ROBERT PORTER & SON'S
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1917.
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We are sorry to see that the re- sidents of Kowloon hara, not | further pressed their objections to the erection of the latrine which.
the Government is erseling for
the benefit of the rickaba ocolies in close proximity to the new railway etation. The point is not
DAY BY DAY.
LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT BE THY COUNTRY'S, THY GOD'S
AND TRUTHS-King Henry VIIL
To-morrow's Anniversary, Tomorrow is the
423rd
so much the unsigh linees or anniversary of the discovery of the insanitary charecter of the Jamaica, structure, placed where it is. That
is a matter concerning which
The Dollar.
The opening rate of the dollar
demand to-day
4.11/18d.
Was
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.
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the like
TO-DAY
MISCELLANY.
I have board: from several officera hone from the front, myES Manchester Guardian correspon eat, the following story of Sir Dɔngiaa Haig's estimate of the roling qualities of the soldiers of the three home Trows under hin Sir-Referring to the Hang-command. It is true that the kong Da ly Fress of the 50.b alf.. account comes st third or fourth egarding the Chinese $1,000,000 hand, but I believe that it is War Gift (the scheme for raising generally accepted at the front. there may be something to be
this amount to be devised by Gov- Sir Douglas is said to have re- asid on both sides. Bat we hav
erament), I do not consider that marked that whenever a parti 2-The objects for which the Asuch a meeting can be regarded cularly brilliant and rapid piece of recollections of a meeting of the.
sociation is founded are:-) The Sanitary Board some two months Alice Memorial Hospital. promotion of the greater represent-whole Chinese community of this of the line he thought it would
The Hon. Treasurer of the ation of the public on the Executive i
as a representative meeting of the work was reported from any part ago, at which Mr. Goldring mored az urgency resolution and sour- Alice Memorial and Affiliated and Legislative Councils. (6) The Colony. Why did not the Chinese be an Irish regiment, and usually ed a promise that the work Hospitals begs to acknowledge pressing upon the Home Authorities community hold another meeting it was so. If a remarkable piece should be suspended until with thanks
the following of the claims of Hongkong to be Theatre Boyal last week, and apsticking it ander tremendous fire,
ope held at the
of work had been done by men Kowloon ratepayers had bad sa donations to the fands of the represented on any Imperial Council point one of the Chinese members with no artillery help and holding ition objecting to the erection. Store, $20.
also express its views upon post-Chairman Mr. Goldring then stated that s
war trade policy. (e) And gener Hospital is merely a charitable English regiment, and usually it The Tang Wasaulte, be concluded that was an number of Kowloon residents Sentence of 14 daya' bard ally the active support or bad written to him on the matter, labour with four hours' stooke, motion or criticism of all reforms or for public meetings. What about in either case it was usually the pro-institution and in not the place was so. But when he was wrong and he declared that he would and seven days' hard labour, matters of whatever nature which the Chinese Chamber of Com Scottish. The Scotsiab, he oppose the scheme to his last repectively, was passed by Mr. are of public interest and import-merce? I think the Chairman thought, were not quite to fiery breath. Now we have the anti-C. "D. Melbourne, at the Polios ance to Hongkong. elimax. The Government has Court this morning, upon two
of that body is the right man to and immediate in their operations, devise some takame, waited a couple of months, and no coolies employed at the Kowloon petition has come along. As Docks, for stealing a quantify of a result, the authorities are as lead from the Dock. they are quite right in doing- Gambling With Other People's proceeding with the work. What
Money. we should like to ask is: Where Before Mr. U. D. Melbourne, at 4. All persons who have request are those Kowloon residents who the Police Court this morning. Bed that their names should be put approached Mr. Goldring on the Japanese employed on a steamer, down as Members of the Associa matter, and why has the petition was sharged with stealing $186 tinn are Members of the Associa The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will not been forthcoming? Mr. Gold. He was given $307 to pay some tion and any British Subject, vio
be as follows:-Daily issue--$36 per annum. Weekly issue-ring bas, it is true, severed his firemen, the cook and some coal is resident in this Colony, shall be With The ratsa per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscriptions Board. But that is no reason and ran away to Macao, When he sociation, and shall hare the right|And their perfums rose up to the but because, being a man of set-
& CO., LTD. opportunity of presenting a pet oss, songko Cigar or Abociations to the torped, past of the Legislative Council as the position against heavy, as
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connection with the Sanitary trimmers, but he only paid a few eligible for membership of the As-
should came back yesterday, he was to join the Association. matter for any period less than one month will be charged as for a be dropped. By their in arrested. Defendant admitted that |
action, the objectors to the soheme he had spent the money gambling.
