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[The opinions expressed by the correspondents. are not necess- arily those of the Hongkong Telegraph."]
MULVANEY IN HONGKONG:
(To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph).
“BAND NIGHT.”
Big Crowd at North Point.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1915.
CONTEMPORARY OPINION DAIRY
The Right Spirit.
There was a big crowd at The following leading article North Point last evening, to take was taken from the Pall Mall advantage of the catering of the Gazette of April 23.
Lord Kitchener has once more Tramway Company for the needs of the people of Hongkong in the been able to declare himself catia way of entertainment. The band fed with the recruiting returns, Before lavin' the ould aod, of the 74th. Punjabis under the the numbers taken month by Flannigan the Editor of The b ton of Bandmaster Christian, month being maintained, he says, Derryogue Standard and Belly played a very wall arranged with "surprising" regularity. ardie Advertiser, gave me a letter musical programme, and the This is very welcome news, and, to his ould Uncle Tim in Hong-function was an undoubted if as many men are being obtain kong, who met me on the boat, succes. and we landed at a place, bo told me, that was called Blake pier. "18 it
slippery," sez poon that foine, green gran and be the powers, wid that, down I wint on the broad of my back. "Why don't they clane it
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ed as can be trained and equipped at any given" time, it may seem superfinous to call for more. But the effort before us is yet a very grost one. We have to pat an army of three million men into the field, and, in the words of the
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Special tram cars were put on and every provision was made in order that the "Band night should be an unqualified succees, The illuminations were not stint ed and all the airangements made, worked with surprising smooth-distinguished General Officer com- same into force on 24th May, 1915.
деня.
now and thin" sez I. "Arrah shure," sez Tim" they mat be
We are informed that fourteen waiting for another German special care were put on, and the Admiral, they clened it a bit frestimated number of persons pre- a week or two after they killed
sent is 1,200. the last wan' ""Bedad," sez I, "it looks to me as if Hongkong ia a bad place for thim same Gorman." "Not
bit MARCONI AND THE WAR.
ay it," atz be," as you'll find out if you stay hero awhile.'
Kultur" In Slam.
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BRITISH TRADE AND THE GERMANS,
(The Elitor, of the Hongkong Telegraph.)
Hongkong, 10th June, 1915,
Oflice,
with the Russians in the streets' of Berlin." Moreover, there aTO urgent reasons why we should not suffer the war to drag on one ay longer than need be, if any A New York message of May immediate vation effort on our Sure enough, when we got on 23. published in the Courrier part will avail to shorten it. We
The two important facts that the road, what does 1 see but d'Haiphong, states that Gallierme will but mention one of these a big shop, with Bismarck and Marconi, the famous Italian in- which has already made its irresiare to be gleaned from the annual Co. over it in letters six feet long. ventor, has left for. Italy to take atible appeal to the hearts and report of the Registrar-General "So yez have thim here yet, part in the war. Hundreds of minds of men who, from lack of for Births, Deaths and Marriages
Colonial bearet:ry's Tim, me bhoy,' etz I. "Well," Italian reservists have left by imagination, havo hitherto bung in England and Wales in 1913, back. We mean the treatment are that the year was A very Bez Tim, "there is no German in the same steamier.
Sir-am directed by the of Britial prisoners in Germany. healthy one and that the marriage Governor to request you to give Chinese." that place only a "And phwat is he doing with According to an article under Every day that the man who rate is steadily increasing. There
publicity to this lettor in that name thin?" "Sure," fez he the houding "Kultur" in Siam, ought to be a soldier, and is not, were 286,583 marriages, which
order to remove a false "its & free country; no less" published in the Courrier d'Ifai. refuses his duty; every hour lost was a rate of 15.5 per 1,000, impression which seems to have Take me some where this," sezlong, it appears that the German in the ammunition factories, is a being 0.1 above the average for arieen in coppiction with the
add bia satellities day and an hour the more of misery the decade 1903-12. The pro I,where we can get a half of malt consul
"Wid in Bangkok are not having and irony to our unfortunate visional figures for 1914 indicate question put to the Scoretary.of. to take the bad taste away.
