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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1916,
Chairs and Rickshas Again.
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DAY BY DAY.
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INJURY TO MEN
The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 83; fine.
Some few months ago we con- gratulated the polica cu the very noticeable improvement in local trallio arrangements. Coolies in charge of chairs and rickshaw were settling down to a law-abid ing modeoflife, and drivers of mo tor cars were learning that, ev. a in Hongkong, they are expected to observe the rule of the 1oid, We do not know why this satis- factory state of things has
On Saturday the Telegraph been allowed to slide, but it is 1
fact that the crolies published 451 colomas of solid reading matter. To-day there hava become" 09 disorderly will be 40 published. na ever and that chauffeurs
At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 74; Clear.
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Count the Columns.
The Malls.
to-morrow.
Anhui, to-morrow at 3 p.m. Up to the Minute-Share"
Market News.
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
FROM THE PULPIT.
TURKISH DEFEATS CONTINUE.
seek to
Austria and Italy.
Our Country's Call.
Nits of the Saron preached. at the Union Church by Rev. J. Kirk Maconichis yesterday morn- log.
CORPUS CHRISTI PRO- CESSION,
Imposing Function at the Catholic Cathedral:
Yesterday, being the Sunday within the Oc'are of the Feast of Corpus Christi was observed as a special festival by the Catholica of Hongkong. In the afternoon the customary outdoor Procession of the Blessed Sacrament from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception took place, in presence of some thousands of worshippers."
Austrians and Italiana alikė Text. "Fer that the leaders! are taking mattera seriously took the lead in lerael, for that enough now, end the latter are the people offered themselves plainly bent on making up for willingly. Bless yo the Lord" time Icat. Their progress through Judges V, 2. I V. the enemy's territory most needs So begins the triumph song who elect to use the right hand American and Siberian Mailabe slow, no matter from which which celebrates the successful side of the road seem to do so
Close per s.s. Chiyo Mara point of their own frontier they uprising of Israel again t that with japanity. At certain hours
strike out linee of man of blood and iron, Sisera. Qeen'e Road, at the Grand Hotel Siberian Mail-Oloses per se. march. Apart from the natural shows as a ready load and a wil curuer, and Das Voon's Road,
advantages that the defenders ing following ing time of rational outside, the Victoria Theatre,
have, in the way of mountains, emergency, and I choose the sub- become thoroughfares that it is}
paaees and hills, there was ample ject to put ourselves in line with At 5.30 Vespera of the Blessed seriously dangerous for a foot-Closing prices:
China and Manila.-S. S. Co. time, before, the actual declara- the appeal which is being made Sacrament were sung by a full passenger to attempt to cross.
tion of wor, for Austria to in the home churches to-day for choir, the Bishop officiating. The No sooner does he step off the Ld. $4.00, buyers. kerb than a rush is made at him Shangbai and Hongkews.-W. mine and additionally fortify the a "glad and unstinted response cathedral, which was crowded to Tyrol, Carinthia and the Coast to whatever demands the Govern- the doors, was elaborately decorat- by ricksha and chair coolies,
land provicée. Not content with ment decides to make." The ed with flowers and red drapery, who appear sublimely indifferent
these measures, she is now burry request is not an appeal to a the whole effect being mest gor as to whether his eye in kocoked out by a chair shaft or whether he
ing fresh troops westwa:de from reluctant people, but a reminler genue. After the chanting of the breaks a limb by falling over a
the Carpathians. We wonder if to a willing one, and it is ir ser- Magnificat and the recitation of this means that the Russian dis- vice of the voluntary kind which the final collects a vast procession aster has given greater confidence best accorde with the genins and passed down the centre aisle and not be forced, as in other places, to maintain a definite queue and The rate of the dollar on to the Austro-German forces in the history of the British race, out by the west door. Those the East, and that a reduction of Whatever demands are made will taking part were the various come off the raak in turn, is more demand to-day is le 9d.