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RESIDENT.
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Hongkong, May 1, 1917,
TO MY FIRST LOVE,
Once we stood, boy and girl, at
the dawning of love
the great silver lilies around us:
heavens above
found us.
ss the Irisb, but they were mars so than the English, and not quite so tenacious in holding on under punishment we the English, but they were more so than the Irish.
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Col. Roosevelt has gone South to catch the devil-fish; not so much, we (the New York Bening. Post) presume, because he wants to get into training for the Kaiser,
aoned experience and a sense of In the place where our happiness humour when he wants to use it, he is aware that the country will not be quite lost if he takes a few is more, they have, by their very unfavourable light. What three months' hard labour.
Armed Robbery.
But that scent there could be no Washington. In this he differs
have drifted spart,
decision in being worked out af the reactionaries to poot-pooh Mr. J. B. Wood heard the case in At the Police Court to-day, indifference, left an opening for.
forgetting,
from ever so many of our: ever becoming a force to be committing an armed robbery at tion shall be in arrear for a period Like a gem in a delicate setting. been
For it brought the dear pieture self-constitated the idea of public opinion here which two men are charged with 6Any member whose subscrip-
editorial and. cf you to my heart
mayoral war-boards which have reckoned with. A different spirit 27, Eastern Street. The pro- of 3 months shali cease to be to this will have to prevail if the secation allege that three men, member of the Association, uniess So ev'ry fresh year with the lilies ahaping the
sitting up nighta Constitutional Reform Association armed with knives, went into the, the Committee shall see fit for good house, gagged a woman and drove reason to waive the operation of ia to serve a useful purpose.
two wervant girls to the rear of this Rule. the house and then ransacked the| Poultry and Other Things.-
That was a characteristic Gov-place, stealing property valued erument answer which the Pre-at about $100, Doly two men shall be a President, & Vice-Pre- Of the love that had once been sident of the Sanitary Board gave have been arrested.
sident, an Hon. Secretary, an Hon Elysian. yesterday to Mr. Bowley's question
Victoria Theatre. ** Treasurer, and a Committee con- "Tis Spring once again and the Readers are reminded that sisting of not more than 30 Mem- poultry.
"We agreed that we there is another change of pro bers. The President and Vice- the necessities of the case until to-night, when the 3rd "Walling and the Hon. Treasurer shall be ex could not possibly decide as to gramme at the Victoris Theatre President and the Hon. Secretary, we had seen the trade underford episode will be shown, officia Members of the Committee,
Chinese and also a very fine Film d'Art and the Committee shall have power I am robbed of that vision pressure of • feast day." A fire insur Company's picture, relating to at any time to add to their numbers se the present war, entitled "The so as to bring their numbers up to might
The Hongkong Telegraph regarding the proposed depot for
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1917.
THE EXCLUSION QUESTION.
the
ance
Burveyor
-OFFICES.
7.-The Officers of the Association
for
you came,
For
beautiful vision; And regret for the psat would
rekindle the fime
lilies are here.
nation's
pro
their scent brought your to France, and hunting down the gramme in the way of financing. the Allies, sending army divisiona
Oa U-boats. one thing our amateur Great Headquarters men. are agreed, and this is that when Germany wages war she does not (would they meet this enemy who do it sentimentally. Yet how
in « grim, business-like fashion? goes about grima business of war
sentiment about losing no time in Why, just by successive spasms of
our honour, esteem, gratitude, giving testimony to the Allies of
etc. Bat if the Allied war com cils were consulted, they would probably ask there rapid-fire for a good deal less gash and s strategists and financiers of ours
little more straight thinking.
White trampela mid foliage But out and slack upon Fata
dancing.
-for this year
entrancing.
that are desd
horrible cold in
How in it, you ask, that the days Come no more with that perfume I've got such a
so pleasing?--
the bead That I can't smell the darn things
for sneezing! Hongkong, May 1, 1917.
