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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1917.
DR. SUN'S LATEST EXPLOIT.
The Truck Danger,
DAY BY DAY.
It is with satisfaction that Wa read of the opipin expressed by the jury at the Criminal Sessions that greater VERSE ACCORDING TO THE DI
GRIEF IS NOBLE OR THE RE- supervision should be exercised NTTY AND WORTHINESS OF THE to see that the brakes of tracks OBJECT LAMENTED, AND THE GRANDEUR OF THE MIND ENDUR are in order and that these ING IT-Ruskin. rabioles are not allowed to be handled by any and every coolis who comes along, irrespective Moods in the third sanveereary of his physical strength. The of the sinking of H. M‚S. Bulwark, marvel is thatį fatal accidents in the Medway. do not more frequently occur in Hongkong, since it is no The opening rats of the dollar vory” uncommon thing to see (ön demand today was these vehicles practically out of 2. 10783. The closing rate the control of the ocolies when will be found on Page 1.
Jo-morrow's Anniversary.
The Dollar.
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Sanitary Board.
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The gends for Toesday's meeting of the Board contains only formal businen.
New Architect.“
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18.92
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending December 1, 1892.)
The Dollar.
THE YARN MARKET.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
Migh Fluctuations Recorded. One does not think of the Datoh normally as a cation of Meners. Polishwalls and Kote humorista. But the correspond wall, in their repor`dated out of the Manabods gleefully November 23, sinte :-**
[quated by Krupp's paper deserveG Bince the issue of our last place in the category, Hie report, on the 15th ultimo, our description of the air raid on market, following the erratic Byde Park is quite classical in ita couree of exchange, has underway. The best of it is the gone several change, the range thoroughbred" episode:- of fluctuation being high as $5|
"An aristocratic rider tried to
Nov. 24-The rate of the dollar on demand to-day in 2/93%. to $10 both ways. In the mean give a display of coolness. She Ugofficials on the Warpath. time, cotton has been soaring put her thoroughbred through
bis coming down strep inclines. In
Nov. 25.The Finance Com-upwards, with India, of course;" paces under a rain of `bombe, mittee met this afternoon, the following suit, the last advices but a fragmens of shell caught the case which gave rise to the
Colonial Secz tary presiding, received from Bambay by asble her on the hip. Mortally wounded, jary's comments, & little girl met
Thers were also present the indiosting saubatantial advance they carried ber into hospital, her death through being pinned
Colonial Treasurer, Registrar in the price of the raw material, where shortly afterwards she between a runaway track and s
our market expired." Who says the Dutch General, Director of Public At the moment, verandah support, and it was
The rame of Mr. GR. M. Young Works, and Harbour Master, and appears to be quite firm, the are not bumorists? admitted by the coolies that when been added to the liat of Messrs. Chater, Whitehead, Ho importers requiring general they endeavoured to check the authorised srohitro, speed of the vehicle the brake
Removal of Graves.
Kai, Belilice, and Bell Living. On advance in view of higher replac wheel would rot turp, owing to
Hie Etrellenoy the Officer the first division it was found ing cost.
There is great rejoising among that the Chairman bad DO The total business transacted the lower deck over the decision jra-t. What, we may nek, is the Administering the Government
nee of insisting that brakes be has made an order for the removal vote at all, so that the Unofficials during the period under review, of the War Cabinst to provide fitted to these tracks if no care ie of certain "graves in the Kai Lung mittes resolved to recommend but consisting chiefly of "tens" kit has only been free on entry to were in a majority. The Com-amounts to Fame 7,000 balee, sailors with free kit, Hitherto taken to see that they are in Wan Cemeteries.
reduction of all official salaries to for the Yannan market, “Twen-she Navy, and for some time the working order? The question i
and chair-bearers. And it is high time the authorities took measure to deal with what is s crying disgrace.
he
General Holiday.
... The Medical Board.
