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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1917.
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A Gratifying Announcement.
The official which we pablished yesterday, to the effect that sanction bas boon obtained for the wider urs of the Volunteers and the Volunteer Reserves for military purposer, is cae which, we are sure, will be received with ■ considerable
DAY BY DAY.
THAT CROWN PRINCE.
BY WHICH SOCIETY IS BOUND KINDNESS IS THE GOLDEN CHAIN TOGETHER.
The Dollar. The opening rate of the dollar mearure of satisfaction by the men on Kamand to-day was concerned. Such a prosonnes (2-.3.15/168.
ment has been anticipated for
some time now, and we may take
Monday's Anniversary.
Freachman's Scathing
Denunciation.
We have received a marked copy of L'Echo de Chine from one of our readers, containing a most interesting article on the Germa Orown Prince by a French gentle-
it for granted that the authorities Monday is the Anniversary of man and well-known sportamas, have had good reasons for the death of Queen Victoria who formerly spent erme time in delaying its circalation until | (1901).
now. For very many moothe there has existed. a feeling
Vessels Warned.
1892.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending January 20, 1882.)
The Dollar.
KAISER TO BEGIN KING- MAKING.
Rumanian Monarch's Brother. as a New Sovereign. Galatz (ris Bussis), Dac. 7.- over 100 days" unosssing fighting, The main Rumanian army, after has been compelled to retire to u new defensive line north of Ba- charest. The German effort seama to have spent itself, and the enemy's offensive is Dow looking in vigour.
January 20-The rate of the Hongkong: M. Haurice Randel-dollar on demsad to-day is 9/11 Saint. Basing his article on the Duke of Clarence's Death interview which the Kaiser's January 15,-A Government Prisoners made by the Rams
of discontent SOODg mem- It is actified that no vessel hopeful heir gave some little time Fasette Extraordinary, published niane are showing signs of physi- bere of these forcer, not in the way other then mayal craft is allowed, sines to a correspondent of the this afternoon, states for general cal exhaustion. Stray German of complaint at being required to when passing, to approsob within New York Times, and labelling it information that "Eli E-patrols are wandering about the take an active part in the work 100 yards of the Naval Dockyard with the very happy title oellency the Governor has this country, A number of these involved in the defence of the walls without a written permit "Melankolie", H, Rondet-Saint morning received with profound raiding bands have been cut off Colony, but because the men haye, from the Naval Authorities
regret a telegram from the and captured. "The Crown Princs has spoken. Secretary of State announcing the
Certain Ramanian politiciana.
felt that, if they can best serve the Empire by remaining in the → Santcher Well Punished. A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., they can they are et from Ohinese girl, a coolie was Colony, might use6- For enatchings gold neck chain this morning, by Mr. J. R. Wood, sent to prison for a year, and was ordered to receive 24 strokes of the birch, and be placed in the stocks for four hours,
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
unwarranted attacks.or their
The Bijou.
zaya:
at
:
He has made the finger of a death of His Royal Highness the of the Conservative party' with chilblains of his heart-if this 9.30 on the 14th inst." American jurnalist each the Duke of Clarence and Avondale pored Germinophile tendencies. in remaining with the enemy's Cardinal Manning.
are aiming at the deposition of January 16. Jardin Man King Ferdinand, and proclaiming his elder brother, Prince Wilhelm of Hobanziarn, King of Rama- ni The usurper of the Crown is advancing with the main Ger
to be the rightful heir to the elf, in which he declares himself man invading army, and issued a proclamation at Oraiovs him.
