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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917.
Hongkong Sportsmen and the
War.
DAY BY DAY.
OUR FALLEN HEROES.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN EVERY ONE IS ASLEEP IS EVOLUTION WHAT HAPPENS WHEN EVERYONE Chesterton.
IS'AWAKE IS REVOLUTION.-G. L.
The Dollar.
Prize Day,
The Registration and Care of Graves.
3 NC-CONSCRIPTIONISTS.
Prominent Quaker Gets 112
Days in Prison.
A GALLANT INDIAN.
Three Brothers in the Hong-
kong Police Reserve.
Some time ago we announced
the Indian press of this honcar,
Boxing enthusiasta ure keenly anticipating the splendid pro- gramme which has been arranged for to-morrow night by the Police Reserve. There is every promise of one of the best tournaments
Three prominent members of seen in the Colony for many s
The Army Council has issued ship were dealt with recently in the honour which had been con
the "No-Conscription" Fellow long day, and the fight between Corporal. Scott and Sesman
The opening rate of the dollar the following circular :-
thres different ways. ሰበ mand to-day
Daring the present war a 28. W&A Stapleton is at the moment the
branch of the Adjutant General's ner Blockway was charged as an
At Bow-street, Archibald Fen-ferred on a former Sabadar in the 4.9/16d.
Inte Hongkong Begiment- principal topic of conversation in
oare for and preserve the identity said he bad refused to do works a brother of Chief Inspector sporting circles, The Reserve is
Department has been created to absentee, and a recruiting cficer Honorary Captain Ajab Khan, To-morrow's Anniversary.
"Sirdar Bahadur”, I. O. M.—who certainly doing a splendid work
To-morrow is the 46th anniver
of the graves of British officers given him by the Pelham Com on behalf of sport locally, and its efforts are deservedly appreciated.sary of the indecisive battle of and man. Units were established
¡Sirdar Khan, Company Bergeant mittee. Brockway told the. for this purpose" in France and The latest proposal-the holding
Dijon (Franco-German War.) Belgium shortly after the battlegistrate that "ne officer, Sergeant Hasham Khan, all of Major Khawas Khan, and GrowD of a grand boxing tournament
Act of Parliament, no order of the of the Marne, in Egypt and Court, and no tribansi" would the Hongkong Police Reserve. during Race Week, on behalf The Hon. Mr. Claad SevernSalonios recently, and an cffiosr
Mach mention has been made in of the British Sportsmen's Motor Ambulance Fand-is one Ellis Kadoorie School on Sstar-
is to present the prizes at the has now been dispstobed to Meso-make him a soldier.
A fine of 40s. was imposed, and which, we are sure, will commend day, the 13th inst. On the same The Director of Graves Regi-military escort.
Brockway was handed over to tribute the awards at the Sai-officer directly responsible for Fellowship, who was removed itself to the sporting community day. Mr. Bo Kom-tong is to dr-stration and Enquiries is the
Chad Allen, chairman of the no less a rum than a quarter of a
Honourable Captain Ajab Khan, this work. million sterling for this Food,
The duty of the under escort to Newhaven from whom His Excellency the Viceroy Graves Registration Units is to Wormwood Scrubbe last week, of India has nominated to the the proceeds of which will go to
Faulty Reckoning. register the position of graves was remanded for district court Imperial Legislative Council in the parclisse of castor ambalances for the Allies. These gifts will be Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at the Police with durable wooden crosses bear-
When a man was charged before and to see that they are marked martial.
recognition of the splendid work from the sportemen of the British Court this morning, with retarring a metal inecription giving the labour was passed on H. W. Pest, was born, at the village of Sentence of 112 days' hard of the Indian Army in the field, Empire, so many of whom have ing from banishment, bis excoee name, sumber, rack, regiment editor of the Ploughshare and already given evidences of their was that he had made & wreng end date of death.
Shadi Khan, in the Attock bravery in the field of battle. reckoning. He was banished for
While there anita. bare been court-martialled at
a prominent Quaker, who was District in 1873. He was educat- The Fund has been established five years in 1912. Bis Worship acceseful in registering and Barracks for refusing to obey the Peshawar, and passed matricula. Hounslowed st Mianion College at by Lord Lonedale, and, as he is sent him to prison for eix monthe marking a large number of graves commande of his superior cfficer. tion at both the Panjab and the Chairman of the National hard labour, and also ordered at the front and many in advanced Sporting Club, it is quite ap-bim to undergo Icar hours' stocks. positions, where they might other propriate that Borgkong'a Gret
wie have been lost, it is not effort in its behalf should take
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917.
THE GERMAN CRY FOR PEACE.
have no
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and below we give extrasta from the Times of India and another Indian journal:—
Calcutta Universities in the First Division. True to the Military instinct of his clan, the possible, and never will be necessitate a brief reply on a Khan-Khel (Matuni Afghan), The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph' will the form of a toxing tournament.
