THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1916.
DAY BY DAY
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
1891.
ROBT. PORTER & CO.'S
CELEBRATED
BULL DOG
BRAND
LIGHT ALE
(IN PINTS AND SPLITS)
Very light, extremely palatable
Brewed from the and refreshing. finest English malt and hops.
SOLE AGENTS:
An Old Story,
KARTE
FOUL DEEDS WILL RISE, THOUGH ALL OERWEHRLY" THEM, TO MENYS EYES-Hamist.
The Weather. At the Peak Sam. Tomp. 19;
(1915, 50 fog.) (1915, 59 dall) Lower level 8 m. Temp. 58;
In the sms possession case | which catae before the magistrate yesterday, the usual plea of ignor ance of the law was advanced, but it was not sufficiently conj vincing to get the defendant off, Fa-fine of three hundred dollars being the result. There were one or two circumstances which dail. would have lifted the case out dall. of the ordinary run of this type of prosecution if the defen- dant's version of the facts con- tained any large element of truth.į The offender, a Chinese, had, itļ appeared, been a merchant in Boston and was returning to his cative land. Before he left the
States, he purchased a revolver
and a quantity of ammunition, for Belf-protection, as he
put it
and sent these things along with
The Malls. American, Canadian and U. K. Mails-Close per ss. China at noon on Monday.
THE POSITION IMPROVES,
Air Raids.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE:
* YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph flex for the week ewing February 19th, 18913
The Dollar, February 12-"The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 3/35." Germany and the Silver
Question
BANKNOTE RETURNS.
The Returne of the average smount of Bank Notes în circula tion and of specie in resers in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st January 1916, certified by the Managers of the respective Banks are ---***
Specie Banks Average Account
Chartered Bank
of India, Australia
Reserve
We wonder who the discerning gentleman, was who discovered that one of the sirahips in the recent raid on Bamagats etc selected a tramcar fall of women and children” and that another selected large girls' school.”
February 6 Daring the de-& China $7,558,502 $5,000,000* bate on the silver question in the Hongkong and This is the sort of twaddle that Raichstag, the Government de Shanghai Banking gets us laughed at, both by Gerclared that a change in the Corp,23,54,418 20,000,000 The rate of the dollar on his sober senses will beliers
mana and by neutrals. No one standard was unnecessary."
Mercantile Bank demand to-day is 1/11. 5/16.
The Dollar,
'To-morrow's Anniversary.
his advance luggage. Defendant's Moodsy is the 119th anniver- friends, to whom the Inggage sary of the British victory of St. and then joyously Ista go with its was consigned, had, apparently, Vircent. themselves been in trouble over the possession of arms, so they}. searched his boxes, found the
a
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. weapon and ammunition, and the sinking of the SE. Persia 50 British and by their own steal always "denying that Germany
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serce to the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1916.
FOR OUR SOLDIERS.
1,075,770_850,000+
Total $32 274,891 25,850,000 with the Crown Agents valued at
• Sterling Secuâties deposited. $1 850,000.
† Securities with the Crown Agents 568,040.
VICE ADMIRAL WAR- BENDER
that a German airship goes harm“
To-day other Governments hold of India Limited, somewhat diferent opinion.] Italy sailing along until it can find a numery or a perambulatori
Germany and the Straits of Malacca. Fergusson has denied that Ger- or a mothers' meeting, for a mark,
February &- Sir James bombs. The radians who mas many is trying to obtain the these airships are "our" for any cession of a Siamese port in the Hoogkong Malls Lost.
and every sort of damage; and so territory north of Penang. The Post Office notifies that in blinded are they by hatred of the
[In those days Britain was promptly gave information to the bags of Hongkong mails, despat-belief in themselves, that they are wanted anything beyond what she police. The contention of the ched from London on December incapable of any discrimination hac.] defending solicitor was that this 24, including fire bags of regie-In other words, they are bent on was not a case of importing the tered articles, were lost.
