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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1916,
1877-1915,
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS
"TO KNOW BUT ONE RELIGION IS NOT TO KNOW THAT ONE."
ANOTHER EYEWITNESS
The Weather.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 09; fino.
STORY,
Thirty-eight years ago to-day war was declared between Russia and Turkey. It is easy enough to be wise after the event and" to oriticise in the light of sub sequent happeninge; but why (and the question has been asked many times) did not the pol iticians of our fathers' days mind clear." their own business and leave
AND LEARN HOW TO Russia to deal with Tarkey in her
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Yesterday
The Mails.
1890
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
$1
(Compiled from the Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week endang April 24, 1880.)
The Dollar.
April 24-Ins rate of the
This morning's wires, if they own way? The fact is that the last generation was eo busy in wat-
the Telegraph could be laid unadulterated on dollar on demand to-day in 3/2" ohing possible Russian aggress-published 34 colomas of solid Berlin breakfast tables, would be ions that it completely forgot that reading matter. To-day there but a poor whet to the German other nations-letussay Germany, will be 40 published. for instance-might take advantage of Britain's back being turned and her attention being otherwise eng- aged, to become a greater mensos to peace in general than the sus- pected aggressor could ever be. The men of to-day who are getting U. towards middle age will remember that the bogey held up to them'in their childhood was that Russis meant to take India. That Tarkey. meant to go on playing the part of sneak and jackal never seems to have occurred to our fathers, which any more than it dawned on themi with That Germany was amind to con- fortrol Europe if ever the chance
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Armenian and Cretan Christiane and humbugging the Pewors right and left, that did not matter; poor little Tarkey
was a weak ostion that must be
defended from Russia at all coste,
We are paying for our fathers' strange wisdom to day.
"We know a little French."
A pathetic little letter is pub. lished by the Petit Parisien; one which was sent by some English sohcolboys to the President of France. In it the lade state that their school is being used as a hospital for wounded French and Belgians, that they themselves have formed a society for the amueement and help of wounded
TERROR OF CAPTURE,
CONSTABLE FIRES
SHOTS AT A THIEF.
Dives, into the Harbour to avold arrest.
There was quite a sensation in the neighbourhood of Connaught. Road Central, about five o'clook.. this morning, owing to revolver shote being fired by a European police officer. Chinese take many Gormans in East Africa.
risks in avoiding arrest at times, April 18- The Germans are and they have been known to appetite. At every point the doing all they on, to hasten the take great leaps from verandahs, enemy is shown to be losing, despatch of Emin and the ex- eto, when a gambling or an Counter-attacks in west and east pedition, with a view to being the opium diven warrant is being have been more or less easily first at the Lake District.": executed, their subsequent in- Canadian Mail-Closes per .. repulsed, an Allied force of "What is called a Moratorium.juries very often leading to certain April 18.What is called a captaro, but in the instance which Panama on Monday at 1appreciable sizo has been landed
in Turkey, de-pile protests from moratorium, or delay in payment occurred this morning, the Chi- p.m. K. American and Canadian warships and fortresses, Trieste lasting over twelve months, has nese, for all he knew, risked
Mails. Oloss per se. Nippon appears to be in a siate of riol, been found necessary to meet the shooting and drowning. Maru on Tuesday at 9 a.m.
the Shaiba victory tords out commercirl situation in Buenos to be a more important affair Ayree." than was at first thought, the The above is hardly Hongkong bombardment of the Dardanelles news, but it will prove of interest is to be hurried on, and all's well in the light of recent happenings with the British army. That is April 21. The dollar is the sccount on the debit side of steadily going up. Prices at the Germany's balance sheet, and the bar ara still urolianged." only credit entry is the torpedo- ing of a defencelase trawler und the subsequent brilliant action in which a few poor fishermen were shelled after taking to their boats,
Up to the Minute-Share Market News,
Closing prices :---
Union Luanrance,
$855,
and ex div... Doaglaves. $40, buyers. Indo Chinae,-$00; sellers. Shells,-931-. China Super-$113, buyere, Raube-$3.80, buyers. ́ Green Islands.-$6.30, buyers. $42, Hongkong Electrics
buyera. Rupas-$27, sellers. Lingkate-$37, buyers.
The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 18.0.13.16d.