The quartermaster of the e.e.possible, to obtain a record of all printed form. On the other hand, as a promising lad be declin- be as follows:Daily issue-$26 per annum. Weekly jesur-This is really the first direct war Lokaang reports to the police graves. If, as it is to be feared, the work will be aasiated if rels ed tempting offers
appeni which he been made to that he was in Third Street when the enemy bave in many instances tives send to the Director any in employment and enlisted in the of civil $13 per annum.
Hongkong portemen, and we he met three men, whom he knew, bot marked the graves of British formation they possess as to the army as a private. His estly doubt that they will and they stopped and had a chai officers and men baried within place of bariel. It is not intended, education marked him out, no respond to the movement in with him. Sadderly one of them their linée,
namber of unless circumstances should show doubt, for advancement, Seeing that, in addition to the over his mouth, while the other lost. mwel whole hearted manner. seized him and placed his hand graves will be irretrievably that it is desirable, to make joined the Hongkong Regiment cases, even arrangements for dealing with in 1883 and was given s commir- money derived from this event, a two went through his prekets and within car own lines, though enquiries made in person. Rela- sion three years later. He stred proportion of the peri-mutuel stole $50, afterwarde running graves have been marked, the tires are therefore requested to with conspicuous gallantry at the
kings will, as last year, precum swaY.
position is too exposed for a confine themselves to written time of the Boxer rising in ably be devoted to some war
correct plan and survey to be communications which should be China in 1900, and repaired the fund, Rece Werk in Hongkong
To-morrow's Boxing.
made; in others, every trace of a addressed to:-Director of Graves medal and clasp. In 1902, he was elcald be marked by quite a
la connection with to-morrow burial ground baving been Registration and Exquiries, War promoted to be Subadar, when substantial contribution from the night's boxing tournament, we obliterated by the enemy's shell Office, Winchester House, St. the Hongkong Regiment ass Colony's sportsmen for war pur are asked to state that the prin fire there is zo hope of recon- James's Square, London, S.W. disbanded, and he was trans-
cipal event will be refereed by atracting the cemetery so that Much annecessay correspon-ferred to the 69th Panjabi The Woman in the Case, Mr. B. J. Gedge, as previously individas graves may be re-dence will be saved if relatives in 1908. At the time of the For a long while past, Truth, announced, but that the other cognised. Again, daring heavy will carefully note the following Coronation in 1911, he was John Bull and a few other Home events will be refereed by Mr, fighting barials are often carried | facts:-
deputed to go to England. He papers have been speaking with W. S. Bailey. We understand out under circumstanos which 1. Some time may elspan after want to the front with his regi some plainness about the influence that the booking has gone well, make it impossible to take, or as burial before the grave has been ment when the present war began of women in War Office concerns, and a very satisfactory attendance any rate to transmit, an accurate properly registered and marked and saw moob Aghting, firat in This morning's wire on the sub-is anticipated.
record of the positions of graves, and the position accurately ra- the Sara Canal, then in the Koran jeat of Mrs. Cornwallis-West may
Early in 1915 it became necesary corded. As soon as this is done, Valley, and later in Mesopotamis. be taken 28
to make definite arrangements a notification will be sent to the In the Karan, on one occasion, he that these papere were not A building contractor, who has with regard to the provitica of next-of-kin. This notification was the fret among the party of by any means speaking without been before Mr. J. B. Woodland in France for the burial of may be taken as fasi verification men who captared B fort doe cadfe. In making
the several times in connection with British officers and men. Up till or correction of information re-tensciously held by some Arabe, matter public, the War Office breach of the Building Ordin-then, and particularly during the caived from other sources. and for his gallantry in this has exercised a wisdom that is ence, was made to pay a nominal retrgat
and the Babecquent 2. It is not poraible to arrange encounter he was awarded the With the parsing of every day, the fact becomes more palpable hardly characteristic of it, and fine of $1. this morning. It was edvance to the Aisne, burials bad for the distribution of flowers or Order of Merit. In Mesopotamis, that Germany is striving might and main in her endeavours to we are glad to see that the Re-stated that the defendant built a often taken place in isolated weathe for individual graves, but he won the Order of British India, secare pesca. It would be a tax on the memory to reckon ap the port of the Military Court does new storey on an old one without graves which were, wherever the cemeteries, as a whole, are 2nd Clase, with the title of namber of peace" feelers" which have emanated from enemy quar- not epare Mre. Cornwallis-West. permission and the cost of its practicable, cared for with rev. grassgrown and planted with Bahadur, for his gallantry in tera sines the war began, bat it is only within the past few months The question now is, does the being built and palled down WAS erence and that Germany has come out into the open and has publicly declared civil power intend to spare her, over $4,000. His Worship, in French peasants and
respect by the flowers and shrubs, where military attending his Commanding owners conditions allow, under the advice Officer, Colonel Smitbett, who her anxiety to be freed from the ever-increasing strain which the in face of the Report's allusion to imposing the nominal fias, re-of land, sad in few cases, per of the Director of the Royal Botanic was wounded and exposed to present struggle is meaning for her. Yesterday we reprinted an "her utterance by the Imperial Chancellor, in the Reichelag, on con injure him afterwards, and her lesson.