German Deserters, injuring the first thing or person revolver into the Colony for
February 6.-Deserters from
Vice-Admiral Sir George J. S. The Police Reserve.
that comes in their way. And is the German army pass into France Warrender, who has been selecte sale, and the further point was made that the defendant, liks
His Excellency the Governor not this all the stronger reason nearly every week.
They take ed to succeed Admiral Sir George many others, was ignorant of the has been pleased to appoint Dr. why the British should take pro-service in the Foreign Legion sad le Clerc Egerton as Commander- Apparently our are sent to Algeria or other parts in Chief of the Plymouth station, fact that it is illegal to bring Gregory Paul Jordan to be Sur-per reprisals?
geon-Saperintendent of the rulera at Home, in their everlast of Africa arms into the Colony-
has seen a great deal of actire Special Palice Reserve with the ing wisdom, do not think so, but raak of Deputy Superintendent are rather of opinion that the more
February 7.-Monday being the Navy nearly forty-three years service, says Truth. He entered Volunteer Reserve Commission. Germany threatens the British the great annual Chinese day of
His Excellency the Governor public with inconvenience and rejoicing, there will be no issue of Boadicea he landed with the ago, and as a midshipman on the The magistrate, however very has been pleased to appoint Ser danger, the more that inson the Hongkong Telegraph. We take wisely, we think was not presant-Major Alphonso Mean venter ca
and that danger, this opportunity of wishing all our war and accompanied the Ekowe Naval Brigade during the Zala pared to accept these pless, be Thornhill to be Second Lieuten- ought to be increased by addi- Chinese readers a happy and relief column. He was promoted cause, after all, the question of ant in the Hongkong Volunteertical darkening of the streets, prosperous New Year the importation of arms is far to Reserve, with effect from Fabra. Tie a Solomon of a rig'lation'
to the rank of captain from the 68 Private Mulvaney says,
Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, ry 8, 1916.
sad was flag-captain on the Chains tion from 1899 to 1902. Ister he was Commander-in-Chief on
A Serious Matter.
Licensing Board.
His Excellency the Governor
taining the revolver and ammoniof thres years, with effect from tion was found concealed in an
February 2, 1916.
More Peace Proposals.
"
Chinese New Year.
White Elephants. serious-a one on which to take
February 7.-The Peak Hotel any risks. Once excases of this kind are listened to, we shall
Co's Report and Statement of Accounts for 1890, are satisfactory find every returned Chinese has been pleased to appoint the
030 Bence and very un- adopting 2 similar line of Honoarable Mr. Charles Mc-though Germany is convinced barn" has been the White
It certainly begins to look as patisiactory in snother. "Craigie the East Indies station, and as argument. And in this case Ilvaine Messer to be a Member of that the Allies really do mean
rear-admiral commanded the the mere fact that the box eco the Licensing Board for a period business and as though she has the lines it appears to us that November, 1310, to December, Second Cruiser Equadron from elephant, but reading between graped the fact that, as she grows there has been a big screw loose 1912. On the occasion of the weaker, they grow steadily elsewhere.
So far 28 botel State visit of the King and Queez
to Ireland in July, 1911, he com The names of Feon Cheng Toe, stronger. While ste is agitatedly business, pure and simple, in that the Ho Mai Ling Hospital; and Tab calling old men and boys to the concerned, results are fairly enthe review of the King in Flo
manded "the naval contingent st In the early days of the war we suggested that the best way to defendact was not quite the Lean Swee, Tang Wah Hospital coloura, she is confronted with help the wounded or unemployed men who have risked all for King/orsmas he posed to be. It (both Bachelora of Medicine and the French, who may be said to der the sble management of M. broke out Sir George was in com
couraging, and that predict that the Peak Hotel, un-piz Park. When the present war may be depended upon that the of Surgery, of the University of and country would be by the means of a land scheme, applicable to American Chinese know thorough Hongkong); hive been added to have borne the brunt of the land Thomas, a deservedly popular mand of the Second Battle Squad- the Homeland and also. in cest in cases, to the British Colonies. We ly well that arms are not permited the register of medical practi-war have, notwithstanding, maitre d'hotel has a prosperous are glad to note from the Recter wires that some practical measures! to be brought into Hongkong; tioners
"Think wat 'e's been;
Think wot 'e's sen;
Think of pension', sa' Gawd face the Queen!'
