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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1916,
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1916.
Missiosary Works
DAY BY DAY
NOTES ON THE CRISIS. ELLIS KADJORIE SCHOOL. cock has made an excellent drill
THE NEUTRALS AND THE
ALLIES
In the Western Theatre.
In our news columns yesterday we mentioned the publication of a pamphlet setting forth the LET ALL THE EKUS THOU objects and activition of the AT BE THY COUNTRY'S
THY GOD'S Hongkong Church Missionary | vri” Association. It is felt that a Faller knowledge of the work carried on by this body will result în s At the Peak 8am. Temp: 54; keener interest being manifested dull. (1915, 52, clear.) în its operations, and the pahli- Lower level 8 am. Temp. cation certainly sets out, so that dull. (1915, 61 clear.) · all may rend, the nature and ex-
tent of the Society's under-
The Weather.
The Malls.
takings. The Bishop of American Mail-Due per as Victoria in hia foreword
Persia Maru to-morrow.
well painted out the advant Australian Mail-Closed per & ages which must result from the diffusion of accurate information
concerning such a work as this,
Eastern at II a.m. to-day. French Mail. Cloess per a
Porthos st 4 pm, to-day.
;
Siberian Mail-Closes per 8.3. Luchow at 5p.m. to day.
and he was certainly not far wide of the mark when he suggested by **** inference that many members Și the Church of England, to say nothing of those who do not
The Dollar.
Distribution of Prizes.
mater and I believe that the school has become healthier and BILETIÓT BE A TOsult of his effort.
The Fighter side of life has not been neglected. In the summer we tuado excursions by launch to Dumb-bell island, Kowloon Bay. ste, by train to Shahn and on
If we are still na far off as STEE This morning the sequel die from a big successful"dave" on tribution of prizes took place at foot to Telegraph Bay. One day the Western front, there is suff the Ellis Kadoorie School. The this team we walked to the Wong- cient evidence that the Allies are ceremony was performed by the ner-chang and Tytam reservažna. patiently at work on their wear Hon. Mr. Claud Serem (Colonial The school was taught beforehand ing-out process, with results that Secretary) in the presence of a
about what was to be seen, the sre the reverse of obsering to the large gathering of parents of the enemy. The three overnight scholars and others. communiques all tell penitý stempts frustrated, Germans much the same tale: German
·Headmaster's Report:
use of filter beds, the structure of reservoirs, the idea of a estch- water, the kinds of trees and the geography of the island. A very
German linee successfully bomb was as follows.— killed, Germania taken prisoner, The report of the Headmaster instructive and pleasant day was spent We beg to offer our This school was handed over scholarships: The Tai Yan Co, sincere thanks to the donors of silenced. In all this there is no to the Government of Hongkong Mr. Chan Kai-ming, the Hon. Mr. uded, and German batteries special mention of the British by Mr. Ellis Kadoorie at the beLau Chu-pak and Mr. Ho Kom troops, but we may well suppose ginning of this year. There were
The rate of the dollar on French papers, wenotice, grembla (numbers were small for several great" stimulus to the boys and
"To-morrow's Anniversary,
belong to the Church, spend years demand to-day is 111.3/8. in the Colony without sa-king to know anything about the mis- sinnary activities which 8TB To-murow is the 26th an- carried out under its suspices.niversary of the beheading of The ides, therefore, is that those King Charles I who become acquainted with the main features of this work through the median of the publication ander notice, may be encouraged to personally visit at least some of the institutions mentioned..
Good Work.
Queen's College.
His Excellency the Governor is passeating the prizes at Queen's College at soon on Monday.
Piano Recital.
Mr. Damian Fuller's piano recital takes place in the City Hall at 9.15 p.m. on Monday. We do not hesitate to say
Exempted. that very much of the The King Yi (Social Chinese)
pre- judice which exists in regard to Club has been exempted from missions is based on hearsay evid-registration under the Societies eace, the most bitter critics being Ordinance. usually those who have no per
An Absconding Foki.
