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RING IN THE THOUSAND YEARS.
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To-day "mitnemens the close of| another year, sad in looking back ↑ upon it we think the Colony of
RING OUT OLD SHAPES OF FOUL Hongkong has every reason for DISEASE. general astisfaction. Trade, onl RING OUT THE NARROWING the whole, bas been remarkably LUST OF GOLD; good. Indeed, considering that wo
RING OUT THE THOUSANT WARS OF OLD, are now in the fourth year of the war, it has really been remarkable of PRACE. that the Colony has, in many epheree of activity, kept business going "as urus! Despite the fact that we are thousands of miles from the Homeland sed that the freight situation has grown mere acate then ever, a very substan tial trade conneo on has been maintained with the Mother Country, and the Colony cannot be said to have suffered real shortage in any necessary com. modity. That is a tribute both to the British command of the
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1917.
THE ALLIES' TAŠK IN 1918.
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'Back Again,
Victoria Theatre,
Touching Ceremony in a Belgian Garden.
HOSPITAL SHIPS.
TO-DAY'S MISGRLISAN.
The man in the street mosda s
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German Charges of Abuse. Again, y poor shot at truth, in a
Disproved.
survey and valuation of "the late Sir William Bylen Manchester Guardian. To the man in the street he was ans of Further correspondencs is the “kill-joys" of one time, s issued as a White Paper relative man who wished to prohibit all Mr. Philip Gibbs, the Daily
sorts of things which the man ins Chronicle special correspondens, to the allegation by Germeny that the street bolde in high leem.
item sa follows
British hospital ships has been and to reduce life generally to War Correspondente Read- used for the transport of men and the kind of tos-party which the quarter, Oct. 28. The body of munitions. The speciso state man in the street would not Mejor William Redmond, who mente, which are set out in full, enjoy. He war thought to have, gave his life for Inland'e sake are estegorically examined, and in a sort of double dose of the and for a great ideal in the battle several instances it is shown "Nonconformist conscience," and of Wischsets on June 7 this that at the dates given in the to favour the drab and grey tones ear, lies in the grounds of charges the shine named were of life. Other thought him Belgian convent not far from the not even at the places indicated, crank, whatever that may mean, battlefields, and yesterday there For instance, it is alleged in a and both cetimsten failed to take csma to his grave a deputation of letter by an Austrificer taken an account of that steadfant a fach The opening rate of the dollar his countrymen to lay wreathe of prisoner in Italy, that the ment to personal liberty which nssa and to the enterprise and on. demand to-day
honour and love upon it, while Mauretanis sailed from Naples was his guiding principle of life. formight of local business men. Sa. 1/8d.
on sah side stood Irish soldiers, in March, 1918, for Sloniks with | 20 Catholics and Protestante, who had troops and munitionn Ag In the House of Commons this. known him and fought with him, matter of fact, the Mauretania love of personal freedom often led It was a little ceremony on the was not at Naples in March, Sir William Byles into somewhat outskirts of war which touched 1918; abe was there in Novem strange companionship, and that those present with more ber, 1915; and inspected by the same man in the crest would emotion than comes to soldiers U. B.. Swiss and Danish Consuls have been quite surprised to see over the grave of a gallant man who certified her sa having no him is a Grand Committee, fight- who fell in action, though that is combatants or warlike stores on ing. in alliance with Lord Robert always deep. But the greve of board.
Ceoil, a tenacious battle against . this Major Willie Redmond It is curious also that two of some new sitempt of the State to In times like the present it is A Chinese, who was banished ja he was always called, was a the German witness one of drive a man this way of that no- also gratifying to feel that the for life only a short time ago, and spirita 1 reminder of the fise our agenta at Cardiff" and "a doubt very much for his own All communications intended for publication should be addressed Colony has been able to take a by who had been bacished twice faith with which be was oilled to Dutch subject give divert good, but still to drive him. no mesos inconsiderable part before, was charged before Mr. the heart of Ireland in days of dates for the presence of the in a direction which his own during the past twelve months in Dyer Ball, at the Police Court great danger and conflict and Formoss at Cardif Both are impulses did not prompt him randering positive assistance to this morning, with returning to tragedy, and these soldiers stand wrong.
to go. Looking sorrowfully si the Empire. In this connection the Colony. His Worship adjourn 102 guard on each side of bis A memorandum by Mr. Balfour, the ranks of the social reformers we think particularly of the com-jod-the-case-antil Wednesday. grave, on one side men of the dated Oct. 5-last, calls attention on the Liberal bencher, Bir Wil ber of new ships which have been
South and Weet and on the other to the "remarkable fact that liam often aid that the spirit of launched from Hongkong" yards,
A Poor Defence.
