CORRESPONDENCE.
The opinions expressed by the "correspondents are not necuBB- arily those of the "Hongkong Telegraph."
(To the Editor of the Hongkong
Telegraph).
SWEDEN'S ATTITUDE.
Sir,With referens to your note in yesterday's faeue, ontitled "The attitude of Sweden,' allow me to accupy a few linos of your valuable space to correct a few misstatements, not by yourself, but, as I understand, a countryman of mine, Professor Hjarne.
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The worthy, gentleman is a professor in history at the univer Bity of Upsala and I am sure be would do his sountrymen an un- common great service if he kept to the history of olden times instead of, like another
great Swedish agitator Dr. Swon Hedin, muddle with the history which is made on the battlefields of Europe.
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have made it their object in life It seems that these gentlemon to let the world at large know that the Swodes are most pre German and that it is their
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THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
ALLEGED
COUNTERFEITING.
Extensive Exhibition of. Apparatus in Court.
EXTRA
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1915.
RAT-TRAPS AND RED- TAPE.
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Within 1000 miles of P...... A primitive, but apparently was a store, in which a large eficient coining outh, with quantity of military clothing was moulds, silver pisting baths, kept, pending emergencies; and batteries and sono unfinished to keep down the rate there was coin, was exhibited in the police cas, for which a small subsistance court this mornig, when, a Chinese allowance was drawn outlly. map and woman were charged Retreachruent, Lowever, was with being in possession of the implements, and with making and the order of the day, and the being in possession of counterfeit officer i/e was ordered to indent in some of the moulds, were opinieed, Mark 1, in the proportion of Hongkong and Chinese money for Traps, rat, wire, iron galvan- which had just been cast.
one to every 100 asuits of clothing." Inspector M. O' Sullivan was "In the "Changes in war Material" an elaborate picture in charge of the case.
Mr. E. R. Dover, Government and description of the above trap analyst said that five-moalda appeared, and the cat mas
ere adapted for making Hong-declared obrolsto kong ten cent pieces, and two handed over to the Commissariat other for making Chinese twenty Department to be gold. Tae cont pieces. Basins submitted number of traps, according to the lo hima esatiined potassium abore proportion, was found to be sanide colution, very commonly 10.3, and accordingly 20 traps used in the electro deposition of were demanded. The indent came silver for plating purposes, while back with one trap disallow various bottles contained, plastered, but, by way of consolation, of Paris, sulphuric and nitrie it was stated that fractions of a acids and potassium cyanide. Fle bad also had shown him quant-sidered as a whole trap." There
trap exceeding 5 would be con..
ing store pointed out that the odd the mercy of the rate, but with out avail.
ties of tia and antimony.
and was
The first monthly return show- ed several suits of clothes des- troyed by rats."
The Authorities gave 'evidence of the energy they have always displayed on an emergency, and a very complete pamphlet was is sued within a month, in which the mining of the iron, drawing out into wire, method of galvan-
SHANGHAI BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Rules Submitted at Meeting,
The following rules were
10. That the business and fands of the Chamber be managed
by a Committee to be elected at !
VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
Corps Orders issued to-day by
the Annual General Meeting of Lieut Col. A. Chapman V, D. members. That the Committee Rtate. shall consist of not fewer than
ising, manufacture into traps, drafted by the Frovisions! Comman, respectively, of the Chamber. and system of inspecting, testing,mittee of the newly formed British and passing into the service were Chamber of Commerce, and were exhaustively dilated on, and pro-submitted at a general meeting
members for approval:- fusely illustrated.
"
of
in
Joined,
Resignation,
No, 1475 Pie, at Hardman is permitted to resign, on". leaving the Colony, dated 8. 6,15,
Leave.
Sergt. R.O. Barlow is granted leave of absence from 16, 6.15 to 10. 3.18.
