WATSON'S
HYGIENOL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1917.
Those Pacifists.
DAY BY DAY.
THE ABILITY TO SAT "NOT MORE VALUABLE TO A MAN THAN THE ABILITY TO READ LATIN.
It is with supreme satisfaction that we read of the break-up of an attempt at a pesos meeting at Home. People who play the fool when the Empire is giving of its best in the cause of the world's freedom deserran to be roughly handled, and our only regret in The opening rate of the dollar the matter is that the clamourers on
The Dollar.
demand to-day
A HIGHLY CONCENTRATED AND PERFECTLY SAFE for pesos were not summarily 24. 4.5/8d.
DISINFECTANT.
The best preventative of
INFECTIOUS and CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
SOLD ONLY BY
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
LTD.
tarred and feathered. And what, by the way, in the
Home Government doing the t
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CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO „FUND.
The Latest Subscription" List.
The following is the subscrip- tion list to date :- was | Acknowledged to
March 16, 1917 $19,392.45
To-morrow's Anniversary». Tomorrow in the 11th anniver”
University Gifts.
Since received --- Kowloon Customs. Staff, per Mr. 0. D. Gander
Mr. F. G. Backs, Whampoa (March) Sab.) The Robbers
Dan"
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it allows such meetings to siry of the San Francisco earth- take place? Surely these people quake. can easily be preceded against, on balf a dozen counts. They are guilty of condnot liable to lead to
In connection with the gifts of a breach of the peace: they are $50,000 each from Mr. Ho Kom A Bet publicly opposins, or endeavour
tong and Mr. Chan Kai-ming, for. S. 8. (April ing to oppose, a state of affairs the provision of schools of Tropi- Bab.) which has received the sanction of Medicine and Pathology, in Collected by Mrs. the King and the people; they are connection with the University. No. 5- potentially standing in the way we are informed that these of persons voluntearing for schools, which will be built im national service. Above, all they mediately, will be known by the are giving cocasion to the enemy to rejoice, for the Germans will names of their respective donors. know how to multiply one little
Alics_Memorial Hospital. grain of fact by a million, and the
The Hon. Treasurer of the rest thing that the Hun papera Alice Memorial and Afflisted will pablish in that there are Hospitals begs to acknowledge pesce riots at Bome and that with thanks the following dona. Britain is on the verge of civil
-Botelho Bros., $15; W. U. Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which war. For this laat reason of itself sions to the fands of the Hospitale. forward their names and addresses with it is essential that the police at Jack & Co., 310; 11. Mody & Co., requires them to communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for Home should get busy when the $10; Mostrie & Co. $10 publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
All communications intended for publication should be addressed peace maniacs try to inflict their General Electric Co., $10; Bo wild ideas on the long-suffering bert Dollar Co., $10; Donnelly public.
To argue with such and Whyte, $10; A. Ritchie, gentry is, of course, waste labour.
$10. The hound who openly boseta that he would not kill or strike s German, even in defence of bin
A shop assistant has reported own sister or daughter or wife, to the Police that yesterday he
to the Editor.
TELEPHONE NO 16:
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Western Union.
BIRTH.
The Hongkong Telegraph-
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1917.
ENGLISH TEACHING IN HONGKONG.
or
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11
mėn.
A Silly Foki.
A Frank Thief.
Gye Importation.
Espended to March
15, 1917 Since expended. 21,000 Woodbine Cigarettes and 18 lbe Stolen Kirves" Tobacoo distribut ed amongst Troope in Hongkong
Cigarettes 200,000
sent to the Front...
all.
61.00
SOAP DEAL
TO-DAY'S MISGEI
Action Against Messrs. Gossage.
Sir Robert L Borden's name, now a house-hold word, became familiar only az yaara-ngo-says
An interesting case was heard the Daily Chronicle. Until then by the Chief Justice (Sir William he was identified by the paine taking, as the Leader of the Op Reen Davies), in the Summary position in the Canadian Parlis- Court this morning, a claim for ment, whom fight againat Liberals $1,000 being brought against the iam seemed hopeless. But his well-known soap firm of Mesure, Opportunity came with the anti-
Reciprocity campaign. William Gossage and Co. Ltd., Conservative viotary made the 11 of Widnes, Lancashire, The olever but unimpassioned lawyer 20.00 plaintiffs were Tang Yak-chaon, politician popular in this country, a.merchant of 310; Queen's and he has ever sincs remained a 10.00 Road West; and Lye Joon- empire upon preferential tariffs. sang (by Tang Yak-chuen, his Sir Robert was the first Leader of 5.00 attorney), master of the Kwong the Opposition in a British logis Arthur, List Yan Hing, merahants of Sings Government, and this, together flaturs to reosive a miary from the 687.75
pore, the particulars of their with his wages as a private mem- $20,181.40 alsim being $1,000 for damagen ber, Fielded him before he be sustained by them in caure came Prime Minister about $2,000. quence of the defendant firm hay.' YORK. ing obtained an interiin injunct.
