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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1915.
Looking for a Business Man.
We mentioned yesterday that Mr. Lloyd George appears to be experiencing some amount of difficulty in finding a good strong business man with coms pash and go in him," to take oharge of his scheme for the mobilisation of the Empire'&iodus- trial resources. This we can wett believe, for the ideal business man is almost as hard to come by a |the real artist-a 'fact, which not one man in fire seeme to realise or appreciate. It is always patb etically amusing to hear a father announce that he is going to bring his son up as a business man, long
DAY BY DAY.
**A COLLEGE DEGRER DOES NOT
LESSEN THE LENGTH OF YOUR EAR IT ONLY CONCEALS IT.",
The Weather,
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 68; fine.
At the Peak 8 am. Temp. 61; clear,
NOTES ON THE CRISIS. SELLING KOWLOON LAND
NAVAL ACTION,
The War va Fishing Boats.”
Architect and Contractor's Commlaston Dispute.
"CANTON NEWS.,
REPAIR OF FORT,
Canton, May 1, 1915-The fort at the entrance of Pearl River hag lately been repaired and streng- This mo ning before Mr. Justice thened. General Ling does not Hazeland at the Supreme Oort, think it necessary for a river fort John Lamm, arobiteos, of 04 to have as heavy cannon as others, Queen's Road Central, sued Kaso be bas sont one large gun to As we look through each day's Ham Din contractor, of 182 Port- Sha-Kok and another to Sheung batch of telegrams we can scarce-land Street, Youmiti, to recover Nang, replacing them with ly help wondering if there will the sum of $1,170 being balance smaller guns, ever bo, while the war laste, due for fees for work done at the
Wine Tax Monopoly. The wine taxes for the entire Yesterday the Telegraph twenty-four consecutive hours request of the defendant, and for published 38 columns of solid during which some breach of fair theodolite sold and delivered, province of Kwong Tang hus bad an opportunity of showing reading matter. To-day there play will not have to be recorded the sum of $170 was waived to been farmed ont to a mechan
sgainst the Germans. Probably bring the master within the and his monopoly is to begin on whether or not he has a bent will be 37 published.
not, for matters have gone so far jurisdiction of the Sammary Court May. 1. In view of the importance now that our friend the enemy
Mr. J. H. Gudiner appeared attiched to this tax, Governor Li
before the youth in question has
thereto. No man in his senses talks
of educating his child as (E. G,)||| an author, an orator, a painter or
Count the Columns,
The Malls.
K., and Canadian Mila.
Closed per B.8. Sado Maru at 11 a.m.
an actor until the youngster has Siberian Mail.-Due per s.s. Che done something to justify the nan to-day, possibility of his success in one. of those walks of life; yot few hesitate to assume that their boys will be all right for basiness." If we consider for a moment we shell asroly have to admit that the business man is a much "born and not made" as the musician or the poet.
Success.
Success in commercial opera- tions obviously implies the possession of a certain type of brain as well as of temperament. Tho luck element may well be left out of the question here, for that Esine element eaters into the life or barrister. Luck aside, one man of no specially great intellectual capacity begins life as a pauper, figuratively or actually, and dies a millionaire, while another with
BOYD-On Monday, April 26, 1915, at Springston, Elgin, to Mr. of the successful artist, politician and Mrs. Wm. Reid Boyd, a son, fcable.)
.. MARRIAGE
PENTYCROSS-ALLAN-On April 17, 1915 at Yokohama, Japan, before A. M. Chalmers, Esq., H. B. M. Consul-General, Yokohams, and afterwards at Christ Church, by the Rev. W. J. Grey, M.A., Fre eric Hazel, eldest son of the Rev. F. J. Pentycross, B.A. and Mr. Pentycross, the Chaplain's House, Goring Heath, Reading, to Mabel, only daughter of Mrs. Allan, and the late Alexander Allan, of Shanghai.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1915.
CHINA'S REPLY.
a thousand times better oppor
Siberian and American Mails,
Closes per sis. Mongolia
morrow.
Up to the Minute-Share.
Market News,
to
Closing prices:—-
Douglases. $44, buyers. China Sugara. $116, sellers. Kung Yika13, sellera..
$211, Shanghai Cottons.
sellers.
The Dollar.
demand to-day is le 9.13/16d..
The rate of the dollar on
To-day's Anniversary.