12
The
Tinned MIG-
amendment of the
that our man are not idle. The 285 present in January. The tong. There sobolarships are a as much as the British at the reasons: the fees had been raised, enable the most advanced of them. censorship; hat readers who have the tar was coming to an end, Q., after leaving Ellis Kadoorie to continue their education in fallowed all the wires from the Chinese New Year was approach School. We thank also Sir Robart beginning of the war must feeling, Classes 1, 2 and 3 Ho Tung for his donation to the thas our authorities have bea abolished and the European staff
P
PRIZE LIST.
Scholarships.
The winners of scholarships,
infinitely more niggardly in the was cut down from 5 to 2 In Frise Food. The masters and met es of communiques than the February there were only 207 boys contributed $606.30 to the French. It will be strange if, after boys on the roll. In March there Flood Relief Fund. In concluTM, the war, the military and civil were 445 boys on the roll. Lasion, I have to thank the staff for papalations of Great Britain domot May the school had its maximam the way in which they have work-
Ted and for their readiness at al have something to say on the sub-enrolment -457 boys ject of the Government's shaard numbers have, as usual, gradual-times to do anything required of system of dating out news as ly decreased towards Chinese them. I think the school may though it had invalid children, New Year. The sternge attend-congratulate itself upon quite a and not rational men and women, ance for 1915 was 377 83, which successful year and upon the happy to deal with. As long as the I consider is highly satisfactory. prospect of better years still in Government follows its present The school has a good staff and store. policy it will never cease to lay very much excellent work bas itself open to the charge, from been done by them. The only neutrals and enemies as well as thing I have to regret is that is sonal knowledge of the pointa A foki, who was given a Money
from its own people, of hushing has been found necessary to maks 80 many changes. More then concerning which they speak and Order to change, received the
half a dezin masters have come with the names of the collages What Germany Must Give Up. write so emphatically. A booklet money and abscanded. such as this mast therefore serrs matter has been reported to the al the speeches appear to have 1515.
At the Sorbonne demonstration and gone elsewhere since January, and schools at which they are to
Mr. Ng Fang-chan has bold, ar a useful purpose. It is imposible police.
followed much the same line be- been responsible for the smooth Tai Yan Scholarship.-Lai Li- here to go in any detail into the many interesting points disclosed By an
fore peace can be talked of, Ger-working of the vernacular classes. him, Queen's College.
must give up Serbia, The pupil teachers have been Lau Chu-pak Scholarship- in the pamphlet, but there is one schedule of maximum print the Belgium, Alsace Lar.sine and very useful to me and have en-Chan Hing-ching Queen's College. branch of the Society's activities price of sweetened condensed Poland. If our enemy were bless-abled me on many occasions to Ho Kom-tong Scholarship. which is worth mentioning, milk has been fixed at 37 cents ed with five cents' worth of pride fill up the gapa caused by illness. (Senior) Wa Chang, Queen's namely, the work done in connec. per 1 lb. tin.
be would surely see the ludicrous The discipline of the school is Collega. tion with the Victoria Home and
Ho Kom-tong Scholarship Orphanage at Kowloon City. In
A meeting to consider the news of his position in regard to satisfactory. Our chief examinз-
these territories. He set out to tion was held in July. In the (Junior)-Wong Wen-cheung, this institution, which was estab formation of a Hongkong branch lished as a home for rescued slave
of the Overseas Club is to be held conquer the world. At the end upper classes the work was not Ellis Kadoorie School,
Chan Kai-ming Scholarship.- ofeighteen months""Conquering." up to a high standard, but the at the offices of the Chine Coast all that he has to show is the way progress made in the lower classes Eo Wa-asm, Ellis Kadooria School children and orphans, there arefcers' Guild at 5.30 p.m. on of gains is the temporary posses-spoke well for the raising of the no fewer than 120 children at the
Free Scholarships. - Wong We stated yesterday that the Bar Committee of Shanghai ra- present time, and it is evident
Monday.
ion of Serbia, Belgium and standard in the future. In school Ching-san, Queen's College; Lo ceatly invited the General Council of the Bar to suggest a solution that here at any rate the Society
Appointment. His Excellency the Governor Poland, and of a small part of work special stress has been laid Kai-san, Queen's College; Ko of the following problem: "What is the duty of counsel who is doing most praiseworthy work. has been pleased to appoint the France. But a profit and loss upon the acquirement of a sound Yee-how, Queen's College; Wong defending a prisoner on a plea of "Not Guilty when the prisoner Shocking Cruelty.
