THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, ~ TUESDAY, JANUARY: 30, 1917.
DEWAR'S
"IMPERIAL"
AND
EXTRA SPECIAL
SCOTCH WHISKY.
AGENTS:
A
Protest
DAY BY DAY.
THE CYCLIST ACTION.
M. ALBERT SARRAUT.
It is hardly urosssary to my that it has been" our unfailing practice to refrain from comment ing adversely on any remark or personal set of Bir Henry May's. He is here as the representative | TRIBULATION. of His Majesty, King George, and that fact at onos preciades com- ment-save when the almost
The opening rate of the anthinkable happens. The al-qu demand to-day most anthinkable happened lost 2.4.5/18). night, when His Excellency said, before a mixed audience, that musical criticiem here was under- taken by reporters who received
THE BRIGHTEST CROWNS THAT ARE WORK IN HEAVEN HAVE BEEN TRIED AND SMELTED AND POLISHED AND GLORIFIED. THROUGH THE FURNACE OF
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., newspaper has a right to express
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, Telephone No. 616,
Correspondents are requested to observe the rule requires them to forward their Dames and addresses communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily publization, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
The Dollar.
Silk Delivery,
Plulatiff dets $143 Damages.
Arrival at Hatol..
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain has been boasting about a coat, which he has bad for twelve years, and M, Albert Sarrant, the newly- which he is still wearing in Judgment was given by Mr. appointed Governor, of lado public. Flest Street can beat Justice Gomperts yesterday after Ohios has, we learn, arrived in this, (cays the Chronicle) for the ncon in the Samary Court in Esnoi, to take up his dutine. It overcoat, still in splendid condi- dollar the case in which Mr. John Carr, will be remembered that this is tion, worn by the doyen of news Was in engineer at the Hongkong the ercond time that he has held vendors in the thoroughfare was Elrotric Light Company, claimed th. Governorship of this import-naw in the year 1870, when it $500 from three junk people se sot onlony, bia former term of was built by an Edinburgh tailor damages To-morrow's Anniversary,
Fustained by him office being from 1911 to 1914. for an angling journalist in Soot- To-morrow in the 25th anniver.through running into a prjat In convection with His Ex-land. The cost was in all the $125 & month. Musical criticiensary of the death of the Rev. O. ing junk plank er he was riding ellenoy's return to the East, the thing ports of the North between
H. Spurgeon.
along the Praya Esat on Novom Singapore Free Press gives us the the years 1870 and 1889, alter. ber 21, 1st. is a branch of newspaper work
following:-
which it spent three winter se0- which no local paper that is wiss
The Passing Through.
In giving his judgment, Eis
sympathetic young sions at St. Andrews and thres ia its generation would ever Hi Excellency the French Lerdehip said he thought that Governor is just coming from the years amid the slings and arrows dream of attempting, unless, of Minister to Peking, M Conty, what had been asid by Mr. Jenkis trenches, which, following the of outrageons Glasgow, weather. course, the quality of the per-passed through the Colony to-day was justified, but be socepted the example of his brother, Maurice. The garment was worn for eight formance chances to be such as on hia way to Shanghai.