vindictive attempts to marked that the man had had bie manent concessions of land Gardeos, Kew. Their main fire. At the final sassolt on the sideration of the National Service Bill, and though, superficially, antrathful evidence before the
wore offered. By this time, tenance is under the supervision Tarkish trenches st Nauriye, bia observations were characterised by the assal German bombast, Court." Even if
however, French civil oemetrina of officers of the Graves Registra-Captain Ajsh Khen was wounded it was easy to delect a distinct under-current of fear and doubt for were nothing more than that ing, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, for special bariel grounde. The in France and Belgium as are was afterwards invalided cot.→
At the Police Court this mora- and it was also possible to arrange
were being more regularly used, tion Units.
in the chest by a rifle ballet which the future, especially in the references to the Allies' great numerical of an idle sad sentimental woman, Inspector Territt summoned two
3. Photographe of such gravis passed through his body. Ho superiority and in their free access to the markets of the world. trying to play at politics traders for having faulty scales. Director of Graves Registration accessible to the photographers Times of India. That was well over a month ago. Since then, Germany has shown intrigue after the manner of The first one was a marine delicacy sad Enquiries approached the employed for the purposes are a growing anxiety to bluff the Allies into peace at a time when her certain French ladies of old time, dealer, of Wing Lok Street, whose French Military Authorities on the tion, free of cost, out of fande opening of the Imperial Legisla
Another. Indian Journal con- own strength is failing sad that of her foss is slowly and systematisach conduct would be highly coales were found to be two-and-matter. The French Government placed at the disposal of the tive Council His Excellency the Freach Government, through the furnished to relatives en applicatains the following-At the cally becoming consolidated for bigger offensive movements in the reprehensible in days when the shall per cent, against the par- immediately expressed the desire Directorate, for this object as well Viceroy made
Empire is fighting for its life. chaser, & fine of $5 was imposed. Germany's first real move was when, through the medium of Bots later wire shows that the The other case was against to provide land for permanent sa for the planting of burial speech about the nomination of the following be discussed, being careful to refrain from mentioning any specific importance in connection with West, whose scales were four per French nation, and a the United States, ebe proposed to all the Allies that peace should offender holde positions of some tobacco dealer, of Des Voeux Road resting please for British officers grounds by the Joint War Com Captain Ajab Khan in the Im
and men at the cost of the mittee of the British Red Cross perial Council:- There seeme basis upon which such a discussion should take place. We all know was work. That she will continus cent. against the purchaser. In how that offer was received by Allies and neutrale alike. Germany's to hold these much longer we can this case a fine of $10 was effect to this generous impulse, carefully noted and photographs eminent claims to furnish a law Society and St. John Ambulance to me, however, to be one olaar WAR passed which foss all stood solidly in line, realising the grave dangers of granting scarcely believe. There is a kind inflated.
gare Association. All applications are which at this janotare hus pre- ber a breathing spece, in the form of an armistice sought under the of voluntary service that the
on December 29, 1915. Since are sent as scon sa possible, but it representative to this Council, Ita pretext of a willingness to exchange the sword for the olive branch. nation would be much better off
To Keep out the Cold. then, in co-operation with the will be understood that in many gallant deeds on the battlefield of The proposal was rightly viewed ass olumsy msnoeuvre, and, se such, without. For a practical and self-
An employee of the Chins French Army, the Directorate ban cases weeks or months may pass the Empire, its loyalty ander cir was peremptorily turned down. And this refusal was no mere polit-denying woman (and we are glad before Mr. J. E. Wood, at the grounds immediately behind the
Sugar Refinery was charged established authorised burial before photographs can be taken. cumstances often of great strain, ical ross, lacking public support, for, to quote only a few exampto reflect that Britain contains agistracy to-day, with stealing Britisk front and near the Field qasatly arise which make it and other hardships have earned a
4. Circumstances not les of the Allies determined spirit, the people of Britain and of many thousands of such) there is four sugar bags. Evidence war Ambalances, the Casualty Clear undesirable in the interests of right to our gratitude and affection.