Troubles of Tea Houses. -
has no longer any ch racter to for the plaintiff, and Mr. Leo. be appointed the Canton Kr Chiet lose, or any remnant of sense of D'Almada Castro for the defence, of Police, Mr. Tang Ya Kwong to shame to deter him from the Plaintiff, in the witness box, be general Supt. of this depart ignoble" and the vile. Events deposed to the defendant's inmens are at a strange pass when debtedness to bim and said he Britishers read, with some had promised to pay from time to There has been a tax levied thing that in almost like relief, time. Nothing had been paid recently on receipts from the sale of the sinking of one of their own since the issuing of the writ. of tea in the, Canton tea hoäses. destroyers because it makes a Mr. D'Almada cross-examined This causes great excitement break in the long record of sub-plaintiff with regard to plane in among the proprietors of these marine war on undefended trad- connection with the Kowloon
popular resorts and many meet ing vessels. It was with similar Garden subarb Plaintiff saidings were held at which the mat. feelings that one learned, one day his first fee did not cover work ter was fully discussed. General last week, that the enemy's land subsequently done on the matter, Lang and Governor Li issued forces bad fought fairly for five and in fact be saved the defendant many warnings to the refractory, minutes during the Ypres battle. $2,300 by alterations which he merchants which had a salutary And these are the people who made.
effect upon them. From to-day Among the items was a claim tea will be served free to all cus- speak scornfully of the British
for $315 which was alleged to tomers. The prioss of other and French. for sending non- European soldiers to fight against have been paid by the plaintiff to things will be proportionally defendant by mistake. The pro-raised. If there is no income them! It lodien or Turco troops perty to which the item referred, from the tea, how can a tax be bad committed a thousandth part
of the low actions registered was held by plaistiff. Defendant agecased? We shall watch with against Germany it need hardly became to him and said he bad a interest the working out of this said that neither would be taking bayer, and plaintif aid he want- new ides of the opposition. part in the war to-day; for it ed $2.50 per foot. Subsequently Paddy-Field Tax, Report...
In reply to a request from Pe- happens that Britain and France the defendant came to see him. are a trifle particular as to the and plaintiff agreed to sell at $2 king, Governor Li has submitted behaviour of the men to whom per foot without paying broker- his report that the receipts from tbey accord the honour of fighting age. The defendant told him the the paddy-field tax for the months tanities spende his life just above of the death of Napoleon Bona-Tricouleur,
To-day is the 94th anniversary under the Union Jack and the client was Sr Caen Tung, and of January, February, and March, or just below water, as it were. parte. All the culture, all the intelleo- tual or artistio gifts in the world would not make a Carnegie or a Rockefeller. If Mr. Lloyd Mr. A. Heise, of Manila, is at George required the servicesof a present staying at the Hongkong perfect sculptor, be would hunt Hotel.
A Visitor.
&
Left for the Front.
no longer than for a perfect business man. No one is surprised at hearing the artist spoken of sa a rarity, and set quite the Mr. S. P. Leigh, ward master majority of people seem to expect in the Government Civil Hospital, gcod commercial men to grow on left for home on Sunday on his every blackberry bush.
way to the front,
Napoleon,
A special wire from Peking which we published on Saturday prepared our readers for almost anything in the way of startling developments in connection with China and Japan. The situation was described as, "critical," and the statement that the revised demands were more harassing than those which Japan had first pat It is no such far cry from the forth seemed to justify the word. Rumour-fer more to the fore ideal commercialist to Napoleon than one pares to see her at a time like this-apoke of the Govern who died on St. Helena ninety ment as "negotiating with the Japanese, with the object of granting four years ago to-day. The cant them the railways south of the Yangtze." Since the publication phrase "a Napoleon of commerce" of these statements others have reached us from our special is less idle than it sounds, for correspondent in Shanghai which ring more of definiteness than anything which has yet been published in Hongkong.
The Big Oplum Haul. -
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The big haul of opium reported exclusively in the Hongkong Telegraph yesterday, was made on the s.8. Numsang and not the Kustang.
Alice Memorial Hospital.
The Torpedo. Boats,
wipte a letter to plaiatifi enggest-last were respectively, $182, ing the mode of payment,which the 622.22, $221,355.11, and $233,- Jattersccepted paying commission 42.185. He added that he of 10 cents per foot, the client thought the amount would in built within three months and orease from month to month, secured the services of the
lacome Tax.