evidence of the naval employee, Senator and Director of the power year by a London litterateur, would justify the co omissioning|
and also of the constable, who had fal Depeche de Toulouse, now before it passed into the posses of an outside expert. But even s
both mid that the plank was captain of Infantry, he voluntarily sion of its present owner. The raw silk shipped for the dangeroas. Having seen the went, after the resignation, st the an opinion upon masie on broad. Venesuela arrived at New plank as it should be, he was of end of 1915, of the Viviani The executive of the German lines. The same right is claimed York on January 16, taking 25 opinion that it would be practical Cabinet, in which he was, since sporting clube and athletin an and exercised by the average days in transit from Yokohams. ly impossible for it to have been August 4th 1914, Minister of sociations dieplays a strange igno- | member of the public, and the
ridden into without plaintif Education. Lieutenant Sarraut rance of Latin by prohibiting the only difference between the
falling into the water. He was a long time in le Bois le Pretreuse of tandem because it is an two criticisms is that that At the Crimina: Sessions, yes was not disposed to say that and then on the north of Verdan. English word, remarks an ex- which of the newspaper man is naaally terday afternoon, the case was plaintiff was drunk on the night He was cite to the order of the day change. It is only an English with the more charitable and the concladed in which a Chinees of the occurrence, but be thought and decorated with the Cross of pas, and the pan is only ap
for fairer. Begarding the $125 was charged with attering coun that bis reticence to detail his War for executing important and parent when the translation is part of the story, we leave it to terfeit coins. Prisoner was found doings on the night in question very dangerous reannaissanos on given "at length." But in their our readers to form their own guilty, and the Chief Justice went against him. He decided the north east of Verdas, where ban against "innings" they will conclusions 88 to the 18618 pared sentence of nine months' that the plank was out farther his regiment, the 3171b, secure the approval of the implied by sach a remark. We hard labour.
than it ought to have been, and distinguished itself st le Bois de English pedant. For "innisge." will only observe that newspaper
awarded him $80 damages for the Fleury and Chapelle Sainte Fine. is really a plural, and while it proprietors would consider ibem-
four-year old cycle, $50 for Hard it must have been for was always correct to say that selves more than blessed if they Members of the Pesk Club and personal injuries, and $10 for the Lieutenant Sarrant, adored by his side had its innings, it was at could persuade the most ver-their friends are reminded that damage to the trousers; $140 in soldiers, to leave these places fall first said that osob man had his dant of reporters to work for there will be a cinematograph | all, and costs. auch sum-or even for the performance at the Peak Clab to smount received. albeit not morrow, the 31st inst, commen- brcessarily earned, by our Govern-cing at 9.15 The cinemsic. ment oficiais at the outset of graph performance following will
p.m. their useful careers.
take place on Friday, February
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MARRIAGE.
DENING HENDERSON. On the 12th December, at Bromp ton Parish Church, by the Rev. T. H. Dening, assisted by the Vicor the Rev. Preby A. W. Gough, Lieut. Basil Cranmer Dening, M.C., R. E., recond son of the late Professor Walter Dening of Japan, and Mr. Dening to Ruth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace C. Hen- derson, of Crediton, Devon. Japan papers pleas: copy.
DEATH.
DICKSON.—At 5, Taikoo Terrece. Quarry Bay, on the 30th inst.. Ada Humphrys Dickson; the dearly beloved niece of Mr. and Mrs. J. Mitchell (aged 15 years).
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1917.
THE GERMAN IN CHINA.
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Coolie Langunge.
It seems to us that the time has come for the Government, with the co-operation of the Chinese
and foreign pablic, to resolve to
Counterfeit Coins.
Peak Club.
16, instead of February 14, owing
PERHAPS.
to the concert at the Helena May | The world is not so happy Tastitate having been arranged | As it might really be, for the latter date.
For German Kultur blossoms Alone in Germany. It really must appear to
a
Attempted Suicide.
IMPUDENT THEFT.
Our navy up-to-date; So really there's to reason For this expressive hate. The vulgar opposition We meet at every turn, Is apt to get our backa up: Make us with anger barn. But if all comprehended
They'd copy our example- Not jer at Germany.