Today's Anniversariés. To-day is the thirty eighth anniversary of the outbreak of the Russ-Turkish War.
Quarantino Notification.
Tientsin declared Eongkong a plague-infected port dating from today.
Our Troops in France,
It appears that Lance Sargeant Barnett was walking along Con- naught Road Central, when he saw a Chinese running very hard. Being suspicions of the msu he called upon him to stop. The request was ignored, and the ser geant then firad two shots over the thief with the objaot of bringe" ing him to a halt. The thief did not know but what the shots were meant a liule more seriously, bat he believed they were as he dived
A Novel Obituary Notice. April 21.-Old A Fong, the photographer, died on Saturday night. He was seized with an applectio fit, and before he could get a negative ready Death had into the harbour to escape
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"taken" him."
penetration." "For three-quar "An Understanding Magistrat.ter of an hour he swam about I is a bright little story that April 21. Mr. Wodehouse among the sailing oralt, but Eyewitness" sende through, evidently appreciates the necessity eventually he had to give up and and one that should tend to obeer of civilising the Chinese thief by he was captured. On being taken:
This those of our readers who have appealing to his hide.
to the station he was charged with relatives and friends at the morning he had an earing being in unlawful possession of Frunt. One can imagine the anatcher before him who stole a bundle of clothing, and at the Germana mirification at find woman's earrings in broad day Police Court, this moraing, he ing themselves .. beaten at light, near the Murray Burracks, was sentenced to fourteen days,
the The man's capture was solely due
their
1,
over own game"
APPOINTMEN}S.
B. E. the Governor has been.
sniping. And they have yet more to the courageous promptitude by Mr. Lindsell.
about the British with which a subtier, who sn the to learn Tommy. The mouth-organs and affair frem a verandah, droppe.l the penny whistles, the boxing over into the street and intercepted bouts and the cinematograph bim. His Worship coat the shows are all of a piece with the coundrel to goot for a year, and Irish officer's toy trumper at Neave ordered him to receive two whip pleased to make the following Chapelle, and show that the Brit-pings of twenty-five strokes each." appointmente, for the period dur ish trcops are bent on giving the {Mr. Wodehouse was evidently ing, which Commander Basil one of the easy going vice under the Admiralty, or natil Taylour, R.N., is seconded for ser- lie to anyone who accuses them of noi the Cockney's bete noire: down Magistrates who helped to make further notice, Commander 0; W. heartedness." Taking the more Hongkong a thieves Brain M. Beckwith, R. N., to doi an Germany and the Su tan of
Harbour Master, A sale of Crown Lond at Waiterious side of "Eyewitness
Zanzibar. April 22.-German influence some very Tan will be bald at District Office account, it ia clear enough that the immense advantage which long
Sultan of lonely French soldiers who have Taipo on April 30. The lot com- and skilful preparat ons gave to has induced the got no
write prises 13 14 acres with a crown Germany is dwindling as rapidly Zanzibar to withdraw the can. to them." The letter adds, "We rent of $27. know a little French." luck to the lads and to all warm-
the addresses of
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Civil Service Intimation.
The Hongkong Telegraph Europe is in trouble. We hope Cantonese.
‚HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1915. BRITAIN'S INTERESTS IN THE FAR EAST,
Once again Sir Edward Grey has endeavoured to lay to rest the suspicions or apprehensions of a certain section of the community as regards the Empire's interests out here in the Far East. Accord-
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LieutenantCommander A. E Davey, R.N.R., to act as Assistant Harbour Master; :-
Lieutenan A. W. Daily, R. N.
as possible, all her elaborate ostsion of the islands of Manda war machinery becoming mura and Fatta from the British R., to act as first hoarding officer, hearted British schoolboys who' It is notified in the Govern. and more discounteil by the Afrion Company. The latter's and Mr. M. Molver to Bch 28 H. E. the Governor has been are now cudgelling their braina ment Gazette" that Mr. O. G. saduraues and the marksman proxy has decliced sccept the second boarding officer, to find some way of justifying Perdue, Pulice Probatiorer, hus ship of the British. And not withdrawal,"
"April 24.—" dujur General. W. M. Beckwith, R. N, to be their existence at a time when passed bis final examination in only of the British, be it remark- Our New Commanding Officer pleased to appoint Commander jed; for, as will be seen from a subsequent wire the French Barkor has been appointed to com- Marebel of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, In Prize, vice too, as they write from a Beoond-) ".