men of Vister," comrades in arme German submarines and other liberty had fitted orces the flor representing quite a useful quote When charged with the unlaw in many battles, symbolieed that warships have never, coce exer- of the House and was to be found of tornage and, incidentally, off-ful possession of a quantity of faith in the anion and brotherhood cised the right of inspection in the unexpected keeping of the setting, to some little extent, brass and lead, a Chinese told of the Irish people for which British hospital stipe." So far as noble lord who then represented. lowes which have been suffered Mr. Dyer Bill, at the Hagistracy Redmond cffered up his life. can be ascertained, Mr. Balfour Marylebone. It is questionable through the operations of this morning, that he foon the I was glad to be there yeater-adds, they have only ones stopped whether he did not think we had the eremy pirates. It
has staff on the billside at Quarry day, for in the Battle of a British hospital ship long done more harm than good in demonstrated during Bay. This story was not believed. Wyt chaete, after great bombard enough to examine her papers; forcibly depriving the errand-boy 1917 that the Hongkong shipyards and the accused was sentenced to ment and the touching of the this was one Feb. 23 of this year, of his cigarettes, His own remedy. are able to tarà oat work well ap fourteen days' hard labour. mines which were the signal of when the Dunluce Castle was held would probably had been to to Home standards, and the fact
the attick, I went up among the ap in the Eastern Mediterranean. allow the errand boy to per- that there has been launched here
Irish soldiers and heard how A long statement by an opers severe till about half-way the biggest vessel yet built in the The management of the Major Redmond bad fallen at the singer, named Messany, who wse through the second cigarette, The year 1917 closes with most of the nations of the world in sufficient to indicate the possi- engaged the Fantastic Stare" were not heavy that day, and it placed on a bcapital ship. Britan him much better in its own way.” British overseas possessions is Victoria Theatre bae specially head of his men. The Irish losses in Egypt, and subsequently when pature would no doubt teach the grip of a life and death, straggle. When the year opened there bilties of Hongkong as an Im and the Bell Vaudeville Company wsa cour best victory up to that nic, on which he alleges 2,500 The truth is that his type in were strong and, sa events then were, reasonable hopes that before it had ran its course the Allies would be celebrating victory over perial shipbuilding centre. To to give a big holiday programme time, and the Irish, troops were English soldiers were concealed politics the rohool to which he their foor. Big changes have, however, come about since then, spite of the war, too, the Colony's at 4 o'clock this afternoon and at a bet with eaccess, but even in the hold, is placed in parallel really belonged, for his was rather notably the collapse of Baceis, and thus we find another twelve revenue has grown space, with 915 o'clock to-night at the then they were saddened by the columes with the statements of the rationalistic than the Noncon mor the abent to open with the great ffenes still undecided: But the result that the Govern- Victoria Theatre. These will be thought that Willie Redmond was two British soldiers, osan formist conscience is not to be if the Allies' arms are not yet triumpbant we can at any rate lock mant has been in a position the last occasions on which the among those who bad fallen.. invalid, and the other an R & M.C. found nearly so frequently in back on a year of great accomplishments, and, above all, we have to make substantial contributions Fantastic Stars" will be seen "It was hard luck," said manman, disproving his statements Little Padlington or Mudborough the knowledge that to-day, more than ever before, the nations now as well as to vote two large eams South this week
to the Imperial war-cheat here, as the company rails for the after man. "He needn't have entirely, Haasany seems to base those places where the man ir fighting the battles of civilisation and liberty are determined to for the relief of sufferers from
came over the top with us. They his statements on the fact that he the street does not wish to live-➡ stick to the tank to which their energies have been devoted for other causes then the war itself.
asked him to stay behind, but he saw some men in khaki, in which as in Paris, where he dose. He over-ibree years now-antil the world is freed from the insidious The general public, too, has-dur-
would come with us and share connection it is pointed out that was distinctively French in his dangers which have threatened it in the past. Apart from actual
An Indian watobman employed the risk of it."