5 20
.$19,215.14
hero of those who would build tha'
Consuls do not cocupy the same
ion against them in an Original action in 1916, and in accordance favoured position as diplomatie with the undertaking given on agents in the eyes of international October 7, 1916, to the defeadant's law. Their business is not with: 75.60 counsel to be responsible for affairs between State and Stats,
damagee sa follows: Storage of but with protecting the intereste dive 651.34 1,200 cases of "Beehive" soap for of individuals in a forsign country. period of two months at five Thus, though they enjoy asvaral $19,942,08 cents per case, #126; deprecia of the immunities of • pablis tion in selling price of 1,250 cases Minister, they do so as a courtesy, Balance on band $ 239 32 of soap at 50 cents par case, not as a right. But all civilised
$630; special demage from loa custom secures them mənafe-o of sale on the cases of soap, $244 dust, and their papers and in Mr. B. U. Faithfall appeared many cases the consular buildings are held inviolable. In practics, for plaintiffs and Mr. E. G. Griat though not by law, Consuls them. defended.
selves are not subject to arredi,
W. A DOWLEY. Hon. Sec. and Trose, Hongkong, 18th April, 1917. Acknowledgments.
CORD
at which
to Hongkong. Heeers, above helps to rob them" of their
Christ Chureb, Westminster
is long past. any argument, was entrusted with $1,890 to be. The following acknowledgments other than a sound thrashing, paid to the M. B. K. office, by have been received:
In opening his esse, Mr. Faith-eave for serious crime, and thir bath in a horsepond.his master. As he was passing by
Lieut. Colonel A. H. Leggett, full said the damigea were exception holds good also in the The best thing that the Home the Central Market, he was stop. 5th Bn. B. Soots Fusiliers-On claimed in consequence of the case of diplomats, though these Government can do is to capture ped by man who said he had behalf of the battalion under my defendants having obtained on would probably only be detained KENNETT-On 16th April, 1917, to Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Ball these patriotic souls se cosa found a bundle of $100 notes, command, I write to express to injunction against the plaintiff until taken into their own Kennett, & daughter.
ion offers, and keep them in gaol hat, as he was afraid to keep you and all subscribers to the in October last and the usual try's 'custody. till the war is over, for they are them, he would sell them for $20 Hongkong Cigarette and Tobacco undertaking given in such cases what Artemus Ward would have each. The shop assistant paid Fund our deepest thanks for the to be responsible for coets should
America possesses a society of termed "a come to sasaiety an him $390, and when he examin- generous gift of 10,000 cigarettes it turn out that the injunction pirits on honest people's corn beefed them he found they were only which arrived yesterday and should not have been applied for. seaweed enthusiasts who hold barils."
bundles of worthless paper.
which Bave been distributed to By the injunction, the plaintiff periodical dinners Peace Per Socialism.
the men to-day. There is no were precluded from selling the nothing but sosweed is served. One of its' members--recently Those German Socialists who
need I think to tell you how soap, and it was not until some are to keen on consulting with "I stole the cloth," admitted a much such a gift is appreciated tims later that the defendants published an article in the Technical World Magazine” in the Russians with s view to a Chinese charged before Mr.O.D. and I can assure you we are solicitore, Mosers, Wilkinson and pesce mettlement will want careful Melbourne, at the Polis Court intensely grateful.
Grist, found that they had to which he stated that on the nea watching, for it has to be remem- this morning, with stealing a roll
Major Price Wylie, Comdg. 2nd withdraw the action. It was alleg. beaches of the United Statem beded that they are Germans first of hemp cloth. Inspector Brown Ba. Sherwood Foresters beged in the injunction that the soap sufficient proteids to take the place and Socialista next. Past ex-stated that the cloth was at the to acknowledge with many thanks the plaintiffs were selling as of the entire product of the North- perience has surely taught the back of the shop and defendant the receipt of 10,000 Woodbine Messrs. Gossage's soap was not Western wheat fields sie cast up by “The 'ungathered harvest of the This must be about the thirtieth time, during the past five world that Wilhelmn and his walked in and took it. He was cigarettes sent by the British Gossage's soap at all, but was got the waves and alldwed to deosy...