oldie remains what he always mind the troops at Hongking." sry school, that their "We know
[Many of our renders will re- Commander Basil Taylour, R, N., was contemptuqua of danger- a little French" is only a boyishly The names of the following modest way of saying that they companies have been strack of revelling in it, indeed and pre-meter that Lady May is the resigned, with effect from the
pared to die in his tracks, by way daughter of the late General April 23 1016, know how to carry on a reasonable the Register of companies of showing the enemy that yield. Barker, a review of whose book amount of errespondence in that First Chica Chemical Works, ing or running away does not "Letters of a Subaltern" was language.
Limited, and Olivers Freehold enter into any part of his instrac recently re-printed in the Tele- Mines, Limited.
tiona. The Germans Sred twenty graph.] thousand abella at a French front!
ing to yesterday's wire, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs gave a jog Modern Languages in Schools.
to the memory of these nervous ones by pointing out what should
Struck off the Register.
The Copyright Act. An Order-in-Council by His Majesty relative to the application
three hundred
Hongkong, Canton and Macaq Steamboat Company-$30 per share, bayere.
The Hongkong" Military
Contribution,
Ching and Manila Steamship of three hundred and fifty April 24. Singapore is not Company $105 per share, metres-Teay
the only Colony in the Far Eat sellers, and eighty yards and not a which has bad its military con- Hongkong Gas Company- But it may be that the lads of the Imperial Copyright Act soldier left his post. For sense-tribution enhanced. Hongkong $135 per share, sellers,
Amerion appears in tc-day's 1911 to the United States of less breaking of a butterfly on will be called on in thongkong Government Gazette,
years
Ju Jitsu Exhibition,
the wheel on the one hand, and
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Sir per cent. Debentures-$501,
Hongkong Hotel Company- for sheer dare devil courage on year, for £40,000, as against $200 per share, buyers. the other, this record will take £21,000 in 1889. The ex'ra amount will be felt on the revenue some beating.
of the Colony; though, if the former contribution of £65,000 from the Straits we at all fair, the present eum demanded from Hongkong cannot be considered
1890
SHARE REPORT.
Indo-China S.N. Company-- 25 per cent. dis., buyers.
Douglas Steamship Company $62 per share, buyers.
China Sagar Refining Com pany, Ltd.-8216 per share, bayers,
Luzon Sugar Refining Com- pany, Limited-$88 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Loe Company- $102 per share, sellera,
have been borne in mind from the beginning: that Britain's policy is governed by the terms in the existing treaty between herself and Japan. This treaty ensures the independence and integrity of statement is literally true; and Chins and equal opportunities for the commerce and industries of all this we say, remembering the mations. (The italics are ours). Sir Edward added that the House system of language-teaching that
Lectures on Phonetics. "might rest assured that the Government would endeavour, to the still seems to obtain "in many of
In the recent announcement of best of its power, to secure the open door for British commerce in the schools at Home. For some reason which we have never been
Other Wires. all parts of China."
delivered at the University, the committed to watch over the well-being of our trade in the Far East; Britisher has more or less cou date is given, in error, as Friday| Yet once more, then, does the Imperial Government stand able to get at the bottom of, the the Leotares on Phonetics to be
Other wires make it evident and its conduct since the European War broke out has not been such tempt for modern languages (not) as to justify our thinking that it will fail in its promise. In order infrequently including bis own); April 30, and the three following that another bad day has dawned to keep its word, all that it has to do is to see that the treaty to and, therefore he is beaten in Fridays. It should be Monday for Turkey, for, side by side with thousand Allied troops at Enos, following. which reference has been made is not broken. And, as we have business by most other nations. April 27, and the three Mondays the news of the landing of twenty
past, conversa.
we have the tale of a not incon sought to show in recent articles on the Chino-Japanese position, For
English has been we still have no right to assume the wish on the part of Japan to tional
siderable bombardment of Gall- A Ju-Jitsu erbibition match ipoli and the intelligence as to the break it. If there be any excuse for disquiet omong British mer- taught in German schooland.