Parades,
eight and not more than The undermentioned, having twelve members, who eball joined the Corpe, are allotted immediately after election Corpa nambera and posted as proceed to elect two of their mem: follows:-No, 1858 Private A bere as Chairman and Vice-Chair- Place to Right Section M.G. Oo, No. 1857 Private S.V. Monteiro In the absence of the Chairman to Right Section M.G. do. and Vice-Chairman thermos mittee shall elect another Obair. man from the Committee. Six members of Committee to form a quorum, and the Chairman for the time being to have a ousting vote .0250
of equality in addition to his own. Should the members in General
Perades for Wednesday, 9.h Meeting omit to elect a Committee the retiring Committee will re-instant. 7.CO a.m. Signalling Seotion Signalling Instraction 11. That the Committee shall at Headquarters, Remainder Nil. meet at such times as may bo
On duty at Headquarters. From necessary for the transaction of (0) To use every means within business or at other times, when? a.m. to-morrow to a.m. 10th its power for the removal of evils, summoned by the Chairman or any inat. No. 4 Sec. Scouts Co. From motion and extension of British and the minutes and proceedings Centre Sec., M. G. Co. the redress of grievances, the pro-three members of the Committee, 7 a.m. 10th to 7 s.m. 11th instant. At Gun Club Hill, Kowloon. intereste and to bring about co-shall be open to the inspection of Ohios in all matters relating to ing in such cases as the Commit Section M. G. Co. Officer is operation of British Merchants in members of the Chamber, except On duty until 12th inst. Right
Nevertheless, the second return
1.-That the Chamber be styl- was like the first. "Were theed"The British Chamber of instractions regarding the setting Commerce (Shanghai)." of trapa strictly carried out?'
2.That the object of the "Yes" the clothing destroyed Chamber shall be. was doubtless part of that for (a) To watch over and protect which traps were disallowed," the general interests of British was the triumphant rejcinder.commerce; was in contemplation to make a matters of interest to "the British Another trap was allowed, but it (b) To collect information on all corresponding increase to the mercantile community: suite in store of 67 suite.
caught "Nit", and more clothing The third return showed rats
destroyed.
A Mark II. trap was introduced, that the wire was not galvanised, Germany.
main in office.
Detall.
sacred duty to draw the swore appeared to him that the articles apon the Officer i/o of the cloth- which differed from Mark I, in the trade of the British Empire; tee may, in their discretion, de-charge, Lieut. 0. Smith,
Let me then tell you that, apart were being used to mould coins33 saita of clothing would be at and the iron was obtained from thorities and others, thereupon;|
for that country.
from the clique of some officers and members of the so called nobility, in name as well as origin German, and always and especially in manners of the dis German ultra gusting and "Down pleb bera co mes-n-sup- erior-article" type, Swedes are as sorale, if not exactly anti-German are at any rate most noti-Prussian. The last two decades of inces eant hard fight which the demo cratic party has had to put up against the threatening Pras sification of our institutions, proves more than words that the majority of the rage has a use
for that kind of "Kaltar".
Russia is the bugbear by whose terrific name the babies in the cradle are kept quiet, aad un balanced youngsters are made to sing patriotic songs, ent by that name ap doubt a grand agitation
for the benefit of a certain nation is now kept alive by gentlenien of the stamp named.
But level-headed men have long since placed the stories about
our "arch enemy" amungal the
tales of the nursery and many of them have studied history in ather then home-made hooks and
rant.
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The 10 traps duly arrived, and return, Army Form "X" 1003, was ordered to be submitted monthly, The retura in question was arranged in bird cage form, and was a masterpiece of its kind, showing at a glance the amount of clothing in store, the cubic
to
to instruct them. A return was
to
be submitted monthly to show the number of men instructed."
(f)To receive references; (g) To arbitrate between dis putants the decisions in such guidance. cases being recorded for future
mittees.
(d) To communicate with an oide to temporarily withhold,"
At Kowloon (Datention "Camp) 12.That in case of a vacancy adaty until 12th instant, (e) To form a code of practice in the Committee, it shall be filled H.K.V.R. Orderly Officer, Lieut. No rats were caught, and fur-whereby the transactions of ap pro tempore by the Committee; Dandy. Orderly Sergeant, Sergt. her destruction of clothing. "None business may be simplified and and that they have the power to Sarby.
