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Reciprocal Medical Registration, We stated yesterday that a Bill has beer introduced into the Ontario Legislative Assembly which will allow British doctors to practies in Canads, and will en- able Canadian practitioners to do likewise in Britain. Nothing could be better, rot only so far
as Unnada is concerned aut og regards all other dominions and colonies as well; and we hope to see the day when the fact of a man's having taken a medical degree in any British territory will qualify him for practice in the Mother Country. But that time is dot yet; fer, unicitunately, w Britishers have not lost the habit of thinking that "anything is good Lencagh for the Colonies," whether in' medical, official,
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS,
CORRESPONDENCE
The opinions expressed by the orrespondents are not necess
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Telegraph."
THE MARINE ENGINEER:
(To the Editor of the longkong Telegraph) Sir,-Re your article on "The The overnight telegrams deal-Engine Ron and Heroism," in Telegraphing with she operations in the last night'a isane.
western theatre of war show vary
kay I thank you for patting in plainly that things are beginning a word for us, and drawing public io liven up ir France. At a point attention to the marice engineer where the Germans are just over as a person of importance in the frontier, in the region of antioal economy? Verdun, the French are making
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1915.
A TYPICAL BRITISH VICTORY.
1.
be
3.p.m.
Up to the Minute-Share market News.
Closing prices:-
Shanghai Cottone. Tle. 88,
sales and buyers." Sugare $112, cales. Steamboats. $221, buyers.
Yours etc.
A. DAYES, A Common Garden Engineek," Sailor's Home, A
great effect. It is evident that merchant ships." the enemy is sustaining very Marine engineers, and their serious losses in France at the relatives and their friends, will moment, and, if there were any feel highly honoured and flattered double on this point, the statement at your definition; and, now that by German prisoners that no we are assigned to our proper fewer than six battalions have genue and species, the British been successively destroyed in the public can label us accordingly. Obina Light and Power.recent fighting sets it at restonce
$4 buyers.
and for all. While on the matter Ilumphrey's Ealates. $0 of German losses, it is worth noticing the huge casualties which the Germans are suffering among their officers. Since the war, close on 10,000 have killed, over 21,000 Save been wounded or are mies ing, and among these there are hundred Generale. No army in the world can survive such a heavy loss of leaders at this, and we doubt not that the shortsge
buyers,
The Dollar. The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is In 9.13-16d.
Grass Fire,
Fan Stulen.
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LANGKAT OUTPUT.
Mesure, Wright and Hornby of officers is being very seriously advise us that the Langkat output felt by Germany at the present for the current month, is se time. The supply of officers is, follows:- of course, strictly limited, and April 1 Aad an Army which does not the gaps cannot be filled quickly. command the services of an ade- quate numbers of leaders cannot possibly hope to win battles, That is the position of the Ger. hospital suffering from stab afths of their peace strength in A Chinese has been sent to the mens to-day; they have lost three- wounds, alleged to have been in-officers. And, as we say, the flicted by a man in custody.
shortage cannot be made up in a day.
condition.
A grase fire at Tai Ho Wan engraved. It is for aniversality damaged an acre of land and in all these things that we plead, several pine trees before it was and the sooner it comes the bet put out. ter for the British subject. Why should not, for instance, the
The Polion learn that some-one British Medical Council has stolen from the Tai-Ping allowed to set up one defnite theatre an overhead, electric fan standard throughout the whole valued at $20. of the Empire, whose require- The Police have reported to the
Dangerous Wall. ments every man going in for P. W. D. that the wall of a hease medicine must antisfy? Why should not the Incorporated Law in Ship Street is in a dangerous Society, the Chartered Account ants' Association, and other recog- uised bodies at Home take the con trolling hand in British Overseas territory, 20 that a professional man in Hongkong or Jamaica
The Coolie and the Flour. shall have equal qualifications
The Police have been informed with his brethren in Britain? that a coolie employed to cart Most of the professions here ten bags of flour, valued at $431, sra well And worthily. re-bas-not turned ap with the goods. presented; not a few of our →Special Police Inspection. medical men could give points to many a good practitioneral Home, and we believe something similar might be said of the local bar-
Sent to Hospital.
