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A Notable Anniversary,
Yesterday was the fifty-fourth suniverasry of the beginning of the American Civil War, en co currence about which we British-
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OBITUARY.
Police Sergeant Adlington,
We regret to record the death
Scarcely a telegram comes to hand now dealing with the fight- ing in France which does not |
It was announced, some months of Sergeant Adlington, of the back up the view that we have ago, that the Governor-in Council Hongkong Police, which occurred Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 73 entered upon the third, and pin connection with our local Civil Hospital, where the deceased had made certain now regulations this morning at the Government At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 70: The period of mere local success occupied by these perdons are to soltering from, fever, using
sibly the last, stage of the war money-changers. The premises had been admitted on Saturday, en seems to have come to an end, have no communication with
The deceased officer jined the ment appears to have at length changers must confine their en-lace-sergeant in 1002 and a full and the broad sweeping more those of any other businesa; the force in March, 1900, was made a began. It is no longer a'case of ergies strictly to their own plases sergeant in Jane, 3801. desperate fighting for the pool business, and the annual cost on how month with es ion of farmhouses or ferry of their licenes is to be $50 stationed at West Point with men's quarters, and there is instead of, as heretofore, $10. became ill and was admitted to Inspector Dymond, where, he likely to be less of the subterra-
Bóngkong people will certain- Cloess per 8.8. Tenyo Maru nean warfare which has for solong ly welcome any legislation (when hospital. Subsequently, on his marked the operations in the it comes) which makes for don-own application, he was transfer- west. With the better weather trolling the mosey obanging where he remained for thres red to the Central Police Station, conditions which bave now Bet The rate of the dollar on in, the rival armies my be ex outlined stove seem to as to months. Two months ago ho
fraternity; but the regulations demend to day is 1 9.13-16d. peated to meet in more open touch little more than the bars was transferred to Shantakok.
To-day's Anniversary.
combat, though it is certain
He was a native of Dartford, Kent, It is always interesting 10 To-day is the thirty eventh that the Germans will endeavour hem of the public's grievance. Of epeculate on historical matters. anniversary of the death of the tooling" to their trenches until/course it may be that the new the son of Mr. Thomas Adlington, What would have happened, one celebrated missionary Bishop, wonders, had the forces of the Dr. Selwyn. South been ultimately the victora? That the result could have been an entirely bad one we find it dif-
haoked out and moulded for them by Mrs. Stowe. Of the real
principles involved, however, only The harder-headed of our aires and grandeires seem to have been
ware.
Speculation.
lo-morrow at 11 8.m.
The Dollar.
Chinese Fight.
Caught la the Act. *
the spirited offensive of the Allies
makes retreat inevitable.
rales will be bat a foretaste of
of Great Queen's Street." good things to come; but so many
The funeral takes place this
New Rear-Admlak Consequent upon the promotion
Of Strategical Sigaificance.
of ae have long ago grown tired evening, the cortege paning the There can be no doubt that the
of waiting for those good things Monument at 5.15 o'clock. As the result of a fight between French success at Eparges is one
that we may be pardoned for fool- cult to believe. The Americans Chinese on the Aberdeen road, of the severest blows which the ingeither impatient or pessimistic, should know their own business yesterday, in which the weapons enemy bas received since the
On the face of it, it would seem best, but we suppose, even among were bambace, a Chinese has been great retreat following the un-
that if the local Government can The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will the most ardent protagonists of admitted to the Government Civil successful drive towards Paris. control the money-changera
the North, one bould find people Hospital.
| As a result of it, the whole plain operations in one direction, thesof Vice-Admiral (doting Admiral) Daily issue-36 per annum.
willing to admit that the deter.
