THE HONGKONG TREE.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1917-
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JOTTINGS BY THE WAY." "TO-DAY'S
"In the fog yesterday the towers It is preatically ≥30 years ago of Westminster Abbey stood ont since our Dominion Premises frut dimly against a smoky aky."-met in conference, maye the Daily THE MAN POWER QUESTION, Had we not had this on the Chronicle. They had come to authority of the Timer, we should London early in 1887 to represent hava gone to the grave under the their respective Colonies at Queen firm impresion that it was the Victoria's Jubiles, when Lord Exed habit of fog to render such Salisbury decided to call them odds and ends as church-towers together for an'informal diroun: and street traffic rather more sion on various matters concern. visible than usual.
ing the Empire. So mosesnful was this gathering that further ones were held in 1897, on
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•We have doult in our leading article to-day with the general situation arising out of Azerios's severarns of diplomatic relations with Germany, Hara wa mBJ take a glanos at it from the local standpoint. This being B-itish Colony, the break has no upscia! significanos, for the measures which bave been taken here in 24. 4.5/16d.
SirThe following is a rough regard to German infance
extract from Trath, dated Decem- |ber 27, 19:7;-"I sa informed automatically protect American
Tomorrow is the 17th anniver-that there are a number of young intereste. But the decision has a distinos value from the fact that wary of General Boller's second
men of military age who are there will now be leae cause for crossing of the Togein.
employed in Government depart -i Biblical Lecture. fear that German ships may daah
ments on the Gold Coast and in A report of the Medical Con- the occasion of the Diamond out from Manils, or that a bass A lecture will be given at the Nigeria, and who are keen to ference at Canton says that an Jablice, and in 1902, at the time for submarines will be found Helena Mer Institute to-morrow join up' in any capacity, but interesting exhibit which attrac. of King Edward's Coronation, somewhere in the locality of afternoon (Tamday), at 5p. cannot obtain release for the par- ed considerable attention was a under the name of Colonial Con the Philippines. Hitherto the by the Rev. J. Kirk Meconachie, pose. This is where the Adjalant hygienic dining table for the ference. The next meeting took authorities there have been subject, The Biblical View of General might come in by getting eating of Chinese food in a sanit-place in 1907, when the title was merely concerned with preventing the Creation." The meeting Lord Darby to move in the matter, The next invention we want to At the earlier meetings the ary fashionGood luck to it. altered to Imperial Conference. any violation of American nou-open to all women,
front just now than in Sierra es, in that line, is a dining table, Colonial Secretary presided, bat will have a much more direct Sergeant Wills, of Yanmati, Leone and Comassie, where any- that will force some of the people with the change of name addition. interest in keeping an eye on the charged four men, before Mr. one over military age can carry at Home to take their soup like al importanee was given to the assmbly by the assumption of the German. And in this respect the O. D. Melbourne, at the Magistracy on for the time being. The Christians; is. inaudibly.
Presidency by the British Prime Minister. American naval force in the Orient this morning, with stealing pigs. same cry comes from Hongkong, will be of disticot value. But Seven of the pigs have been though in this case
The Manila `papers aro seldom there is another aspcot of the recovered. His Worship ordered departmental military officers and
The name of Lord Salisbury MURPHY. On the lat February, 1917, at the Isolation Hos- situation locally, and that is one remand. fixing bail at $100 each. men of the RE, BAKO, more illuminating than when pital, Macao, Frederick William Murphy, of the Chinese Maritime of rentiment rather than of
A Fleblog Tragedy. A.S.C., etc., who have been kept engaged in writing about British and Sir Robert Peel should have Customs, Lappa
practical import. We have alwayÚ
A report has been made to the at this out-of-the-way station titles. One of them, a few days been included in the list publish WALKER-Killed in action, in Devil's Wood, last October, held that the boat type of Police by a Chinees boatman, that, marking time while their more age, published a photograph of ed by a contemporary of nice- Harold Walker of the Australian Contingent; a nephew of J bn Americans have long been in whilst he was fishing in a small fortunate regiments! brethren the new Governar Gezeral of teenth century Premiers who WICKING. On the 1st instant, at her residence Milton Raod favour of their country's declaring boat off Cheng Ohau island on have all gone to the front, whers Canada, with the legend enb. declined to take up their shade "The Earl of Devon-in Downing-street. Lord Balis- samity sgainst the Germans. And Friday, his bost was dashed they are raking in military scribed: Bournemouth, Mrs. Hannah Wicking, widow of the late Mr. Harry the bulk of the Amerisan com- against the rocks and wrecked, crosses and distinguished oon hire. Our contemporary then bary badly ever entered his munity in Dongkong-if not, Three fokie and himelf were doct medels by the draens, improved matters by adding the official residence, his Cabinets indeed, of all of it-it can be thrown into the ees. He and two Many of the individuale referred following: "The Dake of Devon- being always summoned to meet said that they have keenly felt others were picked up by another to have been kept a year, and shire is known as one of Europa's at the Foreign Office. Feel, when Premier, continued to live in the hamiliation caused by Pre- boat, but the other foki was some two years, beyond their richest barona." And now we are
Whitehall-gardens, among his sident Wilson's temporising and drowned. His body has not been normal time at Hongkong, and hopelessly at so as to whether
pictures, but transacted his hesitation. All their sympathies recovered.
are now pining for a chance of His Excellency in a baron, an
official business in Downing- have been with the Allies' cause.