A respectable Chinese shop-All who our Deutschland know deal fiectasily with the practice keeper, of Yaumati, who has kept That great, our Kaliar's made os, of using foul language that is restaurant there for many yeare. A method sure but slow. bourly indulged in by the chair was charged before Mr. J. R. coolies at their various stands. Wood, at the Police Court this But then, 'tis our misfortass At the stand opposite this office, this morning, with attempting to
While we strive to impress Oar Kultur on the others, at almost any minute of the day, commit suicide by swallowing To find a hostile prees one can hear the most outrageous large dose of opiam. Inspector obscenities howled from one coolie Gerrard said Dr. Smalley attend Who sneer at German mannere More than enicient time has now elapsed, far it to Le quite to another, and British listeners ed the man, who was removed to And make fun of our ways, clear to all subjects of the Allied Powers in this part of the world do not need to be Cantonese Hospital. Defendant said he Despite our domination that the Chinese Government will do nothing of its own free will scholars in order to know the had had very bad business during And domineering traits. towards handling the problem of the German within its gates. meaning of at least one of the pet the past two years. He was Our army is near perfect, Bepresentations have repeatedly been made to Peking, by various expressions of these gentlemen. discharged. means and by various bodies, to the effect that the German is one We are quite well aware that of China's most dangerous foes, and that, unless the restrains him, each expressions may mean no he mey do in her territory what be is forever doing in America: may more to the users than a simple convert it into a divisional headquarters for plotting and sedition- "hang" or "damn" in the month mongering. The men forming the Central Government are not by of a Britisber; but that is hardly any means so ill-informed regarding the war and its side interests the point. This part of Loe Houss as some of us in Bongkong are disposed to think. Most of them Street is used daily by a large. know who is at fault, who is winning and within a little-whea number of Chinese ladies and Coolle Prosecuted by European Real discipline as we, pesce may be expected. The President himself may be easy to children from the Caine Road deceive; may listen wholesale to any and every lie which emanates district, as well as by the students from the German Legation; but men like Fang Kwok-cheong and at St. Paul's College, by the Wa Ting-lang, and the one or two others whose influence really guns from the Italian Convent counts, bave na illusions where Germany is concerned. Then why and their pupils, and by the The story of a particularly im is nothing done to check the progress of the Boche? If these men Portuguese girls employed at pudent theft from a European And left the mighty ocean believed that Germeny was winning, their epathy would be easily the Telephone Company's offices lady was told to Mr. J. B. Wood, To Germany clemency; anderstood. Bat is there a man in China of real power and know.and practically all of theas at the Police Court this morning, If submarines could only ledge who believes in the possibility of a German victory?
understand Cantonese. In ad- when a coolie was charged with Bink every ship at ass, For some reason or another we are not closely concerned dition, a fair number of English stealing a child's cost, valued at And leave the German ships to with what that reason is the Central Government, then, has decided and American ladies connected $15, one lady's hand-bag, one Trade when war cessed to be; that it will not interfere with the progress of these people, whether with various missions use the pair of gloves and one doll. If German goods were carried in the case of individuals or in that of large trading concerne. It thoroughfare and, to their sorrow,
Mrs. Ollins, of the Military For nothing on the ses, continues to allow them to buy and sell at will, and even employs know within a little what these Quarters, Kennedy Road, said And Deutschland taxed all a very considerable number of them in one or another of its depart foul-mouthed brutes rie talking she saw defendant walking along. poris ments. This being so, why do the Allies remain silent on the sub. about. Often disgnaling remarks when her little girl was playing. While other marls were free; jool? Britain, Franes, Russia, Italy and Japan are represented in are deliberately
addressed to She was near the Dockyard at the If no-one ever tried to
Witness was about Defend his land from foes, Peking by men whose word carries a long way; why are these repre- women who decline to take a time. rentatives not instructed to use a little polita firmoses with the chair or to over-pay the bearers. dozen yards away from her And left the German army Chinese to tell then, in fact, that unless the German plotters are It is easy to say that such women little girl when defendant picked To go just where it shose;
Lady.
If no one ever bothered To have's fleet at ses,
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of tragio memories, and in spite inning. But epon came confusion of the joy of returning to Indo between the right of the side and Chias, the land of his choice, in the right of each member of it,
ite of his interest in the great and then custom croe problems at stake there and the proved itself much stronger than tyrsauic attraction Asis always grammer. exercises. In the "decor" off
more
the palacer of Saigon, Isaci and There can hardly be a stronger Bae, Albert Barraut will no doubt contrast in contemporary Euro- often evoke the little "gcurbi pean life then that between the of the slopes of Sonville, absten lot of the new Empress of Austria by "mitraille," where he saw and that of two of her sisters, death passing alore to him so who are living in England, obser many times.
OBITUARY.