Fish-Polsoning.
of the Woevre is now completely can do eo in another. That being Weekly issue-$13
mination to foist suddenly upon Through esting some poisonous in French hands, and though the 80, why not a uniform rate of Sir John Jellicoe to be Admiral ecciety several thousands of per- fresh-water fish, Ave Chinese have enemy had resisted the attacks discount (if discount there must of B.M. Fleet, as from March 5, sous who had never known what been sent to the Government Ciril with the very flower of his Army allowed to give two and some the same data are notified in the be)? Why is one money changer the following promotions from it was to be independent or to Hospital. They are at present and the defenders were ordered to times fire-cents more of Is London Gazette:--Rear-Admiral exercise self-reliance and to give too ill to make any statement as hold on at all costs, there was 30 than another ? Even within the Herbert Goodenough King-Fall, them volee!was a dangerous to where they purchased the fish. staying the onrush of the attackers, last few weeks, one resident has D.3.0., to be Vios-Admiral. Capt experiment. We do not know, other than from hearsay, what is
who have, to use the words of the received seventy-five cents dis- Osmond de Beavoir Brook to be the lot of the average workman or aentence passed in the case of a recent operations: The French other, at the next shop, has
official communique, attained one Six weeks' hari labour was the of the principal objectives of the count on five-dollar bill, while Rear-Admiral.” can towns to day; but, there are attempting to enter a house for an important from the fact that it One would think, too, that the he is not (as would be the case workwoman in the large Ameri- Chinese who was charged with advance in this region is not only
simultaneously received five cents,
Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed (or were, prior to the war) ant was seen climbing a rainspout heavy losses on the Germans money-obangor to place in a oto bank a hundred dollare, but
for our own country, there are unlawful purpose. The defends meant the infliction of very Government could force the very many thousands of un-by a European constable, and it has strategical signifi-spicuous spot one card or board to quote to day's-rate a hundred fortunate people whose lot has been infinitely horder than that of the plantation negroes in
cance which cannot be over-rated " Interport Rifle Match.
on which is written the day's rate dollars leas twelve dollars and ten threstening, as it does, theenemy's America sixty years ago. In Eng.
Ta view of the recent events in position at St. Mibiel, which is unfailing rule in the Kling less as much as nineteen dollara!
of exchange. This latter is the land the people who are most Singapore, and the consequent fed by a light railway from Metz.
en's and within recent mon the, opposed to coloured slavery are uncertainty of their being able to And it seems as if it must lead to money-changers' shops in Singa. It is useless for him to blame the generally those who are hardest carry out any arrangements they one of two results either a pare, and if it be thought necest banks, for they will defend them on their own sweated employees might make for the match, it has hurried German retreat over the ary there, where the dollar is relves by pointing out that they MOON,-On April 2, 1915, at Hankow, to Mr. and Mrs. R. J.like this in America.
We wonder if things are at all bean mutually agreed by all frontier (if the enemy can effect fixed and where the cbanger's also will have to dispose of the Ports concerned that the match it) or s outting off of a very big business only concerns non-Straits subsidiary to the Treasury at s will not take place this year.
force of the Kaiser's legions. It money, it is surely even more of ia a great stroke which bas been local money varying from day to a necessity here, with the price of brought eff, and we confidently prediot that it is one of my
day! which the immediate future has in store for us.
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The Hongkong Telegraph,
HONGKONG," MONDAY, APRIL-12, 1915.
A HEALTHY SIGN.
was captured.
Fell off the Ferry.
The Police and Street Nolses.
Returning to the above ques- An Indian soldier named tion for a moment we hear in- Hapoora Singh fell of the Stir directly that one official has stat- Ferry last evening. He was res ed that the Kowloon hawkers cued by the engineer of the cannot be proceeded against Hongkong Hotel launch and a the police "because deck hand on the ferry. Had it there is no legal provision there- not been for the assistance of Can this be true? If it these men, the Indian would have true-one feels impelled drowned.
by
for"
be
it?
.
Signs of the Times.
anywhere else in the world) going
asks the stranger to Hongkong. discount.