Junk Damaged.
the
Significant Admissons.
From the reading of the Berlin
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266 238
Total to 7th inst. 1,735
Daily average 217.0
NEW YORK FINANCE.
Foreign Exchange Situation
Is Unprecedented, "
New York, Feb. 18. It is necessary to go back to
IN THE TEMPLE.
A Place of Public Accesă.
At the Police Court, this morn- ing, thirtean Obinere were charged helore Mr. Wood, by Inspector Gerrard, with being rogues and evidence, the men were found in vagabonds. According to the the Tin Han Temple, Yaumati.
Bis Worship held that the temple was a place of public access and declined to convict. The men were discharged, the Inspector being referred to the Secretary for Chinese Affaire,
FACTORY FIRE.
Six Thousand Dollars Damage.
A fire which broke out at the". Fook Bing glass factory, Tai Wan Bay, on the afternoon of the 8th, Was responsible for damage to the extent of about $6,000,
The conflagration was caused through the bursting of some brick work connected with one of the furnaces, the burning liquid floating over the floor of the smelting shop. The premises, which are not insured, are owned by Oban Pak-ahu, who is at pre-W sent in Feking.
"LAWN TENNIS
The H. K. C. C. Tournament.
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Quite a number of ties in the I. K.0.0. lawn tennis, tourna-- ment were playedoff last evening in the presence of a goodly gather- ing of spectatore. Farther matches are arranged for the remainder of the week. The results to date are:-
Open Championship Singles. Firat Jound.-N. E. Kent beat Ng Szkwong, 6–7,8 – 3, Be 6-3; P. Lo beat Ng Sze cheong, 6-1, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1.
Handicap Slogies.
A Oless, first round.-Major Crisp, RA, M. C.. best F. W. Cary, 6-3, 6-3.
BClass first round.-O.Thorne 6-0; I. E. Mariel beat T, A. beat C. Bernard Brown, 6-4 Loughlin, 7-5, 6-2,
This evening, ie Ercellency communique which comes to us the Governor is inspecting the Vis Amsterdam, it is evident that Special Police Referve, at the the Germans are apprehensive of Central Police Station compound. the future. Emphasis is laid on the panic of 1873 to find a parallel members and solicitors. (These
the fact that the French are for the low levels in foreign ex- men, however, have been educated at Homs, and have qualified there.) police that one of the Union and numerous artillery," and it is Sterling exchange dropped as low and L. N. Murphy beat T. E.
It has been reported to the attacking with "strong forces change
Handicap Doubles. rates reached to-day. First round.-H. O. Sandford But what about some of our Water beats collided with a junk admitted that the enemy has a $4.783, compared with $4.82 Pearce and R. P. Thursfield, school-masters, and, alus, many of in Yaamati and damaged it to penetrated a portion of the German yesterday morning. German 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. our Government officials? Here the extent of $100,"
trenches on the heights of the marks fell to 84, francs to 5.25 we got plenty of examples of
Spinster's Loss.
Meuse. Concerning the fatter, and Italian and Amsterdam ex- First round-S. E. Groen and
Professional Paris. the policy spoken of above: any- A Chinese spinster, of 54, the communique contains a most change rates also declined sharp- L. le Braton best H. C. Sandford thing is good enough for the Station Street, reports that some significant observation. It is foly. This is an extraordinary and A. Leitb, 6-0, Colonies. There are men holding person has stolen from her, the effect that it must be supposed reversal of the conditions of last L, N. Murphy and R. P. Thure Government posts in Hongkong-clothing, jewellery etc., to that the French, in view of the summer, when sterling exchange 1-ld beat F. A. Redmond and and, those not always subordinate value of $120.
recent diatribution of forces, will was hardly to be had at all at $7 W. P. C. Trafford, 6-1, 6-2, It wo draw special attention to the narrative of the Neuve trusted to address envelopes in posts who would scarcely be
Remanded.
