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"Germany and America”, saya •^%Is to usïd that Lonis Rsamso- ing change in cur fiscal policy: FUL THING HASN'T HAPPENED,
a Telegraph headline-We don't kers, the famous Datoh cartoonist, It will have been seen, that
know about Germany, but Amer has exerted a greater infusnos rameting of Peers and Commoners
Some excellent sport
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witnessed on the Racecourse sident Wilson to the Senate as to the world to-day except President to consist of questions from Pre-warfare than any other man in dawn of the necessary machinery
The opening rate of the dollar yesterday afternoon, on the oc- the legality of the United States Wilson. It is a significant fact, for giving effect to the Paris Con- 100 demand to-day Waa Jerence resolutions and to the
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the score of the latter having the one-artistic genius pro- Tom row's Anniversary.
athletic meeting. The band of slaughtered some two or three duced as a reult of the war is a favoured by Lord Balfour of Tomorrow in the 635th anni- the 74th Panjabis was in attend-hundred American citizens dar neutral. And the power of Ra- Barleigh's Committee. Though versary of the Sicilian Vespers ance, and at the close of the pro-ing the past couple of years. We emaekers is dos to the convincing the war has had a distinct-massacre. ly educative infinence in a
gramme, Mr. Maclean Gibeon are privately informed that Pre-fabion in which he drives home Concert Party Arrives. thousand and one directions, it is
distributed the awards. She was that a sufficent number of Amer- not merely the belligerants but sident Wilson Coes not consider a universal point that conceTER M. Paul Datault, the gifted thanked on behalf of the staff by icans has yet been killed, and every nation. Rasmaskers is a still the fact that there are inter-Frenob Canadian tenor, and eats at Home which mean to fight ocabert party arrived in Hong-Mr. A. Hughes and was present- that be in waiting for an "overt unique combination of skilled against any abandonment of so-kong to-day. called Free Trade to the and, but] when the time for action comes,
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Dreen-Review order, (khaki). 10.45 s.m. on Friday, 30th inst. Theft of Clothing,
Court this morning, with stealing A Chinees was charged before
be content with such a finding? quantity of clothing. Defend taken, the average Britisher will Police Station himself. Defen- ant denied the thefr, saying that
aninterned in the Homeland, feel that, so long as there is a Dandant was discharged. evidence in such cases. If there its annual sports to-morrow (Fri- there will always be shundant,
College Sports. St. Stephen's College will hold was no danger in allowing these day) at 130 p.m. on the Jockey pests to be at large, why has the Club grounds at Happy Valley. merely shutting up a few; then The Band of the 74th Panjabi internment steadily increased? The prisos will be distributed at plots and attempts at espionage will be present by kind permis The people at Home began by 6 p.m. by Mrs. Ms Wing Char. were discovered and a few more sion of the Officer Commanding. Rens were interned; and to OD,
Congratulations, by the way, till the majority were safe behind
Armed Robbery. The Police have received the
to the contemporary that spoke 100 Yards (Small Boys), of "12.45 s.m. on
Mr. Neville Chamberlian anti- the bere. But what of the report of an armed robbery which Kwon Seong Ki; 2, Au King: 3. morning."
Thursday oipata that many men ander his minority? When ere they going in alleged to have taken place at Young King Teak. Time, 14
scheme must take up now trades to be deprived of the power to do house in High Street, West 1/5aca,
----which should not disturb ma, mischief? And what of the men Point. A woman occupant alates
Saya the Mana Daily Bulletin: seeing that the majority are tied to whose softness, or whose fondness that some men entered the house, Sk Ying; 2, Cecil Chan; 3, Pan scented."-Tut's the first time and have no special capacity for, High Jump (Senior)-1, Wang "Plans to Disoredit U. 8. are callings which we did not choose for the Ban, as the case may be, and, when she resisted, one of Trok Po. Height, 4 fest 8 inches. we ever heard of anything scented I met the other day, saya a Dasly prompted them to favour the the men, who armed with a knife, THE INDUSTRIAL FUTURE OF CHINA. leaving at liberty of so large struck her on the face with the Cheong Kong Cha; 2, Pan Shing *verage Han product, whether started life in the "profession,"
High
Jamp (Junior)-1, coming out of Germany. The News correspondent, a man who number of alien esimies? Is the wespon and she was cat. At the Dock mesting the other day, Mr. Hough raised a point ing with them after the war is en decamped with $170 in 4 fest inch.
country going to have no reckon-
The Oa; 3, Cha Kwan Yin. Height, news, plane or anything alee, and when the war broka which is very far from being of minor importance. The Chinese, over? If ever anch men are allow money, clothing and jewellery..
wually reeks of the hog-peo. out bad settled quietly ig he intimated, by the initiative which they have displayed in sending ed to sit in Parliament again Before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the La Wing. Time, 26 1/58 ca
220 Yards (Senior)-1, Cecil
# small business. the German Minister out of their country, have proved that they whether the Lords or the Com-Police Court this morning, *
La Ha Chen; 2, Wong Yik Tin; 3, Fang, The same piper comes out with youth he had made a hobby of really are waking from their long sleep and though" they will be mona-it will be a lasting disgrace Chinese was charged with steal Shia Ng, 2, Chenng Kong Che; What we want to know is what is operator.
the headline: What Mexia electricity and telegraphy, and with us in excluding the Han from again entering the field of com- to Britain. And, by the way, when ing a quantity of brass from the Cheung King Shing. Time, 29 the United States has done.