A Defendant's Story.
REPRISALS CHEERED, Enthusiastic Scene Follows Announcement.
A Query.
manage d to steer the good
Alban's ship St.
through #ach ..
very stormy 1058. "If you meddle with the clar-gy
FEWER U-BOAT SINKINGS,
| of Bt. Alban's, Holborn," Arohii-
shop Temple warned Dr. Greigh- too, you will find yourself deal- ing with vary sainte people."
parishioners realised that "Fa- ther" Suckling was incidentally This ex Copenhagen, October 17-country squire of ancient linesge?
Account for Falling Off.
ful work done for the benefit of publishes in his newspaper, the manyr at · Baraham and Ship-
this colony, sad on referring to the Tageszeitung, of Berlin, an article | meadow
details of expenditure published preparing bis readers for a de-
in the Estimates for 1893, we órease in submarize destructive-
of the tens of the coolien is also It is notified that Bia Excellency the rate existing before the all-ties" seem to be out of favour. charges for clothes and boots out a most vital one, and we should the Offer Administering the round increase made in 1890. Uneold Blocks 10,000 baler. Bar- of small pay have been a burden The Committee also rejected the guide in Chinese hands 18,000 to the men, especially at incress- like to see some means devised Government in Conncil bas which whereby soms effective guarantee appointed Saturdays, the 8th and vole for cadete, and for the beles. Shipments from Honged war-time prices. As a captain names and addresses with is provided that track-drivers and 15th December, 1917, to be assistant police magistrate. (At kong to Shanghai and out ports, in the Royal Navy recently re-
a later meeting of the Council the 2,000 bales. @ommunications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for chair and ricksha coolies are it observed as General Holidays.
marked, the old regulation came Government refused to allow BDY for the work they undertake. It
Shanghai-Owing to the dispecially bard on the boy, whose is positively painful at times Administering the Government
His Excellency the Ocer redactions to be made).
astroas fooie in the Northern pay amounts to only a few shill- to sit behind some of the miser has appointed Dr. Stuart Segain
Engineers' Ball.
Provincee, this market has beenings a week, and particularly able specimens of humanity who Strahan to be a Member of the Engineers sod
Nov. 26-The Invitation of reported quiet, with small those boys whose parents could Shipbuilders, business præeing. Latterly, ill afford the cutlay for new socka are licensed as ricksha-pallara Medical Board for a term of three opened the season last night with however, a fair inquiry, has set and beats. In any case, a glaring
year, with effect from the 18.ha hail at the new rooms on the in for No. 1.
anomaly has been removed by. November, 1917.
Praya, with the greatest sunceSI. Japanese Yarns. This class of bringing the Navy into line with Indian Constable Fined. The ball room was beautifully yarn has advanced over $12, but the Army. Why it should have At the Police Court this decorated, splendidly lighted by the business done was quite existed for so long passes under- Canton's Presumpllen.
morning sn Indian Naval Tard electricity, and the floor fixed up limited. The following are latest standing. Constable was charged, before in some mysterious manner with quotations-Nagasaki, No. 20, We are wondering for how Mr. A. Dyer Ball, with disorderly which we are not acquainted, at #225; 3 Horses, No. 168 at long the self appointed Canion conduct and attempting to annoy making splendid surface for #205; 3 Horses, No. 208 at Government intende keeping up three Chineas ladies in Welling dancing. The youth and beauty of 8225; 900 halen Yellow Joss deeply mourned by the Balbora "Father" Suckling will be the farce of seeking to control ton Street. Accused denied the Hongkong rolled up in its thou. No. 20 at 8195/210-218: Selen working people, to whom he was the Central authorities instead of offence. He said he did not sands, and played "Tera-ra" until No 10 at $180: Setan No. 20 endeared by a life of devoted self- submitting to it. According to know why he was arrested. In the small hours don't just remem at $230; Blue Fish No. 20 stcrifice. He was a descendant an announcement just made by spector Gordon said the manber which hour. Outside of the ball $230. the "Intelligence Bureau," what made deliberate attempts
of Captain Suckling, the uncle to room, the "other arrangement"
Raw Cotton. After a long with whom Nelson esiled his first is termed the National Assembly annoy the Indies. His Worship were simply immense.