Whist Drive.
'doing their bit' at the front. earl or just a plain dook,`
street. So late as 1894 a charge To-day they can feel mo little re- The B.N. Games Club held Here is a perfectly suitable open-
figured in the Estimates for an lief from the fact that at last their their weekly whist drive at the ing for convalescent wounded
annuity to the man who swept the Whitehall orossing traversed country has come in on the right RN. Canteen on Friday evening, men, who have had enough of the Bide. The decision, belated when the participante spent a trenches, and have earned a well-colums inform
by Sir Robert on the way from though it is, will serve to streng- thoroughly enjoyable evening, deserved rest from active service." Laurentio "went down in time bis house to Downing-street. then Anglo-American friendship Mr. Morley carried off the pre- It is a pity that Truth at the variously setimated from five to in Hongkong and throughout the mier honours with a score of 179, time of writing did cot know the three quarters of an hour."- We Sir Thomas More would have followed by Mr. Horn with 172. situation as it actually existe here, have been at the trouble of in-supported the Government in its At length the diplomatic break between the United States and Far Esst generally,
Mesars. Howce and Kelly dead- There must be many department.vestigating the matter, and-e proposal to establish National Germany has come, a telegram to hand yesterday definitely announ
heated for third placed, and the al military duties which can be find that it took ber exactly five Service, for thus they will realita ing that relations had been severed. The consagration begun in The H.K.P.R. Anniversary.
ORD of his cherished ideals, Europe has thus spread to the Western Hemisphere, and the whole We here to congratulate the former won the deciding cat. carried on by civil and business quarters to sink.
remarks the Chronide. In describ world may now practically be said to be at war. There are still Police Reserve apon entering, as Mr. Cousens took charge of the men cow in Hongkong; but, in "Booby". The Games Club order to bring this abcat, drastic
ing the conditions of life in the iew of the namiral nations that have managed to keep outside it does to-day, on its third year of
On the authority of the N. G. city of Amaurole, the typical city the quarrel, but the tendencies at the moment are that they too will work. The corps ia, to the best invites gentlemen whist players reforms must be made and sil
unnossary detail cat out Daily News, a "British youth of of Utopio, he tells us how "every soon be forced to dealers their enmity towards the most barbarous sad of our information, anique: every Friday at 8 pm..
in order to obtain the greatest fifteen, of quiet babits," is looking 30 families chose each year an the most unscrupulous country in the world. So far as America is nowhere else, we believe, is there Dock Employees and Opium.
Three employees of the Kow. number of men possible, the Gov-about for lodgings. We take it foer, called a Syphogrante, concerned, unless she were prepared to sacrifice her last shred of a body of volunteers some siz self-respect and national honour, the break had to come. Long before hundred strong, which, while loon Dock were charged befors ernment, military and civil, and that the average gentlemen of and that the chiefe and Almonte Germany's declaration to the whole world that she intended frating undertaking all civil police duties, Mr. J. R. Wood, this morning, every business firm should take that age is given to arriving home the onelyo <fice of the Sy- steps to eliminate all work, which, at three in the morning, to banh-phegaunte is to see and take hede all the laws of humanity, so far as warfare on the sea was concerned, has a gusci military Blaoding an with possession of opium. the United States bad soffered innumerable ineults and numiliations | well, This body consists of appeared that the men were em while it may create the acme of ing an odd policeman or two, that no menne sit idle; but that efficiency in normal times, can and then to routing the house for every one applys his owne craft at the hands of the enemy of civilisation. It cannot therefore be four companies, numbering re-ployed on work being done on
with ouracet diligencs,” But then said that America has been over-besty in her decision. On the con- spectively, in round figures, 160, the s... Fooksang, at present in easily be dispensed with in war just one mere whisky-soda.
