belgium and Poland nil.
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April fia." This seems to be a corruption. Just as in Eag- land" Bacchanals
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1915.
THE FRENCH OFFICIAL STATEMENT,
explanation given by Bellingen and it appeare a likely one, inns much as April the Firet usually coincides with
part of the fortnight of Passiontide.
Bismarck.
Indos.-$90, buyers. Sagare. $108, buyers. Kailans. 35, buyers... Trouchs. 32/6, sellers. Kowloon Dooks.-$55, buyers.
ex div.. Hobgkew Wharves.-Tls. 86. Cements.$7, bayere. Waterboats.-$171, sales.
The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar demand to-day is Is 9.11-160.
Stole the Bellows. The theft of two bellows valued $10 from Tai Hung Wai has been reported to the police,
no
that there "be therof, damzes, charges or expenses payple by either party and
beor that each party:
their own coste in connection with the bove matter, it being ex- prely agreed by and between . thearties that no claim of what- soer nature is to be hereafter me by either of the parties. hoto for any costs, domoges, He who The rainfall for the month of chgee or expenses in connection
now
are not true? Who can give the lie to the Allies' state- ment that the German soldier, and the men who lead him, have out-
To-day is also the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the late Prince Bismarck-a date of at peculiar interest just now. One
·To-day's Anniversary, wondere, had Bismarck been alive
To-day is the hundredth an- säged the savage? and well and in office to-day, if the present war would be taking aiversary of the birth of the late place. His contemporaries, in Piince Bismarck, many cases, attributed to him the
·
Working at Last.
Mr. Faithful, in the Summary very designs which have man. Court this, morning said the ifested themself with Auch disastrous resulta in the Em- watch was now going all right. peror William. Some of our read- ers will recall, for instance,
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Adjourned.
Last Judgment," The public is reminded of the performance of Sphor's "Last Judgment" at St. John's Cathed ral to-morrow at 9.15 p.m. Mentally Deranged,
MARCH BAINFALL.
can has the brazen face of a March, as registered at the wi, or incidental to, the capture Barnstorf and a capacity for Botanic Gardens, is us followe:oretention of the above-mention- antruth which would shame the
Inch. Wolff Agency. If there ever were any doubt as to the truth of the
glory.
The Future.
It is one of the greatest weapons that Germany wields that she is doing everything that is an- expected-anexpected because it is too abhorrent for the civilised
say allegations made againeti the honour of Germany as a mili. The hearing of the case in tary nation, that doubt has gone; the celebrated statement of the which F. Gren sued Oskar it atanda convicted Be a nation of Uhstrum for $35.05 was adjourn-common assassins for whom the late Professor St. George Mivart, ed at the Summary Court the easier the prey the greater the to the effect that one seemed to 600 in Bismarck the deliberate morning, wish to supplant the Orosa of Christ by the Hammer of Thor, "in a world-wide system of blood and iron." Having regard to the great soldier's inflexibility we uf this gederation have no right to A Chinese from thesis. Chang-nations of the world to anticipate dispute the statement. Then whysha, who was found wandering from another. It is out of the did the hapless grandson of bis and apparently of unsound min bounds of honour to suggest that old friend Kaiser Wilhelm I has been taken to the hospital bthe Allies should follow the lead Our readers did not need an official report from the French oboose the first possible oppor- the police,
given them by their enemies, but Government to tell them that Germany's insane plane of universal tudity for breaking away from
Acting Puisne' Judge, thero is every reason for hoping dominion have failed atterly. Nevertheless they will read with in- bisisfluence? We can only think Mr. F. A. Hazeland, Fire that the degree of magnanimity terest the antemnent which Reuter sent us yesterday, and which that it was for the same reason Magistrate, will sit as Paiane with which the beaten enemy is to details, wishbut a single intemperate or boastful word, the position. a rumpled him to force the Judge in the absence of Mr. be treated in the end, will be of our great ally after a six months' campaign for which she was uct present war on Europe: the cter Justin Gumpertz, who goes or limited by the knowledge that the German nation knows no honour albeit Germany was-prepired! Seven months ago France, the mal, sickly, seuelose vanity leave from the 6th inst.