manina ge
the present time. Their grievance
bold metaphor may be allowed if it can so be termed has been
me. (This son of the modern Nero that they have wanted more work,
has a big heart) How deploring is dead. not less-but work of the right
able,' maya the Prince, is this "Things Chinese ". Correspondents are requested to observe the rule
kind. Very many of them have been
terrible destruction of heman January 16.--We have reativad which willing and anxious to jaia up requires them" to forward their
lives and of the hopes of youth.' from Kelly and Walsh, Ltd., a communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for have been refused permission, exhibition football match between several months, has bean send- the able pen of Mr. J. Dyer Ball,
names and addresses with and go to the Front, but they
Charity Football Match. Our readers are reminded of the the lips of a master who, for and most interesting book from How well this tenderness site os copy of " Taings Cainsae," a new publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
All communications intended for publicating should be addressed and, remaining in the Colon. Civilian sud Service teams, which ing the flower of biz countrymen of the Hongkong Civil Service, they have been the butt of wholly is to take plaas on Ta-sday, at 4 to swell the pile of corpses and author of a number of alleged lack of patriotism. Quite to the St. Dunstan's Home for In ordering and organising these work.
p.m. The iskinge will be devoted before our lion at Verdun, very useful Chinese educational
Conspirators are seeking to rightly, they have keenly re Blind Soldiers.
Mr. Dyer Ball's latest
undermine the loyalty of the sented such imputations, and, sa
massacres, this young brate, with contribution to current literature army by offering grants of land to we say, they have long been
The Bijou Theatro is coreening for the frightful scourge that has subjets connected with Chinned to embrace Bochism sad desert cfficers and men who are prepar- whom reate the main responsibility gives more information on varione wishing that the authorities would extend their usefulness from The
some very good pictures to-night. fallen on the world, must have than all the previons publications the cause of their rightful Bover- military point of view. Their beautiful drama in five parts, or was noten tured at the price and we shall be greatly surprised template the confiscation of the desires are now to be met, though entitled "The Mystery of the of oceans of blood-ke still could if it does not obtain a very widends of Rumanian notables who programme includes known that whether Verdan was in the same direction combined, sign. The Germanophiles con- the particular manner in which Royal Cirens" and a two-part not vanquish us. He has merely spread popularity. their services will be required has Charlie Chaplin picture. This is been saving his own ugly face.
have been faithful to the Entente. not yet been indicated. That will
The Oplum Farm.
The destruction of oil wells no doubt follow in das course.
And for this, he has sent to their January 18.-This article is sad distilleries is complete in the death all this camber of his own
written for the special edifici.
threatened area. The Result,
A Chinese constable was riding The little brate 1
people for whom be weeps to-day. tion of the Colonial Treasurer
Prince Wilhelm, who is stated Now that the utility of the car yeelerday when he saw a
(Mr. Know-all Mitchell-Ianos) to be the. German candidate for suxiliary forces is to be extended, man seting in
"And the abject bypocrite and the other official hacks of
the throne of Bumanis, formally sexspicious adds: It is not only for German the Legislative Council who renounced his succession to this the men attached thereto will besoner. When the man BAW able to feel that, so long as they that he was being observed, be we weep for everyone. The forcing into law the discreditable 22. He is now 62, being a nephew lives than wasted that we mourn, apported that badding Pitt in sovereignty in 1886, when he was are here, they are doing duties of got off the car, but the constable father has been weeping quite abortion known as the of the late King Carol of Roms- A Peking paper has been laying itself out to publish lengthy the Colony➡at least, we presams/taken to the Police Station ong time, so they say ; and now/Opium Ordinance, against the pin and the eldest son of the
masterial value to the defence of arrested him, and when he was reports of injustices alleged to have been meted out by the Datch that the additional services sharp instrument was found in the don is joining in. Then, after sound experience of the unofficial sie Prince Leopold of Hohen Government to Chinese in Javs. Those Talegraph renders who have quired of them will be of that his possession. It also transpired
tirade as to his regret that so members: When the das dstellers, who was nominally the eoen certain Datchmen bandling exolios of Asiatic race will feel no character. Thie, coupled with the that he was a returned banishee, many forces could not have besu arrived in December last for bead of the boase of Hohenzol but if those same readers bare (arried in Bangkong long enough to engaged in seeing what can be trial. great surprise at bearing of discontent among the Chiness of Jays; fact that the Government is His Worship committed him for instead of to its destruction, he Farm for the next three years, the younger branch. Prince Wilhelm
turned to the benefit of humanity deciding the fate of the Opium
lero, the Kaiser belonging to a compare Datch and British methode, they may feel that there it get done in the way of "combing happy and eminently workable medion between the two. The oat," both from the Government
proceede: We are all tired of Government, to their blank as. *** married for a second time this bloodehed. We want pease;
tonishment no doubt, found that last year to a Bavarian Princess, charges, in this particular instarce, are brought against the Datch service, and from business houses, prizes in connection with the but the world has lost its head."