in Amaurote six hours work par trary, the best elements in American life, whether at home or abroad, 140, 100, and 80-made up of Dock, and, as they were leaving, time without marring a sufficient
standard of efficiency. How "It would be a great pity to diem sufficed, Will Mr. Georga be have been pained beyond measure that it has taken President Wilson Britishere and Indians, Chinese, the loose opium was found con
their clothing. many heade of departments can see Johore and Kedah left out content with that? olors on three years to make his mind up, when, from the very comand Portuguese. All these men cealed under mencement of the war, it was apparent that Germany had deliberate have received or are receiving They had about seventy tale Day that there is not an unnecesary from the call to arme," saye a
Pearls, which have fetched such ly declared herself as the enemy of those principles of liberty and the ordinary infantry training, and between them. Owing to the duplication of detail ? If this correspondent of the Malas Mail,
* enemy freedom apon which the whole basis of civilised government has are, in addition, performing the absence of the analyst'scertificate, were taken in hand, many men-And it's exactly what we're bigh prices as sales of
one of been built up. And it is net without significance that, up to the street daties of regular police the men were remanded, bail could be spared for military always said about Hongkor gallon jewellery, wore
duties who would be of real but it still looks as though the thres possessions for which our last moment, there were those occupying high position in the United constables, sergeants etc. Further, being fixed at $300 each.
service. Reorganisation in the war, would be Over States who were ready to await a farther overt act by Germany before the corps boasts an ambulance
before woaded British ancestors were A woman from the village of whole Colony is what is wanted, the Colony starts to do anything mainly respected in the ancient finally taking the plange-aking, as it were, for another smack in platoon which has been conspicu-
very practical in the matter. world, the other two being tin the faos before showing their anger, as distinct from talking about ously of use during the small pox Wong Nsi Woo complained to the from the highest to the lowest.
and oysters. The Romans found epidemio, mounted, motor and Police at Ysumati on Saturday What is the situation now, and how dose America's resolve affcot Maxim sections, a brass band, of the loss of scms pigs. She
Congratulations this week to pearls as plentiful as blackberriss the war sa such? So far as the actual hostilities are concerned, string orchestra and a bugle band. came to Yagmati by boat and on Hongkong, February 5, 1917. jour Edeosted Comp. for talking among us, and Julius Closer about the "man powder" ques- dedicated to Venus Genotrix America's declaration can have very little effect at the moment. Her It has, too, one of the best and board was found to be a child of break with Germany, though it arives out of the war, ie in reality a most sensibly-conducted olabe in her offering from small.por.
tion, and to a Shanghai contem-A breastplate studded with separate and distinct development. Ameries is not at war with this part of the world, and is now She was arrested by L. S. Talloob,
porary on advertising specific British pearls, Germany because of any decision on her part to obsmpion the inter-producing its owa Garcits,
agsinnt prickly heat-in January, probably obtained from fresh esta of others; she has severed relations because Germany has taken
water mussole with distorted shells. Fisheries for these “wood
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1917.
AMERICA'S RESOLVE.
a step which directly interferes with, or threatens, American security. A Good Record.
By the very principles of her Constitution, America cannot engage
Failure to Notify.
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sad charged before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at the Police Court this morning. She said she did not know the law, and also stated
Victoria Theatre.
The Victoria has been so crowd- i
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Yours etc. IN TRIPLICATE,
COMPANY REPORT.
Co., Ltd.
A local paper's telegram
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The Manila Bulletin states that the new superdreadnought Mis- isippi was launched the other
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Pearls" have existed on many
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hersoll in any European alliances or entanglements. She therefore Such an organisation has not that she did not kɛow what the
of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from time immemorial, apters the war rather as a sympathetic partner than sa direct ally come into being without much child was suffering from. A fine The Kowloon Land and Bulldog day. She is, we gather, the large of those other nations which are to-day waging war with the Central skilful and long-sighted planning, of $5 was imposed.
Omagh, Pearl Eshing is now dis- Powers. That sepect of the situation must have been in Sir F. E. lot of hard, self-denying work
couraged by riparian owners, io Smith's mind when; speaking at Cardiff, be declared that "we on the part of its promoters, and
Wa wonder if it really is true the interests of salmon. Bats fine Allies are strong enough to fight out the quarrel ourselves; we a very great deal of monetary ed during the last few perform-
that the P.W.D. is already en-pearl from the River Ythan has have been the custodians of the honour of neatrals, and we now help from generous Chinese and suces that late comers have been
The twenty-eight report of the gaged on plans for the subsequent adorned the crown of Scotland, tell them to be the castodians of their own." Therefore, so far as others. I career has not been obliged to go without seats. To the actual fighting goes, America's" coming in" can hardly be ex- by any means an drohequered night there is a special band per. Board of Directors of the above palling up of the new roadway and a Welsh pearl from Conway pected materially to affect the situation. The chief walus of the one: it has had to hold up its formance. We are asked to say company to the ordinary meeting which it is now busy laying, out- holds a place of honour on the decision to the Allies in the vindication it provides of their head in the face of some smaunt that, while the various big esrials of shareholders, to be held at the side the Post Offer aft-reposted conviction that the whole world would, in course of of undeserved ridicale, distrust are being shown at the Victoris, Company's offices, Victoria Build- on Saturday
We should also like to know Grosvenor House, which the time, come to regard Germany as a brutal monster who would stop and jealousy; it certainly has Messrs. Fathe's own big producing, at 11 am.