Of Saturday's naval action-it plaintiff. If the client went to Governor Hu of Fukien Pro action it can be called-there ia another architect the commission vince has submitted a draft little enough to be said. One would be five cents per foot. The scheme to establish an income could wish that the offending defendant was not entitled to the tax. The Financial Board at submarine had shared the commission because the client did Peking greatly admired the plan fate of the torpedo-boate. But not complete the purchase, the and are preparing to give it a small mercies are not to be de property passing to someone else. trial in Gov. Hu's own province spiced, for the sacrifice of a single One balf of the commission was with the intention of extending it pawn bits Germany harder, at paid by mistake and it was to all provinces if successful. shis etage in the game, than the obtained by a misrepresentation
Tour of Inspection. combined loss of a castle, a knight that the defendant's client was General Lung has instructed and a blehop, would hit Britain. Sir Chen Leng Tung, a former Commander Mah to visit all the Crippled as she is, Germany can ambassador to London, who was porte in Kwong-tung and to re- no longer hope to make good, going to erect a $40,000 villa, port on their condition Mr. Mah without fatal delay, the loss of The payment of commission was commences his tour on Tuesday even the smallest oraft. Another made immediately after the pay the 4th. submarine "success which balment of the first instaliment. Tuo
Marble Clock Stolen, many of the qualities that go to
The police have received a re make a great raler and a great soldier are identical with those port to the effect that a marble In the first place, the conference to which we have been looking that are necessities to the great clock valued $16 has been taken forward has at last taken place, and the mach-discussed demands man of commerce. Napoleon from a table in the U Kee, Wel- have been replied to. China, more diplomatic than ever, has succeeded, firat and foremost,
Jington Street. "conceded some minor domanda" but has refused those most urgent- for precisely the same reason that ly pressed by her neighbour. From the remark as to the Yangteze the late Cecil Rhodes succeeded: railways, it will be seen that Yuan Shih-k'ai was not quite asleep bo know how to take advantage when he replied, for he based his refusal to yield on the ground that of the minute-nay, the moment
The Hon. Treasurer of the perty, of which there is enough The case was adjourned until the concession "would be a violation of China's engagements with and procrastination nevar en Alice Memorial and Affiliated and to apare within the country. May 17. another Power;" which answer, taking into consideration all the tered his head. To this has to Hospitale bege to acknowledge Or she might even threaten re- circumstances, may justly be termed neat-if not childlike and be added the gift of foresight, with thanke the following dona- bland. One feels inclined to remark that, whatever may happen, and the even greater one of in- tion to the funds of the Hospitala: China is determined to establish a new era by becoming a treaty-born power to calculate prob-Ng Turg-kai $10, loving people.
abilities. Napoleon was, however, more than a business man, for he
to be noted in that of the receipt for the commission stated POLICE RESERVE ORDERS. American tanker, Gulf Light, that, if Sir Chen did not purchase, Seemingly her caplain and two the money should be returned, of her crew
were killed, and and Sir Chen did not complete, isoned to-day state-
Special Police Reserve Orders proportionate indignation ie The Spanish Procaration became Parades:-(Central PoliceStation.) naturally aroused in the Ameri- the owners of the
property. Tuesday, May 4th:-Chinese can press. No one wishes to Mr, An Kam Wali, in auswer and Indian Companies, Rife see the United States involved in to Mr, D' Almada, said he par- Exercises, 5.30 p.m. war. Perhaps her easiest way out ossed the property for the Spau- Wednesday, May 6th-Por of the difficulty is to indemnify ish Procuration and not for Sirtuguese Company. Rife Exer herself by annexing German pro- Chan,
cises, 5.30 p.m...
...
Water Logged.
A carge junk became water-
* Not Unusual.
prisals-meat that Germany's own con! loves--by means of the
Thursday, May 6th:-Indian and Chinese Companies. Rifle Exercises. 5.30 p.m.
Friday, May 7th:-British and
Exercises, 5.30 p.m.
incarceration of so many hundreds ARMS AND AMMUNITION Portuguese Companies. Rifle or thousands of her "hyphenated" subjects, and the confiscation of their goods,
The Labour Difficulties.
Found on Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's"
Promises.
Saturday, May 8th :-Chinese Company. Ride Exercises 3.00 p.m. Inspector Mason will take the Parade. tepki
"Mutketry, in Saturday, May 8th-Thirty men to be detailed from the Lance Sergeant A. Clark, paid Portuguese Company. List to be
General Notification.