E. W. H.
*
well say that he could not decide Broken Osth". On Friday a maximum of 24 and to form them. Is discussing the question of the exclusion of Germans from whether an old wooden building "Love's Frailty", a coloured film selves into Sub-Committees the Colony after the war, some few days book, we made a brief was worth insuring or not, till bo which introduose the celebrated various purposes. reference to the probability of the Allies' acting in conformity with had seen it afire. To our humble French artist, Mile Robinne, will
8.-The first Officers of the the feeling displayed at the Paris Economie Conference so far as and outside way of thinking, be screened, the employment of discriminating tariffs against the enemy is con- suyone who has inspected the Ko
sociation shall be elected by the Stale & Water Pipe. cerned. That aspect of the subject had, and has, a distinot bearing Shing Street neighbourhood on a
Members at the first General Meet ▲ man, whọ said he had come ing of the Association, and, subject
When the Berlin Forwarta ad- apon the question which Hongkong has been debating of late. It non-feast day as we have had down from the country and was
vocates a new offer of pesce terms has, for example, been argued that to place a ban on the return of the pleasure of doing on many feeling very bangry, was charged to the powers conferred on the Com-
to Ramis, it unquestionably has the Han to Hongkong would be to be animated by nothing other occasions would quite easily before Mr. J. E. Wood, at the mitte by rules and 10 all officers
in mind the altered situation than a spirit of retaliation. Personally, we do not object to the use be led to the conclusion that Police Court this morning, with subsequent to the first Officers shall
with regard to Poland produced of the word in that particular sense, for when a nation or an indivi- whether the proposed area or stealing a Chinese water pipe from be elected at each Annual General
by the fall of the Romanofta, says dual stoops to the low, under-handed methods to which Germany some other was choses, it was a shop at 134, Des Voeux Road. It Officers, so elected, shall hold office counts down to the
Meeting of the Association. All
the Journal quoted sbore. That has descended in this war-not only in the notast conduct of the high time to remove the fowls appeared that he went into the until the next. Annual General previous calendar year shall be willing to concede complete su end of the the new regime in Basis is struggle on land and ses, but in other resime outside the sphere of from their present abode. The shop, snatched the pips off the hostilities retaliatory messures must be taken against that nation filthy atreets wherein these birda counter and ran away. He was Mesting, when they shall retire but presented.
tonomy to Poland there ear, of or that individual.
now kept-"orated" we phased and caught by Police Roser" shall be eligible for re-election from 15.-A special General Meeting of course, be no doubt. There must As we have before endeavoured to show, if we are to object to ought to say would be a dis. Tist (C) 201 His Worship passed year to year.
the Association shall be convened at even be a considerable body of the exclusion of the Germans from thie, or any other British Colony, grace to the worst part of Canton; sentence of 14 days' hard labour. With the exception of the any time on a written requisition opinion at Petrograd in favour of because such ostracisin would be vindictive, we might just as well hollows, in -ome osses several
Caught In Macao. first Officers, no Member of the signed by at least fifty Members of Polish independence, though it is resent the idea of the imposition of an indemnity or of the enfore inches deep and usually filled A Chinese was charged before Association (other than an Officer the Association or by ten members not likely that the Provisional ing of discriminatory tariffs, as the same argament could be made with malodorous liquid, abound Magistracy this morning, with as an Officer of the Association at shall state the purpose for which which the Constituent Assembly Mr. J. B. Wood, at the thereof) shall be eligible for election of the Committee. Such requisition Government or the Government to apply to either of these courses slao. The point we desire to make in the roadways, and We in that all three resolves and many another similar decision-sach, trust that, on their visit to stealing a gold watch, s gold an annual general meeting unless the Meeting is required, and shall will set up will consent to com- for instance, as the seizure of enemy territory and ships-ought only this abode of " blies, the chain, stone seal, a diamond ring nominated in writing to the Hon. be addressed to the Hon. Secretary plate separation. It would be to be viewed as an essential part of the rightful panishment of a President and Vice President of and one sovereign, of the total Secretary of the Association seven of the Association. Such Meeting supplying a basis for the charge sinfal astion. As yet, the Allies have come to no decision on the our Sanitary Board took careful value of $389, from a house at days prior to the Annual General shall be held within twenty-one days that the revolution meene national Paris Conference resolutions, bat the prevailing spirit among states note of the fact. What past Gar-Wong Nei Cheong village. The Meeting at which he is to be pro- after the receipt by the Secretary dismemberment, and so play mito men of the British Empire is reflected in the acceptance by ernments were thinking about to house was left empty and the posed for election.
of such written requisition.
the hands of the enemies of the
dra
the Imperial War Cabinet of the principle that each part allow the construction of the dirty defendant gained an entranceand 10.-In case a vacancy shall occur 10. Five clear days notice of a new regime. But an arrangement-
MANAGEMENT,
in Hongkong.
of the Empire, having due regard to the interests of the Allies, little streets and acarts at the ransacked the place. H+ weat amongst the Officers during the General Meeting or a Special Gen-short of complete independence shall give specially favourable terms and facilities to the products back of the Ko Shing Theatre is way to Macar, where he was sab period between the Annual General ral Meeting of the Association could be found in the form of a and mauafactures of other parts of the Empire. That, in effect, more than we are equal to imagin saquently arrested. Pawn liokete Meetings, the Committee may ap shall be given by the Hon. Secretary dual Russo-Polish republic on the means a system of Imperial Preference, which, while benefiting ing. Nor do we quite understand were found on him, and part of point a Member of the Association by advertisement in one or more of model of the dual Austro-Hao- ourselves, will, at the same time, operate to the disadvantage of why the neighbourhood has not the property recovered. He was to fill such vacancy until the next the English newspapers circulating garian monaróby, with a separate Germany. The German Government correctly gauges the situation been long ago condemned by extradited from Macao. Sentence Annual General Meeting.