Queen's Honourable Hr. Lau Can-pak to count would not be a profit and and practical knowledge of the Li-knen,
College; confesses toʻcounsel that he did commit the offence charged?" The
be a Member of the Board of loss account unless it had two English language. The hall has Lau Yak-chi, Ellis Kadoors General Council, if we are to judge by its published reply, would
Seeing that most of the children Examiners, with effect from the sides to it. Orr against the been utilised every week for the School; Cheng Yak-lau, Ellis
21st January, 1916.
enemy's gains we have to se: the giving of public recitations by the Kadoorie School; Ko Sit-o, Ellis rather have been approached upon soms leas knotty subject. This come fnm moet evil surroundings,
confiscation of virtually all his boys of all classes. Every week, Kadoorie School, Kwong Chi- reply, in brief, is to the effect that, when a confession has been made we can quite believe that, as the
It is notified that His Excell-ast colonies including, by the too, during this term different piog, Ellis Kadcorie School. before the commencement of proceedings, it is "most undesirable" report states, it takes them a long
Half Fee Scholarships-Wong that an advocate to whom the confession has been made should time to learn the lessons of tratheney the Governor-in-Council has, way, Kianchu and, South West masters have given object lessons
Tak-sheuk, Queen's College; Tioi defend "sa he would mcat certainly be seriously embarrassed in the those in charge endeavour to a day, the 4th day of Febrmer destruction of his foreign trade, report on Ellis Kadoorie School
under Section 7 of the Holidays Africa, both of which he regarded before several classes. honesty and self-control which Ordinance, 1912, appointed as abociately impregnable; the Mr. Ralphs, L. E. S., in his Kat, Queen's College. conduct of the case." But when a confession is made after proceed-enlcate. But the efforis are 8P1918, to be observed as a Gener:?1 and the complete putting cat of SST-"Several dialogues have
$ frand **
LEGAL MORALITY.
Overseas Club.
General Holiday.
if
Class Prizes.
inga have began, “it is no bar to the advocate's continuing to appear in the prisoner's defence." The Council is careful to add: Batparently successful, and we read
Holiday.
action of his expensive navy. His besa prepared and boys are en- such a confession imposes very strie: limitations on the conduct of that the girls, who do housework,
A Chinese Sweet Tooth.
"world domination, then, has couraged to learn these and de
Class 4-lst, Sa Sai; 2nd, the defence. An advocate may not assert that which he knows to and their own laundry and cook-
For being in solswfal posses been confined to the seizure of liver them in the Hall before their Chan Pak-san, be a lie. He may not connive at, mach less attempt, to substantiate "much sugat after by sion of 13 lbs. of engir, and being two of the weakest and least well- own class and ecmetimes in the Class 48.-Ist, Chen Ping-ymi;
Christian Chinese men, as they unable to give a satisfactory protected states in Europe, to the presence of other classes. At 2nd, Chan Man-hap. make good and useful wives." account as to where and how he occupation of Russian Poland, and other times model lessons (pre- Class 5Alat, Mak Hok-hang, Our readers will probably agree with ma that it is difficult to
That is something accomplished, became possessed of it, a Chinese to the frantic holding on to sa viously carefully learned) are Zod, Au Yean Sir-bean, B see how the Council cald have asid very much less or more. The in the report which gives a grim the Police Cours this morning.
at any rate. There is one point was fined $10 by Mr. Hazeland at much of Alsace-Lorraine as the given by the boys in turn. A Class 5B1st, Lea Yak chì... members certainly cannot be said to handle their subject enthusiast insight into life in China
French have not re-captured. All lesson upon the dog was given (Free Scholarship); 2nd, Ho Wa ically; indeed they content themselves with following the cantions namely the statement that many
Dog Licences.”