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how much truth there is in B Dake of Westminster has lent for at nothing in bur efforts to attain the domination of mankind. not received too much help from tions will be shown for one night The Directors now submit to
current rumour to the effect that the headquarters of the now Food The question which emerges to first plsos in thinking over the Government; it has being only per week Thursday. Thes
being there will now be three changes you a statement of the affairs of the Europeans of the Colony are Controller, was originally Goud- the new situation is whether or not the United States will be able bat human-doubtless to contrul her own internal affairs now that the break has come for mistakes. But none of of programme por work. The the Company and balance sheet going to petition the Gorerament ester House, and was built for the for the year ending December for permission to walk along the Duke of Gloucester, youngest We have already had occasion to comment on the enormously large this affects the self-evident new arrangement begins
pavemeals of Queen's Boad brother of George III The German and German-American population in the States, and what trath that, in its spirit of Thursday, when the great war 31, 1916.
The balance of Profit and Central and Pødder Street for at Grosvenor family scquired it, is known of thess people can soaroely be said to redound good fellowship, its loyalty to film "Business as Usual” will be
Loss Account for the year includ-least one hour a day, without however, early in the nineteenth to their credit, The U. 8. Army is notoriously small, and affection for its commanding shown.
A Perfect Nuisance." ing $1,799 87 balance brought the risk of being banged on the century, and most of its finest considering the extent of the territory which it has to guard, though officer, and its readiness to do its
For many months past an elder- forward from last sccount, after Lead with a bamboo, blinded by architectural features have been wa imagine that, as was the case in England when the war broke little abare in bearing the war ont, there will be no lack of patriotic young citizens who will come burden, it is a corpa of which man has been frequenting writing cf all charges and ex- the point of a shovel or drenched added since then, The pictare smonate $13.541.44. with paint, pigwash, etc. At pre-gallery was built in 1826, and the forward to lend a hand to their country. All the same, we cannot Hongkong hun every reason to be Paking Bad, Kowloon, pastering peces, mee how Amerios is to be spared grave trouble within her own proud. By the varions duties Passers-by, both on foot and in The Directors recommend that a sent we believe there is not a single handsome colonnade that screens boundaries, and, remembering the numerous plots which occurred which it has undertaker it has rickabs, by his bagging appeale. dividend of $2.00 per share be hour during which coolies carry it from. Upper Grosvenor-street
not inappreciable He was brought before Mr. J. B. paid, which, after providing for ing burdens at either end of a long one of the anest things of its kind in the days of her neutrality, it is certain that inoressed vigilance set fras a will be necessary, particularly at the dooke and at the munitions number of men for work as the Wood at the Magistracy this Directors' and Auditor's Fees, will bamboo may not be found on in the country was completed factories. So far na the production of munitions for the Allies in Front; it has been of material morning, when it was stated by leave a balance of $991.44 to be these pavements. Will the Police in 1842 noreerned, this is not likely to be seriously affected, for whatever assistance in keeping down crime Inspector Gordon that the man carried foward to the credit of Department kindly note? fighting American troops are called upon to do will probably be in to a decent minimum, and it has Was a perieot naimano le hnd new Prefit and Loss Account.
Directors.--Monera. T. L Since we read in the leading the nature of coping with riots, for which heavy munitions will throughout maintained most ex- already been sent to Csaton four monroely be needed, Financially, the United States in well able to cellent relations with the officers times, and once, when about to Hough and T. E. Pears now artiole of a local contemporary
The first game in the second face the situation, för har national wealth has been enormously and men of the regular force, all be sent, he escaped from the retire by rotation and offer them- that “the Germans must sooner
of later sus for peace," we feel round of the Palaos Hotel billiards: increased since the war. Britain and her Allice welcome the of whom have ever been ready to Police. Yesterday, when he was selves for re-election.
Auditor. The accouple have that we really are beginning to handicap takes place at 9 o'clock Ameriosa resolve on strong sentimental and humanitarian grounde, make allowances for the impar arrested, he ran away but was It shows that Germany is out of tens with accepted ideas of civil-feok axperience of their young imposed a line of $4, or, in Smith, who now retines and offers spons not altogether unimportant (own 250) will meet Mr. F. Kelly eventually caught. Els Worship bsen audited by Mr. E. Peroy get a law glimmeringe of light to-night, when Mr. J. Parkm imation that there is no place for her among the comity of nations.amateur brothers, and to give
situation. default, seven days" hard labour, himself for re-election. FChat is why she is making fresh sosmies wilk every penning day. ́them, ali possible helg.
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