220 Yards (Junior)-1, Kong Has Done."- Maakee Mexico. | he is now “Coing his bit polition
they will be there themselves,' shonld, as the speaker said, eet us thinking. Individual basiness necessity for looking up the aid that he found the metal on e
Thin latter truth is Chins going to wake up to the Taikoo Dockyard.
The fact is that we are even to a compara- men in Hongkong, China and the Straits may perchance reslice that Boches within her territory ? To rabbish heap. A watchmen at Kwan Seung Ki; 2, Yeang King the Colony to the fict that, And as to the sge, I myself knew
Defendant 3/5aeos.
tively Inte age oar greatest competitors in the Chinese market will presently be leave any free is to court trouble. the dockyard gatce said he found Taak; 3, Au King, Time, 331 sec owing to Mr. Goldring's retire lady who began the study of wonderfully the Chinese themselves, but one in perfectly safe in saying that this į.
A ramoor (which at present adaptable, and square pegs soon 220 Yards (Small Boys), lacks confirmation) is going round lord their corner in round holes. idea has entered into very few heade at Home. Even Hongkong The Blockade. people, who have been mixing daily with the Chiases for many the Commons yesterday, regard-sent defendant to prison for Chik Fai; 2, Kwan Seung Ki and the Hongkong Telegraph proposes to help her great grandson, of
Lord Robert Osoil's speech in under his arms.
Three Legged years past, do not readily grasp the fact that this great country, ing the blockade, was in reply six weeks and ordered that he Leung Nai Yong: 3, Pan Took to send up a representative to whom she was very fond. And His Worship Cheang Kong Oha and Chau ment from the Sanitary Board, Greek (like Grote) at 80 in order
Race-- 1, which is still yawning and stretching its limbs before rising to take its part in the day's work of the world, must soon cease to be to criticisma" foot which i should be placed in the stooksPo and Lan Sik Wa merely a convenient damping-ground for foreign commodities.
cocasions as no surprise. Lord for four hours.
contest the Taonay. Should there she made real progress top. The beginning of mining and of railway work in Ohins merked
Robert is a well-meaning and
300 Tarde Handicap-1. Pan be truth in the story, we pro the beginning of her new existence as a country productire of those thoroughly conscientions gentle things which, in former days, obe either did without or slas import why the powers-that-be should Mr. J. R. Wood, with being in
A Chine was charged at the Teok Po; 2, Fang Chi; 3, Lamphony a warm time for the De partment-particularly as regards ed from foreign countries. There are some respects in which bare elected to make him Block-possession of a quantity of raw
man, but that dose not explain Palice Court this morning, before Hong Ip. Time, 41 4/5 secs. retrogression is an impossibility for a nation and one of those in ads i nister. After nearly thirty-ruber.
Quarter Mile (Səgior)-1,Ceoil those dust bin, and the stench Chan; 2; Wong Sik Yin; 3.
outside the Central Market, its adoption of foreign laxaries. When once China had tasted of two months of war he tells us that bought it at Hunghom sometime
Delend at asid be Fong In Wing. Tims, 64 secs.
Quarter Mils (Junior)- 1,
Soane: A Keoso Boat: Pas-
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The Engenista have been having another parade, says the Pall Mall Gasetts, and the papers are full of tasteful referenosi to the lookyard. There is a great the fruit of the tres of this kind of knowledge, it was untbiokable] « the tightening of the blockade #go from a man he met walking Cheung Kong Cha; 2, Kongnger from the land of the so long salitin dizonsmed in terma desi, no doubt; in sugenics, bat that she bould return to her old ways. The machine, the railway has resulted in the complete along the road. He paid $1.16 Shia Ng; 3, Pan Shing On Spread Eagle isquitur: train, the steamboat, electricityand the motor-car have came to China cessation of overses importa./for it. Es did not ask the other/Time, 70 4/5 seor.
of fat animal breeding (as if man "Say; [guerobject to having must return to the four-legged. tione into enomy countries."
» man where he got it from. De- Children's Bios1, Ko díky comfort interfered with, just state if he wants to be saved) the they are good, and so are feverishly eager to banish the mare primi- him, we would suggest that it was marine hawker.
respect fendant added that he wAI É
Tann; 2, Li Yan Shai; 3, Ho cause the guys in Europe choose doctrine will hardly be made
to run a li'l five-cent war," really popular.