interval a small parool of Bengel voyage; and by an odd chante in Extraordinary 'Session has said defendant's conduct was
entton has been sold at $40 per he was remarkably like Nelson been again laying down the law to disgraceful he would be fined, Nov. 29-Contrary to the pro- piral. Chinese.—No sales. himself. Perhape biz descent Peking concerning the recogni- $25.
rarb, the lawyer abo proved Quotations.Bengel at $37 to had something to do with the tion of the Constitation. Bat who
himself a necessity usually knows $45 Obiness at 40 to $50 tactical skill with which he are these upstarta who take unto A Chinese was charged before some law. But how many lawyers, per pical. themselves the designation of Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police in Hongkong for instance, prove "Nations! Assembly? Their Court this morning, with being themselvau
necessity?
We outlook is anything but national: in possession of 30 teele of pre- pause for a reply. Dr. San Yat-sen, the self-appointed Generalissimo without it is essentially parochisl. posed opiam at Wanchai. It was troops, and the guide, philospher, friend and probably the originator Incidentally, it well becomes this stated that defendant was caught Nov. 30-la a leading article
The Observatory. of the movement in Canton that has as its object the overthrow of group of aabemere to instruct the by a Revenue Officer. Defendant the Central Government at Peking, ia once more becoming notorious Peking Government how to do it said he had only bought some these comments: However the on the Kowloon Observatory are owing to the exploit with which his name is at present being iden- business when it is quite anable dyes to paint his boat. They real question at issue is whether Count Reventlow's Theories to Ose wonders how many of his tified. Dr. San, it would appear, is dissatisfied with the rate of pro-to preserve order in the solitary were red and blue in colour. He or not the Observatory is worth grees of his ridiculous movement,and conerquently is looking Province in which it has assumed bought the dyes in a shop bat $12,352 per annum to the Hong- about for something by which he will be able to keep himself "in power. Brigandage and piracy was arrested by the Revenue kong community. the limelight" and if possible, haraes the "Powere that-be" at are rife in Kwangtung, decidedly Officer, who changed the tins into certainly seems a large one for Count von Reventlow, mouth. He owned the Sackling estates in Peking. Dr. San's latest adventure is something in the nature of illegal bodies of so-olled soldiers opium. The case was adjourned, the amount of practical and use- piece of the German Admiralty Soffolk, where he was lord of the the formation of "Citizen Army," to be raised, no doubt for the are being raised in party in- wholesome purpots of removing all the ills that poor old Obine ie heir tareste, and so loose a grip have to and for which so ardent a reformer sa San Wen, is of course pia-the self-appointed authorities ca ing for an opportunity to remore. Now, it Dr, Sun were the "man the sitastion that troops can of the moment.cr anything like so popular as he appears to have succeed in seizing a couple of deluded himself into believing he ie, bo would have gunboats and forthwith sinking
cannot bat think that the total nose in September, sa shown by "I have always been strack little difficulty in organising such a "Citizen Army" as he seems them. If this is a sample of the Westminster, to demand sa in: without in any affecting the of which is about dar. Ia ad- Auglican Bishops," says Dr. At a meeting at Central Hall, could be very materially reduced the German statistics, publication with the genuine humility of the to have set bis heart apon, but, whatevereteps he may have taken administrative capabilities of the creased air service, Mr. Joy naon efficiency of the typhoon warnings dition to his earlier explanations Horton. I must, I think, be to do so by meane as legitimate as he has any right to adopt, it is Canton malcontents, then пе now cirtain that he has resorted to meiheds that will alienate him should think Kwangtung would Hicks, M.P., said it was all very during the summer months. The of the decrease in the figures of infinitely distasteful to them to even more than at prosent from those in Canton who were at first be glad to see the backs of the well for Dr. Addison to tell the clony must have typhoon warn. tonnage sunk, von Revenilow ad- be addressed as My Lord, and disposed to sympathise with some of the projecte with which the present Jroke-in-office.
people in a bombed ares that the inge sod is willing to pay liberally vanoos the theory that Great and to feel that atmosphere of wortby doctor has of Ists been busying himself.