Stats for the Colonies in the Houro that he took me to a big bar and the successful time they had brethren who are the helpless a farther rise of 0.3 per 1.000.
of Commone on the subject of a The rate per 1,000 of bachelora report that an organisation had we had a botile foreniust ne in a toped for. The feeling has very victims of German brutality.
marrying was 3 of 18 years of been discovered to supplant British jilleg, "What do you think of much changed; in fact so much
A plain, unvarnished tale told age, 12 of 10, 30 of 20,348 of 21, by German Trade in the Far East. that for a dhrop of the oraytar?" that it is now the general opinion 8% he, afther we had taken a that victory lies with the Allies. to a street meeting in London last 372 of 25, and 3 of 55 and up-
In the first place I am, to em- dbrink, "Well," sez I, "I've tasted The German during the last two Wednesday immediately produc- wards. The rate amongst spine-phasize the fact that the report bettor and cheaper, but then, its months have not been to cocksure, ed a dozen recruits, men in good ters was 5 under 18, 25 of 18, 50 referred to a condition existing. a long way to the Conaty Dawn, they have been seen less in the employment, whose hearts were of 13. 72 of 20,397 of 21, and 2 previous to the outbreak of war, me elubi and do not so frequently touched with the manly impulse of 55 and upwards. Taking the and not a new movement initiated and you've just toula this is a free country. "So it mix with strangers. A member to become deliverers of the same proportion for widowers and
since the war. is," rez-be; "we only tax the of the military intelligence de pressed. The speaker read a widows, & widowers were 21, 51
In the second place, I am to white man's drink and Chinee-partment who at first thought the letter from a prisoner in which be af 25, 109 of 30,125 of 50, 07 of
point out that the question refera man's opium. But shure I read war would be a military "pro- descriced how British soldiere 55, 60 of 60, 42 of 65, and 30 of only to a rumour of an organis1- in the papers that him same metade for Germany (he was were beaten with ticks and the 70 and upwards. One widow pertion and not to to fact of the Obincome bad all swore off." educated in Germany) has also butt end of rifles, ran through 1,000 was a minor, 21 were 21 discovery of the existence of the "Well" sez Tim," judging from changed his opinion and be now with bayonets, tied to the posts years of age, 102 were 25, 82 were
organisation. the any sure they've been making says that the non susces of the of the wire entanglements sur 50, 53 were 55, 32 were 60, 16 this while Jauk; some one must German arme has been due to rounding the camp, stripped of were 85, and 11 were 70 and up- their clothing, and starved. If wards. The proportion of re- bo after thinking of breaking the method adopted.
there remaina on9 spark of marriages shows a continuous de- the old British pride of race crease in both sexes up to 1910,
the young.
men of fo and amongst men also since that fined on a foine big peeler "What's the bole for Tim ?" day," sach a recital must date, that was standin' at the corner. Bez I. "Shure neither mecself or move them to do their duty, and Soz 1:Tun ma bouchal, I'm genyone else could tell you that," it does. The knowledge of these Some 1,154 persons were div ing to give that peeler "welt on coz he," and who tould thim to things abould be spread, by orced in 1912, a decrease of 20 the gob", as the poor man looks make it?" sez I. Shure there's speech and pamphlet, throughout compared with the previous year, as if he wanted a bit of divarahon, min every day of the week making the length and breadth of the land, but well above the average of the and them Chaynese don't look fit that same quistin and divil a not in order that a debilitating preceding five veare. The mean to give him a bit of a batein:""
wan of them has found out yet, hatred of the foe may be fostered, age för marriage has steadily in- "And ain't they thin?" dez Tim. but that hole isn't a patch to but that the flame of righteous creased since 1896, and it is now "Shure a week or two agn t'was
soms of them, " "Bedad, Bez rage may be kindled and the 29.11 for men ant 28 80 for three of them caught a Sargint, houlding me bandkerchie! to spirit of stera resolation to bring women. The average for widower no less, and bats bim till his own me gob, where's that unholy nearer the hour of deliverance. bridegrooms was 16, and for onld mother wouldn't know stink coming from," "Whoi, from Side by side with the effect pro-widows was 41. him; and alther that threw that place beyant there with the duced by the knowledge of what The population in England and him in a shouch." "And did the green door. That's where they our prisoners are suffering, Lord Wales in 1913 was estimated at hang the spalpeens whin they got thim ?" sez 1 ladade they did keep all the dirt av the town. Derby has noticed the stimulus 36,019,339, of which 17,857,014 males and 10,062,325 They save it up for a day or given by the epic account of the were Lot," Bez Tim. "Whoy they gave thim six weeks or something loike that. Bedad its ould buckehot To3-
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so give all the ould beggars battle of Neuve Chapelle recently females. There were 881,800 in the country. a chance to turn it published. Pat the two things births, of which 37,909 were over, and take what they want. together, and the need and pos illegitimate. This was a birth-rate ter they want here to stop this sort Thin they put it in a boat and sibility of shortening the conflict of 23 9 per 1,000, an increase of 0.1 ar work. Do you mind, him, Tim?" take it outside a bit and thriw become plain.