"But why the discount ?" feebly
Hongkong has a great deal more For the all too obvious resson that mall silver than it knows what to
;
The next question is: Dose anyone in Hongkong, save the changers themselves, know how do with. which show that Germany herself sidiary coin is determined? Com-mount in circulation as quickly the value of the dollar in b Foots continue to lesk out knows that she is coming to the mon report has it that there end of her tether. One of these individuals mest, conspirator- nezt mild enquiry; and it is one
a possible? 18 our stranger
ship foodstuffs to the civilian
"Then why not reduce the
to nuderlice the "if" what is Hongkong Horticultural Society: is revealed in the Note to the like, by night and, after long which the Government would do the Government going to do about The annual general meeting of United States, which, since it debate and subtis argument, well to reply to-if it can
Are property owners to the Hongkong Horticultural So virtually accuses America of esile among themselves, without build houses, and tenants to rent ciety is to to be held at the City failing to conform to the spirit reference to the Government ex-more practical manner, the Gov- Had things been handled in a them; without any hope of such Hall at 5.15 p.m., on Monday, of neutrality, is certainly in bad soily bow much ten ten-cent pieces ernment could long ago have police protection as will prevent 19th April. The business is to taste. It complains that America stamped with King George's redeemed an enormous percentage It is one of the most encouraging signs of the times that the depreciation in the value of those pass the accounts and report for has accomplished nothing by the effigy shall be worth on the fol of this superfinity. Somewhere a considerable portion thereof, is realising the benefits of outdoor! are understood to be for Euro-mittee and officers for the com- the Allies regarding the right to rate of discount is a purely ariasued, and this at the very mild rising generation among the Chinese community of the Colony, or houses? Certain areas in Kowloon the past year sau to elect a Com-diplomatic Correspondence with lowing day! Another, and pe about forty million dollars worth hape more likely story is that the of subsidiary has gradually been sport. Wherever the Britisher gooa, bo taxes his love of sport with pean occuption. Then are the ing year. him, and, no matter what the climate may be, he will indulge in his Europeans who fain would live
Whist Drive. people of belligerent Powers. In bitrary one fixed cot by guilde estand most generous computation favourite pastime. In this way he wards off the tendency in tropical there to be driven out of the A most successful whist drive other words, Germany soknow. but by individuals, and that any is seven times the amount need- or sub-tropical regions to become lethargic and spiritless-a quarter by the howls of Chinese was held in the pavilion of the ledges that the messures taken money-changer in at liberty to od by population of about four tendency which, if it is not resisted, is certain to lead to the under- hawkers, without the Govern Wigwam Lawn Tennis Club on by Britain are proving something ote his own price, just as any handred thousand. The twenty mining of health and the encouragement of laziness. The wonder mont's holding out a hand to help Saturday night, when there was more than merely inconvenient, bank can fix ita demand rate on per cent profit which was made. is that here in Hongkong, where they have a long had before them? It seems impossible that a good attendance of members and, in the hour when she is London as it chooses. If there be by issuing this enormous amount them the example of the sport-loving Britisher, the Chinese should this can be the case: Will some and their friends. The ladies beginning to feel the pinch, ake any controlling influence in the seems to have been regarded by have been so slow to learn the lesson. For it is only within the past one shed a little light on this re prize went to Mra. Stone, and the practically implores the United matter, this influence would ap- our Government as an ordinar couple of years or so that they have taken to outdoor sport on markable position?
gente to Mr. AG Howlith, States to come to her help. Opear to be that of competition; aesat, instead of being left in the organised lines
while Miss Norah Stone won the other point may be mentioned to there is a margin of profit on bank as a reserve fund which It is true that for quite a number of years a small fraction of We almost weep when we hear" booby" prize. The prizes were show the change of spirit which is every note cashed, and the man would have been drawing quite a the native population has been playing football, tennis and other of the Kaiser's sympathy with suberquently presented by Mr. G. coming over the nation. That is who has the most notes brought respectable interest. Ja issuing so games introduced from the West, but it is only quite recently that poor, downtrodden Ireland. So W. Siwell, who also handed to the protest against the contingato him is the man who can afford huge a sam in small money, the the movement has found any general support and that any great is this sympathy that Mrs. Hicks the prize for the lady'a tion of the war which has been now as to the question of calculating that, on an average, to give the most liberal discount authorities were, it would seem,
"Turned down.",
a
LANGKAT OUTPUT. Mesare. Wright and Hornby
attempt has been made to consolidate and organise the talent which his minions offered some Irish championship in connection with made by the German Socialists. And undoubtedly exista among the young Chinese of the Colony. For prisoners of war a separate camp, the recent tennis tournament, These latter are now talking about vaine, where the subsidiary ocio every man, woman and child in this we have to thank the various educational institutions in our where they would Coub less be which was kindly given by Mr. peace. But they are, unfortunate concerned. We have alluded this Colony needed for ordinary midat--the University, the Colleges and the Chinese Y. M.C. A. entitled a more frequent changes L. la Breton. On May 8 there ly for their own people, a little before to the absurdity of our requirements, no less than Those at the head of these organisations have very wisely brought of straw and a greater immunity will be a bridge drive at the ahead of the times. Thero lise to be ney system; we have pointed hundred dollars in small money. it home to the youths under their charge that mental and physical from kickeand expectoration than | Club's pavilion:
lot of humble pie ate yet before out that Hongkong's methods in Against this we urge that fifteen development should go hand in hand-that one is complementary that vouolated to more pulpable
Victoria Theatre. there oan be any question of the this rospect are a foolishness dollars per individual would be to the other. And hence to-day we find a healthy spirit of rivalry English (and State?) prisonera.