troops there is looked upon as ad- come from an united Government guilds and confraternities of the than we can understand. Mean-
To-day's Anniversary. while, if a lackloss pedestrian To-day is the 83rd anniversary missible. When the re-inforce-acting as the Executive of a diocese, the boys of St. Joseph's should meet with an accident at of the passing of the first Rements arrive at their new station united nation. King, Lords and College, the cathedral clergy and they are likely to encounter some Commons are at one. Whig and a number of missionary priests. the hands of such zealous bearers form Bill
thing more than a mere holiday, Tory agree. The advert of a The Host was carried, ander a of burdens, whom is he to sue for
Mr. T. L. Perkins, A.M.I.O.E., for it would appear that the Italian coalition Government emphasises silk canopy, by Bishop Pozzani, damages?
of the Public Works Dapartment, artillery has already established this fact, and should give us the Boy Scouts and some of the The Author of "Lorna Doone."
Lavere of "Lorna Done" will Hongkong, Las recently qualified itself as something to be taken fuller benefit of its advantages. Honglong Volunteers acting as be interested to know that to-day by examination for the diploma very serious notice of
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve rieksta. Why these coolies can-
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
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me Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Western Union e: No. 1 "A.B.C., 5th editing.
Office address: 11; Ice House St.
BIRTHS.
APCAR-At Ava House, May Road, on 4th June, to Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Apear, à son.
SWEETINGHAM.-On June 1, 1915, at No. 1 Jinkee Road, Shanghai, the wife of A.W: Sweetingham, of a son.
DEATH.
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Richard Hintzo, Second Officer s s. Kiangyu, aged 57 years.
The Hongkong Telegraph
"HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1915.
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MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH.
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Co. Ld. 81, bagerė, „ Hongkong Lands - $108
bügere,
Steam Laundry. $3, buyers. China Sugars.$114, buyers, Luzons-828, buycra.
"The Dollar.
Mr. T. L. Perkins.
Tennis Match.
Tottering Turkey.
We have bern. well lad guard of honour. At the rear from the first in this crisis. Oar! o me the brass band of the Philor- king bas, by common acknow- monica, which played at intervals ledgment, borne hie, crown right during the procession.
The function was brought to a
We are informed that 500 stand Matters were never so black for manfully and wisely. He and his of fifty cents per cent, for the ment, and their condition must be in a way to endear themselves to close with Benediction, aftor at seats will be reeerved at the prios the Turks se at the present mo-household have filled their places doubles match between the Mesere, one of utter bewilderment; of not all, and to have stabilized, had excellent sermon by the Cathedral Hancock and Messrs. Nesbit and knowing which way to torm. It that been necessary, their high rector, the lev. Fr. Gabardi. Kent, to be played on Thursday is not as though the attacks of the position. His ministers showed a afternoon. The proceeds will go Allies had merely circled round singular combication of firmnen
Practically and moderation, meeting unpre- *-*-*-*-*- towards the expense of providing the Dardanelles.
Eeaders in railing improvements which are every important point of the cedented problems resourcefully
Ottoman Empire is threatened, and courageously. so tally needed.
