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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER
The Press and the
courtesy of our contemporaril the Honghong Daily Press and the China Maši, in sefosing to prints Yary foolish and abusira Istier | aldressed to thazs on the subjet or a recent Telegraph leader that dealt with the education of the
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of these two papers intimate, it is quite contrary to British Journal istic traditions for one periodical talia trait to its columns letters oriticising the statements of snother; and we thank them for having generously pushed this point home. Of the letter itself we need say, little, beyond remarking that the writer etido
ently did not in the least under- stand our article. If he will employ a competent translator to
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WOMEN IN THE U
SHANGHAI SHARE "REPORT"
Outspoken Addresses by
Bishop Norris,
Business Still at a Standstill
THE NATIONAL MISSION.
Bishop Norris on Sunday
Übservance,-
The mass meeting ....
Mesura. A. L. Anderson and Theatre Boys! last night, in con In connection with the National Co., in their Weakly Share Cirnection with the National Misnomy Sibaria Maru-to-day.
Minion of Espentante and Hope, cular (Shanghai, 2nd December), was largely attended. The Ber. Siberian MailClosed per ..he Bishop of North Chins has says:
T. W. Robinson (Wsalayın Min- Tancer at 5 p.m. to-day.
ister) presided, and Bishop Notzia. We have little to add to our} ben giving a number of ad- European Mail (via Negapatam). dr to women, and in the remarks in the two previous sir.
was the speaker. -Doe par s.6. Athos to
course of these be has dealt particulars, businem remaining at *
marrow.
The Dollar.
The opening rate of the dollar demand to-day was 2a. 3.13/16d
· Te-morrow's Anniversary,
To-morrow is the 18th anniver
Portuguese and their institu- tions. Bill Jos has there been
To a Correspondent. "O. A. P."Your attention is ADY "veering round" our policy, We have always directed to the rule which requires entertained the utmost respect correspondents to enclose their
Rubber Dividend.
Lordship said he did not know Speaking of marriage, sularly with women's part in the standstill owing to lack of fuads. Į much, whether be mi anta present morement, severely com- It is true, however, that the port English men and womsa mury demning men's attitude in the is a little better off now than ing those of another nation. He was not sure that such marriages past towards the more serious fortnight age and that native things of life.
{interest, has somewhat declined In bin address at the Cathedral being only 30s against the recent danger avan'in members of one wan happy, and there was a on Monday, which was based on high point of.74. and that the price communion marrying members of interpret it to him, be may come sary of the defeat of Da Wet', the taxi "Rise up ya woman that of rubber in London shows another communion. Anyone, to realice that it contained no attempt to invade the Cape are at eam and hear my voice; ye considerable advance, but awing doing so, was entering on a careless daughters give var usto to financial limitations the man great venture, and nothing but thought of ill feeling towards the Colony.
my speech", he said, that now here who pays the money calls the price the grace of God could bring the in the whale course of Jewish and those few who are compelled venture to happy ending. He prophecy did they get a more to sell are at the mercy of the fort did not think there was anything vivid picture of contemporary life unste few with funds. The high more beaatital that fail, Ha than in that scathing denuncia rate of exchange and the tempting Even the old JownTM condemned for the Hongkong Puringusse, as names and addresses with letter/tion of the daughters of Sion in War Loans now offering are anything that went to mar it, andTM the third chapter of Inish. Their diverting our looal investment they should condemn it also. hard working and useful members intended for publication, walk, their gait, their jewels, funds from their customary Family life was one of the £geet. of the community, and have many guarantee of the writers' ions their dress, their mirrors, and channels and most debenture and things in England, bet it was times defended them when others fides.
their perfumes were enumerated preference issues are offering. fading away. If there were any have attacked them. Unfortunate
with a detail that wis natonish- Consolidateds. A second inter-in the audience who were unmar Correspondents are requested to observe the rate
Mesra, Benjamin and Putt ingly modern. History within im of 12 is payable on 20th inst ried, like himself, he did not think requires them to
names and addresses with it is persons of the stamp of the forward their
Kroewooks advertise a third they could my they were proud communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for writer of the letter in question
who have been instrumental in advino ne that the Changkat Bernd without the Bible, heathen, publization, but ne an evidence of their bona fides,
prejudicing Britishers against the dang Estates, Ltd., have declared Jewish and Christian history interim of 50 as payable on 15th of it or shaukful for it. If more Portuguese, by giving the im-an interim dividend of 10 per aliks, jastified them in laying a instant.