Oar correspondent's wire ends by stating that questions will could win not only admiration be asked in the Bouse to-day, as to the possibility of Hongkong's but adoration. How he achieved interests being affected. Should the reply be of au encouraging the latter will never be known, natore, the Government is to be asked to take steps to allay the for, so far as we are sware, none logged and sunk. The junk is ro Colony's anxiety. Is the Colony anxious? "Not to put too fine a of his biographers credit him ported to be worth $500 and the point on it," it iso a greater or less extent. Both the British and with a particularly pleasing cargo $800. The lattor is ineur It does not make matters any a visit to the premises of the sent in by Crown Sergeant the Chinese element, each from its own point of view, has been manner; moreover the severe dis-ed, and the junk can be refloated, the more pleasant that Sir Eastern Extension Telegraph D'Almaada, bound, all along, to feel some curiosity in the matter. But, to do it ciplinarian is but rarely loved; The incident occurred whilst the John Jellicoe should have been Company's premises, Connaught justice, Hongkong has not yet "taken alarm." Perhaps it has relied and discipline was the breath of jank was alongside the sa. Hong-forced to draw attention to the Road last night, and there found Members of all Companies are on the Imperial Government's promise to support the interests of Napoleon's nostrils. The world kong. British merchants; or may be it has regarded the "demanda" as is se much in the dark over him
Isbour situation, where the dock in the possession of a night coolie, warned that from this date the having been more or less distorted. Or again, the Colony may as over the Stuarts, where their
yards are concerned. Happily two revolvers, and no less than Order that all parades must be have felt fally justified in looking upon Japan as an honourable respective popularity is concern
The thousands of trades-union 2,000 rounds of ammunition, for attended except for bons £de nation that took up ite, share in the war from motives that were od. Neither his life nor theirs,
men who have enlisted, and have which he had no licence, Bipgle and absolutely disioterested, that came to Britain'e aid pure-whether private or public, was coat hanging on the wall of a house have established the fact that the Police Court thus morning, in all cases be obtained from
A resman at Yaumati left his done great thinge for the Empire,
unavoidable cause will be strictly He arrested the coolie, and at enforced, Leave of abroncs must ly from a fervent desire to keep troth and abide by the terme of a without reproach, and treaty which made allies of the two countries, and that looked for thousands of men strong men ing kleptomaniac of a fellow-ranks as well as among others. adjourned,
yet in Temple Street, und an inquir- loyalty is to be found among their the hearing of the charge was Inspector Mason or the Sergeants ward with a passionate altruism to seizing Kianchau solely for the and not mere sentimentalists country-man, after examining Bat for this, the min in the street allowed bail in $1,000. Mr. Crew, pleasure of restoring it to the Chinese. Whatever may have been were willing to die or to sacrifice the pockets, took there from a might have been justified in of Messrs. Hastings and Hostings,
defendBot being temporarily in charge of Platoons the cause, Hongkong, as a general whole, has certainly refused to be their all for him and for them, watch and an appendage, valued commenting with some amount of scared; and even the prevailing small cloud of our readers may There were times when his $18.4) call it doubt, hesitancy, suspicion, faint anxiety or half-hearted ingratitude was as marked as curiosity, according to individual taste would perhape never have theira; in olimbing he considered existed at all but for the pains which the Home Government has no-one bat himself; yet even to- taken to imprese on the world the "confidential "nature of its informaday his name is a power in the tion on the whole subject. We have heard incidentally that Britain world and the descendants of his has not been alone in keeping her anbjects severely in the dark; bitterest enemies this British having game Street, Jesterday. A great muro depend. Th Japan too, it is alleged, has created the same atmosphere of vague are first to bear witness to his house in Graham Street, yesterday, Admiral is hardly the min to for the current month is as dirquist among her citizens by following what is, relatively, a like greatness. With all his faults he when the police by an unsa-write without weighing bis words, follows:- pohay.. If the Ministry at Home should elect to maintain silence, was what we are all bound to nounced entry upset the conv and we may fost atisfied that, if May Hongkong's "vague disquiet" may be excused for blossoming into admire a manly man. Neverthe viality of the gathering. At the he could have confined himself to a n fesling to which one would have to give a far stronger at me. We less it is perhaps a good thing Police Court, this morning they less severe expression thun "balf- have every right to seemme that the Government has hitherto bad that the resemblance between were charged before Mr. Wood, hearted working, he would have the soundest reasons for helding its peace; when, however, matters himself and the Kaiser is not so who fined thent 83 each. Sergeant been only tos ready to do so, We threaten to take a tara that may speedily lead to the position's being great as that exalted personage Cockle and his party broke up hope to hear that his remarks have termed a crisis, it is surely time for frankness and for the abandon-fondly believes, firmid-laky ment of all pretences et mystery.
the assembly
bitterness on the conduct of those. "unionists" who remisia at Home, and not only grumble, but delay Fantan Players Disturbed,
work on the perdy achievement of which he lives of their friends Twenty seven coolies were at the Front and with the Flest
been laid to hezzt.
defended.
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
Menars, Wright and Horoby The advise us that the Langkat outpat
Tons 342 370 321
Total to dra inst. 1.045
Daily average 348.36
HARBOUR OFFENCES.
Police Sergeant A. J. Davis charged Li Yut Cheong the master of junk No. T 685 H, before Cön- mander O. W. Beckwith, R.N., at the Marine Court this morning, passengers in excess of the nam with unlawfully carrying 66 ber allowed by hie licence, within the waters of the Colony, Defend- ant was fined $10., while Cheong Nam the master of junk No. T1629 H who was charged with unlawfully carrying 82 passengers ix exceea, on board his unk, awa
150 fined $103