Note, Commencing to marrow, but men of superior intelligence facilitated
appoint Sab-Committees from their own number for any pur- 9th inst., the guard for the Da were to be permitted to touch the
pcse whatever, and to elect other tention Camp will Parade at the trape, and a Warrant Officer was bo struck off duty and detailed
members of the Chamber to carve Ferry Wharf at 0.20 p.m. and forry. The Detention Camp with them on these Sub-Com-orose to Kowloon by the 8.25 pm Each Sub-Committee shall elect guard and the Gan Club Hill its own Chairman and the picquet will travel from Kowloon Secretary of the Chamber shall to Hongkong by the first available act at such of their meetings as ferry each morning. The Star Ferry Co. have kindly promised he may be requested to attend.
The minutes of the Sub-Com-to convey these guards free, but mittees shall in all cases be re- only on condition that they travel sorded in special minute books altogether, ander command of and sball be read at the following an Officer. meeting of the Committee for confirmation or otherwise.
out of tin and afterwards to plate them. The whole apparatas wai complete and there was nothing wanting to perform the operation. P. 8. Cockle said that at about 10 p.m. on May 25 at 24, Sun Fat Street, ha executed a search war On entering be enw the Roman sitting on some steps in the kitchen, and the man cane out of a cubicle next to the kit chen. The defendants were taken measurement of each room, the by surprise, entry being effected number of traps in band, and the by coming over the verandahs number of rats caught each day. from No. 18 and entering the Mice were to be shown under verandah of No. 26. it was in Hemarks," The percentage of the cubicle from which the male rata caught to suits of clothing, defendant was seen to emerge rats to traps, was to be marginal that the various articles were ly noted.
As it was found that the Officer
The worthy soldier who was found.
i/e Clothing Store might endea-selected elaborated a drill in ac- Your to take credit for mice as cordance with the "spirit of the rate, the measurement of the ani-instructions," which, after var male caught were ordered to be our extensionary motions to inserted, and the Officer io was develop the trap-setting muscles, authorised to demand "a suitable commenced with "Take service measuring rod for the traps," and ended with "Ease
springe." purpose."
The case was proceeding as we
went to prese. KILLED AT THE FRONT. Young Hongkong Man Sslain in
"the Trenches.
hua been killed at the Front,
employ of Mesure. Shewan,
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In selecting the Warrant of fider the claims of a man who had caught bandicoots in India were ignored, and the opportunity of infusing fresh blood into this im- portant service was neglected. Tho grievance was duly, aired in
a military contemporary.
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3.-British firma or subjects, engaged in business in Chins are eligible for membership.
D
For the purpose of these Rules by a "British firm" is meant either a Joint Stock Company registered in some part of the British Empire or subject to the jurisdiction of Bome British Court, or else, two or more British
MR. A. E. RATCLIFFE. subjects jointly engaged in inde pendent business, of recognizad In case the decisions of the The many friends in Shanghai British nationality and subject to Sub-Committees are not confirm of Mr. Albert E. Ratcliffe, who come British Court. No partnered by the Committee the Secretary was reported to have been killed ship which is not predominantly shall at once inform the Com-in action with the British Ex British in capital and control will mittee of the fact, reporting the peditionary Force in France be recognized na eligible for reseon of the Committee for such on April 18 says the N.. Daily membership..
non-confirmation. Neither British representatives 13. That a paid Secretary be of alien firms nor alien repre-employed by the Committee.
are eligible for membership.
It is reported that Mr. E. L. Braga, one of the local men who
The Officer ife of the Clothing Badges in gold and worsted of formed the Hongkong contingent, Store, anxious to show the keen crossed rats' fails were authoris is the grandson of an old Hong cartridges and live shell," which in trac-setting.