Crowds of people have been cessation of hostilities,
and a laughing-stook to considerably more than enough.. existing between the sporting organisations nasociated with the The Irish do not appear to have attending the Victoria Theatre
every tourist who has evor several educational centres of the Colony: What is worth noticing, appreciated this imperial during the last week, largely on
Plainly the Government's only sojourned in the Colony. This way out of the difficulty into too, is the prowess which the Chinese are displaying in these outdoor sympathy indeed they "turned, sccount of the exceptionally
may well ba so, for the man must which it has gradually planged games. There are at present in Hongkong, football, cricket and it down" and indignantly refused interesting picture, screened for
be born without any sense of the business men and house- lawn tennis teams which are more than a match for many a Euro- the offer. The Germans have been the first time in Hongkong advies us that the Langkat output humour who cannot see the at holders of the Colony, is to set to pean combination, and the day will not be far distant, we imagine, making the same old m s'oke "What happened to Mary. The for the current month is as surdity of being able to go to a work to redeem steadily, at the when Chinees players will be given a place in Interport teams, that many English people have first series will be repeated at the follows
local Chinese department atora, rate of somewhere about two All this is most encouraging, for there can be no doubt what constantly follen into: taking the matinee on Wednesday next to
April
where any quality of subsidiary million dollars a year. But will ever that the growth of the sporting instinct among the Chinese Irish for foole. Where are these afford an opportunity to those
money is taken, buyinga fifty contt do this? Only a little mare of the Colony must have distinctly beneficial resulte.. For one thing, fool Irishmen? We have met them who missed seeing it before and
article, tendering a ten-dollar than two years ago it left it to it will mean a devided and very necessary improvement in the on the stage and in books, but to enable them to follow the
bill and receiving ten dollars the Tramways Company to estab- physique of the rising generation, but, even more important than in real life they have a little s'mond series, which is now being,
and ninety certs change. The lish the integrity of British coin- this, are the effects which it will have in other directions the spread habit of baiug, as often as not, as screened, and will also be repeated
thing is more than farcical. - of what may be termed the sporting spirit in other walks of life, shrewd and se far-seeing as their on Saturday next at the matinee.
288 Bat the majority of Hongkong great expense which the Govern age in a British colony at a very reaulting in the development of healthy minds as well as healthy English neighbours. The Kaiser The "Sherlock Holmes" detective bodies. * It is largely due to the spread of this spirit, too, that the may be a good hand at being all atory picture in 25 parts, divided better class young Chinese are now beginning to take their part in things to all men, but he must into 6 series, will shortly be the public life of the Colony--witness this formation of a. Obinese not think that the same individual shown. ↑ As the stories are well motion of the Special Police Reserve. So, looking at the matter who can be "Hadji Willism to known and popaler, no doubt the from every standpoint, we may Well feel gratified that this healthy the Torks is a
is going bey he attendance will be still greater. movement is making such headway in our midst—a movement Ilev, Father William
Special interest also attaches to which deserves all the encouragement which can be given it. There will be nothin
the wories::The Opgen Baulsfold:
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shops very strongly objsot to this ment had subsequently, olass of transaction and, as for rightly, to meet. Will the aut and is possible and legal, ties show themselves 270 they avoid taking the subsidiary the requisita mors
money at all. And for the beat of stand up against
Total to 11th ins
Daily avera
2791
ressons For when the eli goes to the bank with his han- dred dollars worth of subsidiary
ago to
terests of thors who subsidiar