the tendera soat in were it is probably be who in s pro- He is an infantry General, and police, who, it is alleged, are given to riding rough-shed over the will mean, or should do, that Diocesan Girls School took place
"At last, then, the admission entiafactory," and so this time for olamstion at Craiova asid be had China and carrying on a policy of quite uncalled-for dragooning. Do young Britisher will re on Thursday, when moet gratify.exospes him, while be ewents with tendering was extended until The Dutch for some of them) it has to be owned, have little com mais
Come to punish his “felon of .* anger brother," meaning Kiog Ferdinand.-Da'y Chronsile.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1917.
CHINESE IN FOREIGN TERRITORY.
a special programme, selected for the Obiness new year holiday.
On the Car,
Diocesan Girls' School. The annual distribution of
a
fear.
DOW
punction in treating native reces as they treat snimale: that is tocin serve the Empire more of Victoria presided and referred
in Hongkong it being reports were read. The Bishop a And his last word is: January 19th-that is to-morrow.
mortal
Companies Warned,
It is Dotified that at the expírs-
Bay, damnably. Even as recently as the South African War it was effectan ly elsewhere. Thas the to the need of funds in connection varier
danger bange And what does the Government country. Over his expect? Anything more sub- not wommon for a Beer to test the straight-throwing capacity of time should aus be far distant with the extension of the school country? Ay, and over his own satially satisfactory than the a new riffs by taking a shot at a distant Kaffir or Hottentot. When all cause for oriticism of building. Lady May kindly st.boad and those of his socomplices, tenders of a month ago? Any- have known Datch estate managers, 100, who saw nothing out-of-the-Hongkong's young manboɔd-if/tended to present the pris. A/whose skin will presently have to thing like $43,250 per month, as way in pegging a coolie down band and foot under a mid-day|ever such cause really existed report of the proceedings reached newer, before the tribanal of confidently estimated by the tion of three months, the following equatorial suo as a mild punishment, and we once had the pleseare will be removed once and for all. us only this morning, and crimes committed during these Anything to justify the wild shown to the contrary, be strook of preventing a gentleman of the same nationality from kicking That is one of the best features, regret, therefore, being unable to
civilised natione, for all the inguine Colonial Treasurer? Companies will, unless cause in septuagenarian Chinese gardener in the ribs in order to awaken apart from the satisfaction ascra bia. Indeed we have never understood by Kingsley, in bis ing to the men affected, of this
make use of it.
years of nightsre."
statements authoritatively made of the Register and the Companies Westward Ho!", "did not choose Hollanders instead of Spaniarde latest announcement and of the forwarded its seal fortnightly disgust to think that I have ever new Opium Ordinance
M. Rondet-Saiat continues bit by Mr. Mitchell-Innes in the Lagie will be dissolved:-The W. O for his villains, for no Spaniard born of woman could ever hope to sanarsace which we have that the parcel of comforts for the troops set syes on or spoken with this being forcibly remmed
Our Litle Bit Bociety has terly:
lative Council when, against Company, Limited; The Wing out do ecme Dalehmen of whom history tells, in point of brutality, authorities are dealing with the
"Reading these words, I feel a roseon and common-sense, the ang
Steamship Company, But perhaps Kingsley never read the history of the Datch in re other aspects of the question,
wer Limited. lation to rich colonies as Gaiasa
dowa
Bat this is only one side of the argument. If Datobmen tore, The New Year Fair. exceeded the limits of ordinary humanity in many cases, they haval aleo done for the Obinose within their territory what the Chinese
because
War Comforts.
to Queen Mary's Needlework
Supreme Court Vacation.