Polish Parliament at Warsaw. To when it takes ocassion to warn the worken of the Fatherland, in con- subsequent Coveraments. These of six months' hard labour and
17-Any Member. 'desirous of such an arrangement the Germen nection with this decision, of the omsequences of an Allied victory, reeking by-ways and blind tarn four hours' stocke was passed. 11.-The affairs of the Association moving a resolution at a General or Government could consent withe Forwaarts even seed in it the probable complete exclusion of the ings are a crying disgrace to any Theft from the Yuensang. shall be managed by the Committee, Special General Meeting (other out technically breaking Bethe Central Powers from the world markets.
British Colony, and the only two
At the Magistracy this morning, "who shall have power to make any
than the first General Meeting) shall mann-Hollweg's pledge that nevae”, One point made by the opposente of the exclusion of the Ger- purposes which they appear to before Mr. J. B. Wood, an seb By-Laws they may consider neces give notice thereof in writing to should Poland be headed back so mans from Hongkong is that if the Berlin Government realises that serve are the filling of the pockets bost coolie was charged with sary to give effect. to these Rules. the Hon. Secretary of the Associa the Russian chinornik, it is part of our policy to bar the Germans from entry into British of unscrupulons landlords and stealing seven brass bolts, valued 12-The Committee shall have tion not less than three days before bureaucrat,
In the first plane, possessions for a prescribed period after the war, the result will be the providing of excellent places at $280, from the se. Yoenseng, power to hold Committee or Bub. the date of such Meeting. Poland would be mistress of her to stiffen enemy resistance and so protract the struggle." Well, it of concealment for people with which sochored in the harbour. Committee Meetings as and when,
own destinies; and in the secon would seem that, without waiting to hear what Hongkong has to say whom the police would rather The holte were found in a basket they shall deem necessary, and three 18-At all General Meetings of place Rassis herself has abolinhad on the matter, the German Government has already seen the red like to be in olose touch.
which the man was carrying, and ' shall form a quorum for all purposes. the Association the President, or
the tchinoraik............ What the light, Oar Imperial statesmen may or may not be in favour of
his excuse was that they were
in his absence the Vice, President,
would say about the retan sotnal exclusion of the German from British territory, but they most
|swept up: by, fokis and he, waẾ 13.-General Meetings of the shall take the chair. If the Pre Poea by Gorming and more osrtainly do support the ides of keeping out his goods, so far að is
given the baskets of rubbish to Association shall be held at such sident and Vice-President be absent, by Austris in zuccher mallée. ponible, from our markets. And that, after all, is the main point.
dump. He did not know what time and place as the Committee Member of the Committee shall This all goes to show that Hongkong, in taking the stand that it has, The Bishop of Victoria is to a inside. Mr. Hamilton, third shall determine and at least once be elected for the purpose. Every
Hongkong Theatre, a not so far wide of the mark as some would have us suppose. In open a discussion on "Reunion" engineer, spoke to a man being in every year. Ten Members shall Member present shall be entitled to
From to-night till the sth i principle we are in line with a policy which has been endorsed by at St. Paul's College this (Wed. posted to see that nothing was
one vote upon each motion before most thrilling and the beet brains of the Empire. And that is all the more reason why nesday) evening at 9 p.m. The stolen. The Company had lost a 14-The Annual General Meeting the Meeting and each motion shall drama in four i feeling of the community here should be made definitely known meeting is in connection with the considerable quantity of such bolts of the Association, shall be held not be decided by a show of hands, and Sentenced for Life the Imperial Government before it finally decides the question of Church of England Men's Society lately. Defendant was sentenced later than the end of February in in case of equality of votes the greened in the abi
Inture treatment of enemy subjects within the confines of car and is open to members and to three months hard labour and each year, at which a report of Chairman shall have a second or together with Rung pomamiona,
friends, Dr. Earls will preside.
four hours' stocks.
proceedings and a statement of ac casting rote,
Reunion."
GENERAL. MESTENOR,
forim & quorum,
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS.
farce.
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