standing orders provide for khaki Jucidity, his passion, for affaire, military gains on the several fronts and they have been considering the year responded moet by the Chins Provident Losa and Yesterday the memory of that for sick and wounded who are bis enslavement to an ides, his able the Allies have during the year joat eading been brought on behalf of war charities. In godowns at West Point, saw a in the garden of the Belgian
liberally to the many calls made Mortgage Company," st their Irish gentleman and soldier lived not cot cases on bospital skipa. cigarette and coffee. It was n into clo-er and more vital co-operation, they have been perfecting brief, the Colony has accomplish Chinese in the not of stealing a Convent. A number of French
study in the airs and bebita of the whole machinery of warfare, they have secured the immensely ad & splendid sil-round record large oil toh from the lane at the officers, ecme efficere of the
politics and public life to ess him- promising help of the United States, and they are better fitted
open his evening paper in 8. to-day for the tasks that lie ahead than ever they have been. Indeed, this year. Ia wishing our readers side of the gedowns and or United States Army, the general
corner of the alube their strength is growing while that of their enemies in weakening, express the fer vent hope that 1918 helonged to o Chiness godown Major Redmond served, and while gloriously leading his men Perhaps you will permit
Happy New Year, we can only catebing the man found the tab of the Irish Brigade in which the morale of their people is unshaken, and they step forward into will witness the successful ron keeper. The man was charged officers on the staffe of the Irish to victory. He was over 50 philosopher to throw what light 1018 with a confidence bera of the certain knowledge of eventual clusion of the war for the Allies before Mr. Drer Ball, at the and Ulster Divisions, were group in the last battle he could have the phrase "gone west, says a when he volunteered, and, though he can upon the ides underlying victory, full and complete.
Though fighting is still proceeding, save on the Russion Fronte, increased prosperity to the Colony he was sentenced to acTen weeks' gnärd of bonear was formed by stayed behind he preferred to go correspondent to a Home paper." the sound of peace talk rechoes throughout the world at the in common with all parts of the hard labour.
and that the fatore will bring Police Court this morning, when ed round the grave, and the moment. It is not without its significance, either, that the countries)
men of the Royal Irish Regiment, over the top with the men be The direction in which departed most prominently pushing forward conditions for a possible settle-
Empire.
from Major Redmond'a Battalion, loved and the men who loved souls travel in dealt with by ment are the Central Powers, especially Germany. The most America's War Preparations.
and by the Inniskillinga.
him. In the hour of his country's Herbert Spencer in his Principles reasonable explanation of that fact is, we think, to be found in the
Before Mr. Dyer Bell, at the Among the soldiers was a little difficulty be believed that if of Sociology," and he maintaina knowledge these nations bevo that they expuot by buy possible
Already the United States baa Police Court this morning, a gathering of nuns belonging to Irishmen were to come together that "the habitat of the dead ”- mesne win the war and that the very best they can do for themselves done much since their entry into Chinese woman was charged with the convent. They have tended it was to be by fighting side by was originally conceived as ia to secara peace by a reversion to the status quo ants bellum. do much more there is abundant watch, the property of Mr. Hick.ungly, not only for Ireland's take and not with one another, and for but owing to migrations it began the war, and that they intend to attempting to pawn e silver the grave in their garden graci-side against the common enemy, coinciding with that of the living, to the Russian suggesticne, and, as we bave often said before, even before their formal declara-Gardiner appeared to defend, and, friend the officer whose dead body That, in abort, covers the whole propoiala contained in the Basevidence. From the beginning, ling, of Wanchai. Mr. J. E. but because they knew as a good that faith he died, a cessation of hostilities on any euch basis as that is an alter tion of war, they vary materially in reply to the charge, the woman was brought to their place after watched the Irish soldiers who and elsewhere to: distant hills impossibility. We may perhaps be pardoned if we fail to use assisted the Allies financially and admitted that a man had given the battle. Es used at one time listened to him, and saw how and mountains." The divergences. While Dr. Ashe was speaking forest, there, to the remoter forest,
anything particularly magnanimous in the enemy promise not to "forcibly appropriate any territories at present occupied, or in the by their readiness to supply large her the watch to pawn. The case to visit the convent, and on the moved they were, and how some were connected by the one belief disclaimer of any intention to rob any nation of independence lost quantities of munitions. They was adjourned until Wednesday, walls of its refectory they have thing changed in the look of their that the dead returned to the daring the war. There, after all, are merely negative seenzences, have since raised a large army, a bail being fired at $200. asinti the Irish Barp and the sea when he spoke of the men place from which they or their to say nothing of the worthlessness of any verbal pledge inspired
considerable portion of which was His Worship's Hope. Bed Hand of Ulster side by side, whom Redmond loved and who ancestors had migrated, and, aa by Germany. Not a word is said in the Reply about reparation for equipped for service in A Chinese who was found to because of the anion of the Irish loved him. Then the speaker, the case may be, they are said to. grievous wrongs done, nor is there any agreement to the perfectly been engaged in hostilities, and who had been banished in
France. where it has since have two previous convictions, fighting men.