and we read of defeats in finance,
:
of
is the 90th anniversary of the of Associate of the Royal Institute birth of its author, the late R. D. of British Architects (A.RIB.A.) Blackmore. Those who are dis. posed to feel despondent over the HINTZE.-On May 31, 1915, at the General Hospital. Shanghai Britisher's ability to appreciate first-class fiction may reasonably take heart again when they reflect. on the enormous popularity of this beautifully conceived and beautifully-written romance. Certainly we have met people who couldn't see any. thing in it," but such folk are to
commerce, industry, sian model which is a hateful bur- A Tailor Deceived. be pitied. One often wondors
A tailor living at 4 Queen's Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and the journalism, the magistracy and den to many loyal Germans them. why Blackmore, with his peculiar Road Central has laid a complaint Caucasus, while the fighting on the public servicers have done selves? The question of con genius, should have remained to the end-like Smollett, Charles to the Police to the effect that he the Suez is no less of a farce than their parts in a like spirit. Some scription is included in this. The was visited by a Chinese, who re- it has ever been. Later wires few may have shrunk from war" is said to be a struggle Reade, Charles Kingsley and a dozen other British novelists presented that he was employed speak of very determined advances responsibility, but only here or against militariam and nothing by the Kwong King firm and on in Gallipoli by the Allies, there did the rarest fool arise to bat proved necessity should lead The home truths which Mr. Lloyd George uttered at the meeting one-book man". Every re-
an entirely advertise himself by opposing hia the British people to give way on in Manchester on Friday seem to have had the good effect of per-cognised author must have his the strength of this be allowed the and, further, of
opera country in its hour of need and the very core and essential point suading those present to pass a resolution pledging themselves to best book", though his readers man to have a Panama hat and successful Berice support the efforts to increase the outpat of munitions. Reuter does may not always agree as to which he is thereby a sufferer to the tions on the Tigris by a force of resolve. What then of the of the whole continental military
extent of $16.
under General Townsend, during following? Here we are but im-system. Men who "offer them- not mention that the trade union representatives who formed part it is; bat your one-book man
Prince of Wales' Fund.-Tram which the Governor of Amarah perfectly informed as to facts, and selves willingly" donot need whips of the audience subscribed to the resolution, but we must charitably seems to throw all the power
Collection.
and over seven hundred troops in opinion we hear two voices, and revolvers to force them for give them the benefit of the doubt. The speaker's message, bow-that is in him into one particular
We are informed that the amount surrendered. Almost simultaneone that the general response has ward. That ayatem may make ever, was not confined to those who went to hear him at Manchester. efort. So much is this the case collected in the boxes placed in: ously General Gorrings has made been all that could be wished, for efficiency of skind, but the It has been repeated at Liverpool nad will be circulated widely; it with Blackmore that, though side the tram cars for the Prince important seizuree lower down. another that our country has not cost in freedom and in manhcot will reach the malcontents, the idlers and the shuillers who will, we be published fifteen or six of Wales' Fund, up to June 7, is How the British force reached known the day of its visitation. is one we may well shrink from feel surs, bo brought to reason. Had the strictures on the British teen novels, not more that half $23.94, made up as follows: 6 Amarah withont molestation is Except for a few "futile air ride incurring until the responsible workman come from an avowed Conservative they might only have a dozen of these are known dollar pieces; 2 twenty-cent not mentioned. To get there at and one or two cowardly attacks Government of the day demands added fuel to fire. Instead they emanate from the man who made even by name to the modern pieces: 166 ten-cent pieces; 11 all was in itself something of aby sea, actual war has pot it for the national safety. In this the Limehouse speech; the former idol of the working man. There reader; while though such worke five-cent pieces; 184 copper cents fest, for the towu lies a good directly touched British shores Colony all demande had been met was no threat in his words, but there was a savour of sternness which as "Clara Vaughan" would pass One five-guilder not and one half-hundred and fifty miles up the and what people do not see they so far on the voluntary basis. could not very well be mistaken for anything else.
muster as big stuff from almost guilder were also contributed.
do not realise. Also there is a The work of our local volun- What is far better than any threat is the damning evidence anyone else, even they fall con-
Victoria Theatre..