" will not, he thinks, long years, that we have beaded an article as above. We return to the attendant impe know how to seen by a foki, who chased and American Tobacco Co,, on behalf up to look like it, even to the trade subject on this occasion with more gratification that at other times, exploit every creed and every maght him. Defendant, who of the Hongkong Cigarette Fund, mark. The plaintiffs protested Bea
Wilhelm said he had only been in Hong. for distribution amongst the men that it was Goseage's soap, saying escape the notios of enterprising because there now seems a possibility of some of our efforts' being crase in the world. rewarded with success, As our readers are aware, it has always honestly believes that he has song for ten days, was sent to of the Battalion, All ranks send they had purchased it from their business men, Some day we
for becoming prison för a fortnight.
their best thanks to the generous agents a matter of fact he was shall see "Shredded Seaweeds"
"Dessicated Dulao,* -* ** Malto......... been our complaint that Hongkong education is attended with a special gift
to all
donors to your Fund for their partner-in Singapore. They good deal in the false pretences line. The school fees, it is true, all things
this war broke out
kindness.
had a letter in their possession Kelp" "Cream of Sen Hose," and are trifling by comparison with those paid at Home, bat, whether Since
Before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, si Capt. R. McErlich, Comdg. 4th from Mosers, Goessge's branch at a score of other marine prepar small or large, the man who pays then has a right to velas for his he has been severally a Mobam. money. Unfortunately it happens in quite the majority of cases that medan, a Catholic, a pro-Pole, the Police Court this morning, a Cameron Highrs. beg to ack Singapore saying they had sold tone alluringly advertised. Bat the man in Hongkong who is paying for his boy's "education" is pro-Russian, s pacifist and a Chinese was charged with import-nowledge with many thanks, the quantity of "Beehive" soap to a what will the fishes think when unable to know whether the money is well or ill spent. For one member of the Greek Church ing & considerable quantity of receipt of 10,000 Woodbine" merchant who had shipped the the soonomic pressure of the world Chinese father who can keep a check on the foreign subjects learned He finds it lose and less difficult valuable dyes. It was atated by Be cigarettes sent us by the British soap by his children, and note progress or the reverse, there are probably to humbug people outside his venue Officer Olarks that defend American Tobacco Co., Ltd., Gossages, in that letter, asked food ?.. thirty or forty who know no tongue but their own. These thirty or own happy realm, but he can and was arrested as he was getting London, on your behalf. The the merchant not to ship any more forty are, then, necessarily in the hands of the educational authori- still fool many of the Germans, out of a sampan which had come cigarettes have been distributed soap to Hongkong sa the firm
and be is quite capable of sending from the a.. Hanoi. He had the amongst my men who are very had a sole agent there, and it Bridge-road, where General Sir ties.
An enormous amount of the tax payers' money is spent annual-off Socialist emissaries to Sweden dyes in his possession, but he had appreciative of the kindness hardly seemed fair. He could H. Smith-Dorzien recently anyal- ly on our schools, bat it is doubtful if anyone are the personnel or Denmark with his bleming and not an export permit. Defendant and thoughtfulness our sincere slearly prove that the cosp they ed a Roll of Honour bearing the of the Education Department benefits very materially. Probably special message of love to said he was only an employee on thanks. With best wishes to you i were selling was Gotage's soep, names of the 750 members of the sad defendant's counsel was | church" now on service, has su few people come more frequently into touch with every class of Chin all Russian democrats. In other the ship; not a business man,
H. Barlow, Field Post Office- satisfied, so he dropped the pro-interesting link with the United. see than newspaper men, and it is our experience that it is a great words, it is more than thinkable and he did not know the lawa.
The damages now States worth recalling rarity to meet Chinese men or boys who speak anything like correct that be has a considerable nam His Worship it ficted fine of Many thanks for parcel of smokes 'osedings.
received. They are very socepts claimed were sustained by reason the present time. The English, or who can write even a brief letter without mistakes. Still ber of spies in his employ who $10 and confiscated the dyes.
|able, situated as we are in's' pleos of that injunction.
lofty tower, which forms a South more rarely do we find Chinees who can follow easily and intelligently are going to pose as Socialists for
Mr. Grist raised a preliminary London landmark, is a speech, lectars of conversation in English. This means, as we the nonce, Europe wants no Unsatisfactory School Premises, impossible to get them. Boch Mr. Cavalier, of the Education gifts as yours, make our loads a have before remarked, that Hongkong University is rabbed of an peace, in the sense that the E- enormous percentage of its power to benefit the locally educated peror William understands the Department, charged a Chinese, little lighter, and we look forward objection here, saying the after President Lincoln, and the
st all. The undertaking defrayed by a number of student, for that student as often as not begins his course with only term; therefore it is idle for Bus at the Police Court ibis morning, to the fight. Rest sasured the action could not be brought cost of its erection=£7,000" was half a working knowledge of the English language, and generally isn extremista to go out of their before Mr. J. B. Wood, with lads of the old country will see givan by counsel to be responsible eat American citisens with the foggiest notions about grammar and sentence-making to listen to any Germen keeping a school on premises mot this through when they have the for posts was given in the usual testimony of their gratitu sham-Socialist ap to the standard. It was stated people at Home and the Colonies way, and it was customary for any the constant and powerful and his luckless father thinks it's all right."