told, it does not need a huge
in quite good style by a Class 4 sam (Chan Kai Ming Scholar plan of turning a blind eye to the ethical side of the dificulty, and of the slave children when ad- Police notifies that licences to arrive at a just balancing of this Master's much enduring dog be
The Captain Saperintendent of amount of business acumen to pictures and the lead ship). answering according to the dictates of respectability, not venturing mitted have frequently been keep dogs were due for renewal 1ttle statement of accounts. For ing used in illustration. The pin (Free Scholarship); 2nd, Lam Clasa 6A-1st, Kwong Chi- admiss on that an advocate ought not to tell barsfaced lies. It seems inducted with hot irons." It is not a ton owning to have sabile preparation all that Ger- to produce very good results in along the higher and rockier path beyond the edifying found suffering from braises on the first day of January. All her many years of secret and a thoda ought in course of time Lok Ming to as that the main flaw in the accepted legal system is at once stated wheiber these children are not yet obtained licences are ad-many can show is her possession the upper clace f
Class 6B-1st, Leang Bui; exposed by the lakewarm answer to which these lights of the Bar are rescued in Hongkong or in Chins; vised to do so 83 870 as possible, of the above-named terrikry
2nd, Sang Steung-his. committed. True, there is one loophole of which they might have if the former, then we can only
We have to thank Mr. Ellis Clam 7A-1st, Kwan Shiu-fai; availed themselves: they might quite well have said that the ques say that it is a standing disgrace. Chinese New Year Vacation. which has been acquired at the adorie for the gift of a piece of 2nd, Li Wai-kwong. tion was one on which it was impossible to generalise; that to the Colony that each things Chinese New Year Vacation the own side, the loss of the world's it uns been said that the P. W. (Free Scholarship), 2nd, Tam It is notified that during the cost of millions of casualtiesca berland in Hospital Road for games, Class 7B.1st Cheng Yak-Lau it lay between each individual barrister and his conscience. It is as absurd to assume that all lawyers are devoid of known, and it has in fact been be open daily froz 10 am, to 1 tent and quasi-rebellion through and render is Et for
should be possible here. It is well-Offices of the Supreme Court will respect, and the spread of discan D. will one day level this ground Chung fan. consciente sa to take it for granted that all priests are saintly or all officially admitted, that a state p.m. from February 3 to Febru-out her own domain.
We Class 70-1st, La Uchner doctors infallible. There are to be found, in every civilised country, of affairs in no way indistinguish-ary 7 (both days icciasive), ex-
anxiously look forward to the 2nd, Wong Kat-lan,⠀ plenty of advocates whose pride and conscience would stand in able from child slavery existe incept on Public and General Holi-
Neutral Sypathies.
time when they will be in a posi
Class 8A-lat, Hon Lan-fongs the way of their handling a ahady case. Of course the
Not only, too, has Germany last in to do so,
|2nd, Wat Moon-zik. enemies of the lawyers may ask how their consciences will allow Hongkong. If it is accompanied days, when the offices will be the world's respect, but she has Ia outdoor life, Ellis Kadocrie
Class 81B-lat, Ko Sik-on them to defend ag an alleged murdered whom they believe to be mentioned, it is the day of the
ny devilish cruelty of the kind entirely closed.
provoked its contempt and hatred. School has been prominent in (Free Scholarship); 2nd, Leung guilty. The lawyers would have an easy shelter to hand in the authorities to absolutely stump it Licensing Board.
The little scese a Linaanne, men sport. They won the Junior Tan-shan. maxim that, in British law at least, a man is innocent till he is cat Is is not British policy, we Board is to be held in the Council one of the atraws which show she accions possible and this Cop
A meeting of the Licensing tioned in this morning's wires, is Volley Ball League on the two CLS 810.-1st, Tong Kong; proved guilty; but it is doubtful if that answer would satisfy the know, to interfere with the cus Chamberst 12.30 p.m. on Monday, direction of the wind. No self is the outward and visible sign
2nd, Lan Yang-chin. rigid moralist. Still less would it satisfy him if cffered in connection soms and modes of living of sub- February 1, 1910, for the purpode respecting nation wants to see of their success. Each boy in the Pang: 2nd, Wan Lo
Claes 810.-1st, Pan Shui- with a man known to be guilty.