The deceased gentlemen, who interest he took in the matter, ed to be worn by men who att sin sentatives of British
demanded gauges, measuring ed a certain stage of proficiency Song resident who finally settled could enable measuremente to be
Still no rats were caught, and in England, asme out from found, no doubt to their great Home a few years ago to enter the taken to 1/ 1000th of an inch..
the destruction of clothing con- The Authorities pointed out in tinued.
“The retura showing number Tomes. Ilo was a well known reply that these gauges were fitted cricketer and very popular among with gun-metal screws, and in- of men instructed was to be sub the youth of the Colony. His tended for measuring explosive mitted in duplicate once a week." cause to at least six.
Apart from other feelings it father is a doctor residing in articles only-"a condition pre- Even this failed to produce an
sumably tot applying to rate"-improvement. see what England but he would be difficult to
relatives in the Colony, including gain Scandinavia in general and Sweden in particular could have Mr. J. P. Braga, ⠀ of a German victory.
BADEN POWELL BOY It is not so very long ngo eince bearly every business, wholesale SCOUT'S BUILDING FUND.
satonishment, that out of some eight were between Russia and Swedeny the latter country has commenced and been the direct
Company
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had many
and that their use with articles of It was suddenly discovered a non-oxplosive character woud that the traps, though officially therefore be "highly irregular if known as "trap, rst, wire, izon not dangerous," and that the galvanised, Mark II," was in fact apertion must in any case be made of un-galvanised iron. The Carried out under magazine re-responsibility .r his blunder galations, with felt slippers, in could not be brought home" to an isolated building, 400 yards anyone, but after some discussion $50 from a road. "A plan of the the nomenclature was amended,
10 locality was to be submitted."
and "Changes in War Material" 25 An application that the term were ordered to be at once ecr "live shell" might be extended reoted accordingly, and a certifi 21 to include "live inte" was reject cale furnished. The amendment 10ed, and it was suggested that was made retrospective and past au ordinary 2 foot rate would be returns were ordered to be re- $118 sufliciently accurate for practical submitted.
Bg. well as retail, WLS ín (Subscription List No. 5.) the hands of the Germens in British American"l'obacco our country and the" rame of "German" had almost been synonymous with "Jew" in the popular sense of this word. It is cot likely that men hava forgotten those days, nor the enormous labour and sacrifice it took us to become masters in our
Mr. R. D. Harvey Mr. P. H. Holyoak Hongkong Volunteer
Scouts The Siacere Co., Ltd.
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NJ. STABB,
own house. There is hardly a Previously acknowledged 3,474 purcose. Swede, I venture, who has not heard, and had to swallow, with more or less grace, the beautiful German epithet of "Dis dum. men Schweden." Aje, and "dumm" they would be if they followed the agitators of the stamp of Professor Hjarne..
Right up to the time of the
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firms
4. That the entrance fee of members abell be Tis, 30 and the subscription Tla, 30 per annum. Associate Members shall be ad- mitted on payment of a subscrip- tion of Tls. 15 per annum, and without entrance fee.
Associate Members shall in clade British subjecta employed in British firms who are already members of the Chamber and such Associated Members may take part in all discussions of the Chamber buishall not be entitled to vote,
5-Candidates for member ship shall be recommended by two members and the application form shall be presented to the Creneral Committee for approval, 6-That voting by members whose subscriptions are in arrears, be not allowed, and that no more than one member of the same firm be allowed to vote on the same cecasion.
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News, will be glad to hear that, although seriously wounded, bis recovery is hoped for. A letter 14.—That the Annual General has been received by Mr. Rat- Meeting of the Chamber be held cliffe's mother from the_Rawai in the month of March of each Pindi British General Hospital year, or as soon after as may be near Boulogne, France, stating convenient, to pass the Report and that Mr. Ratcliffe, who joined the Accounts of the Committee and 1st Battalion Royal West Kent for transacting such other busi-Begiment, has been wounded in Special the head and left foot, and sent to ness as may arise. General Meetings shall be called that hospital, where he is receiv by the Chairman, or, in hising the best of treatment and absence, by the Vice-Chairman, wants for nothing. Mr. Ratcliffe on the requisition of any five was unable to write himself, but members of the Chamber, to be a lady who visits the wounded held within ten days subsequent conveyed a message to bia to the receipt of such requisition mother. The latter is dated May 15, That the Committes be 5, and it is stated that Mr. empowered to frame, By-laws, Rateliffe was then astonishingly which shall at once come into calm and collected, considering force, but must be presented for his wounde. « confirmation at the next ensuing Causing an Obstruction. General Meeting of the Chamber, At the Police Court, this morn and, being so confirmed, shall being four rickahs coolies mate equally binding with these rules prosecuted by Mr. J. Teynsn, upon all members.