Death of Mr. R. A. Yerburgh.
ves the Manchester Guardian, These two princesses are Bene. dictine nuas of the Abbey of 81. Cecilia, in the Isle of Wight, which has been the home of a famous French oɔmmunity since The death occurred on Dream- it was obliged to leave France, ber 18. at his town house in Ken-where the naod were established sington Gore, of Mr. Robert at Solemer. One of these Boyal Armstrong Yerburgh, the Prenons was known in the world as sident of the Navy League since Princess Adelaide of Bourbon; 1900 and for 26 yeara Unionist in the cloister she is call- member for Chester. Mr. Yerburgh ed Sirlar Maria Benedicta, was third son of the Rev. Richard She is now 31, and her sister, Yerburgh, vicer of Baford, Princess Marie Josephe, now called Lincolnebire. He was born in Sister Scholastica is 26-two years 1853 and Was edposled at older than the Empress. There is Roseall, Harrow, and University no convent in Europe where the College, Oxford. After be- Gregorian obante of the cffices are ing called to the Bar in sung with greater beauty than at 1880 he acted for a short period the Abbey of St. Cecilie. The life a private secretary to Mr. Aker-of the mans is ze regular and Douglas when Patronage Store-methodical as it is severe; but it tary, and afterwards to Mr. W. is possible that the Empress, A. Smith when First Lord of the moving amidst the pageantry of Treasury. Bat it is in conncation the Austrian Court," may some- with the Navy League that he times have cause to envy the twa will be best remembered: Beans who have thrown off the gave up his salary as a member trappings of soyalty, of Parliament to the parposes of naval propaganda.
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Mr. Asquith's resignation, says In the Far Eastern world be the Observer raises the number of will be known for his interest in living ex-Premiers to three-the Chinese matters during the active other two, of course, being Mr. im-years that covered the Railway Billour and Lord Rosebery. The Concessions time and the straggle position was similar when ME for trade facilities. He was in-Asquith took office, for Sir Henry sietent in his attacks on the Campbell-Bannerman was then Chinese policy of the Govern-alive; but to find another instance meat, which he criticised as in- of three ex-Prime Ministers, in compatible with the policy of the England we have to go back to "open door." The China Longas 1888. When Bir Robert Peel
mittee was formed to promote there were four men still survi-“ Mr. Yerbargh's views. The ving who had held the reing of doings of Bassia after the government-Wellington, · Earl China Japanese war, and their Gray, Lord Melbourne, and Lord entry into Purt Arthur leading Bipon.
kept under reasonable control, more will be heard of the matter ? should summons the offenders, ap cost, handbag, and doll. If, when the German Zupps tried took shape, and a China Com-formed his first Osbiant in 1834
to Mr. Baltong's diplomatic duel
with Rasis will be recalled, all Sir William Bobertson has of which culminated in China's given utterance to some very [requent that Great Britain would sound philosophy upon "the duty oocupy Wai-hai-wei. As Pros of cheerfalase," and apon how dent of the Blackburn Chamber to comply with it, says the Pall of Commerse, he was also largely Mall Gasdia. It will be noted by instrumental in the Mission the observant that postimiaus China, and issued on interesting the degres of active contribution which visited the Southwest of generally varies inversely with
There is no dearth of reasons why Chins should interfere with the but, ja tbe first place, He then made off, sad in his Han. Scores of instances of his treacherous scheming have never recent events have not shown hurry to get awey, dropped the To harry Britain's shores,
Oas never tried to shoot them, been made public at all; other scores, again, have been published that our Magistracy always re-handbag.
|Bat dissppeared indoors by the foreign papers in Hongkong and the Treaty Ports. The gards an insult to a woman as Mr. S. Modrudge, employed in Faricus Shanghai bomb discoveries, the side-plots in Tientsin, the very serious matter, and, in the the Naval Stores Department, if there were any truth in
The war communiques, maobinations of that smooth hypocrite Vorstich, who at one time second, it is hardly reasonable to said he wae looking out of the adorned the consulate in this Colony, the lie campaigns of the Wolf expect that a girl or woman of window when he saw the deat cut by Wolf from Dentech Agency and the Ostasiatische Lloyd, and numerous other deliberate refinement would care to appear child playing. Her mother was (Such every German prays);
land, breaches of neutrality, are known not only to every foreigner out in a court to prosecute on such a some distance away. He siw here but to the Peking Government and many of the Provincial charge. What is needed is some defendant stroll up, iske a look If everyone were forced to officials as well.