Hearing Adjourned, and may look upon generous treat- unreedy, stand up to repol an invasion by troops whose Emperor them. The Kaiser
In the Summary Court, this ment as something in the nature regarded them as invincible; as part of a muchine whose works were cognised Bismarck's undoubted absolutely and finally guaranteed against any hitch. One fierce, strength of character und will, and morning the heating was adjourn of a confession of weakness to be fleet rush, and the French, bewildered and benumbod, were to yield to into his spe-like brain thero camo od of the case in which the South betrayed at some future date.. the Prussian taste. The Kuiser had decread it; that was sufficient, the notion that he was a like China Morning Post, Ltd., sued Germany is being ruthless; the But German and French views of sufficienty are not necesarily unto Bistarek; able to wieldLaw and S ha for $91.20. Allies can and should demand
Left for Shanghai. their pound of fleeh" when the| identiel. Trance, takon unawares though who might bo, was not. Bismarck's sword and to gain the
Mr. J. It. Mangban, formerly time come. for settling accounts, (and this the Kaiser, it he had not been one of the greatest fooly in necendency over the army that he the whole of the world's history, should have foreseen) the country bad possessed. Bismarck was not in Mr. Colbourne Little's live though the phrase savoure 80 to fell down before the invaders and bless them for coming. On the what the Sunday-school books leaves to-day for Shanghai, having much of the Teutonic that it al- contrary, she took each steps se quickly converted the German march would call a nice man; but he received a post in the well-known most seems to be hopelessly out on Paris into a very speady march nway from it; one in which the was a man, for all that; and, firm of architects, Messrs. Moor- of place. To err is homso, but would-be invadera did not stand upon the order of their going. Ons domineering though he was, he head and Halee..
to forgive magnanimously in this defeat or repulas or strategical retreat" followed another, till to-day was too great and too wise to bave
case would be the divinest folly imaginable. the Emperor's chances of going to Paris have been narrowed down attempted the absurd and impos
The Balkan Nations, to bis being taken there by force as an interesting curiosity. How sible. Doubtless, now that it is
The duty of the new Govern- all these lets and hindrances to German victory have been accomp too late, our friend Rehoboam lished only those know who have seen something of France's wishes that he had, after all, taken for the sum of $879.99, for godement in Greece would seem to be sold and delivered by Messrs. A.the delightful task of sitting on pertinacity and her truly wonderful power of "coming up to the the counsel of his elders.
5. Watson and Company.. the lid of a cauldron' that is not Boratch." At the beginning, things looked black. There was no
Allce Memorial.
only ready but positively anxious guarantee that Britain would, for some while to come, find the sea Our Post Office Again.
The Hon. Treisurer of the to boil over. The triumphs sufficiently open for her to sond troops across it; Belgium, alag, had
The first of April further reminds Alice Memorial and Affiliated reception of M. Venizelos, on his her own battles to fight, while hundreds of miles of hostile and impassable territory stood in the way of any hope of Russian aid. as of our Post Office. A Telegraphi Hospitals begs to acknowledge ratura from holiday, by crowds France must meet the oppressor single-handed. But of all this-of reader received two letters on with thanks the following dons- who demonstrated their desire to the noble ascrifices made, of the fine young lives cut short, of the March 28. One was posted in tion to the funds of the Hospitals: fight for the Allies, opens an op- portunity for suggestions of watching and the waiting and the planning and the out manoeuvring London on February 24, the other-Mr. M. S. Sascor, $10. that went to establish Franca's triumph-we get no hint in Roater's on December 151 No one grum-
Through furies which he intrigue which he is allez- ed to have entered. into statement. We are merely shown the results up to date and told blos, nowadays, at receiving letters
five or six weeks after the date of sustained by being knocked down for the purpose of securing the a little of how the triumph is going to be completed.
A greater contrast to Germany's boastfal and lying proclamations posting. All of us are too grate- by a tramcar, in Shaukiwan Itoad, neutrality of Bulgaria. It would a not easy to imagine. But only a nation that has clean, bands can fal and pleasantly surprised it was noeseary to remove a afford to be entirely frank with its neighbours, Germany at finding our lettere coming Chinese is the Fospital, but the telle as-or, rather tells her people in her periodioal datpourings, or going with so few mishaps. Our unfortunate man died on his way
thereto./ that all is well with her army and fleet; that the French land forces informant would not have com-
Welleyan Social Evening.
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Is the Summary Court, this morning, judgment, wie given against Ip Sai, a ship's steward,
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th August, 1914.
TROUBLESOME DOGS.
At the Police Co. rt, this morn- g, Mr. Peterson, of Morrison ill, was fined $5 for not baring. licence for his two dogs. He aa also charged with permitting a dogs to gander at large with- it muzzlee
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Defendant denied the latter berge, saying that the dogs jere on the tennis lawn.