Kowloon, for causing an obstrac 16.-That a yearly report of tion and soliciting fares, at the the proceedings of the Chamber Star Ferry pier on Sunday morn be printed and circulated to ing May 30. They were fined $3
members.
17. That all disbursements
escb.
Alleged Seditious Publication,
They were still found to be This was accordingly demand-blank, and no improvement en- 7.Any member losing the $3,590 ed, but elicited the reply that oed. The Authorities were necessary qualification (sco Rale shall be made at the discretion of This morning at the Police" Hongkong, 8th June, 1915. these stores formed part of reluctantly compelled to admit 3) shell, ipso facto, cause to be the Committee on orders, signed Court an Indian was charged
cheets, tool, carpenters, which. that the traps bad not answered member.
by the Secretary, and all accounts with having a anditione publica Hon. Treasurer. were only allowed at stations for their expectations, and that there 8.A member being guilty of shall be daly audited by a mem-tion in his possession. He was
which tarpenters' stops were appeared to be no fault in the any action which, in the opinion ber of the Chamber..
remanded until tomorrow. authorised."
traps or their setting, and enquir- of the Committee, is a gross viola
18.That the above Roles be But, nous avons change tout
ed icoidentally what bait was tien of British trade interests, added to or altered only by a cela" or at any rate the war will out for the erection of a carpen- the clothing store pointed out her on the proposition of the Chamber present at a General who shall be appointed Arbitra A strong case accordingly made used, The Officer in charge of may be expelled from the Cham. majority of the members of the members of the Chamber war we were in, anything but do it and I think it must be a very at a cost of some hundreds of bait in the regulations, and that the members, and considered ata been given of adoh proposed being named as referee in the glorious depan dance of the Ger- bigoted Swede indeed who refa808,
ters' shop, which was sanctioned that no allowance was made for Committee, communicated to all Meeting, ten days' notice having tre in the case, sn umpire man "kanfman" and his agents.to see that his laud, depending Pounds. Through bia. cheap waree and, as it dore, almost as much as the
Moonwhile, the Officer in charge vide it out of his own pocket.
he could not be expected to pro- General Meeting, provided that addition or alteration.event of the two Arbitrators fail- we admit it, superior business British Isler, on its oversea trade of the store acknowledged the
-not fewer than two-thirds of these 19That the Chamber willing to agree in the decision of qualifications, coupled with and ready sale of its industries, receipt of the traps, and requested duced into the Service, and "was 9That any number of mem- dispute in commercial matters cordance with a scale which the
In the end the cat was re-intro- present vote for the expulsion.
undertake the arbitration of say the case. The fees to be in sc s less scrupulous conscience, we bas every cause to fear a German instructions as to how they were to be strictly adhered to for the bera, not less than twelve, shall that may be submitted to them Committes shall from time to were beaten in almost every field, victory. where good workmanghip and
purpose of catching rats,” The be held to constitute a General should both parties to the dispute time 6x hobeat artioles were not absolutely
traps were ordered to be retained Meeting and/or a Special General sign the special form provided by 20. That the foregoing Rules "for instructional purposes only." Meeting in conformity with the the Chamber agreeing to abide be printed, and a copy forwarded
Army and Navy Gazelle,
by the decision of the two to each member on admission,
required.
A SWEDE.
Yours etc.,
Hongkong, June 8, 1915.
to be set. The reply cams that r "the matter had been under con sideration, and instructions would shortly be published.'
rules of the Chamber.