infra- and its patisnos under climatic, Rassis applauded the reply, while the French Baialists and the ample field for action at Home given by Mr. H. Palmer, & going Etations and the Hospitals the military situation to disclose I refer to the sword-arm of our- Italian Republicans backed ap the others of their fellow-countrymen just new; but the country has no down keeper, who spoke to seeing farther back. Soldiers are em- the position of a grave, although Indian Empire, His Majesty'a in their willingness to suffer every sacrifice which final and complete ass for meddlers--and especially the defendant hiding the bags played, under the officers of the it has been duly registered and Indian forces. It was, therefore, victory might make necessary. To-day that bpirit remains unchang-vindictive meddiers; ed. It is, if anything, strengthened by the well-founded conviction is to be hoped that the War excuse was that he was feeling after these burial grounds. In
and it under his clothing. Defendant's Graves Registration Units, to look recorded. that Germany is impelled, by the stress she is undergoing, to proclaim Office
a great plassare to me to be able 6. Many considerations, among to find a representative of the to the world that she is reaching the point of exhaustion. One of future as to how it permite women put the bags round him for severe fighting, isolated burials front to avoid inequality of treat this Council, in the person of that care in cold, so he thought he would the oss, however, of a battle or which is the desire felt at the Army, whom I could nominate to the beat indications of the desperateness of her plight is to be found to have a finger in the official pie. warmth. He had no intention of necessarily still take place. in the Press famings of greater "frightfulness" and of blood-oard. It is farther to be hoped that stealing them. He was sentenced ling threats, merely because the Allies do not feel disposed to talk publicity, will not be limited to to 28 days' hard labour.
ment, have made it necessary to gallant soldier and distinguished The French Government further forbid the erection of any per- officer, Bubadar Major, Horotary sbaat perce at her invitation.
the Cornwallic-West affair, for Precisely in what direction Germany in most feeling the pinch thers appear to be others. The
offered to maintain these Ceme-manent memoriale daring the Captain Ajab Khan, Sirdar tries. The British Gorerament progress of hostilities; the sending Bahadur, I.Ó.M., who has taken it ie not easy to say. But that she is badly weakening somewhere thing had much better be thrashed cannot be doubted. In the field, the quality of her men is poorer out and dore with, the more so onteide a pawnshop, with some takes to provide for their mainten required for material of war.
A lakong was in Queen's Road has, however, in agreement with of crosses to France is also his seat here for the first time East, when he saw She has long since lost her experiority in the air. The destruction that the disclosures will be a very thing concealed under his cloth sca
Chinese the French Government, ander- prohibited, as all transport is to-day." Oaptain Ajab Khan has by the Allies of no fewer than seven hundred aeroplanes during the timely answer to the many foolish
been appointed honorary in perpetuity and bas ₫ The exhumation of bodies Magistrate to decide cases in hẩm prat year is an interesting sidelight on that point, As to her people who are in favour of gas found to have some clothing to care for the graves of our den by both the French and
ing. On searching the man, he appointed a National Committee during the war is strictly forbid owa village.
future.
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will have a
A Generous Gift.
the Case
Fraudulent Tradere.
Weak Excuses.
internal conditions, the statement cabled yesterday-of great scaring women a right vote in city of loodstuffs in Kiel, of frequent disturbances, of dissatisfied Parliamentary elections.
{tied round his wrist. The man's effinora and mon after the war. British Military Authorities. workmen being sent to the Front, end of enormous submarine lossys
explanations as to whore is was With the King's consent, the 7. Owing to be great diffion!-Reward for Saving a Dog's Life, -is decidedly illuminsting. And the latest sign of the enemy's
and as to where he got it from Prince of Wales has accepted the ties that exist in Mesopotamis, wakening is the fact that she is at length prepared to sabait peace
were not satisfactory, and scoord-Presidency of this Committee, due to local, and climate consi For his bravery in resoning s terms to President Wilson. Therein the onos again revo is her dee
ingly he was charged before Mr. Relativas ara requested to ditions, the proper registration | dog which had fallen, over & perate desire to secure a centation of the fichting. But, whatever Mr. Ho Fook has presented J. R. Wood at the Police Court facilitate the work of this branch and merking of graves will cliff at Bridlington, in Yorkshire, those lem may contain sise, they will be so may wasted words $1,000 in War Loan Bords to the this morning with unlawful pos of the Army (a) by addressing an nousarily is a lengthy and Police sergeant Parker has been if they do not meet the very definite requirements laid down by the Council of St. Stephen's Girls' session. Defendant's exonse in few enquirisa as possible to the difficult problem.. Allics. Those requirements are plainly indiosted in the Allied Collage, for the foundation of a Court was obviously a specions Directorate and (b) by realizing (Signed) C.EN. MACREADY, Reply. To them nothing needs be added. From them nothing! scholarship in the College, to be one, and his Worship sentenced that pressure of work, and not
named after his wife.
* him to 14 days' hard labour. want of" sympathy, will often
will be taken away, D
Lieutenant-General,
awarded the silver medal of the Canine Delence Leagno. Ha was lowered 4011, down the face of
Adjutant-General, the cliff on a rog cy