continus their attacks. In other or more per pound. Europe is The case in which a Chinesa is words, the German military see now in the same predicament we
Mixed Doubles Handicap. Chapelle battle as related in Reuter's wire of yesterday, it is because, London. Then what are they charged with stealing $70. from trouble ahead, and the public is were in at that time, and is is R. Hancock beat G. Miskin and First round. Mr. Moxon and despite the modern conditions under which the action was carried out, the oircumstances surrounding the victory are in absolute con universality of test. I-a e ob- Taumati, was remanded at the to happen. That, it seems to an, national bankers are talking of a Mrs. Black and E. Ormiston beat doing here? Again, we want a house in Woo-sang Street, being prepared for what is likely not strange to find that inter- Miss Humphreys, 6-3, 6-3; formity with accepted British traditions, It was, if we are to judge served orce before in this column Police Court, this morning. from the brief yet thrilling account in question, just what most of the examination for the Indian
is the explanation of the depressresumption cf last fall's confer-Dr. Lindasy Woods and Miss us, sa boys, imagined a British battle to be: the irresistible maroh Civil Service were made to apply
Bandmaster's Complaint. ing tons of the communique. The ences on the exchange situation, Robertson, 6-1, 6-3, Bandmaster Furtado, of the truth is slowly dawning on the with the shoe on the other foot of one mass of infantry, the dashing re-inforcement by a second party to Hongkong and other small 18th Indian Regiment, reports military faction that they are up this time. officers cheering on their men and the leader dying at his post. colonies, the fossil and vegetable the loss of a silver programme against a hopeless situation, and It is not difficult to picture that glorious charge of the Lincolns element would soon disappear, stand from Murray Barrecke. they realise that the public cannot and the Berkshires a charge which, as every man present knew, and three-fourths of the average The value to the stand is $220. be kept much longer in ignorance must of necessity bring death to a considerable number of those who formed it. Over three hundred of them fell before the enemy's bling would no longer exist.
Hongkongite's exonses for gram-
of the real faote. fire, but, in a rush of British troope, such things are but incidente. All that concerned the men who were not shot was that they meant to make a breach in their opponents' stronghold. No sooner was this effec'ed than two more companies made their way yously our issue of yesterday, that street
5traet Noises.
A correspondent pointed ont, in
Silk Delivery, The Yokohama Office of the T. K. K. is in receipt of wireless
communication to the effect that the silk despatched hence per e..
With the Russians.
WAR FINANCE.
London was followed by an The decline in exchange on engagement of $2,500,000 gold
In Case of a Joint Loan, by a local banking house, the metal coming from Ottawa, Re- London bankers are stated to be- ceipt of a small ebipment of gold lieve that should a joint war loan coin from London for transfer to be issued by the Allied Powers it While the Allies in the west Cuba bora lightly upon the ex- would be floated in New York Petrograd, Paris, Tokyo and Lon- when the enemy will have to take out strikingly in the unparalleled be on the basis of 4 per cent. Rifles pursuing the fleeing enemy is of the kind that sticks in a loon. We know it, to, the cost of
Musical Entertainment. to his heels, the Russians situation which has come about guaranteed by the three Allied will still speak with gloesome admiration of the dare devil on-rasli the only way to put an end to the Union Church Hall, a musical advance in the Carpathians. those of Europe ie that, barring Japan. This plan, it is consider To-night, at 8 45 p.m., in the are pursuing their victorious in the relations of this market to Governments and possibly by nation's memory. Schoolboys and sportsmen, generations hence, our soul's health. As he intimates, of these happy-go-lacky. Irishmen to the cocompaniment of their auisance is for the police rigidly entertainment and a short play Huge captures of oligore and men, German selling, there is no ed, would be better than attempt officer's toy bugle. It is on an occasion like this that the Irishman to enforce the Sweet Noises entitled "Maid Marian" will be as well as of gune, are recorded, pressure on our stook marketing to raise three, separate loans, Boores; no other race in the world, save, perhaps, the French, could finance. But will they do it ? Tae ziven by members and friends of while even the Austrians admit #broad. Current rates of eras Russia would have to pay a have charged to such muaio without appearing and feeling-Ordinance fixes the fine at twen the Women's Institute, in aid of little retreat," which turns out change put a large premium on higher rate for accommodation
through the gap, blind and oblivious to everything but the one main acians are prevalent on this side Shinyo Maru on the 23rd February are forging ahead and are every change situation. fact that they were "out for" victory. The picture, too, of the Irish of the 'water as well as in Kow. was delivered in New York on the day drawing nearer to the time “One of the facts which stands don. Such a loan probably would
ridiculous. :
27th March.
ty-five dollars, for the offender the Institute funds. who atters cries for the purpose
Tomorrow's Auctions.