turned to them, first to one side have gone north, south, east, or democratic ideal that call nations abould have the right to choose Naval forces were
His gay spirit, and bis simple and then to the ather, to the west. As instances he given thire, their own destinies. On the other hand, there are many impossible
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8300 1910, was charged before Mr. faith, and his fine Irish courtesy Royal Irish and the Inniskillinge, teen savage tribes of whom seven stipulations put forward which the allies are supposed readily to despatobed, and sra
now Dyer Ball, at the Polios Court made Mejor Redmond well be and asid how good it was 13 see my that their dead go west, and accept, including, incidentally, the return of the German Colonies operating with the Allies. In this morning, with snatching a loved within thesa a alls. So now, and South united in this comrade-north, two south, and thren and
his countrymen from the North of the remaining six only cus goee which we have conquered by straight, clean fighting. There need is speeding up with a view to Chinese, who was entering, the guns were firing with dull distant ship, by which they would Whether or not this idea of re- every direction the United States $5 gold piece from another while across the Ypres salient the be no wonder, then, that from every Allied country which has yet spoken on the subject comes a chorus of surprised disgust that the being able to strike with effect, barbour on board a ship. The hammer strokes, there was a win the war together end by turning home has given the enemy should think us foola enongh to listen for one moment tapanch that what is being done is on an His Worship sentenced him to wreath of honour, and a bunch of together, einking big differences, ordinary mortals cannot say
and the latest telegrams indicate accused admitted the charge, and ailenos in the garden when the which they would guide Ireland phrase "gone weat" to our soldiers impossible proposals. Eran the Russian perce delegates insist on the protection of the rights of small nationalities..
anormous Foale. Hence the six months' hard labour, express heather placked by Hra.-Red-putting self interests on one side Mr. Henderson, in speaking at the great British Labour Con- enemy'e manifest anxiety to ing the hope that the men would mend from her husband's garden Bad, with firm confidence in the When last Americs came to ? ference, put forward as the first essential a settlement based on the launch a powerful attack in the be banished for life.
in Wexford, and some roots of one God above them, striving to
make war in Europesa waters it principles of democrsoy and security. That is precisely what the the scene. And if anything
Weat before America is fully on Did it for Vengeance. abamrock which grew on Vinegar do all to bring peace, justice and mangoed
was against pirates. Bat the Allies are fighting for, and we challenge anyone to find any fracoshould serve to add more zast to he did it out of vengeance, & the Mayor of Wexford, sad the That was the message of Major from those against whom they are Giving as his scle excuse that hill, were laid upon the grave by happiness to their dear"untry, pirates they then fought differed
As M. Pichon puta it, we can only consider the war won when the bably be found in the telegram to me bags of Bour from a shop at James Aabe. They had comalay in the grave there, but who now pitted; the Barbary corssirs of a like ideal in the proposals advanced by the. Central Powera. America's preparations it will pro Chinese pleaded guilty to sterling High Sheriff of Dablin and Dr. William Redmond, whoss body Germage are trady to make reparation for wrongs done, and we can hand to the effect that Germany 18 56, Osnton Road, Kowloon, when from Ireland on this mission on it somers and
did save crews and passengers? only obtain that guarantee frat by corquering the enemy and then
Bat there as the tras Kaiser in- by dictating our terms to him. A peace by settlement is, in our treating American prisoners with be was charged before Mr. Dyer behalf of a Memorial Committee The officers and the men and stipot in old Ali Pas opinion, quite out of the question. The Daily Mail well sums the
very much less consideration" Ball, at the Police Court this which includes men and women the mens went out of the Algins. When be situation up when it declares that so peace talk will become real than their other prisoners. The morning. It appeared that hs of all political parties and of the leaving theil wound care was heading, gursting
Americans need na stimulas, in broke into the shop very early in Catbolic and Protestant faiths, no other sound here bai the sallan
he would addre until Germany is beaten on the bathfield." It in. waste of time to what they have undertaken in the the morning: Elis Worship took who are united in their reverence : noise of the distant guns, bai iba with true Germ think otherwise. So the Allies will enter the year which dawna to great cause of Democracy, but serious view of the case, and of this gallant countrymen,words that were spoken, and the morrow infiszible in their resolve to overcome the forces arrayed his latest news will auquestion passed sentenss of six months Speaking to the soldiers about meaning of this little scene by hands signed ́agaïnet them and determined not to be diverted from their task by ably bring about a unity and hard labour, Another Chinese, him; Dr. Athe, who is a Protest soldiers's greye may travel soros TIL ext
specious, indirect and compromísing enemy anggestions, the socapt ance of which would be a dishonour to those thousands of their solidity in the United States who was charged in connection snt working for the polition the Flemish fields so the heart of subjects who have laid down their Tros for a great and noble probably no other circumstance with the same matter, was union of Ireland, reminded them taland, and touch the spitit of
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