The blarney. That it is not "all right" is shown by one's syery day experi-
peace which that defendant had been to the behind them.
costs incurred to be referred to cacy of the Northern cause H. R. Baker, A. Goy., 5th K.8. the Registrar for arbitration. That the great Civil War by the endes among the Chineer, by the fact that a Chinese member of the the Allies mean to have is not one Education Department, and asked Legislative Council was moved, not long since, to atter a public of mere talk, but one founded on for permission to open's school, L. L, B. E. F,Many thanks for had never been completed, and Dr. Newman Hall. The protest against the prevailing condition of things, and by the state-crushing victory over the Bun stating that he had nine papils. parcel of smokse received which the case was still before the Court, which has the Start and Barse ment which we published yesterday to the effect that the Governor forces. And that peace is coming A visit was made, when it was were greatly appreciated by my They could not bring a fresh inwrought in the stonework, and samais adorned with the British Tow has appointed a Committes to enquire into the terobing of the as fast as it ressonably can. Idle found that there were fifteen comrades and self. Bach aotions sution to recover the
Bum that Was the zabject and American Eagle, was ope English language to Chinese boys in Goverment schools, and to chat, however, will do more to-students, who said they had been as yours stimulate os over here," examina the question whether by a reduction in the number of other wards retarding it than towards attending for about three weeks. especially coming from China. It of an unfinished action. Until on the centenary of Amer subjects more time can be devoted to such teaching. With the hurrying it along. Russia, like The premises were not satisfactory shows we are not forgotten no the Registrar had settled the Independence.
matter what part of the world a point, no other case could be exception of one or two names, the Committee chosen is not of the Great Britain, needs all her en- A fine of $15 was imposed.
Liver and Tripe.|||
Britisher is situated.
brought,
An Anglo Indiai bast, it is trus; but the mere appointing of a committee at all is an ergies for the field and has none
A coolie was charged before Bombardier A. E. Stapart, O
had a worldwide A considerable amount excellent sign. We imagine that the members will have little to spare for argament, it is the
travellingde dimmalty in discovering means of time-saving. A half hour snipped will ate as the end of the war, Court this morning, with steal B.F.A-The men of O'Battery argument ensued as habet, the other day
Entente armies and rulers who Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at the Police sab-seation, O Battery 59 Bde. from this or that time now devoted to subjectä which most of the
and anything that Socialists ing a knife. Mr. Watson,rubecribe most heartily to the the Registrar, Mr. Hagh A. Nisbet, Coonsiderable difference. But that is not all. When the war is over, —can say or đón in the matter skid the knife was lying on the smokes received, and add every matters stood. "
boys will never be able to put to practical use, should make a very even of the most-genaine brand Inspector of slaughter-honses, i expression of thenka för parcel of being called in to state how the English cap we hope to see sweeping alterations made in the Education Depart-in flect the ingre. Let the table. The door was seldom lock- good wish for the bealth and His Lordship decided that the - ment, sa regarde some of its present employees, There are many
were their ed, and it was easy for these welfare of the distant friends who case should go on, k men engaged in this department who are a credit to the Colony Bussian Socialiste gentlemen, and men of unquestioned education, integrity and ability. breath for getting on with the nippers to dodge in and pick up have so kindly remembered them. There are others who fall short, either in point of knowledge or in war, and let the German dito, if anything. Fortunately, point of conduct, and it is surely the Government's duty to see that they have any pretence to aiboere knife was easily identified. Abe ratepayers' money is not squandered on these. For the amount ity, throw down their rifles and It was found in a pork which the Department is spending every year it is possible to get refuse to fight any longer for the butcher's shop & little way men of good cinn who take their profesion seriously; then why Pig of Potedsm abouli money be skrown'sway, on undesirables? The Chinees are paying the Government to teach them English, and it is more thán Lume that the Government fulfilled its contract, by arranging a sane
ble and by getting rid of those of the masters in its employ than #petent or who are otherwise undesirable. We shall
Lana ordinary interest the findings of this new the
Socialist
of
French Vellat Fund..
the sum of $50, towards We desire to acknowledge with French Relief Fund from
the
Stole a Pig
A coolie was charged before down the road, where defendant M., O. D. Melbourne, at the Polis had sold it for 25 cents. If de Court this morning, with steali fendant had taken a hunk of liver a pig from the sa. Web On for a piene af kripe, they would was stated that defendant sold it
Defendant was senk nos have been able to identify it.
a stall-holder at the Western- keff where it was identified. for woven days and was order
owner, Dafendent.
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Evidence was then given by the plaintiff dealing with the Aransaction. He detailed how it was that the soap came from Singapore and how the claim
made up... S
His Lordship, after hearing idence of theť pla
that ba
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the
city in the
time