fect races, so long as those cas of considering the following the German flag flying nowadays successful team was presented Class StiA-Ist, Chan Wing- It has often been argued that if a shopkeeper carried on his bustoms do not infringe bigh prin- application under the Liquors And there is more than meets the with a medal. The name of Ellis long; 2ad, Chan Kam-yang. iness on Sermon on the Mount principles he would soon be in the conditions such as those to which From Nele Bibhage for a rea-asto the pro-Hussian sympathiesol swimming competitions, not per-
ciples. But as long as we tolerate Consolidat on Ordinancs, 1911-eye in the Hungarian admissions Kadoorie School bas figured in Class 87B-1st, Chan Bing- workboase.The average lawyer would probably raise no objection we are now referring, our cisim taarant reeper's adjunct licence Boumania. There and elsewhere, haps prominently among the priz
ki; 2nd, Li Fai-nan..
Class JIU-1, Lo Yak-lam; were the statement made concerning his own profession-with, of that slavery does not exist under to all by retail intoxicating if a conens of German sympath winners, but it requires courage 2nd. Fa Pak-ping. course, certain limitations. In Utopia he might refuse to defend a per- the British Big will surely be a liquors on the premises No. 15 isers were taken, the result to enter for a race where the son whore guilt he even suspected; in the world as we of to-day know mere empty, hollow boast.
Class JiD-1st, Chan Sheang it, such a course would mean, if not starvation, at least failure to
Des Voeux Box Central under would be more than disconcerting chances of winning are small. In chau: Zad, Wai Yok shao, rise in his profession; for the same tender con cience which forbade
| the sign "Alezaadis Cafe”. to our enemies. The very feet that football, whenever I enter a class Class JIE-1st, Cheung Fate him to handle certain criminal cases would also bar him where other
Visiting Physician. American sympathies have been and say "Who wants to play foot im 2nd, Tang Tit-san. branches of the law were concerned. It would see that the best---
Serious Charge.
Bis Excellency the Governor Lterally turned upside-down dur-ball this afternoon" it is quite a
Class JiF-1st, Cheung King- and worst that can be mid of the avarage barrister is that his mor
Before Mr. Wood, at the Police has been pleased to appoint De ing the past year, should awaken rare thing to find a single toy bang 2nd, Chung Man-tak ality is the accepted morality of the age in which he lived. If he is Court this morning, a Chinese Herbert Gastineau Eirls, M.A., the Kaiser to his country's posi who does not wish to play, so it to blame for defending in sach and such a case, so is the law for was charged with attempting to HB. (Cambridge), to be Honor- tion in the eyes of lookers-on is merely the lack of opportunity allowing a criminal to escape justice if his counsel can combine skill take away from the Colony, by y Visiting Physician to the Apropos, we doubt if Mr. Lane and certainly not a lack of and luck in such a manner sa to prove him technically innocent. fraud, a married woman, for the Government Civil Hospital, daring'e latest Memomadam to the enthusiasm that prevents them 2nd, Ik Kri-cheang Where the bulk of the blame lies is with society itself, for tolerat purposes of prostitution. Coming the absence on leave of Dr. Allies will find moch favour being as invincible on the foot Class 5-lat, Yeung Kwong- ing a state of affairs wherein there is a possibility of a knare a plainant stated that defendant George Ernest Aubrey, MR.C.5. among the thinking people of the ball field as they have been on the bing: 2nd, 35 Sei escaping panishment or of an honest man's incurring it. We have told her he would pay her the Bag), L.P.C.P., M.B., B.S., United States, who know the value volley ball courts.
Clasa 61st, Chan Sr-wing no doubt that the present distressing state of stairs will be sllared sum of $150 for clothing, ste. London), with effect from the of "asking" Germany to refrain Physical drill is one of the 2nd, U Fak to.
when the Millennium comes:
The case was adjourned.
31st January, 1916:
from her submaszining exploits. festarse of the school. Hr. My-
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Vernacular Prizes
Clase 4-1st, Chan Hing ki;