We learn that Sun Wen's "Citizen Army "is being recruited Trade Commissioners.
menace would be grappled with for them, but it requires no other Britain has withdrawn ships from Court etiquette and adulation before long. The time had come meteo:ological information. We service for the remainder of the always about them," Dr. Horton chiefly from among “bandite sad pirates." No doubt these scally-
for the people to insist that it be chamend this view to the an-year in order to have them in has so many Church of England wage will make good enough fighting material of a sort but they are Those who desire to see the grappled with at once. (Cheers, official members of Council, whose readiness 10 transport the friends, episcopal and otherwise, hardly the kind of men that should be associated with a steady expansion of British over. "Our mes are better than their recent attempts to limit the whole-Argentine harvet in January. that this reflection is interesting. reformer" who, we believe, prides himself apon the parity of his seas trade will welcome the men. (Cheers. Our engineers falo extravagances saciated with. These withdrawals, be says, de-It occurred to him in telling of a purposes and the lofty character of the ideals he holds for the saks pouncement that it has been are better than their engineers; the cfficial administration of cresee the opportunities of the British housekeeper'a horror at of bis sative cantry. The Government of China ie, according to decided to appoint a number of sad the Gotha machine is only a Hongkong tirs have give submarines for sinkings. This hearing Bishop Potter (of New Dr. 800, still in the wrong hands, and has been, Trade Commissioners in the copy of one of ours.'
great satisfaction throughout the theory contraste strikingly with Yord) relating to him the story of doubt, since Sun Wen was compelled by Yuan Shib-ti varions Colonies, Singapore being Daring the last six months the colony.
bis earlier asertions that Great | the man who pitted him on the mske bie basty and inglorious departure into among the centres sflicted. A number of enalties in thie coon-
Britain's available tonnage al-back as he was leaving Americs exile. The fact that Dr. San has found it necessary tJ resort to first sight, the avery might sag-try from air raida bad been 2,000
ready had become too small for and said, "Well, Biahy, how are such tactics is evidence that something that seems very much akin gest itself why Hongkong is not (Shame! while in last week's
its needs.
you?” “I am not sure,” adde the to failure hse befallen his pet projects. He apparently fads that his included, bearing in mind its raids on Lendin alone the official
Sadden changes in the routes famous minister of Lyndburst- position necessitates the formation of a body of soldiery, sad, not commercial importance. Bet the figures were that 52 persons had the sale of the Dachers of of ships, Count Reventlow says, road, "that the American treat being able to obtain them among the citizens of Canton and new scheme ja apparently can been killed and 257, injured. We Hamilton's herd of Bolstein- are making it increasingly ment of Bishops is not kinder to Kwangtung generally, he has found it necessary to enlist the ser- fined to the Colonial commercial in England bad england more Frisian cattle at Exelon. Park, difficals for submarines to locate them than ours." vices of these pirates and bandits. There are good grounds for markets, and, after all, practically casualties amonget the civil Baffalk, 1,650 gainess being paid their prey, He attributes to believing that such is the case and it is a matter for much regret, all the trade with which this population from air raide than for a four-year-old cow sad 1,050 American authority a statement se unquestionably the formation of such a body is more than likely Colony is concerned is confined the Belgian civil population guiness for her eslf. Bulls that the passage of passager to prove a menzee to honest citizens. It is stated that Dr. Sau, in to
But even Nonconformist 4 foreiga market. We unfered at the bands of the in-sreisged £216 and 74 nows lisers between Americs and Eng minister is notalware in touch with his efforts to raise this motley band, had the assistance of "s. former are hoping, however, that the vaders.