The
Guild, London, through the kind-opprobrium of humanity. I the throats of the unofficial nese of Masary. Shewan Tomes & TEU B Kiel ia 1936. Imembers and the Hongkong In that nest he squat almost the Co. consisting of the following:- WLI then President of the pablio? time will show; but, entire day, with feathers stock in would never, bave accomplished for themselves. If the settlers from wise couras, in view of the continu- 7 pairs surgical stockings, 38 and was delegated to represent phecy, we have little hesitation the “cfaypering" of a stork when❤
Department has adopted a very 86 flionel many-tailed bondages,
We think that the Sanitary 2.916 rolled bandages, 616 wabs, Commission of Navigation of although reluctant to indulge in his long, thick hair and board, the Yacht Club of Fance, anything sa underlain as pro-while he chatters in imitation of this part of the world in Java and Somatra possess a firer physique,led prevalenos of small-por, inor mops, 61 milk novers, 115 that body at the. Kiel Regatta, in expressing our very strong ever any one approaches. STO more generally prosperous. and better-educated baz their brethren in fuair OWQ
in country, it Datch law ba insisted apon the rigid observation of visiting the Chins New Year puzzles, and i dezen Comic Outs had the impression, in face of this within twenty per cent, of the advising residents to refrain from suits primas, 24 Japanese After an official dinner I was pre-opinion that if the highest monthly the laws of health among them
sented to the Oroza Princa. Itender received to-morrow in
Funeral of Prince Albert. God bee prevented one Fair next week. Those who have Chisees from preving on another. The most difficult thing to make a former occasions gone bargain.
Victor, The office of the Bapreme bany, rosy-obesked baby, of being: talented a certain class of Chiosas anderst ind is that, even supposing that hunting in the area set neids for Court will be open daily from 10 in the presence of one of those auated estimate of 843,250, to-day a faneral parade was held Colonial Treasurer's Janzury 20.—At half past two the British are unduly hard on them (which they are not) or that enterprising natives sexions to s.m. to 1 p.m. during the Chinese nonentities of spoiled children,
the Government will have on the Cricket Ground, in the the Datch are given to handling them too harshly (which they acme reap in so much ready crab as New Year. Vacation exaspt on such as may be seen in stand and reason for self-nongratula presence of H.E. the Governor, times are) they are still enjoying far more immanity from cruelty and will know what a terrible jostling when the offiser will be oudrels any country. I should have Innes, should, bis "castles in number of ladies and gentlemen,
they can before the old sear eade, Public and General Holidaysance in the "Smart" world of tion.
As for Mr. Mitchell H.E. the General, and a large try. Not only so, but we in Bongkong know that the Chinese are characterises the Fair. Thousande instant, when they will be pen prophesied that this amorphous mytha wo anticipate, the question | troops, which presented Ins oppression than would be theirs if they remained in their own 0300-land pushing and scramblingolosed and on Saturday, the 27t1⁄2 smiled at anyone who had then he air" prove the extravagant official
and anofficial, more unjust, more inconsiderate, more grasping and more cruel so of natives gather in the narrow from 10. a m. 3 noon, subject, oreature would one day be the may and ought to rise whether appearance. warda each other, even when out of their own territory, than Europeans have ever been towards them.
were formed up streets in which the stalls are however, to the provisions of cause of the most formidable the taxpayer of Hongkong ara in at 2.30 p.m. on the Oricket And then another matter which the Datch in general ander-erected, and, at a time like the Section 5 of the Supreme Court events that the earth has witness. Any way bound to belonger saddled Ground in the following order stand for better than the Britishers in general. Taste is a definits present, Europeans who are (Vacations) Ordinaces 1898, no ed."