Hongkong Rope Manufactur chants (and we do not admit that there necessarily is) it lies in indeed in those of Switzerland,
ing Company, Ltd.-8116 per what has now become a persistent refusal on the Government's the Scandinavian countries, Russ was held at the "German Olub conference between Mr. Churchill
share, buyers and sellers. part to enter into deteile. Twice it has been stated in the House in, Belgium and Japan. The (Kennedy Road) at night, and M. Aagagneur. This between Privato Pryde of the latter has apparently resulted in s
The quotations which follow
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf that the information concerning Japan's alleged demands was men from there countries have, Civil Service Corpe, and a Japan- determination to pat on end to all of a confidential character; and now Bir Edward Groy has as a rule, quite a workable know-
share, sellers, pla stated that he did not propose to lay on the table the correspondence ledge of English and lose no es Professor. The contest was delay over the operations of the are from the Hongkong Telegraph and Godown Company-882 por Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. which he had received from this part of the world regarding the opportunity of improving them on the whole well exhibited and warsbipe in this quarter. And, if for April 17, 1890,- nation's commercial interests here. Whether this bo wisdom or selves thereio. But what of the we understand that special terms possible, Austria's plight would
may be arranged for Members of now appear to be worse even than 101 per cent, premium, sellers.$14 per share, sellers.
Union Insurance Society of folly and it may easily be the depth of either-it is unfair to Britisher? pretend to decido from the scant information that is in the public's this Colony for instance, oan be Volunteer Corps on applica- Tarkey. The people of Trieste
are no longer able to gather com- Canton-8100 per share, sellers, fort from the anothing news spread China Traders Insurance Com possession. Had the War Office mide common property of its plans carry on an intelligent conversi-tion to Private Pryde. and its knowlödgo, the Allies would not be holding the powerful tion in any European language!
broadcast by German telegraphic pany-370 per share, sellers. Tendera for repairs to steam agencies. Tae agencies say that North China Insurance-Tis position which is theirs to-day; and, for aught one knows at present but their own? His knowledge Tenders Invited,
of French and German usually to the contrary, this may be as true of the Foreign Office,
Canton Insurance Company, For its own sake financially, one cannot conceive that the stops short at a grammatically launch Stanley, will be received Germany and Austria ore winning; 355 per share, buyers. Imperial Government would do other than watch jealously over correct (though unintelligible at the Colonial Secretary's Office bat the unfortunate inhabitanta ite subjects rights ood interests in this lucrative field of the Far from a proannciation point of until noon of Friday, April. 30 of Trieste cannot square this with Ltd.-$125 per share East. For its own sake, too, politically, it cannot afford to lose view) rendering of "We have no fix the erection of shortness of food, the death of Yangtze Insurance Association prestige by allowing it to be said that it neither held to its own 1806, but we have some very quaitere for the land bailiff, at their commerce, and the number promise nor saw that other parties to the bargain beld to theirs, excellent vinegar," or "Have you Taipo, will be received at the of bereaved persons to be found And this is putting the whole matter on the ground of mere material seen the gardener's grandmother? Colozial Secretary's Office until throughout their own and their Allies territory. Therefore they advantage, We, and we believe most of our readers, would rather No but the cat in in the kit noon of Monday, May,
and so rth. In this 1915. The work to be done in express what they really Roel regard it as one of national honour, would rather believe that chen, Britain's word is going to continue to be her bond, and that when she respect, sa in many others we the erection of an additional about it all by stoning the police
Taipo as quarters for a land bailiff campaign. ares protection to her subjack whose business cffairs are bound still have a very great deal to storey to the existing offices at and demanding a Cessation of the up with Chins, the last word has been said on the subject.
How
many
earn from other countries.
Tle. 90 per share, Hongkong Fire Insurance Com pony $300 per share, sellers.
China Fire Insurance Company 884 per share, sellers. Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Company-62 per cent, premium,
buyers
A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd. $21 per share, buyers.
Hongkong High Lovel Tram- way Oo., Ltd.--40 per cent. prem., sellers.
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co.,
Ltd.-$25 per share.
Green Leland Cement Co. (old
Green Island Cement Co. (new issue)-343 per share, nominal. issue) 33 per share, nominal
Hongkong Land Investment Co., Ld802 per share, sel
Hongkong El 60 per chare, nom West Point Bu 840 per share, ba