averaged 105.
hamsa weakness. Dr. Horton member of Parliament" and it is not improbable that the doctor has other Commission which is Mr. Hicks Baid he would read
Reprisals Win. the support of other men who ought to know better, but who, appar considering the tradal possibilities with great delight a note which With regard to the terms of the
once determined to preach in sup- eatly, having been disappointed in their political ambitions, are, overlook Hongkong. What is note said: "An official announce by which the Germans agree in of the whole Empire will not had been headed to him. The agreement published on Sept. 11,
port of Men, Ormiston Onant's like their worthy chief, "agin the Government."
musio-hall crusade. "Then it If it is the oss, as is reported, that the body of Ereebooters whom needed
Gruesome Find. is that Trido Comment has been made to-night that future to respect French hospital
oooored to mey" he says, "thas While three soldiers were aut-I had neeen been to a music- Dr. San calle bis "Citizen Army," and which is stated to total some missioners should be appointed reprisals are to take place on ships in the Mediterrean and ting in a wood on Combe Farm, hall." ten thousand, are already causing serious alarm among the popaisce to every large centre
So he went, and where Gorman LOWAB.”
the French Government, în re- Langton Matravers, near Swanage; was surprised to find the sadienos of Kwangtung it is more than time the Canton and Peking author British commerce has footing, Men and women sprang to their tare, consents to land "the Dorset, they found a terribly very similar to a congregation in ities exerted themselves more energetically to deal drastically with whether Colonial or foreign, and, fest, cheering wildly, hats were German effoer prisoners of war" decomposed body in a soldier's church. He found the. perform this visionary and mischief-maker. It is monthe sizes Dr. Bun's what is mom, there should be men waved, and it was some time be-from those boepital ships, in uniform. On the sleeve of the nape perfectly droorods and in BITOat was ordered, and it is deplorable that he should still be of business experience. For the fore Mr. Hicks was able to resume. which they have recently been cost was a crown, indicating that credibly stupid. He thought par allowed to be at largo to create fresh trouble. Even his fellow. "pansion of our trade in the Far Sir W. H. Cowan said that all carried, the Daily Mail remarks: the wearer had been a sergeant change the worst was saved to the townsmen of Haangehan are urging the Canton Government to take East we have to thank the war was reprisala, "We mast-Thas the French Government, major, and the body is thought to last, and therefore sat it out, But. sotive steps to deal with Ir. Sao end his piratical followers, who, it British maarohant, who has retain down death and devastation by knowing its own mind and by be that of Battalion Bergeant the last was es harmloos as the is reported, intend converging at a certain point for some purpose ceived sonat help from cfficial on German cities," he exclaimed, taking vigoros, reprisal mes-Major Thomas Fenderick Ford, frat, It was deplorable," in which so far is not precisely known. Dr. Ban is a discredited and quarter. In the fatore, if we are "A dozen German towns of first-ores, bee been able to bring OT, R.F.A., who has been mise Dr. Horton's view, that human impossible person so far as taking a leading part in China's affairs to hold our own, the Imperial and glass impartians lie ready for our Germany to her son cocosing from Swanage since May 30th beings should find plenare in is concerned, and the sooner the better will it be for all when he is loca! Governmente will have to attention. We must bomb them which has never been obtained leat Ford, who was married, things so banal, stupid, and in- placed in a position where he will no longer.be a menace to pesos render more direct aid to com- until the German people or out by the British Government with only in April, had been subject to nipid." However, he recaet Ebe and good order,
|meros than in the past.
for maroy.*!
all its expostulatioma,
attacks of malarial fever,
notes of his merítón:
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