iron stove, and covered over with straw, was sufficient to create a reasonable suspicion
anyhow, they can easily obtain information from their
*90****
learn
Mr. Has land yesterday. altoge
way.
The Medical Register.
Criminal Sessions.
The average humidisy
Ordinance Assented To.
the uncomfortable truth
we venture to
not pat forth their fall strength; that Basis, despite her Bat careful management and a career before it in the near fatare.
pon.
SEBUTS SUCCESS. That sutique conspicious elements in the exhi-
Directors of the Peak Hotel Com on this occasion. His lordship pany ought not to lose sight of was tastefully attired in a same- The Cracker Nuisance. ` what highly coloured divorce February 10. Although it suit, Mr. Mitchell-Innes modestly was publicly notified that cracker representing the Light of the firing should cease at 11 o'clock world. Pablic opinions divided will probably say nothing last night, the din of bombs and as to which of the pair bore away at: all about economie huge crackers was incessant from the palm.”
commercial
privileges midnight up to about on to- - A German Fired,
and
ere to
in this direction are being taken. To put the matter plainly, the only way in which Britain can wipe cat the diegrace incurred by the her former treatment of old soldiers is by establishing (now, not in Consul. Even if they do rot, fermation that His Honour the has hardly even begun to draw altered circumstances of the colony a qualified success. According to It is nonfed for general in admittedly heavy casualty list, thorough appreciation of the night is reported to have been only years hance) some definite and workable means whereby the men ther who have risked their lives for heraad, in many cases, bave lost a lesson when they arrive here; that next Criminal Sassions for the that Italy and Great Britain, by
the Chief Justice has ordered that then her enormous resources, and are absolutely necessary to the talk of the town, the most limb or their eyesight of their general health in her service is all, Because, as we say, the despatch of the business of the ents, may be said hardly to have who was continually deploring Connemara, late Governor of be kept from want on the one hand, and from and ignoble depend-matter is far too serious to leave Court shall be held on Monday suffered at all That is how the the loss she sustained by selling Madras, and the Hon. Mr. N. G. comparison with other belliger- yarn of the old Irish woman bition were the Right Hon. Lord ence on charity" on the other. Years ago the press gava prominany loophole for the smuggler. ence (though not anything like suficient prominence) to the fact
February 28, 1916, at 10 o'clock that so many V. Ce, so many Balaclava scrvivore, so many Mutiny roo Zealous.
in the forenoon.