long tradition of victory in our teers, said the preacher, ought to which Mr. Lloyd George produced as to the shortage of ammunition siderably into the background The new programme at the
island history, and the idea that be acknowledged, especially by in the past, and the terrible result of it. He showed that the behind their author's one great Victoria Theatre has been draw. The action round Souchez con- we might possibly get the worst those who could take no personal Germans ought not now to be in Finace, that our troops ought to be achievement, which has been ing good houses. The war pictures tinues unabated, and Germany's of any struggle does not occur to share in it, Month after month that in Germany, and that the end of the war ought to be in sight. That described by many authorities are fresh and most interesting, losses seem to increase in due the average citizen. He has been continued, a serious addition to this desirable state of affairs is not the case is due, he says, solely as the most beautiful love while, in addition to one or two proportion to the violence of her used to go about his business and the day's dutise, and for beyond to our past shortage of ammunition. In the early days of the war story in the English language, excellent comics, the filth and attacke. The Belgian hospitale, send dus fleet and army to do the the stage of the interesting diver the scarcity of supplies could be blamed to the then Government, Though Blackmore's poetry sixth episodes of The Ferile of we read, are full of fresh wounded fighting, and did not easily ap-sion or congenial hobby. Othera which had so persistently refused to see that Germany's steadily never came to the front-indeed Pauline" are on show. These in--and yet our own men remain in preciate what it means to be at helped in ways open to them, continued war preparations were not such as one embarks on for a we doubt if it is generally known olade a sensational incident in a the best of spirits. Mr. Asquith's issue with a nation in srms, pre- large sums of money had been picnic or a merry-making. Bagit is our duty to forget that, or as that it was with verse that he first New York Chinese jose house, visit to this front will surely have pared and drilled and disciplined subscribed, women had worked much of it as possible, inasmuch as, when its eyes were opened, the made his appearance in print and a remarkabla escape from a its good moral effect on the people for the extraordinary effort which along their own very useful lives, Government beckled to and, in most respects, did everything that one is seldom allowed to forget, drifting balloon.
at Home, in re-assuring them and Germany is putting forth as one glad to devote the abundant the country could wisb.
in reading "Lorna Doone," that
Bijou Thastre.
en lin counter-acting some of the man, and which, as an effort, leisure which must be a burden The war, however, has now lasted ten months, end if the late its author was a poet at heart;
There was a big house at the gloom'spread by the Government's commands admiration. It is not to many of them. Most have administration had garnered ever so large a supply of shells etc., for no purely pross-writer could Bijou Theatre on Batarday night discoveries where the munition easy to bring home the urgency friends at the front or on the way it would have proved insuficient by now. The army is short to-day ever have depicted the Devonshire when a film version of Dandel's question is concerned. Mr. Lloyd without spreading alarm, to have thither. We hear of the Monmouth mainly because, during the past few months, the workmen respons- of the Doones as he did. pathetia story "Jack" was soreen-George's words have very clearly life go on something like normal or the Triumph going down, and ible for the output of ammunition have, in many cases, been nothing The Late Mr. Bunny,
ed. To-night the first instalment hit where they were meant to hit, ly, and still get people to for a little while the great convul
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river, from the Persian Gulf.
The Battle in the West.
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short of traitors to their country. One of the main reasons why the We stated on Saturday that the of a new and most wonderful and the resulting enthusiasm as understand that the ques- sion seems less far away. Yet trade union has found enemies in the past is that people knew all death of Mr. John Bunny, the series: "The Adventures of regards the future output of tion of ita continuing to go still comparatively we too well how it would abuse such power as might come into its famous cinematograph comedian, Kathlyn" will be shown. This shells is something to rejoice over. on at all is in the balance. For rot feel the pinch, Things hands. It happens that the chances of war have placed the trade is reported from New York. This film, which has been scared at a The pity is that people should public men, and for the prese, go on much as usual and the unionist in the ascendant; and how has ho profited by his news will come as a sore blow to very great cost, is no less than not have been told the truth the questions of when to speak easy going secularity which is position? In all to many instances, by standing by with his hands his many admirers in Hongkong five miles in length, and will be months ago.