Today's opening rate for TF gravely gontion his reason. pression (a wholly wrong one, let cent, and the Binawang Rubber share in national sins, a share in
second bringing calamity on nations, at the on London was 3/8; but until If people were going to gat as add) that they are a noisy and Estates, Co., Ltd.,
door of women. In every age today it has been the case for married at the age they should do quarrelsome people, puffed up interim of Tis. 0.40.
women bad had a great responsi- some days past that a penny or he granted they would have to with an exaggerated sense of
bility, a responsibility that had three half peace better than the cartail their pleasures, but they naturally grown with the growing official rats was obtainable: the had no right to put it off because their own importance.
recognition of their honoursble dollar rate il 12.1375. Mr. Asquith.
There are times when those who believe that the Empire's interesta are not bat serred while in the Colony has made a gift of hands of Badicals, are prompted Exchequer Bands and 500 share that he would
spproximately $10,000, (£700 in to think harsh things of Mr. of the Tramway Company) to the peak. First, it was thought- Asquith; but to-day, in the minds Arilo de Stc. Antonio, st Weal loanee and carelemoess. Wo of all persons with any claim to Point for the maintenance of the love of fairness, there is room tomates of that Institution.
man was guided greatly by
Ordeen imued to day by Mr. F. for nothing butas mpathy towards.
emotions and instincts and were 0. Jenkin, D. 8. P. (Reserve) one who, in his own way, bas
not so prone to resson se men, stata ***** worked his hardest for Britain, before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the greatest sets it, also had its Three Filipinos were charged and though that was one of her "Mr. Asquith has resigned a post- plice Cout this morning, with dangers. The present waS - NO ion which he has held through being stowawaya aboard the fascinating, the moment's amuse
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BIRTHS.
of
TURNER-At Singapore, on November 30, 1916. the wife A. H. Turner (North Chins Insurance Co. Ld.), of a son,
TURNER.-On December 1, 1916, at the Hongkong and Shang- hai Bank, Hongkow, the wife of W. C. D. Turner, of a son.
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A Generous Benefactor. According to the Recigiad Patria (Catholic Magazine Gomes, an old resident in this Fublished in Hongkong) Dr. A.B.
Hiding in BoLS.
had English women failed, and in standing in the world. In what what bad she failed out here? It
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was such a
man, he would
of that. It was their duty to their... God and country. Those days it seemed to him that man embark- ed on marriage as though it were
was of the common tendencies POLICE RESERVE UNDERS. kind of lottery, hoping and
venture to
The Hongkong Telegraph. eight of the most trying years in Vent Heels. Dalondanta admitted ment was so delightfal, the ever-
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1916,
MR. LLOYD GEORGE.
of men
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esch.
Big Oplum Fige.
Student Stowaway,
and excuses.
Jolned, &c.
trusting that everything would |tern-oat all right until one of them was called away. As their first duty to their country, he - asked them to keep up the standard of English married life. There had been attacks against it, as they kusw, but it would be a miserable thing that for a few who suffered the rest should be imperilled. Let them keep their home and family life high, pare and trus.
No. 2 Company, Section 6.-J. A. Portaria.
No, 2 Company, Section 8.-3. car country's history, and, while that they had not paid their ing's excitement so thrilling, that F. Gomes, most of us will feel that he has free from Hanils and were trying, it was surry to put a wrong
The resignation of P. C. 828 taken the right ojurse, we oinnat to get to Amerios. Laspector value on it.” When he first lived | Khan, permitted on leaving the fail to experienos a keen sense of Gordon said the men were found in
Speaking on the question of regret that this mortification hiding iu a boat by the Chief one of his earliest impressions
a treaty port in China Colony, is isoelled.