Fifty-two reputed contenarians That is the spur over 1912, but was no less than 3.3 "And be Bither tellin' me it in the tide."
which the young men of the coun- below the average for the 10 years being 110, five women and three died during the year, one woman if there is many ay the "Faith," sez I, "Wid all their try require.
1901-10. There were 449,150 boys others bralia' the laws"
foine Government they're not a
born and 432,731 girle. Themen 103 years old, li men and this feine" place. bit better than the Choys in
Indeed, there is a new spirit small towns of Wales had the three women 102 years old. The "Well I'm sorry to say some Ballymacoull, except for the abroad. The right way to appeal highest rate and the lowest rates reduction of morality below all green dro; but then a' coorse the to the people and to make them are in the South of England. The previous records which obaracter- doctor the craptores-must get realise what the war means has, illegitimate birth-rate was 43 per ised 19,2 was maintained in 1913. P livin' and its mecself we believe, at last been found. It 1,000 which was the same as 1912 Infant mortality was below the that will be afther betten' that ite is for the Government in the first which was the highest figure average for the preceding, decen- fot av stuff on his primises, put
a foine place eatoirely yez have place, and, after them, for all since 1901, »
nium. Mortality from all the there unbeknownst to him by the here on some of the islanda I saw who can lend a hand to the task,
In only one single year has principal epidemic diseases was office boy or coolie. But bedad; coming in, for the sick people in to seize the occasion and to stimu: there been a lower rate of natural below the average, that from ex- they fined him as much as they quarintins. A foine big house late the new spirit: The response increase in the population.. The toric fever and from whooping | could, and give him a grand whitewashed yellow, with doctors, of the employees of Messrs. Work-fall in the death-rate which, for a cough being the lowest recorded. lecture: And, by the same token, attindinis, clory des lime and a man and Co., the Belfast ship number of years has sufficed to The motility from diphtheria ahat gentleman was a week or lot of other things like that."
builders, to the message of Mr. compensate for that in the birth- and croup was the lowest, with to afther, dancing the Highland
"Well indade," Bez Tim, "Churchill and Lord Fisher rate, has now ceased to do so, and one exception, and that for scarlet Aling and singing "Auld Lang, have no such nonsense. If a ship shows the same spirit prevailing it seems likely that a period of fever the lowest with two, ex-.. Syne" wid balf av the Govern
comes in hore wid small- in the yards and workshops. definitely lower natural increases coptions. Deaths from phthisis. and tuberculosis W48 the ment."
Mon assure the Ad- than those of even the recent past "Look at that Mongolian. What Po or any av them sort av These
disases, they just get some miralty that nothing shall deter has commenced. In 1v13, 261,887 lowest on record, and lower is he doin' carrying that pick nice comfortable cargo junke, that them in the execution of the work men died sud 243,288 females, & mortality from bronchitis and Sure its the first wan I've seen since I left Oiteland and bedad are always dary if there's no rain, they are privileged to do for their death-rate of 18.7 per 1,000 pneumonia has been experienced there's another won with a crow-and, with the exception av a few King and Country. "Just as our which is lower than any recorded in 1911 only. Cancer esused a bar" "Come on Tim," sez 1, "till rats, and saving your prisincs comrades are facing the dangers previous to 1910. The mortality higher death rate then in any
preceding year. some other small craytures, they of the trenches and the deep night in the County of London was
The deaths in the Army during we see thim working."
Wid that the pair of them stop. Put the people there till they die and day," they say, "we, too, are lower than that of the country at the year 1913 numbered 759, A ped in the middle ay the road or get well again. And what more prepared to do our utmost, and large a very remarkable fact.
death-rate of 3.2 per 1.000, and.. will you tell me do they want? trust that our combined efforta Infants and Centenarians. and started to break it. up. Well, Tim tould me a lot more will have the desired effect." The The remarkable fall in infant in the Navy 412, a rate of 3,25 If Tim hadn't stopped me I'd have shown that Chineeman how about how they do things out here, way to a great partnership of the mortality ascribed to tuberculosis per 1,000. to use a pick. He did not know unfer I be in Johnny Redmond's and the people is open. If Minis- the rate from this cause having met with violent deaths. No and it's mecself is thinking, its Government, the fighting forces, has not been fully maintained, Daring the Year 11,042 persons enough to spit on his hands. How ever, at the end of it, they made Army than in Hongkong, and it's tera will lead strongly and with risen from 2.81 to 3.02 per 1,000 fewer than 2,596 males and 918
laving I am be the first boat,
human insight, they will quickly births. That figure, however, is females committed nuinide. Some Bhole as if they wanted to bury a
forge a weapon of irresistible far lower than any recorded prior pat, and away they wint.
might,
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