fac's stand and no amount of her oranges below cost price bat Mitchell-Innes, Colonial Treasurer German toying with the truth can thanked God she made up for it of this highly favoured colony. It veterans, etc. had met their end in the workhouse. It is easy to
January Weather. argue that this was probably due to the men's own fault; it may
Meteorological observations for make them otherwise. Thus it is have been, but it was still more the fault of the Government and the type of Chiness who is every now mean temperatore during the week's crop of peace suggestions
We have no great love for the January show that the average not to be wondered at that the by doing a large business, con- will be observed that we give veys a valuable moral which the these two worthies their fall titles British people. Kipling kage where the real blans rested when and then caught carrying opian month was 60.7, the highest being should be a bigger one than ever. he wrote, in his “ Shiilin's Day”:
or morphine and is at pains, when 751 (on the 2ndy and the lowest Undoubtedly the biggest concess arrested, to explain that he was 39.3 (on the 24th). The total on that our enemy has yet offer merely taking it somewhere "for a rainfall was 4.075 inches, and od lies in his recent terms to friend." But that does not prevent these were 1794 hours of sun- Belgium. His next proposal us from thinking that the Chinees shine. Revenue Officers, in the morphine was 12. possession case which came before Every reader aged thirty and upwards, will remember, too, the social results of the Boer War. Many of the ingrained loafers of her exceeded their powers when been advised to exercise his power whole will have a little less of of the Central district. If the midt, merchant of Victoris Build- His Majesty the King has not on the Flemish coset, just as his day, not all over the town but February 12,-"A German, to-day (or rather of pre-War days) had done good service in that they pourced upon the discharg- of disallowance with respect to the status que basiness about police have been on the qui rice irg, Queen's Road, was charged next proposal to the Allies as a particularly in the western part described as Mr. Oscar Kleinsch campaign-but had never accomplished a day's honest work since ed defendant as he was leaving the following Ordinance-An And yet only a small amount of blame remained with them. War, the dock. The magistrate very Ordinance to provide for the in- i; and so be will go on despite the confinement and often inaction of the modern trench rightly marked his displeasure at corporation of the Mother Saper-promising till (if the Allies wit and the magistrates have a keen before Mr. Wodehouse at the the interests of Her Police Court this morning with work, is not to be compared to a dull and tame indoor occupation: the action of the officers, telling icress in this Colony of the Society but exercise the firmness expected Gracious's treasury; no doubt the an offence against common de and a few months of it amply suffice to unfit the average workman, them that, when once he orders a of the "Daughters of Charity of of them) he will have to admit amusement will coas many of our deney. He admitted the charge sharmaa or clerk for his former calling. Hitherto people at Home discharge, the defendant should the Canossien Institute" by which that there is nothing in front of Celestial fellow-residents a good and excused himself by saying he Leem to have agreed that the ex-soldier has got all that he deserves be let alone and allowed to go his the institution known ss the him bat unqualified and abject deal more than they anticipated." was drank. Five dollars. Cheap when he is provided with a “jɔb" as a bricklayer's labourer or s carter from which occupation, by the way, he may be oasted at wanted on another charge,
surender Whether the man was Italian Convent is carried on.
Execution of Pirates at Kowloon at the price. A Chimese woulá the end of any week if busireas should happen to be bad for his do
February 10-Six men who most likely have been sent to gaol not know. Bat evert Detective Sergeant Wills charg-
confessed to committing piracy in for a month without the option of employer.
the were,
The generally improved enr- the neighbourhood of Mira Bay a fine." Courted a Chinese, before Mr. Hazsland was not the place in which to-re this morning, with being the dition of affairs from the Es-recently, were beheaded on the Mr. A. P. MacEweń. this oldsetseless system-or rather sca-system. The Britisher, by should at least have been allowed house at 30, Shanghai Street, is not so very fat dietan, amended with the usual barbarity, dent of this colony in connection
The proposed small holdings scheme should strike at the root of arrest him. In such a case he keeper of a common gaming tente's point of viex would seem beach et Chinese Kowloon on
hint that the surrender Sanday.
February 12-"Mr. A. P.. nature, is not ar idler. More than half the loafers at Home or in the to get outside the precincts of the Yaumati Foar other men were Oversight wires tell of farther the victime being placed on their with the old established firm of The execution was MacEwen, for many years aʼrezi- Colonies have become so because they were pat to uncongenial work. Magistracy. Happily, instances charged with gaming in the Now no Britisher finds outdoor employment, from which a (perceptible cf the kind ander notice are very house. Although the offence was German - attacks defeated knees in lize, oze behind the Holliday, Wise & Co., and one of profit will arise, uncongenial point which is amply proved by the rare in Hongkong, and it is well denied, the evidence of the pro- on the Western frost, of improved other, their beads being hacked the ablest and most independent fact that emigration to Canada and South Africa has met with sach for the fair name of British-law-secation was conclusive and Mr. methods of dealing with enemy off in tara. By the time the execu- of our unofficial members of the enormous success, Where it has failed has usually been in cases that they are. These native He Hazeland feed the keeper $75 submarines, of a rise in the tioner got to the last min his Legislative Council, informe as wherein the grants of land were too large or too unmanageable for venue Officers need to be remind and the other three defendants Petan casualty list alone to asora was slightly blasted, and that he has established himself in the unskilled agricultarist, without a reasonable amount of capital, ed that they have responsibilities $5 each.