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to take up a permanent residence--because her people simply can- not resist their attractions; they have tried them, have men that with all des tive contrivances which formerly contented them. The advance in about time that this result should told him if he was not more osre
His Worship King. the popularity of European dress has been relativaly slower, for the reason that it has still not been satisfactorily demonstrated that socras. In the past we toyed fal he would be sendo gaol. This Wong Man Kwong: 2, Li Shin leading article recently: The gone over the varions, parte of foreign clothing is preferable to native; but in practically all else, with the internment business; we
The masketry instructor had from confectionery to cinematograph pictures and from type-writers
with the blockade as we toyed sime he would he fined $10. Hong; 3 Chan Hoo Yeang. to whisky or bottled beer, the Chinese are acknowledging in their the convenience of neatrals who GOVERNOR'S CUP SHOOT. Oh Time, Emin. lixos.
Half-Mile (Senior)-1, Ng Wai! points been a very tough bons to recruite, and had very carefully official phalanx has on many the rifle for his class of raw were furiously anxious to stady daily lives that the productions of the outer world are worth buying. did not oare the proverbial caree
Tak; 2, Creil Chan; 3. Pau 8in gnaw."-We have nothing to add, named and explained such things Bat from buying to producing is but a step. Japan has taught for ours, and who were making
Half-Mile (Junior)-1, Tang constitutes
beyond the auggestion that this as the magazine, the bolt, the that. Japan began by having steamships built in British yards; money, hand over fet, by the sor-
Wing Churo; to-day she builds them in her own. China began by buying manisowe of Europe; and the canse-
something 2. Loong Ki abgnawmal in the way of meta- himself that he had accomplished quite stook, and the barrel. He Hattered tions of war of anyone who happened to have those for sale; to-day
Cheong: 3. Leang Nai Yang, phon: is in foot a tough pro- the laik very well. Just as a test, Further Entries Received. Times, & mine. she can make her own. And to-morrow she will make her ateamquence was that for a long while
position altogether. ships, and-who knows? her battlecraft. In every walk of life
Back Base1, Long Nai
he turned to Private X and asked The following farther entries Tang; 2, Young Han Shau; 8, Germans leugbed the she is showing her determination to do for herself what she has been the supplies which have been Stonecutters: Eergeant Small, Ea: 2, Kong Shia Ng; 8, Kwan which, leaving Peking on Satar.
st have been received for the rifle Pan Cho Pia.
him how many cartridges he had" “blockade.
The Peking Hankow Railway in his rifle.Reflecting a little, X "And paying others to do for ber--all of which, of course, means that every going into
over meeting on Saturday, April 7, at Mile Bicycle Evo-1, Shan Excursion to the Heiling, tombe, one upt' speak.”
is arranging an isolasive Easter replied, “Beven" in tatin' can und day in bringing the foreigner a little nearer to the limit of bis trade discent countries, if we da H.K.P. Warder Gant, Viotoris relations with this cld-new country, in an alarming number of direc- bring pressure to bear on one of Gaol; Q.M. Sergeant Williamor,
Germany from I8LL; 20: 62 Mahomed, Saung Ki.
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tions, and abould warn him to make his bay while the son shines. Į these countries wa oan do so with R E.; Leading. Seaman Kitson Cho Pin; 2. Moy Ting Ye; 3,] Monday 9th April in the evening]
Jagan, if only for geographical reasons; but she will be one the could-bare been starved out Mr. H. Elson, H.M. Dockyard; Me.
day 7th April, at 7.15 by Egg and Spoon Bags-1. Pan the night train will be back on at 6.20).” (Puking Daily News)~*~* Leung Nai Yang
And now was quite foul wo know all about it!!
was cf for that. Her best men know the evil of kaste, Eren long ago, bet for the fatal solt Becek, B.M. Dockyard; KGWG 2 Ng Wai Tak,
though she should take ifty years to sodomplish what her smaliae, heartedness of some of our rulers, neighbour has socomplished in half, that time, there can be doubt a to bar anxiety to arrive at the goal of Western civilisation many of whom will probably of the ultimate success of her efforts. Many Hongkongites of the frat daty is to consider the present generation will probably live to mes Chinx absolutely inde sensibilition of im own folk, and never learn that a Government's pendent of foreign aid in wall nigh every direction, and it is not nos of those whose profiss beyond the bounds of possibility that they may also live-to ses keen story that mon
Probesween themselves and the Chinese in shoes.warylynek me
Drew, H.M. Dookgard.
One Mile Bate-1, Csoil Chan;
There are now over sixty com. Kan; 2. Ko You Cheong ; 3, Lau Old Boys' - Real, Fang Is patitom.
The Sargson Superintendent wall 2, Li Ka Young; 3, Ja
Consolation R100,-L, Kam (B), Dr. Jordan, has wrong Bhin W. In any for the fourth
A local contemporary gava ne the following, the other day: Wanted: A Chinese to tuach
also im
Rumanian Refugees,