and when to be silent, what to the custom and the course of in his pockets while his mates were slaughtered at the Front for and elsewhere... Ordinarily the given in sections during the next
say and what to leave aussid are European life in the East is little want of material which it was in bis power to supply. "I will teach American cinematograph does not week or two. The lady who Germany's Plans-and Troubles. by no means easy. The preacher affected. The call to prayer is them a lesson," he said blandly. Teach whom a lesson? Hia "catch on" with the British takes the heroine's part, Miss What Germany would like to personally had thought from the refused as heretofore. The re- fellow workmen, who, instead of skulking at Home, have left every-public, for the limit to the spect Kathlyn William, is well known do and what she is likely to do fret that a harder piece of work ourrent opportunities of the Sab- thing in order to fight against their King's enemies. In the same ators patience is soon reached American actress end the whole are things very wide apart. Her lay ahead than most appeared to bith are neglected for the same way the trade unionist taught a lesson by his railway atrikes. The when the "fun" hanga round one story is, we believe, full of thrills talk is presumably of a combined think. It was right to keep old reasons or no reasons. God's capitalists, whom he regarded as his enemies, laughed at him, and man's biting another one's ear or which extend from escaping air and sea attack: on Britain people's spirits ap, but he would judgments hang over pa, we the persons to whom the lesson" was actually given were poor pelting him with bricks, jam tarts from a mad buffalo to coming over which no one will lose much often have been glad to hear less are yet in our sins, and show no clerks and shopmen and under-paid and over-worked professional or plates of porridge. Mr. Bunny very near to being burat sleep; but her actions will be gov- joking about the German Kaiser, wish to get out of them, so far as men, whose wives and children needed a boliday and could not take was a big remove from all that alive on an Indian funeral pyre. erned by what her enemies and and to see a more serious grasp great numbers are concerned. So it because traffic was held up by the railway union's strikes! As sort of thing. His jovial appear-
some of her own people think on of the situation. Great as our it would seem on the surface. circumstances have fallen out, it appears that, after all, it is the trade
seos beifer anoe was enormously in hia
the matter. It is useless for her to efforts had been we had not yet Yet perhapa God
unionist who is going to get a lesson, and a smart one too, if he favour, of course, but he could be THE NEWSPAPER CASE. allow foolishly boastful reports, to strained every nerve, and short things, because He ease deeper. cannot learn to hold his tongue and to do his daty. The country genuinely amusing without being has no time to listen to his imaginary grievances just now; far more vulgar or merely idiotio; in fact
by spread at a time when circum- of that a satisfactory decision was It may be that many are more stances are forcing her to enlist not going to be reached. It re-deeply moved then would appear, even those of hermen who are not mains to be seen whether our vo- that relative values in life are
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important work is afoot and he has to take bia share of the burden. there were times when his clever- The Coolio Bischarged. Last night's wire shows that already there are signs of willingness ness and his popularity were close At the Polles Comit on Satur- liable to military service, and Ianiary methods are equal to the beginning to stand ents before on the part of the workers to bohave reasonably; some have been ranners-up to those of the far day, the coolie charged by Henry, while her Socialists are frankly task. Two conflicting ideas which even long blind, that the real shamed and others cowed into doing what they ought to have done famed "Willsa" and Max Linder. Adolphus Cartwright, of the Daily denouncing the State for its may be called the military call of the present stress, which before, and we live in hopes of hearing no more of such cowardly The world oan ill efford to lose its Press, with stealing four copies of actions. Bad and dear food would and the voluntery are now at is is God's call that we truly tarn humbug as they have talked in the past. The Secretary of the real comedians, for they have it in that paper, was discharged. The shake the loyalty of angele; and sue. Is life to be free, as it has towards Himself a winning Federation of Trade Unions fails dismally in his attempt to excuse their power to charm away more case was remanded on Friday for we have every reason to believe been in the past, under British its way to changing beszte, which the men on the score of ignorance; bat we are nevertheless glad that fatigue and more worry than all evidence to be called with regard that there is but little that is flag, or is it to be policed, regi will yield to it a glad, and he should have reminded Mr. Lloyd George that it would have been the doctors prescriptions com to the delivery or non-delivery angelio about the Prussian tem-mented, officially arranged a stinted response the onl better had the reasons for our past failures been made known months bined could banish,
cording to the well-known Prae. He values,
the four papera in question,
perament.