the oben Tao of Sunday, Bishop come upon him after thirty Officer. They were trying to get was that the women in the place
Norrie remarked that some Fears of honourable parliament America the cheapest way they good astared, friendly, sociable
thought shey ought to devote the ry life more than two of which could. Defendants were sent to as they were lived much on the
day to golf. If that was their would have strained to their almost the resources of a Richelieu prison for six weeks' hard labour surface of life, ignored its serions them, of their dress, their hat, and view and they honestly thought their general form. That meant that they were in that way making or a Beaconsfield. It is not be-
nose and were blind to its deeper that woman who did that had no the most of the opportunities God canse Mr. Asquith is a Liberal
imanes. Perpetual novel reading Router wired yesterday that Mr. Lloyd George has resigned office, that we consider he has outstayed Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Folise more
A Chinese was charged before was the rale, reading of standard of their own, no ideal in had given them, then he should of life which they set before them have nothing to say to them ex- would my
serious and permanent but the millions of Britisbers who recognise his abilities and the his welcome; we
to follow out quietly and concept to ask them now and sgain rare exoep- indebtednem of the Empire to him during the past two years, will precisely the same of Mr. Balfour. Court this morning, with being nature
sistently. And the inevitable whether their conscienose were look forward, almort with certainty, to bearing of at adjustment of it is an axiom of history that in possession of a large quantity tion. Recreation, amusement was result was a perpetual anxiety, etill quite slear. But there was mattera whereby the Government may not be deprived of his serv. special times call for special men; of opiam. It was stated that the day', businew, not life's
were occasional diversion; and it was yet it was all so unsatisfactory.such a thing as selfibnemin themselves from He had seen women so enslaved absenting ices. It will be for another generation than ours to sum up the and those who have watched, defendant's belonginge disposition and achievements of this extraordinary figure: to winnow with any reasonable closene, arched on the Wing Lok wharf pursued with a lack of restraint, by that tranny of society that Church services, and thereby the good from the doubtful in a character more composite, perhape, the ran of political events since and a wooden box with a false with a recklessness which some they had sucrificed health and detracting from the beartiness than any of his contemporaries in politics. We of today cannot hope the outbreak of war must surely bottom was discovered to contain times boded ill. There were, so comfort, they bad imperilled their sad cheerfulness of such services. to see him in a perspective that is at all likely to be just to him, for admit that the immediate cir-the opiam. Defendant aid the doubt,
busband's faucial position, they He understood that in Hongkong to us there are inevitably two L'oyd Georges: one who entered cumstances demand the services or had been given to him by Housekeeping out here was 600 had practically given Over they had a golfers' service of half Parliament twenty-six years ago as a Welsh Radical and who, rp of
Larder grain friend and be did not know what simon so simple compared with the guardianship of their an hour'e duration on two San till the time when wer broke out, made for himself far more eremice than anything which the old it contained. His Worship in what it was at Home; their ser children to Chinese smabe, days in the month. He was glad
ficted a fice of $1,400.
vanta were so extraordinarily than friends throughout the Kingdom; and another who, at Britain's school, whether Conservative or
pliant; often so entirely good that because they were the slaves of to know it, but he should be very call, threw away party politics and devoted all his masing energy Radios), had or have to offer us, and rare insight to the Empire.
The Old School.
A Japanese, who described they grew inconsiderate towards fashion. If others danced, they surprised if they thought suss Prejudice dies hard with us Britishers, and to many of us- It is a matter of impossibility to see the L'oyd George of to-day no living soul can well have a
Against Me. Asquith personally himself as a student, was charged them and had more time on their had to dance; if others bought was enough-half an hour of hands then they would have at new frocks, they could not be seen shortened Matine on alternate before Mr. J. B. Wood, at the Home. Amusements were mach in old ones; if others had a motor Bandags, instead of the Holy with eyea that are quite diverted from the persistent demagogue of word to say. He is a gentleman, Police Court this morning, with more easily come by. But, in car, they were miserable without Communion. He asked his bearers a low years ago. We may seek to look ouly on the patriot; the man cholar, as exceptionaly stowing himself away aboard the
spite of all excuses, the fact re- one if others played bridge all if they were quite alese as to what who has barely sought an hour's reat since war began; bat obilio abrend professional may,
Kwongush. Inspector Germained that too many women, day, they cured not be known their first day to God was. He himself was quite clear his first ately another outline obtrades itself in the none las distant back- and
who. a politician
bus {dor, said the ship was two
as stay-at-homes. He had seen ground. Nevertheless, while many will deny him the vinge of honestly tried to
days out of Shanghai, when out here in the East specially revolt, but that was not indepsa duty on the Bunday was to keep keep