Inspector Gordon asked for the harge to be withdrawn, saying hat the boy bitten by the dog ad gone to Macao.
FAR EASTERN GAMES.
The Programme for the Shanghai' Meeting..
Below is the programme of the Far Eastern Athletic Games to be held in Shangbai, May 15-22, which has been kindly forwarded to us by Mr. J. L. McPherson, Hon. Stc. of the Hongkong Mesars. Wright and Horn Amateur Athletic Federation: advise us that the Langkat outp "Saturday, May 15th.-Official to date for the current month Opening of the Games, parade of as follows:-
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seem therefrom that Greece is: not ready, and will not be, to move until she is assured of the attitude of Bulgaria. The entry of that nation into the lists, or a definite Are already conquered, that the British navy is in like condition, and plained, even though his letter A súial evening has been ar- that it is only a work of time-jast mare time-to drive the British had taken over three months to
to fight, would have the same (and contemptible) army off the continent and the earth, to orush the reach him had the delay attribut-ranged for Easter Monday at the statement that she does not intend Ozar's army and to convert France and Britain into Prussian able to London or to the mail-boat Sailers and Soldiers Home, Ar-effect so far as the ex-Prime colonies. Fact, howover, tells us none of these things. Fact enya people; for we all have to take the set Street, and will commence Minister is concerned, namely the that Germany has destroyed ohurches, plundered cities and villages, rough with the smooth when the at/8 o'clock, The opportunity
in his speech voiced the deafre slaughtered civiliane, outraged women, blown up defenceless merchant world is at war, But-when the will be used to afford a welcome war which the Greeks desire. He ships and thrown burning liquid on men whom she feared to face happy recipient examined the the Rev. and Mrs. Robinson that the nation bas for friend- in a fair play manner. Fact also tells us, in the words of yesterday's postmarks on the envelope of the Mr. Robinson has been appointed ship with the Allier, a friendship despatch, that, against all that France has accomplished and is three-month-old, he was excusably to the Chaplaincy of the Wes-not of words but of deeds, and accomplishing "Germany can offer nothing equivalent. Her large disgusted to find a Hongkong leyan Church, and comes to while of course the Greeks would resources in men, officers, material and munitione have been largely date-stamp of January 25! Why, Hongkong after several years of have much to gain by siding the expended in the hope of crushing her opponents under the effort of a bat our Foat Office, was responsi- missionary work in the neighbour successful side, it must not be monas and surprise. To-day she has ccnicely anfficient to offer a ble for this? If it were & ftating province. At the same time forgotten that with the state of defence." The same words would apply equally well to the state of offenes we should not mentia, it the friends will bid farewell to the Europe in the flux that it is, with actuated solely by merry Air on the Eastern side of the battlefield Germany is bruised now, but a similar thing hapjened Rev. and Mrs. Bone who proceed the impossibility of returning to motives. If she were so ed, and shaken, and hardly knows where to turn for supplies and Eng. to a letter addressed to the office Biome on furlough towards the status quo ante belium, any she would suffer in goom land, France and Russia are only just beginning! The bully has not so long ago, and farious the end of next week. A malo nation can afford to look after ita pany, because every sou kin been allowed to romp round the ring, elogging and swaggering and readers tell as of like in resting al programme has been arrangedown intere 19 without much justi-thie war has suffered a lig.
Monte Now it is the turn of the other man; the man who cases from time to time and the meeting will be preceded Beation for the accusation of being ation.
by a tox at 6.30 p.m.
Total.........
Wednesday, May 19th-Boy Scouts Display and Competition, basketball, football, volley-ball, bicycle race, tennis, baseball (open).
Thursday, May 20th. Decath lov, 1st half (100 yds. R. B. Jump, Shot Put; 440 yds., football, (open) tennis (open) bassball, (open), basketball (open).
Friday, May 21st,-Decathlon; 2nd half (220 yd. Burdles, Discas, Pole Vault, Mile Run, Running Bop, Stet and Jump), prelimin aries of the Open International track and field sports swimming (open), baseball (open), tennis (open), basketball (open), football (open).
Baturday May, 22nd.-Finals of the Open International track and fields sports, swiming, bage ball, tennis, basketball and foot- ball, modified Marathon, bioyole race. Evening: Presentation of prizes, trophies, etc.
Monday, May 24th-9 a.m.,
Eastern Athleto Association.
second annual meeting of the Far