better method of policing the round, and, catebing up the Drink beer, so much par man, Sa fest as the German is foiled at one point of his nasty neighbourhood of the stands, and articles, ran away. Defendant ran And wear mountsches aptarned plans, so fast dose be get to work in another direction. A recent every offender convicted should in the direction of the Naval Blore, After the German plan; 1s8ne of Le Courrier d'Haiphong gives an excellent instance be placed in the stocks for a first and be (witness) got down the If once a day, at least, all- of what he has been trying to do in Yannan. A French gentleman offence, and flagged for a second steps and just missed him by Most sing Die Wachtam Bhein," Ecospied a three months' engagement as engineer in chief to the one. Will not some member of the about ten yards, Wilsens know And know the hidden meaning report. At this time he also took to the nation'a efort. The mort Yannen-fa Electric Company, only to find that an organined gang Legislative Council, who has defendant, who was employed in of each and every line; of ruffians had been told off to obstruct his work as far as possible, reasonable regard for the feelings the Chief Instructor's Office, and, When enquiries were instituted it was discovered that each of these of his own wife or daughter, after some enquiries, he found if all the coloured races,
Now under Britain's sway, men was receiving four dollars a day. Four dollars a day for a Yun- raise this matter at the next meet him in another store. nan coolie! Need it be said that an agent of a German firm was ing? The evil has gone un- Defendant asid the last witness For anion with Deutschlead st the bottom of thin dirty work? Fortunately the scheme was dis- checked all too long.
had a grudge against him, be- Did ever hope and pray; covered and the ringleader of the gang is now in geol. But why is
cause when he (defendent) 'went|If very nation longed for not the Boobe ineilgstor also in gaolt Why" do: the-Chinase ja
for stores witness gave him two or ] The rals of Germsuy, officials allow things of this kind to "taks plaos" under their very
three pounds whort, and be told And Denisob alone was spoken noses? But perhaps we had better not push that question. It has
other people, who socused him of In truth and fantasy pr been made clear that the Chinese would rather not propsed against
stealing the stores,
Ladend it Deutschland ä Kaiser the Germans. Then is it not time for the Powers to apply a little The B. G. A. Bergeanta ars His Worship, after hearing on Ruled serth and air and son, tactfal persuasion ? If Britain and France can exercise themselves holding their fortaighily danca officer from the Naval Police, who And German Kultúr £surished to the extent of advancing the interests of Japan in Chins, can they in the Royal Artillery Theatre, gave defendant a good character, How happy all would be fam nbé stretch a point, and do something towards advancing their Victoria Barracks, on Friday, inflicted Man of $25, de la
February 3, at 5 p.m.
Hongkong:Jan. 80, 1917.
・own ?·
[6. G. A. Dance.
-dafault, nix weeks”, bard labour,
« cortain, interest in the Obins despondent people are those who Association, and was present at have nothing to do but loaf, its annual gatherings.
(smuse themselvon, and read the Be married, in 1888, Miss Elma newspapers. It is always a reliaf Amy Tiżgaitens, the daughter of to escape from thön and mix with a formgc member for Blackburn, hard-drilled soldiets, overaörked Hil presonal: oharneleristio was a nurses'te pungent “people in tha |ourssin. highly-wrought fulah in monition line, Thew KTU KIWAYT his dress. At the outbreak of too fully cooupled with their own war he was, at Bad Nauheim | shars in the war to indulge in undergoing treatment, and it was dolorous spesilations.” And they only with considerable difficulty havs leamicoough of the slimning. that in November, 1914, he lag power of cheerfala obtained permission to return intolerant of thom