tried to get along without any mincerity, 2008 can barboura doubt as to the man's absolute genius, aliza the worthiest traditions knocking was beard, and serious motive in life. Thay led dance, though it often masquerit by going to Church and jsining. There is hardly a member of the Ministry of yesterday that had not of our Homeland. Occasions the stone being gone thoughtless, careless lives, not independent respected the con- to worship God. And the best eded as such. Women who were with other people in helping them infinitely better chances at starting than be. Most of them passed arise, however, when traditions defendant stepped out. Defend because they wished to, not de- the advantage of good birth and the much less doubtful one of mast go by the board. The up ant said he had gone from Japan picked up his knowledge by degreen and by chance. With nonsofthe thought of men of the Asquith/steamer and wished to go to let themselves drift into that for its protection, but thows, who which the Lord Himself ordained education, where he was the son of an elementary school-teacher and bringing and the whole tone of 10 Bhanghai by the French 1777/liberately at all, but bacanas they Tentions which Society bad madol worship he knew was the worship revolted did not. They delighted the Holy Communion. Let ordinary social equipment with which bis colleagues began life he clues and generation may be asid America. He had permission to The Bishop went on to say in shooking society, they did the them be thankful for the San- yes found himself a Member of the British House of Commons at to have anfitted them, to a very travel by the French mail. Bi that if each careless was outrageous thing, they wore day and let them see it the age of seven and twenty. In the eyes of the Home public he was great extent, for the handling of
Worship recorded eviction, characteristic of themselves and the audacious dress, they attered thankful for the opportunities then a nobody;s mere country attorney who had "worked his way up a situation wherein the Empire but deferred sentence until the the nation, they had to share the the risque saying in order to be it gave for the worship of God, and who was possessed of a certain ruggedly passionate eloquence is engaged with an Onomy Japanese Orneal had been con responsibility. What they wanted seen and heard and marked, the opportunities for rest, and the exactly calculated to appeal to the Keltic working men whose idol that persistently refuses to called. be had become, and whose votes sent him to Parliment. Bat moiety "play the game"; and it wa
in that miller was not a publio sve of fabion or revoltera opportunities for rearestion. Bat movement, not the blowing of "gainst the trysnny of fashion let them put first things first,
In conclusion, the Bishop danis had soon to learn that this raw young man from a Welsh ountry auch men who were responsible At the Police Court this morn trampats, not publicity, bat quiet were alike in that they had no with the manner in which the towa could think and manoeuvre and foresee; sa well as speak; and, for all too many of our losses in ing a Chinese was discharged on personal effort.
ideals of their own. The women. before it had recovered from the shook, he had ceased to be one of the Boer War, Mr. Asquith a warrant for embassiement. The
who called her man friends by Church and the Church of the Parliamentary nonentities and had developed into a recognised obstinately believes that German was let out on $10,000 bail
In his address at the Cathedral - familier names, nickasmes or the England especially was starvad unit of a party that was destined to become historis,
Olearly such a man cannot be weighed in the sales need for the Queensberry, and that if by over so sooner get outside the procenits alluding to the story of Hoses and thor ght she ought to tó nos to it that” that shame, win many will fight scording to an another charge, but he had on Tuesday, the Bishop began by like, did not do it because the financially, sad urged his haarers ordinary commodities of life. Ein former political adherents made a night she should indulge in an oe of the court than be was re- his wife Gomes in the Old Testa is she did
it w be rolled away, god of him, while his opponents declined to concede to him eves the cational lapse and ass a pick-arrested on an extradition warrani, meat, and said he would ek heard. The woman who wane attribute of common honesty. To-day be foross himself upon was handle, a koife or a lamp of gren- which had been made out by El those present to dwellon the con- little as might be of some sa influence indispensable to the Empire; and whether he is single-ite, it is still our duty to employ Worship prior to the man leaving ventionality, the artificiality and horribly striking drew had not minded or not is not the affair of the public. There are times the mathing but fists--and avan chose the Couri. This was haaried in the unreality of the oral lives abouen it becimée" she simicak it) present is ons of them when a nation must needs be opportunist: gloved. Boch a belief is magnik- the nonstable about to effect the He was nołnoudermed ta when expediency loome large, and when energy, plearness of sight, cant in itself, but it will not win arrunt, who was mɔlemanly ozjaśnić, that was more true of wor decision, hardness and power to load are of more value to the Empire the war. Only a Promiar who by his Wordip to be more and of men mit male than the pars, loving hours of an angel could be. Britain is "out" can get a trifle nearer to the eye relanse the man. Mr, Gardiner so-but he to beat Germany; therefore she cannot afford to lose Mr. Lord for eye and tooth for tooth promised to see that this was George. This is not a time at which to try experiments. She doctrine, and who can rivet his dona and stood by while the com known that in him she has a man who will not grow weary in well-attention on victory, and, nothing table took his hand off def doing, and one who brings to bear on the diffisoll situation of the bas victory, oan hal
hour a harsh common sense and a vivid ponetration such an mhother. And that Penchise:
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