A Football Matter
indicates that the Austriaze were
**And what of the concluding passage of the story, which depicts of buying or selling "within any Mr. G. P. Lammert has three the Austrians find themselves selling. There can be only one That money for the European to be a flight over some 16 miles sales of American securities by than Great Britain or France, and Colonel MeAndrew sitting with shattered limb, in mortal agony district or place not permitted by auction sales to-morrow-11a.m., may be gauged from the oiream-explanation, and that is that in war will be required soon is real- of territory. The plight in which England, bat England is not Japan a abade more than Russia. with but an hour or so of life left to him-yet demanding to be placed in such a position as would enable him to watch the progress of the regulations of the Governor-ins sale of six packages of sugar stance that they are quite unable these troublous times English ised from the fact that the daily fight. A fair sample this, of the men who make up that contempt to make the matter a somewhat 11.30 6.m., sale of 55 packages of advance and, in retreating, securities as those which are pat conservatively, are something
Council. The last clause seems machinery, at Hale's Wharf to stay the impetuous Bassion investors. ible little army of Sir John French's. We say a "fair" sample,
recognise American expenditures of the allies, even for Colonel McAndrew's noble end is not just an isolated care, but difficult one; we do not quite serves rather as a specimen of the conduct of our troope, officers know how the "loophole "100 machinery, at the Kowloon they are burning bridges and forthest removed from the dan-like $4,000,000 £500,000,000 Las Wharf and Godown Company's provision depots. Then there is gerous effects of war. This is an already been spent. Then there and men both, sicos the trench warfare began. Why the Keiser business is going to for premises; 2.30 p.m., sale of one the story of the stupendous cap-expression of confidence in the are some smaller countries to Bi- anduld have chosen, at the outset, to speak disparagingly of Britisk sumably the Governor-in-Council acetylene generator, etc., at his tarea at Przemysl a story, which outlook hers of which Wall Street mance and Russia has to be assist soldiers is more than we can understand unless we write him off would not " permit" ench noises zales rooms. forthwith as unaccountable for his words and deeds; for the men in a distriot that is inhabited by
eleverly caught in a trap and bad may well take counted through the deadlook in ex- who are dying in this fashion, together with those who are living to Europeans. But the Chinese have
A correspondent writen stating no option but to surrender with Germany's announced purpose of of usual trade
The situation growing out of change caused by the closing up schiere further triumphs, are bat upholding the traditions of the been allowed to play fast and loose that he has been, naked by the bag and baggage. Not only is establishing a war zone around Exchange.
with the Reservation Ordinance, Telamic Club to point out doing what their fathers did in the Crimea and in India; what their so that no one now seems to know in our re
in our report of Monday's football: grandfathers did in the Peninsula War, or if it come to that what if there is such a thing na amatob. He says the team that Russians are profiting from the the serious matter that it is. The the steamship companies trad
the very naturally discussed to-day as
them to go and fight; and they went without stopping to ask Boad neighbourhood is certainly picked from the Rest of the daily laying hands on serviceable and the bond market in a sub- that their remote ancestors did in mediaeval daye. Their King told | Luropean" district. The Caine played the Chinese was one capture,in as much as they are stock market in a further decline, ing questions, without wasting time over lip loy lty and word European in theory but one League and not an Indian one, as depots of munitions,
doubls if, to-day, there are half tated. He adds that there iotism; without its occurring to them that they wize doing
particularly laudable, Barely these were not the men todoxes purely European families to be considerable tra
poken slightingly of. But if the Kaiser ever left there and behind such a fact the Chinese
suggerichtet, as this both police and hawkers it would be well it the. of the troops whom Britain was sending sum feel sure somewhat modified his 10 by might shelter themselves
hald cheap and to ald's low op gainst him; he has,
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