wish a bighly paid and generally 26th Company Boyal Artillery, line be drawn between the Chinese who comes of the third Oething mass of humanity can Sessions. The Chinese Now Your various instances—whereof he ba, requires a mach wider field for Company, let Bst. The King'
prepared to dive into thim{fsr.as it reisten to the Criminal fourth generation of foreiga subjecte, and he who it here to-day and
M. Roadet Saint, then same up expensive genius who evidently Hongkong Company, B. E, 2514 sense, drawn hot little dissation between the Chinese who was for those others who enjoy thess 27tb, (both days inclusive), gone to-morrow. Hongkong, with its oastomary lack of common only be said to be asking for Vacation commences on the 23rd personal proof of the deliberate the application of his extraordin Shropshire L I., Ist Bat. Prino
trouble. born and brought up here and is loyal to the bone to the Empire, time-honoured
For the grifia, and instant and terminates on the plot which the Crown Prince are abilities in the manipulation Louie's A. and B. Highlanders, and the other man who is bere merely because he wants tɔ compe bin will be regrottad, while she
| party entered into againes civilian- of grave banat qan-tîopa,
the Asiatia Artillery (with guns), tion, and concludes:
Bulgarian Military Preparation. the Chinese Co, Submarine Minera, jastice in his own country, or because he can make more money and seller of wares will no donb: also against a well-dressed Chinos implac ble salast, bandit sudary preparatios are seing caade son, the troops presented arms,
A despicable trick was alleged "From being the arrogant and
January Alarm ng milit. On the arrival of Bir W. Robin. dwell more wifely here than in eg. Canton. The Daioh maske vory have a "grouse" when he realises shopkeeper, who was charged mailed it thief of two years ago. abrupt distinction bere, and the Americans in the Philippines draw that his obances of profi -making before Mr. J. B. Wood, at the/he has to-day become tourful and and ammoni im: ara being laid | Mjor General Birker, inspected in Bulgarin, and stores of arm after which His Excellency, with, it more finely still by drolining to allow any Obiness newɑsmers in the country » all--a rule also observed in Australia. If the Dutch from guilles Westerners are Police Court this morning, with prayerful; he asks as for ia at all points. Horses are the various companies. The order have failed where we have succeeded in one dirsation, one oɔald Bat the genuine curio sacker or | O'Sullivan unid it was alleged that melancholy. A good sign Per. ¡quantities of e va from Seria
likely to be lower than usual. causing daming). quote half a dozen directions wherein they have succeeded sad we bargain-hunter need abed an tears complainant was siending with haps the most characteristio siga
Taupeator himself; he moane; he line became being imported from Austria and was then given fora Raya! calate followed by the “Dani Maroh" have conspicuously failed, Asiatics the impression that she is afraid of them : a thing thai năme în control with those who tɔ him and there was something of destiny approzohue the decisivo Hint fanny old gentleman, King L L, the A. and A.. Highlanderw·
Holland has at least never given over the matter, for, while we have his stall when defendent went up
Bavaria's Maa King. from Saul, played by the com January 18-Tan tamaity of bioed bands of the Shropshire Hongkong has done on more than one conseion. Bome day, perhaps, have been overjoyed at what they mid as to his righs to: pátek kie hour {"
of ont coming vistory, Tas hand a Secretary of Sists will arise who will know something about the have termed "a real bargain," she stall there. It was than allagad
Quo, of Savaria, le slated to hayo, and the Imperieum, tationed Cologin and will comproband the difficultise that lie in the way of ratsion that most of us go to that defendant throw
taken the form of an illusion the properly administering them. Then, donbiless, more power will be
centre of the - t'hut he is a tork. In ons of the On the conclusion, given to the polios than they at present possess, Brotar Hall will China New Year Fair well koon- coction of Jayes' fluid and is
magnificent apartments devoted body of men insrobed off batoid to mind its own basizem, and, without in any way approach ing that if we lay out money to over complainant's habec
Imports and Exports, to his sent the paison of and at three no ing vertais Dajch methods, the British Government, but will wan Par extent un màu going to be All the gonda in
The Importytion and Export-Furstenried he has laborize! be he a position to show that Hemmoor towNEN The Chinesoul in the
tion Ordinados has been farther constructati a gigaučio post, sv
க redditions to and de- stick and straw of which ha tions from the mustal headings, conveyed to the mgot in
them rangasi nathority.
000 Rioni, the
Despicable Tričk.