2,377,378, of another Zeppelim it took him two heavy blows to basiness xa a Chias merchant st to handle. By nature the Britisher loves the soil. Does not even as well as privileges. After Mr.
destroyed, of strong sati-German Ever the head from bedy, though No. 31, Lombard Street, London: the most unromantic and met unathletic Cockney like to think Hazeland's remarks tiey will pro- Police Reservists fizured in a agitation in Canada and of Aust-the first blow doubtless sent the E. C. A Cantonese merchant of of his bit of back-yard saa" garden" or to convert his window-sill bably realise that point.
case before Mr. J. R. Wood at the tiane turned back by Serbians, man out of what is commonly much experience will be associat into a flower bed? The "Back to the Land" promise has been
Police Court today, in which Even the news that the editor of known as this world.""
ed in the business, and under dangled so long and so fruitlessly before the eyes of the townsman
three Chicese were charged with waerts is being tried is not Our Water System. Mr. MacEwen's supervision will that he has almost ceased to believe in the possibility of its fulfil
being in possession of three plates without it significance; for, by February 1There were have special charge of the import ment. And yes it can be so easily carried out if the Government will This woman is a nuisance, of zine, valued $30, at Wing Lok intering with that gentlemen, three more breakages of the newly and export departments, We bat exercise a little thought and common sense. It is highly satis She won't get out a firence, and Street, it being reasonably Germany is merely bastening the laid water pipes on Sunday morn with Mr. MacEwen erary success factory to read that proper agricultural training is included in the she has been previously convict suspected that the plates had been inevitable Socialist revolt. And, ing laat. One took place on the in his new business is depa new programme, and we would suggest, as useful addition, in-ed for a similar offence," said stolen. Inspector Taylor, of the in addition to all this, we have the Fraya West, another opposite the tare from the Far East was straction in livestock rearing. We do not need to be told that farm Inspector O'Sullivan to Mr. Haze Reserve, effacted the arrests, multiplying of Russia's succeses Ko Shing Theatre, and the third great loss to Hongkong; he was ing, as a wide indnetry, is played cut" at Home; but it by no means land at the Police Court this having seen the accused enter a and the new position of Boumania near the Sailors Home. Oars thorough all round sportsman, follows that there is not smple room for many thousands of men to morning, in s case, in which a marine store dealer's shop with concering whom, by the way readers will doubtless call to a leader in every public get a decent living out of farming, horticulture and stock raising on woman was charged with hawking the plates He handed the Germany seem rather to be what mind the prediction we made in ment, a liberal supporte a quiet small scale.. Tenant farming has failed, largely because it food without s hcence. Mit ze defendants over to two Portuguese ing her threats Romanis has our columns last week local institutions, and a ma was tenant farming; hot me know from what has obtained in France Land imposed a penalty of $10, oc, Police Reservists. Defendants pleased herself all the way that the man who farms his own land, no matter to how smaller in defenit, & month's imprison- deced the offence, but ware each through, and it likely to continue faut, sucoseda—where he who farms someone else's will probably faili for want of pse internet in his work,
if he
An Obstinate Woman.
Gamblers,
Police Reserve Prosecution.
fined $20 or 14 daya.
to
to do so,
Better News.
"The Light of the World”. {possessed" the counts of hĩa February 11-The fancy dress opinions and was not aizand to ball at the Government House last set up to them.